TLI Winter 2012 Opening, Sgt At Arms, Secretary/Treasurer, and Prison Clubs
TLI Winter 2012 got off to a great start right at 8am thanks to LT Governor of Education and Training Rose Wellman pushing everyone into the room and into their seats.
After opening and welcome, Cathey Armillas, spoke on the relationships between club officers. She found the I in TEAM and then let us know that Team stands for Together EveryonAchieves More. One important key theme for officers is to Know, Understand, and Apply. Know what others officers are doing. Understand what you are doing, and Apply what you have learned here.
Bruce Rottink followed Cathey on the stage and focused on the sergeant at arms(SAA) position. He brought forward a number of great recommendations including organizing all your supplies every six months, ensuring that the SAA is the first in line to gret and register guests. He also suggested a monthly inventory and methods for ensuring that the items that were being brought to your meeting with being used regularly. He even wowed the leaders in attendance with talk about the second law of thermodynamics. He finished by reminding us of how important it was for the SAA to be the liaison with the meeting room coordinator.
Adele O’Neal, Regional Advisor of Marketing, covered Secretary and Treasurer positions. After reminding everyone what a typewriter was, she covered the secretary and recommended that all clubs evaluate what documents they keep and for how long. She pointed out that the Secretary should always keep the Charter and club bylaws (Cleon Cox mentioned that these were available from TI if your need replacement copies). The Treasurer is responsible for club funds and ensuring the board properly approves all use of them. Keep a record of all expenditures and bring a report to the board every month.
Our final first session speaker was Allan Edinger. He started off by asking all of us to imaging being in prison and recognizing the potential of the toastmasters program for people in that environment. He also had two stories of inmates one who is already released and continuing with Toastmasters and the other who is only 14 days away from their release. Both stories were inspiring and show the power that happens when people focus on personal development. The prison clubs receive support from the raffles that happen at many D7 events via the Prison Trust Fund.
Use the comments to let us know what your favorite ideas and key points were in the morning session.