I want to thank the Newsletter team, headed by River, coached by Lynne Fix, and the writers: Lynn Gao, Crystal Fan, Allan Wan, Vivien Xu.  This is the product of their great team work.  Great job team!   (Sept/Oct Newsletter PDF )

We are hosting our very exciting Speechathon on Sep. 12th (Sat.) in Nortel  from 10am to 12am.  Guests are welcome!  Excom meeting to follow

Highlights of the event:
1. Instead of General Evaluator, we will have a Master Evaluator, which would make the evaluations more professional.
2.You will be able to enjoy 6 completely different styles of speeches including an Advanced speech delivered by our Division B Governor Sally Li.

Direction and contact details:

It is true.  We did go crazy.  And we have the pictures to prove it.

Between the teambuilding games, the mandarin table topics practice, and the mentorship breakout session,  we have connected with one another, understoood each other better, and feel recharged for the next TM activities.  We all let our hair down, and dropped our poker face, and enjoyed each others company.  I'm sure the upcoming newsletter will have more details. 

For the mentors/mentees who were not able to make it to the outing, don't forget to reach out to each other.  There is no shortcut to be a better communicator and leader.   I hope to see more faces at the next outing.

Congratulations to Yann who won first place of the Evaluation Contest, and Nathan in second and Benjamen Tien third.

Congratulations to Loose for winning the Mandarin TT Showcase, Bill Sher placed 2nd, and Nathan placed third. 恭喜Loose获得第一名中文即兴演讲比赛，舍先生第二，Nathan第三。 那是一个令人难以忘怀的晚上。听见大家的笑声，才发觉我们的土司马司俱乐部真算是家外之家。 Hubert先生在台上算是丢尽脸了。幸好他脸皮厚，记性差。以后开会还能看见他。

Finally, congratulations to Laura Sun for winning the Humorous Speech Contest; Bill Sher placed 2nd again.  And Sarah Cooper placed 3rd.  

1st and 2nd place winner will go to the next round of the Area contest.

Alert!  Alert!  Change of Venue!

Dear all, until the end of October National Holiday, the meeting venue will be moved to inside the hotel.  Go to ZhaoLong Hotel Lobby, turn left to the elevator.  The meeting room is on the 3rd Flr, 龙禧厅.  If you have problems finding the room, contact Crystal:  13401007694

Dear members.  We have an exciting few weeks ahead of us.

On the Aug 20 meeting, we will hold  the evaluation contest.

And then, the following Sunday, Aug 23, we will have our first mentorship outing.  During that time we will hold table-topic practices--all in good fun.

This will prepare you for the Mandarin Table Topic contest/showcase on our Aug 27 meeting.  Anyone who can speak Mandarin should take this opportunity to participate.  It will be an exciting event.  Our club President, who speaks terrible Mandarin, has promised to enter this contest if there are more than 20 participants.  So, if you want to 'laugh with him' on stage, then sign up.

Then, on Saturday, Aug 29,  we will hold  the Humorous speech contest.  This also promises to be an exciting and rewarding event for all the participants.  Get ready to take a giant leap towards improving your public speaking skills.  Sign up.  

All those interested please contact our VP of Education and speech organizers.  An email reminder will be sent out to all the members.

I want to first congratulate the officers who have made possible the progress made within the first month.  I hope that these initatives have started to take CCTMC to the path of being a better club.

- Mentorship program is rolling along, esp. for the newer members.   Thanks to VPE Charly
- Committees with members joining.  Thanks to Charly and VPM Laura
- Improved scheduling with strategic purpose and higher quality.  Thanks to Scheduler Jennifer
- Formalized logistics (badges, sign-up, best-speaker voting, etc). Thanks to SAA Bill
- Improved membership process.  Thanks to Laura
- Our first training. Thanks to Charly and past VPE/current Webmaster Yann and to Jessie Zhao for her help
- Budgeting approved. Thanks to Treasurer Lisa.  Now we can start to purchase the items we need.
- Replenshment of library resources (will be done before August?).  Thanks in advance to Librarian Snow
- video-recording the meeting - thanks to Caesar (though we need a couple more people in case Caesar isn't here)

And Thanks to Connie our Secretary for her meeting minutes and inputs in the meeting

Let's not lose the momentum and make sure that these initiatives become part of the CCTMC culture.  And again, I urge all members to find ways to contribue to the success of the club.  With the wonderful efforts from you and these officers, there will be better things to come in the next 5 months.

Hubert

What a successful meeting!  I am absolutely floored at the quality of the meeting.  I hope the members who have been with the club for more than 6 months also felt this way.

Toastmaster Connie was absolutely excellent.  The introduction of the speakers and roles, and the transitions were  thoroughly prepared and professionally done.  Outstanding.  The new members Crystal and Vivian showed their passion in their role as Timer and Ah-Counter respectively.  Greeter Lisa was professional, warm and friendly to a record number of guests (10?).  Janet's Ice-Breaker was well-delivered--I see lots of potential in her.  Freddie cracked me up with his humor! I'm still laughing now.  Ivy has shown so much improvement, i'm almost crying.  And of course, Sarah was brilliant. I'm learning so much from her.  And all the evaluators, Jennifer, Caesar, Laura and Bill delivered helpful and most importantly - encouraging feedback.  The General evaluator Joanne is her wonderful self catching the details that could improve the meeting.  And last but not least, the Table Topics session lead by Jessie and evaluated by Harry:  one of the funniest 25 minutes ever.  

Thanks team for making this a wonderfully enjoyable night. 

Hubert Lin, President

You can read our latest newsletter and you'll find great content on how to improve your speeches!
You'll read about our latest executive committee, new members, our past activities, a good-bye letter from our president Chris, and quality articles from Hubert, Connie, Justin, Laura, Ben and Mary.