Re: Sports, Growing and Moving - a galvanizing morning at EarlyBirds

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

TM Veronica led us in a very inspirational invocation.

We had our Club Elections.  Thank you to the Outgoing Officers for your labor of love.  Welcome to our New Officers (effective July 1)

Sargeant-at-Arms:  TM Christina Kurth

President:  TM Randolph Bastien (6 months)

VP Education:  TM Aleta Richmond

Secretary:  TM Pam Schrimsher

Treasurer  TM Marie Rock

VP Public Relations:  David Raleche

VP Membership:  TM BeckyJo Bean

Immediate Past President:  TM BeckyJo Bean

Assistant Sargeant-at-Arms: TM Veronica Winninger

Recap Writer:  TM Ana Illsen

CONGRATULATIONS, New Officers!

TM Pam introduced some galvanzing sports topics to our consciousness levels.  We soon learned that some of us are galvanized by sports, some of us have rusty sports pipes.

* TM Gail knows The Knicks are the original Knickerbokers which originated in the Dutch.  A galvanizing game last night indeed... She Won Best Table Topics Award.

* TM Aleta loves The Spurs because it's the cowboy boot accessory used to control horses and brings her back to her barrel racing days....

* I, Ana, am clueless about predictive markets and online gambling.  It's a mystery to me, although I wish I got a clue so I could make some money!

* TM Veronica's happiest college memories are from pre-game and game parties in the days of wine and roses, and beer and pretzels.

* TM Marie's weak ankles flared up while trying to skate in Western Pennsylvania - she's a swimmer, for heaven's sake, and prefers figure skating to ice hockey, anyway!

* TM Jorge pondered about hat-tricks and rat-tricks - the former being when 3 goals are served by one person and throwing the hats on the rink; the latter being when 3 goals are served by one rat.

Along came (2) galvanizing prepared speeches...

* TM David told us if we're perfectly comfortable in our day-to-day, we are perfectly unchallenged.  Research the power of WHY WHY WHY....

* TM Aleta told us WHY - moving on down on size, complications and discovering gardening without Ibuprofen.  Freedom, freedom, freedom rings!  She Won Most Improved Speaker Award.

As far as (galvanizing) evaluations are concerned...

* TM BeckyJo praised TM David for his perfect diction, deliberate messaging and chock-full of informatino speech.  Work on changing tempo and modulation - ask WHY WHY WHY?

* TM Marie clearly valued how TM Aleta brought us down and lifted us up with the help of extraordinary cartoon maps.  She Won Best Evaluator Award.

The Word of the Day was

GALVANIZE, verb

1) To shock, excite or stimulate someone into suddenly taking action.

2) Steel pipes covered with zinc.

Example:  The prepared speeches today were galvanizing and they covered our tracheal pipes with zinc lozenges while listening to Steely Dan.

The link to the recording is here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HsTy3JJX_k

See you next week!

Ana I.

Recap Writer