Farewell...it's been swell

Meeting, Wednesday 5th August 2012:   
Noses are better then glasses...1 out of 1 Engineers confirm
In attendance: Darlene, Simon, Geetha, Chris, Kyle, Janet, David, JF, Rueben, Kathy, Mahdia, Rob, Julie


Table Topics. Absences.

All things change and all things come to an end. John Galsworthy said "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Which sounds like my closet.

Toastmasters come, and go. and go to other clubs (Like the CIA nobody can ever really leave).

They don't all want to be an Astronaut. Or come from the Sudan. So there is in fact only one Mahdia Ibrahim, and we'll miss her.

Today's session was all about Table Topics. Darlene opened with an educational on the do's and don'ts of Table Topics, in preparation for our contest the following week.

LEARNING POINT: Always give a time for a speech. Or it ends up being 12 minutes.

After the educational, we had a mammoth table topics session, run by our own Rob Cardinal. Rob's special table topics featured props, and an odd question or ten.

The winner of the day was our very own Engineer, Rueben, who gave an eloquent description of why glasses with noses attached are much more likely to sell than plain old glasses.

Finally...those lectures at U of C paid off...

We then had a poignant farewell from Rob to Mahdia, and a return from Mahdia.

Farewell Flux Capacitor! One Small Step For Mahdia, One Giant Leap for Mahdiankind....