Faye Crossett from the Lake Travis Toastmasters brought her President Kay McManus along with three other of their members and captured our banner. Now we have to send five of our members to their meeting to capture it back. We also had several other guest. It was the biggest meeting that we have had since I have been there.

I got to be the Toastmaster for the first time. It was a lot of fun. Our theme was putting more energy in meetings. I shared with the group a ‘Put More Energy in Your Meeting Excercise’ from a Dale Carnigie course. Just so they would not think that I was crazy I passed around my twenty year old Dale Carnigie certificate and group photo. Jimmy Longacre our Topicsmaster made us a great theme poster with Table Topics questions attached to it.

I think that with all the extra people and the theme of the meeeting we did have more energy than usual. The biggest lesson that I got out of it was that energy drives fear out of the room. I was much more relaxed than usual.

So this ‘Travlin Toastmaster’ has more travel to do. And I need four of our members to go with me to the next Lake Travis Toastmasters meeting so we can recapture our banner. If ten of us go we can also capture their banner.

Here are the Lake Travis club members that captured our banner.From left to right. Consuelo Hartman Kay McManus Steve Miller Faye Crossett and behind the cell phone camera … Jay Barstow.