We attended the Parsippany Toastmasters Club meeting on February 9 and really enjoyed it. We all participated in the meeting. Karen Jordan gave a speech, Irene Chan answered a Table Topics question and was the ER/AH counter and Terri Spinella was the General Evaluator. A great time was had by all and we learned a few new ideas on timing the speeches. Thank you, Parsippany!

Parsippany Toastmasters had a very good time, being part of Carpe Diem Toastmasters meeting. All three Speeches were well delivered. Table topic was appropriate for the end of the year. The meeting was organized and the room was full.

Successful joint meeting with Dialogue Party! Susan Chrusciel served as a speaker, Su Brooks was general evaluator, Eric DeVincenzo was a speech evaluator and Sherri Rase participated in Table topics!

Picatinny Arsenal had a great meeting and we had a wonderful, fun time capturing the gavel.

Wanda gave a very good speech entitled Keep Breathing; it was well received by all. Carla was timer and Irene was a speech evaluator. The president and Toastmaster of the day, Uday, kept the meeting lively and shared Christmas treats with all.

The Oracle NJ Speaks Club visited with the Speakers Corner Toastmasters in Bridgewater. Michael gave one of the speeches, Bert was the Table Topics Master and John was the General Evaluator. 5 additional members of the Oracle NJ Speaks came as guests and Natalie Leykin and Clayton Randall participate in the Table Topics.

We had a great time at this very organized and fun filled meeting. Gary T

Fairleigh Early Birds is a wonderful club and their March 8 2014 meeting was superb! The theme was 'Fear' but three fearless members of Northern Stars, accompanied by Jorge Aguilar of Cosmopolitan ventured forth and captured the gavel today! What a great club, and what a great meeting Fairleigh Early Birds had! Visit them on Saturday mornings in Rutherford, and visit Northern Stars on odd Wednesday evenings in Basking Ridge!

On December 4th, six members of Speak & Lead Toastmasters visited Brunswick Advanced Club to capture the gavel. All six Speak & Lead members took meeting roles including Ah Counter, Evaluators, Listener, and Table Topics Speakers. It was great fun!

This was an enjoyable meeting with a full agenda of seven very interesting speeches.

Members from New Heights Toastmasters spent a lovely afternoon with fellow Toastmasters at New Jersey City University (NJCU) Toastmasters Club. We were honored to occupy the meeting room filled with energetic speakers -- "World Class Toastmasters" -- who represented the student body, faculty and staff. The meeting was run professionally and held within the time specified. Thanks, NJCU Toastmasters, for allowing us to capture the Traveling Gavel - Fantastic!

Hunterdon Speak Easy would like to thank the Old Bridge Toastmasters for their very warm welcome and gracious hospitality.

What a vibrant, healthy club! Despite the snowfall, the meeting room was filled to capacity with Old Bridge members and guests!

Chris, Mike, and Eva of Hunterdon Speak Easy sincerely enjoyed participating in the meeting as Table Topics Master and Speech Evaluators, respectively, in order to capture the gavel.

Thank you again, Old Bridge Toastmasters!

Special Shout Out and recognition to Ravi for allowing us to carpool in his ride and make the 50 mile journey to visit Open Door Toastmasters (Denville, NJ).

The three roles Old Bridge Toastmasters fulfilled were: Table Topics Master (Ravi), Evaluators (Sergio & Jonathan).

Thank you Open Door Toastmasters for granting us the opportunity to come and visit your club. The atmosphere was electric and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit.

Open Door welcomed us with open arms and we strongly encourage other clubs to pay a visit to Open Door Toastmasters. You'll find a wonderful group of people.

Thanks again to Open Door Toastmasters for all of your hospitality and we look forward to paying your club a visit again.

We received a very warm welcome from Hackettstown Toastmasters. they had a great meeting! As always. Arnold was an evaluator, Glen a timer and Irene gave a speech. Capturing the gavel was a lot of fun.

What a wonderful meeting, greeted by Judy Valencia and Rob Peterson. They had three prepared speeches which were very diverse in topic. A meeting room with every chair filled + extra, and wall-to-wall chocolate! Also surrounded by warm smiles and words of encouragement. We all felt very welcome, had a few laughs and alot of fun!

President Tina described that it was the 1 year anniversary for Toasting on the Farm. They had a delicious cake to commemorate the occasion. The travelling gavel was prominently displayed. Theresa Yarosh was Toastmaster. She controlled the meeting and made sure the meeting ran smoothly. There were two speakers: one concentrating on CC#6 "Today is Your Special Day".. Superbly she described all of the many special personal and historical things have happened on this day and throughout history. It was an enjoyable and happy presentation.
The next presenter spoke from an Advanced Manual Persuasive Speaking and her speech was "Zappos". By the end, we all wanted to work for them , except that they were in Nevada. Odlly, I have the distingct need to buy shoes online today.
Tim our able bodied, Table Topicsmaster, asked us what our middle names or nicknames were. He addressed the speakers by their names as he asked some fabulously funny and enlightening questions.
The evaluators were thoughtful in their feedback of the presentations. Martin was the timer. All in all, it was fun to visit Mearsk and Toasting on the Farm Toastmasters. President Tina thanked all of the guests that came and was pleased to have a good attendance at the meeting.

Four Members of Northern Stars attended the 1/24 Hunterdon Speak Easy meeting, including Pam Winter who is a member of both clubs. It was a night for guests to shine - in addition to Northern Stars there were at least SIX other guests at the meeting! The meeting was smoothly run and lots of fun, and the guests were all enthusiastic about a return visit.

Northern Stars now holds the gavel. We meet on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of every month, from 7-9pm at Verizon Headquarters in Basking Ridge. Come and be our guest!

Four Members of Northern Stars attended the 1/24 Hunterdon Speak Easy meeting, including Pam Winter who is a member of both clubs. It was a night for guests to shine - in addition to Northern Stars there were at least SIX other guests at the meeting! The meeting was smoothly run and lots of fun, and the guests were all enthusiastic about a return visit.

Northern Stars now holds the gavel. We meet on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of every month, from 7-9pm at Verizon Headquarters in Basking Ridge. Come and be our guest!

After holding the gavel for less than 6 days, Cosmopolitan Toastmasters was raided by three members of their sibling club, Murray Hill Speakers at Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, NJ. Amanda Salvarani gave an excellent evaluation of Speaker #1, and MHSC President Andrew Smith addressed the meeting with a message of friendship and camaraderie. The fourth member of MHSC at the meeting was Brian Cort, who is also a member of Cosmopolitan, so he was both raider and raidee. Brian gave Evaluation #2.

MHSC meets on the First, Third, and Fifth Wednesdays of every month at 600-700 Mountain Avenue, New Providence NJ 07974. It's an awesome club! Come see us!

FIVE Members of Cosmopolitan Toastmasters, plus one Junior member Andre Hance, Age 8, raided the Northern Stars meeting on Wednesday January 20 and made off with the Gavel, despite menacing words from Steve Lord, Northern Stars' President and noted authority on Alien Abduction. The Toastmaster was Brian Cort, who being a member of both Cosmopolitan and Northern Stars, was in the unusual position of being both Raider and Raidee. Jorge Aguilar gave the invocation, Olga Hance served as Timer, Tom Hance as Grammarian, and Roopa Rudrapatna gave the Joke of the Day, Word of the Day, and served as evaluator #2B - Content.

The meeting was a rousing success, and revolved around the theme "GROWTH!" Northern Stars is an advanced club that is superbly well run, and welcomes all Toastmasters to visit its meetings on 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays at 435 South Street in Morristown from 7-9pm. As an Advanced Club, NS requires that all of its members continue to be members in their home clubs. Come join us!

Four members of Northern Stars attended a superbly run meeting of NYLIM Toastmasters and successfully made off with the Traveling Gavel on Tuesday, December 15. Fran Mann and Steve Lord both served as speech evaluators, Paul Scharf served as timer, and Brian Cort gave a speech on the virtues of membership in an Advanced Club such as Northern Stars (which meets the 1st, 3rd (and 5th) Wednesday of every month at UPS, 435 South Street in Morristown (note - no meeting 12/16 due to officer training at Verizon, and the 12/30 meeting will be at George & Martha's Restaurant on Morris Avenue in Morristown)

The District 83 Traveling Gavel may be 6 inches longer than it was just the other day. At the conclusion of the NYLIM Toastmasters meeting on July 14th a kerfuffle broke out and the Meandering Mallet was subjected to a tug-o-war. Stalwart NYLIM members refused to yield and marauding Hackettstown Toastmasters became physical. Tempers had flared earlier when Hackettstown VP-E Jim Birnbaum, serving as Topicmaster of the NYLIM meeting, called NYLIM President Don Osmanski a milksop for going 59 seconds on a Table Topic. Later, Hackettstown President Bill Watras, serving as Ah-Counter, cited NYLIM member John Peterson for 137 ahs and the benches cleared. Caught in the middle of the Great Gavel Grab was Lois Steward, Immediate past President of the Hackettstown club AND current VP-Education of the NYLIM club. In the melee Steward was "hammered" senseless and trampled to death underfoot. NYLIM Toastmasters is accepting applications for VP-Education.