Dues are now due

Don't forget to do the dues

Don't forget to do the dues

Hi Toasties,
Just a reminder that dues for the next membership period are now due.
Please contact Julia for details of what, when and how.

Area A4 Contest

Congratulations to Jiva and Vera for representing “Heritage Toastmasters for the Area A4 Humorous and Table Topics contest. Due to the tough competition from other clubs, they unfortunately missed out on the top 3 placings.

Also big thanks to supporters Sally, Andrew, Steve

Input required

Our VP education wants to improve your toastmaster experience and has 4
questions to each and every one of us

1) What manual are working through
2) What speech number you are up to within that manual
3) What level you are at e.g. (Competent Communicator Silver)

and last but bot least
4) What you aims are for this year in terms of Toastmasters

Please sent an email to Stephen McPhee, give the guy a ring or get in
contact by any other mean.

2 meeting reports

For the meeting 30 June 2009 two reports have been received. Both can be found under meeting reports on this site or by just clicking here.
Many thanks to Vera and Steven for their effort!

Handover time and old Heritage files

Good morning to each and everyone reading this update!
The Toastmaster year 2008-2009 is coming to a close a the outgoing and incoming executive just have had a joint meeting. We had really good attendance and a pretty good discussions about what’s going to happen in the new year. I can only say: Watch this space!
In the meantime – I’d like to ask everyone to sent old Heritage Toastmaster related documents idling on your computer to
webmaster@heritagetoastmaster.org.nz. And I really mean anything – flyers, ads, reports,…. !
Looking forward to your emails.
Carpe diem!
Holger

Exec meeting

Event Invitation
Title: Executive Meeting of old & new Exec (all members welcome)
Location: McDonald Greenlane, cnr Greenlane west and Great South Road
When: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Description:
Dear all, Time for a handover meeting before the 2008-2009 Toastmaster year finishes.
Outgoing execs, please get your documents ready for handover and be prepared to briefly explain your duties.
CU all there
Holger

Roster update

The meeting roster for the meetings 16th and 30th of June 2009 has been updated. Please check your role here.

Meeting roster updated

The meeting roster for the meeting 2nd June 2009 has been updated. Please check your role here.

Meeting pictures

A couple of meeting pictures have been added to the webpage.

Please use the navigation bar on top [about us] –> [pictures] or this link [please click on me] to have a look at them.

Enthusiasm, body language, you name it – all in a couple of pictures.

Roster updated

The roster for the next three meetings (19-May-09; 02-Jun-09; 16-Jun-09) has been added and updated.
Please contact the chairman if you can’t make the next meeting or the VP Education (Jiva Muthu) if you can’t make any of the other meetings.
Happy preparation.

New Executive elected

A new executive for Heritage Toastmasters has just been elected for the term 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010.

Heritage Toastmaster Executive-2009-2010

(from left to right) Stephen McPhee – VP Education, Jiva Muthu – President, Tom Sharplin – Sergeant at arms, Shona Hoggins – VP Membership, Mike Fraser – VP Public relations, Treasurer/Secretary – Julia Willing

Congratulations and thank you to all of you on behalf of the club.

AGM to be held on 05/05/2009

Dear fellow Toastmasters,

you are invited to the annual general meeting of Heritage Toastmasters
to be held during the meeting on the 5th of May 2009.

Agenda
President opening remarks
Apologies
Minutes from last meeting
President’s report
VP membership report
Treasurer’s report
Elections of executive
- President
- VP Education
- VP Membership
- VP Public relations
- Secretary / Treasurer
Motions on notice
General business
Close

We are still looking for people interested to help running the club over the next year. For positions please have a look at the your competent communicator manual, use this link to the Executive section on the webpage or give me a call. Please also let me know if you have general business to be included in
the AGM.CU all at the meeting

Holger Heinzel
President
Heritage Toastmasters

Roster updated

The roster for the next meeting has been updated.
Please contact the chairman if you can’t make the meeting.
Happy Easter and see you all next week.

Congratulations

Hurray! It's a boy!

 Congratulation Stephen and Emma McPhee on their brand new addition to the family.

Happy birthday Ryan Stewart !

Heritage wishes all the best to Steve, Emma, Lauren, Hanna and Ryan Stewart McPhee.

And dont’t say we didn’t warn you this morning!

Meeting Report updated

What a great meeting we had yesterday, and thanks to Andrew the latest
meeting report is already up and running.

Warning :-)

A group of storks has been reported to circle over Auckland’s Northshore.
Please, be on your guard!

Meeting dates 2010

The meeting dates for our 2010 meetings have been just confirmed with Auckland City Council.
Time: 7:00 – 8:20 am
Dates (Tuesdays): 12th Jan;26thJan — 9th Feb, 23rd Feb
9th Mar, 23rd Mar6th Apr, 20th Apr4th May, 18th May1st Jun, 15th Jun,  29th Jun13th Jul, 27th Jul 10th Aug, 24th Aug7th Sep, 21st Sep5th Oct, 19th Oct2nd Nov, 16th Nov, 30th Nov14th Dec

Meeting Report updated

The latest meeting report (24/03/2009) has been added. Many thanks to Andrew for doing the writing.

A message from Division A Governor

Dear Heritage Toastmasters Club,

The Division A conference is just around the corner, on Saturday April 4th 2009. This is where all the best speakers from areas A1 – A7 will compete to see who will represent Division A at the Crusade to Confidence convention in Christchurch in May. I hope to see you and members from your club there to support your champions.

The contest will be held at Elim College, 159 Botany Road, Botany Downs. We have 2 excellent educational presentations to help you and your clubs achieve their goals. We will also cover some key changes that are coming up within Toastmasters, at the club and levels.

The agenda for the day is below:
08:30  Registration desk opens
08:45  Briefing: Evaluation Contest
9:00    Welcome – Division A Governor Hari Kumar
9:05     Educational Presentations  – David Hatchuel & Vivien Coelho
9:45     Evaluation Contest — Contest Chair – Sharyn Elstob
10:35   MORNING TEA
10:45   Briefing: International Speech Contest
11:00   Proposed changes to Division A — Lyndon Baird
11:15   International Speech Contest- – Contest Chair –-Victoria Walker
12:30    Lt Governor Education & Training Address — Alun Chisholm
12:40   Vote of Thanks — Hari Kumar
12:45   Results – Evaluation Contest –Sharyn Elstob
12:50   Results – International Speech Contest — Victoria Walker
13:00  Close — Hari Kumar

Please bring a gold coin donation to help with costs of sending our Division A finalists to Christchurch.
I look forward to seeing you at the Division Conference on Saturday 4th April.
Regards

Hari Kumar
Division A Governor
2008-2009

New Webpage design

Dear all,

there have been some slight changes to the webpage as you might have encountered now that you read this.
I would be very pleased if you could have a look around and leave a comment about what you like to see on the page on things you don’t like.

Many thanks

Holger