Category: Misc

Who likes to get spam on their blog?  But looking at it positively, this message from ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’ says some nice things about our website, and I am not one to turn up my nose to a kind word. Perhaps I can even encourage them to match their bold imagery with some grammatical…

Maxim What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.  Lionel Messi. image source beinsports.tv Participation What we do is attend Toastmasters, which is what we like.  On a night of european football (Bayern vs Barcelona) we held our own!  14 members, 6 guests, & 1 new member. Was it worth giving up a night…

Toastmasters International Announces Muhammad Yunus as its 2015 Golden Gavel Recipient Nobel Peace Prize winner to accept organization’s most prestigious award Source: Toastmaters Mediacenter

Toastmasters International Announces Muhammad Yunus as its 2015 Golden Gavel Recipient Nobel Peace Prize winner to accept organization’s most prestigious award Source: Toastmaters Mediacenter

Here are the full results from the Division F Contest held on 2nd May, 2015 in Mannheim.   Evaluation (german) 1. Kailey Peng (Karlsruhe) 2. Regina Krömer (Word Weavers Wiesbaden)   Evaluation (english) 1. Kailey Peng (Karlsruhe) 2. Subhamoy Bhattacharyya (BASF Toastmasters Ludwigshafen)   International Speech (german) 1. Klaus-Ulrich Möller (Rhetorik-Club Wiesbaden) Also participated:  Klaus…

Saturday’s area contest in Frankfurt was a great success.   As is traditional, it was a combined event between areas F3 (Wiesbaden) & F4 (Frankfurt). There were 29 contestants (speeches, evaluations, english, german). It was great to see 9 Business Club members there: Andrei, Barbara, Ben, Bertalan, Cezar, Eleonore, Isabelle, Martin, Mirja. No other club sent…

In my election pledge last May, when I stood for the roll of club president, I outlined my 3 objectives. To grow membership to 28-35 members.  Today we stand at 30. To implement a club website to face the public.  This is it. To oversee the registration of the club as an eV – eingetragen…

Indira Gandhi “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” Only a few months since joining our club, one of our most influential members is leaving. Karla arrived at the end of last year,…

Maxim “Two mice were eating a film reel.  One turned to the other and said “the film’s ok … but the book was better”.  Thanks for setting up a light mood with this great joke, Andrei. Participation 19 members, fully 2/3rd of our membership.  4 guests.  1 new member.  A great turn out.  In fact, such…

Maxim If I may offer you a simple maxim, ‘Be interested’. Everyone wants to be interesting, but the vitalizing thing is to be interested.  John Gardner, Commencement Address 1991, Stanford University. Participation The Business Club Frankfurt Toastmasters public speaking club meets twice monthly on Wednesday evenings. On 1st April the 15 members and 3 guests were…