Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters Club

Club Officers for Jul 2009 - Jun 2010

President: Jerry Ottomanelli
VP Education: Haena Lee
VP Membership: Jack Sember
VP Public Relations: Gerry Rodriguez
Treasurer: Eyo Effiong
Secretary: Stephen Claflin
Sergeants-at-Arms: Sajan Devan
Webmaster: Stanley Kubasek
Immediate Past President: Wlodek Zajac

We meet at the Rutherford Public Library -- downstairs in the auditorium.

Directions

From ROUTE 3 EAST. Get off at PARK AVE. exit. Bear left immediately after exiting and turn left onto PARK AVE. Stay on Park Ave. and library will be on your left after about 3 minutes. You should see the library on the left side right after you pass a park.

For more detailed directions, visit Rutherford Public Library website.

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Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters club is a club with a tradition. We are a club that strives to get the highest awards. We've been around since 1980 and continue to achieve the highest awards. We are a distinguished club and have been for many years.

New! Fairleigh Early Birds received the 2nd highest Distinguished Club award in the year ending in 2008! Congratulations to all!

Our most recent accomplishments:

2007-2008: Select Distinguished Club
2006-2007: Select Distinguished Club
2005-2006 President's Distinguished Club
2004-2005: Select Distinguished Club
2003-2004: President's Distinguished Club
2002-2003: President's Distinguished Club

Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters Club
Club #4229, District 83, Bergen County, Rutherford, NJ, 07070
Est. Jun 1, 1980

Each new member of Fairleigh Early Birds (FEB) is assigned a mentor. A mentor at FEB is a member who's been with the club for over a year, knows how Toastmasters works, and is willing to help the new member improve faster.

Our mentoring program is run by the president. If you are an existing member and you would like to have a mentor, or change a mentor, please contact the president. You don't have to ask the president for a new mentor, though, you can ask another member directly and then let the president know.

Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters Club is a club with a long tradition. We have been around since 1980! And because we have been around for so many years, we have some very experienced members. Some have been with the club for over 20 years! These members are willing to help new members!

A mentor can help you improve faster by providing valuable feedback and tips for improvement. A mentor can also help you answer any questions you might have about a role you've been assigned to, or any other question.

At Fairleigh Early Birds, we encourage the new members to reach out to their mentors (don't be shy): ask how you're doing, ask what you can do to improve, communicate with your mentor on a regular basis. Your mentor is there to help you, please take advantage of this opportunity.

Each club can have a modified meeting schedule. Here's how we do it at the Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters.

• We start a meeting with President's remarks

• President calls upon the Invocator
   - An Invocator is called to deliver an inspirational message

• President calls upon the Toastmaster of the meeting
   - The Toastmaster is the main role player in a meeting
   - The Toastmaster introduces himself/herself and calls the following Role Players, which explain their role and how they're going to do it

   - Wordmaster: gives us a word of the day that we use throughout the meeting

   - Grammarian: takes note of any grammatical erorrs, ahs and uhms

   - General Evaluator: evaluates the meeting as a whole and tells us what we did well and what we can improve upon

   - Timer: keeps a record of time -- each section has its time allocated

• Table Topics Master now asks impromptu questions based on a meeting Theme
   - this is a great part of the meeting: each member that's not speaking gets to answer an impromptu question
   - each question is limited to 1-2 minutes and the member is picked after the question is asked

• We vote for best table topic anwer

• We take a 5 minute break

• We begin prepared-speeches portion of the meeting
   - We have three prepared speeches, each speech is usually five to seven minutes

• We begin general-evalution portion of the meeting
  - Each speech is evaluated by an assigned evaluator

• General Evaluator calls upon individual role players to give their reports and gives his/her meeting evaluation

• President makes closing remarks

• Jokemaster gives us a joke to end the meeting

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As you can see, we have a lot of different roles. Each role is filled by our current members! A Toastmaster wears many hats, and during your membership you will get to do each of the roles! Great experience.

Stanley K