Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Vol. 1 No. 5 South Main Speakers, District 56, Club 8609 May 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
May
• Fond farewell to Wei Zhang, who
May 6: Education Session on Bill Gove
will be leaving to go back to
Beijing near the end of the month.
Bill Gove (1912-2001) was known around the
Goodbye and good luck!
world as the father of professional speaking.
• Congratulations to Walter Caro, Mr. Gove was the first President of the
Biru Yang, CTM, and Sam Tsen, National Speakers Association and winner of
CTM, who celebrate their first year every major speaking award in the industry,
anniversary with South Main including Toastmaster Internationals Golden
Speakers this month! Gavel Award. The Golden Gavel Award is
given annually at the TM International
• Happy birthday to Vivek Rajan, Convention. It honors a distinguished
who will celebrate his birthday this individual in the fields of communication and
month on the 23rd! leadership.
With increasing
The package read: "Ages 8 & up." I fit into popularity of the
that category, so I picked up the package gun, a colleague
from Toys-R-Us. It was a nerf gun with bought two more
bullets made out of foam, tipped with a nerf guns. Now
rubber dart so that the bullets stuck to with three guns
smooth surfaces. I bought the nerf gun and all of us were
took it to work to have some fun, especially playing nerf war.
since everyone at work seemed a little Nerf wars were
stressed of late. I kept the nerf gun on my the most entertaining of all the games we
desk, and I would occasionally surprise my played - hiding behind tables, chairs and
colleagues by shooting at them when they cabinets to avoid getting killed. The wars
entered my office. Though the gun fired at didn’t last more than 3 to 4 minutes, and it
pretty high speeds, it didn’t hurt anyone as was just a great way for everyone to release
the bullets were made out of foam. It was their stress. After all, it doesn’t hurt to go
fun! postal with nerf guns!