Happy 30th anniversary Framingham Natick Toastmasters!!!!!
On June 17, 2009 we celebrated our 30th anniversary. We had a wonderful dinner. A special thank you to everyone who went out of their way to contribute to the party.
The evening started out with a special toast from Laura Fritz.
The toast went as following:
To the Framingham Natick Toastmasters
members of old and new
tonight we are to honor all of you.
This club was started in 1979
it hath withheld the test of time.
This stands out among all the rest
as one of the very best.
We are presidential distinguished you see
that is not an easy feat to meet,
when people ask why
the answer is easy to see
it's the members.
They are tried and true
they encourage, enlighten, inspire every meeting.
Oh yes they do.
Henry Ford once said
coming together in the beginning,
staying together is progress
working together his success
here's wishing the Framingham Natick many more years of success.
After dinner, we had officers in recognition, when Mary Rubino honored all her outgoing team with trophies
We then heard a speech Tekoa about spike trends. He explained what they were and how they were caused.
Table topics was done by Francine. She the put all the letters that spell anniversary into a hat and let us pick the letters out of the hat for members to speak for one to two minutes on
We next had officer induction. Ben Lappen ( outgoing area E governor)
presided over the cermony; Welcome New Officers !
Congratulations to all the new officers. A special congratulations to our new president Francine.
Sherry Raftery ( incoming district governor) gave a speech about taking center stage and becoming more involved in Toastmasters.
The club gave Mary Rubino (outgoing club president) a plaque with her theme encourage enlighten inspire on it.
The club was awarded a citation given by the State House of Representative in celebration of their 30th anniversary.
A great time was had by all.
**Special Thanks to Liz Kalber who made our Beautiful Anniversary cake**
Please join us for the next meeting on Wednesday, July 1st,
When our New President Francine Lombardi will lead us into the New Toastmasters Year wth her the " Carpe Diem" Seize the Day !
