Latin Leaders

Meeting Location Change For July 6, 2010

Daniel — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:31:10 +0000

Hello Latin Leaders Members:

Please note that we will NOT be meeting at our normal location on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. We will be meeting at the Smedley Club 1 Open House.

The Smedley Club 1 open house BBQ is on Tuesday, July 6th at Cranbrook Senior Living: 1262 Bryan Avenue, Tustin, CA 92780

Open House Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Daniel — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:53:38 +0000

We’ll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a special Open House meeting this May 4. Seth Sherwood will be our guest speaker. Seth is a former Latin Leaders member, and founder of Family Reading, Inc. Everyone is welcome. Come celebrate with us! Food and beverages served.

No Meeting April 6

Daniel — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:08:57 +0000

As we begin making plans for our next Open House for May 4, there will be no Latin Leaders meeting on April 6, 2010. We will resume regular meetings starting on April 13, 2010. For more information about our Open House, please come in and visit or download the flyer here.

Public Service Announcement

Daniel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:02:26 +0000

A film by Cesar Vargas

July Newsletter: The Leading Edge

Wendy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:22:14 +0000

Hello Everyone! Enjoy our first issue of The Leading Edge. If you want an article to be published in next month’s newsletter please send an e-mail to Wendy Agredano. Have a great day

New Officers Elected

Daniel — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:54:28 +0000

Today’s meeting began with new officer elections for the term 2009-2010. �The new club officers will begin their term on July 1 following their training on June 6 and 20. �Congratulations to the following persons:

Cesar Vargas - President

Nahetzin Velasco - VP Education

Wendy Agredano - VP Public Relations

Daniel Cossack - Secretary

Todd Swain - Tresurer

Ramon Diaz - Sergeant at Arms

The club also voted to modify our meeting time. �Meetings will now begin at 6:30 PM and end at 7:30 PM. �Meetings will continue to be scheduled every Tuesday at the same location. �This time slot should make it easier for working professionals to attend. �Good luck to all of the new officers and we’re looking forward to another very successful year.

Cinco de Mayo

Wendy — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:34:53 +0000

The theme of this meeting was “Cinco de Mayo” and the word of the day was �Sombrero�. It was also the first Tuesday of the month, so as all you know that means we had to speak in Spanish. It was my first time as toastmaster. I was really excited and nervous!!! I got a chance to read a book to everyone, it looked like they enjoyed the reading Unfortunately we did not have any speakers, but none the less we made it a fun night!

Cesar Vargas did an excellent job as Table Topics master. He had a fill in the suspense story setting, which was really thrilling. We all had fun inventing the plot, with the guidance of Cesar of course, and adding to the suspense. Liz brought up the Swine Flu in her speech, we all enjoyed that little laugh!! Todd was very knowledgeable about the genetics/DNA great uncle he included in his story! Delfino did an excellent job acting his roles as a �maid� and a �boss� and including the “dog” into the story�the story took off from there as you can imagine! We had dead man, followed by a resurrection, and ending with it all being just an act! It was a fun night filled with laughter! Outstanding job Cesar with Table Topics!!!

This was Gabriel�s first time as General Evaluator, which I think did an excellent job in evaluating the meeting. He appeared to be very confident, even without the Corona�s!!

Ramon was very kind to bring tamales after the meeting; I couldn�t eat any of course because of my diet!!!� Thanks Ramon!

We have a few speakers scheduled for next week (maybe myself)!! Hope to see everyone there this upcoming Tuesday!!!

Inspiration

Daniel — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:50:35 +0000

Our long time friend Seth Sherwood stopped by for a visit this meeting to inspire us all. �First Liz Allen gave a speech about managing stress. �I guess she knows what she is talking about because she didn’t look stressed at all. �Seth gave a speech in Spanish of what seemed to be an ice breaker type speech. �We had a round robin evaluation for him. �Seth is working to start up a Spanish Speaker’s Bureau here in Orange County that many of our members, including Delfino (pictured here), have been asking about. �Wendy was on table topics today and that was a lot of fun — except I had a really hard question as usual.

Don’t forget to join us next week for Cinco De Mayo!!

Contests and Table Topics

Daniel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:45:11 +0000

I�ve missed updates for the last few weeks so let me see if I can recap.� We had our two contests.� Ramon and Alejandro competed in the table topics contest with Ramon taking first place and Alejandro the runner-up.� We�ll be seeing them at the area contest this Friday.� Cesar participated in the speech contest but was uncontested (so he won by default) but he won�t be able to attend the area contest on Friday so our club will only be participating in the table topics contest.

We�ve had two new members join us, Wendy and Gabriel, and Wendy is scheduled for her Ice Breaker speech next week, so you don�t want to miss that.� We love ice breakers.� We also had a couple of guests at our last meeting.� David works in the same building, and wanted to visit and participate in our table topics.� He already has some good speaking skills but would like to improve.� Carlos Avila had visited us before and now has made it his goal to join the club and improve his public speaking skills.� We certainly welcome both of you.

For fun, we did table topics a little different than we did in the past.� This time we asked the members for comments after each speaker so that the speakers could hear immediate feedback of the speech.� The last time we had the speaker answer two table topics, one before and one after the feedback so that we could see the improvement right away.� This was a great way to learn and everyone had a chance to try it.� We should be doing this more often.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Daniel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:44:04 +0000

How important it is these days to manage your stress. �With the economy in the dumps and unemployment rising higher than ever in recent times, there’s a lot of reason to worry. �Our theme today gave us a chance to think about things that make us worry and hopefully help us to differentiate between the small stuff we should not be worrying about, and the big stuff that deserves our full attention. �Jorge made his debut today as Table Topics master and did a very impressive job of adhering to the spirit of the theme. �He really was prepared with some very insightful questions. �Today was our Spanish meeting day so almost the entire meeting was in Spanish.

We had two speakers today. �Alex gave his ice breaker speech in Spanish, which was a real treat for everyone. �I knew he was already a comfortable speaker and he sure proved it with a well done first speech. �Cesar is working on his Advanced manual, Communicating on Television. �Delfino acted as a talk show host and interviewed Cesar about his profession as a hypnotist. �Both speeches were in Spanish, but the evaluations were in English. �Nice!

We had two guests today, Gabriel and Wendy. �We had a good time with them and even Wendy participated in a table topic in Spanish. �We hope to see you two again next week.

The club decided to break our contest into two separate weeks, so we’ll have our Table Topics contest on March 10 and our Speech contest on March 17. �Jorge will be our chief judge and Liz will be our Table Topics Toastmaster. �Contests are always fun and we promise not to�disappoint. �Everyone is welcome to come and attend our contest. �See you there.