Lemberg Toastmasters 5-th Anniversary Party Report

Lemberg Toastmasters 5-th Anniversary Party Report

by Yustyna Holubets

Dear Toastmasters!

I am very happy to report that on February 8th the anniversary of Lemberg Toastmasters took place!
Luxurious place, delicate dishes and lovely music perfectly amplified our energy for various exciting activities.

There were two Holiday Table Topics during which volunteer speakers shared their wishes and painted by words different positive emotions. The winners, Lyuba Lazarenko and Alex Bair, got sweet presents.

Also during games guessing child photos and secrets we had an opportunity to discover some less known facts of our club members’ life and also find out how they looked long before becoming toastmasters. World music and quotations guessing games added an exciting intriguing spirit.

And true zest of the evening became “The Talent Show”. During the evening we mentioned outstanding abilities of our members:

• Mykola Makhin who made a statistics of members’ progress with diagrams and tables.
• Alex Bair who is keen on doing amazing sites about cinema.
• Alex Sheremet who is good at handmade art doing original and practical things.
• Andriy Turak who has a definite talent in drama playing.
• Also we enjoyed the performances and demonstrations of the following talents.
• Lyuba Lazarenko presented a splendid singing number taking us to “Marilyn Monroe” world.

• Igor Klyuka revealed his deep interest in Asian cultures showing us his origami skills.
• Olena Derzko provided a desert for the party having cooked her wonderful eclers. 
• Oles Semenyuk made us burst from laugh by presenting his humorous stories.

• Yustyna Holubets introduced a mysterious Orient with her Indian and Arabic dances.

I would like to thank every participant for coming, for your holiday mood and active participation!
Special thanks to:

• Victor Medvedyev for organization and support of the event.
• Lyuba Lazarenko for arranging the place and menu.
• Mykola Makhin for technical support and for being a prefect DJ.
• Alex Sheremet for managing contest prizes.
• Sviatoslav Zalizschuk for sharing his notebook.
• Olenka Derzko for bringing perfect dance music.
• Kostya Pylypchuk for being our “Fashion Hunter”.
• Andriy Turak, our devoted President, who did come to celebration in spite of breaking his leg.

And all others who did send the photos and secrets!

Update:
See more photos from the Anniversary below

New Year with a New Committee

It was sad to say "good bye" to year 2009, because it has been productive and interesting year for Lemberg Toastmasters. Thanks to the efforts of our officers team many good things happened, and the most prominent for us were:

1. Lemberg TM club got chartered in spring,
2. Added new members to the club,
3. We got our first Competent Communicator Toastmaster,

4. Participated at Ukrainian Toastmasters officers training,

5. Conducted Toastmasters outings : picnics, lake parties, etc.

However, the new year 2010 has started with good changes for the club - we elected a new committee of officers!

Ladies and gentleman, please welcome:

President-Lena Koronenko

VP Education - Lyuba Lazarenko, CC

VP Membership - Yaroslav Kisylychka

VP PR - Olena Derzhko

Treasurer - Dima Martnov

Sergeant at Arms - Sasha Sheremet

We all wish them a productive year and achievement of new big personal and club goals.

Good luck!!!

Welcome a brand new VP PR

At the yesterday's meeting the President of Lemberg Toastmasters welcomed a brand new VP PR - Olena Derzhko - our devoted member who already has shown a lot of interest in contributing to the club's success and has been actively promoting it among her peers.
We welcome Olena to our team of officers!!!

The oldest Toastmaster from Lviv

My first interaction with Toastmasters was in November 2006. Since then I became the first member and the founder of this club and now I am the oldest Toastmaster.

Everyone knows me...

I am the one who encourages people to participate, and I am the one who makes officers to work for the good of our club. In other words - ladies and gentlemen, please get acquainted with Lyuba Lazarenko - the President of Lemberg Toastmasters.

Lets get acquainted

Hm, it's been a year now since my first TM meeting... How fast the time flies :)
Wait, let me introduce myself properly. My name is Lena and I'm currently the VP of Education and the President's right hand :)
Of course, that's just my off-hour job. My main occupation is software development. And I must admit that I'm a typical representative of the species, a real nerd; I prefer reading to speaking, computers to humans and gadgets to fancy shoes :). That's why sometimes I wonder how I even ended up being a Toastmaster, considering that I have to communicate, convince, entertain and sometimes even inspire... and of course, the scariest: to expose my thoughts to a relatively large and reasonably strange audience — the things I don't do every day.
But I guess the question already contains the answer: I don't do it every day. Where else would I train my persuasion skills? "standing in front of an audience" skills? I'm not mentioning my English skills because I'm already an ace in that :P
And now back to nostalgia...
I remember the first time I came to the meeting. When I stepped out to the floor to give an impromptu speech. Can't remember what it was about, but it was good and made everyone laugh :) Kinda made me proud. And hooked up. Ever since then I try to make every meeting interesting for myself and as a result to the others (hopefully :))
Having that said, I'm really glad that I joined the club, hope you are too.

P.S. For those of you still wondering who I am, here's my photo:


P.P.S. What about you? Got something to share? ;)

Our Members

Our proud members are:

Olena Koronenko
Sasha Sheremet
Bohdan Rak
Iryna Pantel
Dima Martynov
Reno Derosier
Sasha Yanov
Tetyana Naychuk
Glenn Rogers
Ivan Kravets
Lyuba Lazarenko
Olena Derzhko
Dasha Leskiv
Andriy Mudryy
Olesya Dzyben
Fady Haek
Yaroslav Kisylychka
Tania Knyazeva (from Art-Talkers club)
Vera Viter (ex Area Governor, EBA club)
Taras Kohut

Our Officers

President - Lyuba Lazarenko
VP Education - Olena Koronenko
VP Membership - Ira Pantel
VP PR - Yulia Kovalyova
Treasurer - Sasha Sheremet
Secretary - Ira Pantel
Sergeant at Arms - Ivan Kravets

Our Club Mentor - Yulia Usova.
Yulia has initiated the establishment of our club in November 2006 and has been giving us her continuous support ever since.