Photos @ AGM_03 May 2011

Report by Angeline Lee, VPE cum Area W3 Governor

Angeline Lee

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

With the confirmation of quorum required for our once a year Annual General Meeting (AGM), President Zaiton started our meeting.

President Zaiton conducting the AGM

The Club Officer for term 2010/2011 presented their respective reports.

President’s report was presented by Zaiton Zainal Abidin

Vice President of Education’s report was presented by Angeline Lee

Vice President of Membership’s report was presented by Chor Chee Hoe

Vice President of Public Relations’ report was presented by Alexandra Lau

Secretary’s report was presented by Acting Secretary Angeline Lee

Treasurer’s report was presented by Chor Wai Yee

Sergeant At Arms’ report was presented by Sivadas

The reports were adopted with minor amendments in the Treasurer's report as proposed by PP Teresa Choong, one of the club auditors.

The next item in the agenda was the Club Officers’ election. With the successful conclusion of this election, Friendship is pleased to announce that the Club Officers for term 2011/2012 are

President – Angeline Lee

Vice President Education – Chor Chee Hoe

Vice President Membership – Alexandra Lau

Vice President Public Relations – Susan Lim

Secretary – Daphne Au

Treasurer – Ian Tai

Sergeant At Arms – Andy Supramaniam

The Club Officers for 2011/2012

After a short break, we then moved on to the Project Speech Session. In her “From Good to Great” speech, Past President Lay Theng recalled Division W Governor 2009/2010 DTM Soh Fong Wai’s analogy for a Toastmasters leadership journey. He said, “When you join the club, it is like learning how to swim in a safe and small swimming pool, and you swim with the friends from your club whom you are familiar with. When you become the Area Governor, you go to the public swimming pool of Olympic size and you will face different challenges. This is the training ground for you to prepare yourself, so that you can one day go to the ocean.”

She also recounted a thought-provoking idea that she learnt from Jim Collin, the author of the book “Good To Great”. Jim Collin said, "Good is the enemy of Great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.” Lay Theng then asked us whether we wanted to be good or great. We agreed with her whole-heartedly that being great is better than being good.

As the second speaker, I presented my “A Brief History of Time” speech for the Speaking To Inform manual. I shared about my Lee family blog and demonstrated the few simple steps required to create a blog and to do the first posting. To my surprise, at the end of the meeting, Teresa and Lay Theng both informed me they were also interested in starting up their own blog.

Phileo, performing Timer duties for the first time, reported that we were on time for most of the items in the program agenda. 

Phileo giving his Timer report

At the end of the evening, the following awards were presented:

Competent Leader (CL) award for President Zaiton

Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) award for President Zaiton

District 51 Best Area/Division Website award won by Area W3 and announced during the Penang Convention. Area W3 webmaster is VPM Chee Hoe

President holding her CL and ALB pins.
Chee Hoe and Angeline with their Best Area/Division Website award

Past President Freddie has nothing but praise for our President, who has single-handedly contributed 2 DCP points for our club.

President Zaiton deserves heaps of praise for her strings of achievements during her tenure. The term is filled with many events which she led persistently from the drawing board to fruition. Check out all these memorable events in our blog and Facebook.

President Zaiton, your dynamism has certainly taken Friendship to a higher level of success. Congratulations and a big THANK YOU for your outstanding leadership!

President Zaiton and members of Friendship