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Meeting – Thrills of a Lifetime
July 26, 2023 In line with our theme “Thrills of a Lifetime” our Grammarian Gail chose “exhilaration” as our word-of-the-day. We were exhilarated to try a new Zoom link that utilizes the camera in the conference room. Ruhina spoke about leadership styles and Mayura told us the lore behind the upcoming Chinese mid-autumn moon festival.…
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Event – Ruth Bancroft Garden
July 22, 2023 We inadvertently chose the hottest time of the hottest day for a group outing! Armed with parasols, we strolled the Ruth Bancroft Garden where our member Helen volunteers as a docent. All the drought-resistant plants of the garden were doing their thing — looking pretty and withstanding the sweltering afternoon. However, our group was…
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Event – District 101 Leadership Luncheon
July 15, 2023 District 101 held a Leadership Luncheon 🍽️ on July 15. Women L.E.A.D. was recognized as one of the President’s Distinguished Toastmasters clubs for 2022-23! 🎖️ All club members were invited, and we had many Women L.E.A.D. members in the crowd, including Sarah, Abhijeet, Helen, Preetha, Gail, Priya, Shreya, Anushree, and Mayura. Sarah…
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Meeting – Road Trips
July 18, 2023 Our July 18 Road Trip 🛣️ meeting was a fun journey. Speaker Giyora Barzilay shared his speech, A Worrier’s Choice. He brought us all the way all the way back through his family history as worriers in this moving story about how worry can cause you to miss life as it happens…
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Leader Profile – Virginia Holsinger
Introducing Virginia Holsinger Food scientist, chemist and nutrition expert. Awards include: — presented by Preetha Menon
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Meeting – Follow the Sun
July 12, 2023 “Follow the Sun” was our theme for July 12 meeting, and it was luminous. Preetha Menon shared a leader profile of Virginia Holsinger, an unsung hero of food science. As a chemist and nutritionist, she improved and saved lives by developing milk substitute and powdered drink mix to relieve lactose intolerance and…
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Meeting – Ignite the Light
July 5, 2023 🎆 “Ignite the Light,” in honor of the 4th of July was the theme of our July 5 meeting. 🎇 In her speech,🌻 “Change is Beautiful”, Anushree Ramanath shared her journey from her hometown to the US to pursue her doctoral degree and her career as a researcher. Her story was full…
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Meeting – Follow Your Excitement
June 14, 2023 Our meeting began with Maurya providing an interesting leader profile of Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, who provides inspiration to all in her company in the way she models servant leadership. We also conducted our annual Toastmaster elections where we elected Sarah Tang (VP Education), Helen Josephine (VP Public Relations) Ramya Radhakrishnan…
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