The First Toastmasters Demo Meeting @ NDMC

It was a very successful Toastmasters Demo Meeting at National Defense Medical Center (NDMC) with 25 participants (13 Toastmasters and 12 non-toastmasters) on the Lantern Festival 2011.

The high quality TOASTMASTERS demo meeting at NDMC campus featured four DTMs (Distinguished Toastmasters), including Mike Yang, YS Jap, Ronald Wiplinger, Trini Ding, and many D67 Officers, including District 67 Governor Mike Yang, PR Victoria Wang, Secretary Bonnie Chen, Division G Governor William Chiu, and Division H Governor Tim Wang.

The non-toastmasters are the NDMC medical school students, dental school students, pharmacy school students, and graduate students. In addition, Mr. Daniel Steve Villarreal, Lecturer of NDMC English Department, also joined the demo meeting and answered a tabletopics question by encouraging the participants to grab every possible opportunity in life.

Toastmasters YS Jap and Bonnie Chen won the hearts of NDMC students because of their devotion to the Toastmasters International and their love to their alma mater. Special thanks must go to two Toastmasters Steve and Eileen from NTU Toastmasters Club for their friendly support. Steve served as the Sergent-at-Arms to call the meeting to order. Eileen answered a tabletopics question. They impressed the NDMC students in the audience.

I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the group efforts of NDMC students, Bruce Huang, Dean Lin, and Jean Chou. I met them at the Regengsburger Domspatzen Concert Tour meeting in early December last year. I encouraged them to charter a Toastmasters club at NDMC, and they made the Toastmasters demo meeting a reality this evening.

Bruce Huang delivered a successful C-4 speech about an old love song of a young man. He mesmerized the audience with his singing talents. Dean Lin served as the timer and Jean Chou served as the Ah counter. Both of them were non-Toastmasters, but they performed their jobs with quality.

Of course, I can't thank Professor Hsu-Shan Huang enough for introducing his outstanding students to me. Dr. Huang is the Dean of School of Pharmacy & the Dean of Department of Research and Development at NDMC. We were on a government research project to study the operation system of pharmacy in Germany in 1998. Dr. Huang showed us his alma mater in the beautiful city of Regengsburg. He served as the interpreter and tourguide when we were in Germany. Thank you, Dr. Huang for the wonderful memories.

After the joyful Toastmasters demo meeting at NDMC, Ronald, Daniel and I took the 9:10 shuttle bus back to the old TDGH. Daniel and I continued our talk about the second demo meeting at the Second Floor Cafe' on Ding-chou Road till 10:30PM. Daniel was kind to invite me to visit his English corner at NDMC one of these days to promote the Toastmasters.

We had a good turnout at the first Toastmasters demo meeting at NDMC with many outstanding Toastmasters and many promising non-Toastmasters on Lantern Festival 2011. How I look forward to the second Toastmasters demo meeting at NDMC in March from the bottom of my heart!