The District 53 Traveling Gavels

The Goal: Capture the Traveling Gavel.

Gavel Name	Current Traveling Gavel Locations
	Div	Area	Club Name
Alex	A	B2	IBM Poughkeepsie Speechmakers Club #315 - Poughkeepsie, NY Captured at the Division A contest on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. See Dave Wheeler's blogspot for details
Bo	C	C5	Middlesex County Toastmasters - Middletown, CT Captured by Tom Alvord, Erik Jarboe, Jamie Jarboe, Cheryl Mason, and Rob Schaff on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 l to r: Tom Alvord, Cheryl Mason, Jerrold Bloom, Rob Schaff, Jamie Jarboe, and Erik Jarboe
Chris	C	C3	Pfizer Phrasemakers #4445 - Groton, CT Captured from Thames River Toastmasters Club by Sheri Shamblin, Linyan He, and Dexue Sun on Monday, January 18, 2008.
Drew	D	D5	Middlesex County Toastmasters - Middletown, CT Captured by Rose Rita Riccitelli, Cheryl Mason, and Rob Schaff on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. l to r: Rose Rita Riccitelli, Marv Cross, Cheryl Mason, Rob Schaff
Ennis	E	E2	Middlesex County TM Club 8340- Bloomfield, CT Four members from the Middlesex County Toastmasters Club participated in capturing the Division E Gavel from Cigna Lunchtime Toastmasters on March 4, 2008: Tom Alvord, Cheryl Mason, Rob Schaff, and Nancy Green. The Cigna Toastmasters are a warm and welcoming group, with a lot of spirit! l to r: Tom Alvord (President Middlesex), Wayne Botha & John Parla (CIGNA), Cheryl Mason (Secretary, Middlesex), Rob Schaff, (VPE Middlesex), Nancy Green (VP PR Middlesex)
Francis	F	F4	Washington County #9988 - Fort Edward, NY

The Objective:

1. Encourage joint Toastmaster Club meetings;
2. Share talents and knowledge of communications and leadership; and
3. Extend the fellowship of Toastmasters.

The Plan:

1. Three (or more) Toastmaster members, from the same club, visit the target Club who currently holds that Traveling Gavel. Please call ahead and announce your intent to visit.
2. The visiting Toastmasters must participate in the target Club meeting in some way.
3. The visiting Toastmasters "Capture" or take the Traveling Gavel at the end of the meeting; returning to display the captured Traveling Gavel at their next Toastmasters Club meeting.
4. Once a Traveling Gavel is captured, the visiting Toastmasters must announce the new home for the Traveling Gavel. They must email the web master ( ) and declare the new location (Club Name, Area) so that other Toastmaster Clubs can plan to visit (raid) the Club and capture (take away) the coveted Traveling Gavel.
   Sample Email message:

   To: D53 Webmaster <webber53@district53toastmasters.org

   From: Member or Club Name <somebody@somedomain.net>

   The Gavel Banger Toastmasters of Area X1 have captured the "Gavel Name" Traveling Gavel on July 1, 2007. The following members visited the Gavel Ghost Toastmasters of Area Y1: John Q. DePrez, Clare Chatter, and Sargeant Bob Bailey. The Gavel Bangers meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at Oratory Library, 123 Main Street, Yourtown, State. Contact phone: 860-555-5353 With pride (nan na na na :-) ), Martha D. Hostenklub, CC, CL