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Friday, 4 December 2015

[ND-DC-YA] Happy Hour Next Wednesday

Dear Young Alums,

Join us at Irish Whiskey Public House (19th & M St NW) this Wednesday at 6 PM for a holiday happy hour! In the holiday spirit, we will also be raising money for Catholic Relief Services if you're able to bring a donation. Have a great weekend!

EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE:

Young Alum Happy Hour (Wednesday, 12/9)

Volunteering with Wreaths Across America (Saturday, 12/12)

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

ND Flag Football
Better Off Bowling

Call for Volunteers: Involvement on the Young Alumni Committee

ND-DC Club Online Membership

ND YOUNG ALUM HAPPY HOUR (Wednesday, 12/9)

Join us at Irish Whiskey Public House (19th & M St NW) on Wednesday, December 9th for a holiday happy hour! In the holiday spirit, we will also be raising money for Catholic Relief Services (http://www.crs.org/) if you're able to bring a donation.

VOLUNTEERING WITH WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA (Saturday, 12/12)

Join the ND Club in volunteering at Arlington National Cemetery for Wreaths Across America on Saturday, December 12. The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a briefing to address the volunteers. After the briefing the volunteers are lined up behind the trucks and handed wreaths for placement on tombs. The final ceremony will take place at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at 12 noon. Families are welcome! Please contact Matt Hopke (mhopke@gmail.com) if you are interesting in volunteering.

ND FLAG FOOTBALL

If you're interested in playing flag football this fall, the Flagging Irish still have a few games left to go this season. Games are on weekends in Anacostia Park. The league is co-ed, and no commitment is required. For more information, email John Dickas '01 at johndickas@yahoo.com.

BETTER OFF BOWLING

Looking for some alum sports fun over the Winter?

Better Off Bowling is a co-ed social bowling league for young professionals that run two separate leagues, one on Sunday afternoons AND another on Tuesday evenings during the Winter (and yes, the NFL games are on the big screen TVs, PLUS no bowling on Super Bowl Sunday!). They have a bunch of young professionals along with a number of other school alum groups and usually have ~400 fun social people in the league. They've contacted us hoping we would be interested in getting a team or two together (does not have to be all alums though). Registration ends early January, and the league starts rolling Jan 17th for the Sunday league and Jan 12th for the Tuesday night league!

As Fighting Irish alums, we get $10 off the regular registration price with the discount code: DCALUMWIN16

You can get more info or see pics at their season page here:

http://www.betteroffbowling.com/WashDC/reg

ONLINE MEMBERSHIP

If you have not yet become a member of the ND-DC club, please consider it because your support is incredibly important to our club. As a reminder, you can register for your membership online. It's fast, easy, and inexpensive for the YA members! Best of all, it helps us provide fun, diverse, and valuable opportunities for our alumni family. Click here to sign up today.

Interested in getting involved in the club? Contact the co-chairs:

Kate Sullivan '10 (kaitlin.r.sullivan@gmail.com)
Mackenzie Keller '11 (mackenzie.k.keller@gmail.com)
Kelly McRaven '13 (kellymcraven@gmail.com)
Or dcnotredameyoungalumni@googlegroups.com.

Want your content featured in the next e-newsletter? Email us.

Michele Monk '11 (michelemonk@gmail.com)
Or dcnotredameyoungalumni@googlegroups.com.

Please check out the ND-DC Young Alumni website and Facebook Page for more information and to see upcoming events!

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Thursday, 3 December 2015

[TalkForChange:673] Some quick follow-ups re: last night's mtg.

All,

A couple of notes relative to last night's meeting:

First off, great meeting. Provocative theme, thought-provoking Table Topics and speeches — good stuff all around.
Thank you, Jennifer and Helena, for joining us as guests. I hope you enjoyed the experience; I hope you'll want to be on our club "listserv" (email me directly here if so); and I hope you'll be back — and consider joining ;) !
For our Dec. 16 meeting, Erin and Laura are slated to speak and Lynnie is scheduled to be Table Topics Master. All other slots are open, so please go to bit.ly/tfcsignup now and sign up. You can also sign up for roles for 2016 meetings now. Just look for the "2016 Roles" tab at the bottom. If you have any questions about meeting roles, check with Nils (our Vice President Education) or me.
Upcoming events:

Jan. 20 open house: Food, friends (bring a pal or three) and fun. I'd like a volunteer to coordinate refreshments as I'll be coordinatinig most of the rest of the proceedings. Contact me here if interested.
Feb. 3 speech evaluation contest and Feb. 17 international speech contest: I strongly encourage all of you to participate in one or both of these contests for they're a great way to challenge yourself by putting you in often unfamiliar territory. Personally, I'm leaning toward the speech evaluation contest as I could use some improvement on the listening side of things. I'll provide more info in the coming weeks, but please give me a shout if you want to learn more about taking part in one/both of the contests.

That's all for now.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you in 13 days' time at our next club meeting.

Best,

Mark Wills

2015–2016 President, Talk For Change

talkforchange.toastmastersclubs.org

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Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Re: [TalkForChange:671] Just in Time...Notes from 11/18 meeting

Great job, Erin!

On Dec 2, 2015 1:05 PM, "Erin" <erin.mary.shea@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings !

Just in time to get you ready for tonight's meeting, a short recap from 11/18:

We had eight attendees including Dan Hockensmith (guest), Omer Ipekci, Nils Junge, Erin Shea, Jill Vanderweit, Katie Walter, Mark Wills, and Laura Zam.

Laura was first-time TMOE and did a great job! Her word of the day was "gratitude" – appropriate for the pre-Thanksgiving meeting.

Dan provided the first speech, entitled "The Little Green House on K Street," which gave us a dynamic historic recap of 1625 K Street NW, the location of his current office building. The goal of this speech was to bring history to life via storytelling, and Dan did just that, using a recap of his experience with the office security guard who informed him of the "infamous address" history (which involved "unethical and shady lobbying"), what I like to call "old-timey" descriptive words, and presidential intrigue. As Dan concluded "you never know, your house could be the next infamous address in DC!"

Nils gave speech #2, which used visual aids for "Adolescent Fantasies: Can They Go too Far?" – this speech took us through a history of his fondness for the Adventures of Tintin child book series, which had a big influence on Nils and his life's work, which has taken him to far-off places throughout his life. We got to see the many copies of the books he's collected over the years, all the way back to his childhood.

Next, Laura pitch-hit for Table Topics, where she came up with three great questions on-the-spot, including: Favorite Thanksgiving dish, the Most Important thing Learned from a Family Matriarch, and Life Regrets. Mark, Omer, and Katie stepped up to participate and gave great responses.

Speech evaluations by Omer and Jill were informative and helpful, as two of our most senior Talk for Change members.

The meeting wrapped up by Mark with a call for ideas for future volunteer activities for the group, to put our name into action. Jill also mentioned future TLI trainings (reach out to her with questions), and several updates were given about a January Open House and February speech contests.

Stay tuned for more updates to come and another great meeting later this evening!

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[TalkForChange:671] Just in Time...Notes from 11/18 meeting

Greetings !

Just in time to get you ready for tonight's meeting, a short recap from 11/18:

We had eight attendees including Dan Hockensmith (guest), Omer Ipekci, Nils Junge, Erin Shea, Jill Vanderweit, Katie Walter, Mark Wills, and Laura Zam.

Laura was first-time TMOE and did a great job! Her word of the day was "gratitude" – appropriate for the pre-Thanksgiving meeting.
Dan provided the first speech, entitled "The Little Green House on K Street," which gave us a dynamic historic recap of 1625 K Street NW, the location of his current office building. The goal of this speech was to bring history to life via storytelling, and Dan did just that, using a recap of his experience with the office security guard who informed him of the "infamous address" history (which involved "unethical and shady lobbying"), what I like to call "old-timey" descriptive words, and presidential intrigue. As Dan concluded "you never know, your house could be the next infamous address in DC!"
Nils gave speech #2, which used visual aids for "Adolescent Fantasies: Can They Go too Far?" – this speech took us through a history of his fondness for the Adventures of Tintin child book series, which had a big influence on Nils and his life's work, which has taken him to far-off places throughout his life. We got to see the many copies of the books he's collected over the years, all the way back to his childhood.
Next, Laura pitch-hit for Table Topics, where she came up with three great questions on-the-spot, including: Favorite Thanksgiving dish, the Most Important thing Learned from a Family Matriarch, and Life Regrets. Mark, Omer, and Katie stepped up to participate and gave great responses.
Speech evaluations by Omer and Jill were informative and helpful, as two of our most senior Talk for Change members.
The meeting wrapped up by Mark with a call for ideas for future volunteer activities for the group, to put our name into action. Jill also mentioned future TLI trainings (reach out to her with questions), and several updates were given about a January Open House and February speech contests.

Stay tuned for more updates to come and another great meeting later this evening!