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Tuesday, December 5, 2006 No. 10 Vol. 85
Today’s Speaker: Ms. Kimberly Goddard, President
of Proper Protocol, Inc.
We are lucky today to have as our speaker, Ms.
Kimberly Goddard, a certified and widely recognized protocol/etiquette
consultant. Ms. Goddard is a much sought-after speaker for professional
and civic groups, conventions and seminars on a variety of business
etiquette topics. She makes regular appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX
news affiliate and conducts classes for children and adults locally.
Kim Goddard came to her present-day career after
her daughter was born. In her search for programs and activities for her
child that she thought would help develop her into a well-rounded
person, Ms. Goddard found the few choices woefully inadequate to the
task. In 1991 Kim began teaching her own seminars to children and adults
and founded Proper Protocol, Twenty-first Century Etiquette, as a
solution to the dwindling level of basic social skills and courtesies
found in far too many people.
Ms. Goddard realized that the art of business
etiquette was also changing and many young executives had never been
taught the social and culturally appropriate skills they would need to
run successful businesses. She expanded her teaching into the corporate
world as a solution for businesses that were looking to "outclass the
competition."
Despite her extensive travel, speaking engagements
and classes for young and old, Kim Goddard is committed to helping her
local community. She founded ReStart, a teen mentoring and
character-building program in Pinellas County that teaches respect,
civility and self-worth to troubled teens in the juvenile justice
system. Goddard also founded the Ambassador Committee for The Angelus, a
home for severely handicapped persons, for whom she acts as a voice and
advocate.
Voted one of Tampa
Bay’s Most Distinguished Women in Business in 2003, Ms. Goddard takes
time today out of her busy schedule to enlighten and delight us with her
rules of etiquette and protocol for businesses. Welcome, Ms. Goddard!
LAST WEEK AT KIWANIS
Kiwanian-of-the-Day Jane Baldwin introduced
our speaker, Dr. Sydney K. Pierce. Dr. Pierce, whose daunting
curriculum vitae left us uncertain what to expect, proved to be an
entertaining and knowledgeable speaker with stories of our human
fascination with sea monsters. Researching sea monsters, while not the
meat of his work, has been an absorbing, decades-long hobby. Our speaker
began with a tale of an amorphous mass washed ashore in 1896 on
Anastasia Beach, St. Augustine, FL.
Summoned by two boys, local physician and naturalist DeWitt Webb
declared the 21’ long, 10’ high thing ‘Octopus Giganticus,’ and spent
considerable sums of money to have it dug up and specimens taken to his
lab. Analyses of the monster’s tissue revealed it to be ropy and
fibrous, most likely made of collagen, like whale blubber. When it was
discovered that the blob had no eyes and no internal systems, Dr. Webb
recanted and published his new conclusions in scholarly journals.
Interest in it over the years has remained strong and the St. Augustine
Historical Society has an exhibit on it even today. Similar stories of
the discovery of the Tasmanian West Coast Monster in the ‘60s and the
Bermuda Blob in the ‘80s are testimony to our desire to believe in
monsters from the deep, but chemical and miscroscopic analyses of both
revealed the same ropy, fibrous, systemless tissue which Dr. Pierce and
others determined to be large pieces of whale blubber. Still, stories
persist and Dr. Pierce, despite his scientific skepticism, holds out
hope that something as yet undiscovered will be found and will be the
monster that tantalizes us. Thank you, Dr. Pierce, for your
‘science-lite’ presentation which was both entertained and informed us.
Guests and Visitors
Lorin Bridge brought his son, Lorin
last week. Always happy to see you. You’re looking quite tall these
days.
What’s Happening?
Community Service Meeting Today
Last week’s Community Service meeting was cancelled
due to illness, so you still have a chance to share your input. The
meeting will be held tonight at the home of Jane Baldwin -- 922 39th
Avenue NE, St. Petersburg, 5:30-6:30 pm today for a one-time-only
community service meeting in which the projects for the year will be
decided. Food and drinks will be provided. Please let Bob Piplitz or
Jane know you’re coming by emailing
Robert_Piplitz@ML.com.
Help Create Happy Holiday Memories for a Foster
Child
The Christmas Angels Program needs gifts to
provide a happy holiday for 100 foster children. Last week, Ron
Scoggins, co-chair of the Young Children Priority One Committee,
displayed information on children and young people in foster care for
whom your gift may be the only one they’ll get. If you were not present
last Tuesday and can make room in your heart and schedule to make a
child’s Christmas brighter, please choose a name or two at today’s
meeting. Ron asks that we buy one gift per child and bring it, wrapped,
to the December 19th meeting. If you chose last week and
feel moved to help again, select another card and spread the holiday
cheer!
Governor’s Visit this Friday, December 8th
Kiwanis Governor H. Phillip Yorston is making an
official division visit this Friday at Tropicana Field. Cash bar starts
at 6:30, dinner at 7:30. Cost is $25 per person.
Have a Merry, Merry!
Our holiday party is this Saturday night – have you
signed up? Only a limited number of tickets are left. Please see
Lorin Bridge to reserve your place and enjoy the company and
delectables that follow:
5:00 – 6:15 p.m. Drinks and Appetizers hosted
by Scott and Terri Boyle
6:45 – 8:15 p.m. Dinner hosted by Steve and
Charlene Koch
8:30 p.m. till ? Dessert hosted by Harvey and
Kathleen Ford
Checks should be made payable to "Kiwanis Club of
St. Petersburg" and given to Lorin Bridge or Cynthia Mulligan
ASAP.
And Start Your Day With a Healthy Smile
Saturday, December 9th is also the date of Dr. Ron
O’Neal’s Healthy Smile event. He needs volunteers to help with the
forty children who will be attending to get much-needed dental care.
Tell a story, play a game, lead a song. Make going to the dentist a FUN
outing for these kids! See Dr. Ron for time and place.
Wanna be a “Wrap Star?” Help A
Child still needs volunteers on Friday, December 16th to
help with gift wrapping and toy assembly. Ask how you can participate.
Quasimodos Needed J. C.
Russell says bell ringers are still needed to staff the
Salvation Army kettle on December 21. One hour slots are available
beginning at 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. in two person shifts. The kettle
will be in front of Publix at the Northeast Shopping Center. And plan to
make your year-end donation to the Salvation Army at our December 19th
meeting. This year, we want to be #1 in collections and beat the St.
Pete Rotary Club! J. C. Russell and Skip Carr will be
available to collect your donation for placement in the kettle on the
21st. Go Army!
TODAY’S QUIZ
1. What is considered to be the largest
item on any menu in the world?
2. In the Middle Ages, how did the striped
red pole become associated with barber shops?
3. Why was the first Miss America Contest
created?
4. Which president created the Order of the
Purple Heart and when?
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in
deed.
Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretenses and meet each other, face to face, without
self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment and always be generous.
Teach us to put in action our better impulses.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things of life that create
difficulties; that in the big things of life we are as one.
Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind.
Amen.
LAST WEEK’S QUIZ:
1. The sea creature that warred with
Godzilla in the 1966 movie “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” was named
Ebira. Ebira had giant googly eyes, long antenna and big nasty
claws, along with a powerful underwater lobster tail. Ebira’s name is
from ebi, the Japanese word for shrimp (?).
2. Antarctica is the only
continent without reptiles or snakes. It’s too cold there for
cold-blooded creatures. Must be short on lawyers, too.
3. The Congo is the only river that
flows both north and south of the equator.
4. Unless you have an exceptionally dry
sense of humor or water on the brain, your brain is 85% water. |
