The purpose of the "Elusive Gilded Gavel" is to encourage clubs to visit one another! The listing here represents the travels that the gavel has made in pursuit of this goal. Visit the gavel at its current location and you can add your club to this list.

see Map of the Gavel Travels at bottom of this page

• HealthToasters * September-02-2010 (2 members)
• Hutchinson II * August-24-2010 (3 members. Toast of the Towers 2.5)
• Sound Bytes * August-18-2010 (4 members, HutchinsonII 2 members)
• Stock Tockers * August-02-2010 (2 members)
• Tri-Dynamics * July-15-2010 (2 members)
• Smooth Talkers * June-12-2010 (2 members)
• Daylighters * May-13-2010 (2 members)
• Hutchinson II * March-23-2010 (3 members)
• H2O Masters * February-25-2010 (4.5 members)
• Marsh Winds * December-17-2009 (5 members)
• Hutchinson II * October-29-2009 (5 members)
• PrimeTimers * August-06-2009 (3 members)
• Lunch Bunch * July-28-2009 (2 members, Thriftbuilders sent 6)
• Lakers * July-09-2009 (3 members)
• Hutchinson II * May-01-2009 (5 members)
• Datamasters * March-17-2009 (5 members)
• My-T Speakers * February-16-2009 (5 members, Bravehearts 4 members)
• HealthToasters * February-04-2009 (3 members)
• Money Talks * January-28-2009 (2 members)
• High Tech Talkers * December-04-2008 (4 members)
• Hutchinson II * July-29-2008 (3 members)
• Eagan Communicators * May-21-2008
• Apple Valley Toastmasters * March-10-2008 (2 members)
• Dakota Speakers * February-11-2008 (4 members)
• HealthToasters * January-16-2008 (2 members)
• Discovery Club * December-08-2007 (StockTockers visited too)
• Saturday Morning Live * November-08-2007
• Maximizers * October-13-2007 (3 members)
• Saturday Morning Live * September-18-2007 (3 members)
• Maximizers * September-08-2007 (5 members, HealthToasters -2 members)
• Saturday Morning Live * August-02-2007
• Marsh Winds * June-09-2007
• Saturday Morning Live * May-19-2007
• Word Masters * April-06-2007 (five members, HealthToasters -2 members)
• Real Speakers * January-17-2007
• Minnesota Returned Peace Corp Volunteers * January-13-2007 (HealthToasters visited too)
• Saturday Morning Live * January-08-2007
• HealthToasters * November-07-2006 (2 members)
• Speakers after Hour * October-24-2006
• Superspeakers * October-12-2006
• Toast of the Towers * September-19-2006 (4 members)
• Sound Bytes * September-07-2006 (3 members)
• Dirty Rotten Communicators * August-10-2006 (6 members)
• Gre Energizers * July-18-2006 (2 members)
• Mayo Daybreakers * May-18-2006 (3 members)
• Rochester Chamber * February-09-2006 (5.5 members)
• Humor - Us * January-23-2006 (7 members, 2 dual)
• Humor Mill * January-13-2006 (5 members)
• St.Paul Speakers * December-13-2005 (six members)
• Nomads * October-16-2005 (First club to host the gavel)

See: The Gavel Explained

The gavel guardian, Lieutenant Governor Marketing Stephen Shaner, displays the gavel during the TELI on February 14, 2009. District 6 Governor Joan Watson, and Lieutenant Governor Education & Training Allan Bernard look on.

Map of the Gavel Travels

View Elusive Gilded Gavel Travels in a larger map

This map represents the gavel travels by including a placemark in sequence for each of the clubs that hosted the Elusive Gilded Gavel. The yellow green path shows hows how it moved from place to place. Use the tiny link just above to view in a larger map that will display each of the clubs and their sequence as host. The placemark will overlap the same location when a club hosted more than once.