Guests: Lester Yearwood, Phillip Sweat
Meeting was called to order by SAA John Harman, after President Christy Gardner welcome members and guests, she introduced Toastmaster of the Evening, Rick Boyer.
As Emcee of the night, Rick's main role was to introduce speakers and keep the flow of the meeting constant and on target.
The meeting was lively with three speakers and six table topics participants. Speaker one was Allen Foretich delivering his second speech of ten as he shared one of his passions, "law". Following Allen was veteran member John Harman, who is working on another Competent Communicator level and he spoke about "transitions". Completing the planned speeches for the night, Lauren White challenged us to enjoy the mundane as she delivered her third speech towards the required ten for Competent Communicator.
Once planned speeches were delivered then club Vice President of Education Nancy Hogg challenged six participants to "speak of the cuff" with Table Topics. Janet Krenn had to share about which habit she'd liked to break; Robyn Roberts-what her dream job would be; Naomi Lewis-what instrument she would like to learn; Jean Smith-where she would travel if she were a time traveler; Sabrina Joy-Hogg-what she would do if she didn't have to deal with fear; and last Brett McGee shared who his hero is and why.
All great topics to think about, but quite a challenge to speak about without prior planning. All six participants did a fabulous job sharing their thoughts about their respective topics.
Club Treasurer Stan Dalziel was the General Evaluator for the meeting and he and his team (timer, speech evaluator, ah counter, grammarian) gave constructive feedback to help with improvement and growth. Through constructive feedback and pointed evaluations, speakers, as well as all present, learn the value of "stately pauses", eye contact, body gestures, and appropriate use of grammar to communicate more effectively.
President Christy Gardner closed the meeting by presenting ribbons to peer voted
Best Table Topics Speaker: Namoi Lewis
Best Evaluator: Dr. June Montgomery
Best Speaker: Allen Foretich
Next meeting Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. Hope to see you all there, respectively submitted, club secretary,
Danita Fox
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