8/26/08
Good evening Toastmasters,
We had 18 people at our meeting tonight……what a
wonderful breath of fresh air. Those who were not assigned a role
were busy evaluating others in their leadership roles.
Michael Lebeau brought his cousin, Philip Robert a
former Toastmaster. Blanche Pape, our area governor visited us as
well.
Mark Crider was presented his Competent Leadership Award
for completing all 10 projects of Leadership.
Nagi Patibandla gave his third speech on taking
risks. He understands the positives of risk taking. Afterwards
he shared a risk he is taking--- building a hotel.
Ed Paiva gave his 5th speech on the 1982
World Cup Competition. Ed gave a very exciting speech.
Lupe gave Maureen some practice evaluating for the
competition; she evaluated Lupe Roy, and even found some challenges for
her, which is not an easy task.
Elvia Ledzema had some really great and challenging
Table Topics questions. Linda was stumped by a picture Elvia used,
but she talked for 2 minutes on it.
Lupe Roy shared her experiences at the
Toastmaster’s International Conference in Canada.
We are looking forward to seeing some of you next week
that haven’t been able to be with us for the summer.
Bring a friend next week; we have one more week and a
day to compete in the Jack Rabbit Dash.
Linda Oliver
VPE
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8/19/08
We had a great meeting tonight with 10 in
attendance. We missed Tammy and Steve, but were glad to hear from Ree
that Steve was able to go home from the hospital today. Our prayers are
for Steve’s good health in the days and weeks to come and for Tammy to be
at peace as she ministers to him. Suz can relate similarly when her
husband recently was hospitalized. We women can worry can’t we?
Anna Manning served the TMOE and the GE with competence
and humor. Jason had a new word “Slake”, which was a challenge for most,
but it was used by a few. Maureen gave a speech, which could have
been a Tall Tale, but she insisted that it really was true. Joanne
Palmer gave her 9th speech in the CC manual on Research and the
Power of it. Linda reviewed how our club was doing on our Speaking
and Leadership roles and how it is possible for us to make all 10 goals
this year, which will not only benefit the club, but all of us
individually.
Then came Linda and her Table Topics on School
Days. She got some boners for the challenges she gave the TM in
speaking about the educational controversies today. The Table Topics
questions involved two Toastmasters at a time. The participants had
to present the pros and cons of the issues we are facing today in our
schools and universities.
Grant and Nagi gave the speakers excellent evaluations
and challenges. Jason didn’t think his jokes were funny enough, but
we did laugh.
We look forward to NEXT WEEK. Please note the
THEME will be on the Newsworthy aspects of the Olympics.
See you then.
Linda
VPE
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8/12/08
Dear Toastmasters,
We had a great TM meeting tonight. Jason did a
great job for his first time being a Toastmaster. Mike
Gibson had some challenging topic master questions that cause us to THINK
on our FEET.
Mark gave a speech on “Little Red Riding Hood”
and Suz on Mary Baker Eddy ….one on fantasy and another on real life.
The evaluations by Tammy and Anna contained Compliments, critiques and
challenges. We are really doing well giving our TM feedback on their
speeches.
We had 6 guests tonight….most came by invitations from
Suz. One however was my son, Bill, who was visiting with his family.
He compared our club with his TM club from Houston.
Our Area Governor, Blanche Pape, explained what happens
at contests. We actually were able to get some commitments to speak
at our Club contest. Thank you, Tammy, Joanne, and Mark for
committing to being in our contest on September 16th.
Grant Mercier and Anna Manning had some really FUNNY
jokes.
Next week, Tammy Palmer volunteered to be our Toastmaster,
so Joanne Palmer can speak. Joanne is two speeches from getting her
CC award.
If you weren’t able to be with us this evening, we look
forward to seeing you there next week on the 19th.
Linda Oliver
VPE
