Daylight Saving Time

We had 16 members, but no guests, so President Angi suggested, bring a friend to the next meeting! It would have been a fantastic meeting for any visitor to observe - Emilie Staryak was just brilliant in her maiden voyage as TMoD!! With a very timely theme of Daylight Saving Time (no 's'), she smoothly and expertly guided us through a fun-filled and action-packed program.

Emilie welcomes the next speaker:

















After the requisite introductory procedures, Emilie turned to Elizabeth Guzman to conduct Table Topics. Elizabeth challenged Masami Maeda, Leena Oh and (returning after a too-long absence) Chance Litton. All three gave excellent responses, and Chance won best Table Topics with a hilarious reminder of why he is the reigning District 4 humorous speaker!


















Welcome back Chance!

















Three prepared speeches followed. Bill Gibbons gave an eloquent and moving Icebreaker, The Day I Changed My Name, about how he went from being known in college as "Wild Bill" for his partying ways to "Bible Bill," when he found his faith path with the encouragement of a friend. Margaret Stevens entertained us with a hilarious #2 speech How Not To Write a Speech that gave explicit and detailed instructions about how to avoid that next speech - something we all can use! ;) Cathy Lee finished with a poignant and informative #8 speech about color blindness Seeing Green. For her efforts, Margaret was voted both best speaker as well as most improved speaker. Congratulations Margaret!

Three great speeches received three great evaluations. Michael Barksdale gave a compassionate and insightful evaluation of Bill's Icebreaker, throwing in a well-placed reference to St. Augustine in the process. Arnie evaluated Margaret's nearly flawless performance and managed to find a few suggestions for improvement, and finally Angi Anderson gave thorough and thoughtful feedback to Cathy, topped off with a very useful suggestion for the mechanics of running a Powerpoint presentation. Michael was selected best evaluator by General evaluator Fred Sadler, who also gave a terrific summary of the meeting as well as encouraging feedback to Emilie.

Bill Gibbons' Icebreaker speech The Day I Changed My Name.


Margaret Stevens' #2 speech How Not to Write a Speech


Cathy Lee's #8 speech Seeing Green


Don't forget:

• Dues are due!
  
• Saturday March 22: Area A1 Contest, Salinas Agricultural Center at 9:30 a.m. Come and support our club's speakers Arnie and Brian
• Saturday March 29: Smedley Saturday, La Mesa Community Center, 1:00 p.m. Come and give that speech you've been dying to give, try your hand at evaluating, or just come for the fun and companionship!