Smedley Friday - post Thanksgiving

Four members and one guest followed TMoD Karen Woodson's lead into Toastmasters heaven on a special Smedley Friday - the day after Thanksgiving.

David Perez led off with his # 2 manual speech on the things and people that he is thankful for. "And for that I am thankful" was the tag line he used throughout his beautifully organized speech evaluated by Karen.

Karen Woodson lauded the seven virtues of exercise in her #9 speech entitled "Let's get physical". She showed us as well as told us how to exercise - always with a smile on her face. David Perez added thoughtful suggestions in his first gig as an evaluator.

Fred Sadler gave his first speech from the advanced manual (The professional Speaker) - "the Keynote Address" in 20 minutes - an opportunity for him to practice a commemcement address he will deliver on December 8 at the Physician Assistant Program graduation at Yale Medical School. This is the 38th graduation class of a Masters level Program he founded in 1970. He says - "Thank you Toastmasters - this might actually be fun". Evaluator Carl said "crank up the vocal variety if you want your audience to have fun with you".

Carl Thormeyer gave his fifth speech (the Motivational Speech) from the Professional Speaker manual - a manual he started working on in 1999. Now that is persistence! Carl was very motivational indeed in encouraging us all to be better leaders and using examples from Abraham Lincoln to Barak Obama as well as from Toastmasters to make his point. His 20 minute speech had us enthralled and was evaluated by Fred.