Although there was no "power" in Glasgow Hall on Saturday November 1, a loyal band of Club # 2032 Toastmasters convened at 10 am in a third floor hall in front of a large window to carry on the tradition of Smedley Saturday. TMoD Emilie Staryak presided over three speeches, three traditional evaluations and then a round robin evaluation popularized by the Peninsula Pros group that allows everyone to comment on the speaker's performance and in turn give the speaker a chance to respond.
Fred Sadler delivered an interpretation of "Long Day's Journey into Night" - Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece, in which he channeled each of the four principal characters as one by one each expresses his/her own "truth". This 12-15 minute presentation was from the "Interpretive Reading" manual.
Arnie Buss discussed "followers and leaders" and how you can't have one without the other. In fact we often have leading and following backwards or upside down.
Tonya Holloway did a practice run of her # 2 speech entitled "Shoot First". The rest of the club gets to hear this on November 7 so hold on to your seats for this (Tonya was a theater major in college) surprise.
Aysun Caliskan served as timer and joined in for the evaluations.
The small number of participants allowed for an open and "powerful" sharing before we sent Arnie off to play his violin at an afternoon concert.
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