De-Stress

With a small end-of quarter turnout of 12 members and one guest, experienced Toastmaster Emilie Staryak led a meeting devoted to finding ways to reduce stress. From deep breathing to punching bags, we left the meeting with new tactics for dealing with all that in our busy lives!

Emilie demonstrates one way to de-stress:

Natalia Shilova's Opening remarks:


Newest member Natalie Laudier won best Table Topics:


Beom Soo (Bruce) Lim's Icebreaker speech Let Me Introduce Myself. He won "Most Improved" speaker:


Elizabeth Mitchell's Evaluation of Bruce's Icebreaker; Elizabeth was selected Bet Sevaluator by GE Carl Thormeyer:


Arnie Buss practiced his speech for teh Division A contest on April 11, giving it as a #6 speech "Vocal Variety" - "Are We Here Yet?":


Cathy Lee's evaluation of Arnie's speech:

Titles

With sixteen members and four guests present, Karen Woodson got us off to a great start by writing a poem for Opening Remarks:


We then inducted Khalid "K.J." Woods into membership, giving us seventeen members and three guests present....

Long-time member and Past President Joe Tacker then took over as Toastmaster, with a theme of "titles" (as in books).

Margaret Stevens was voted Best Table Topics Speaker:


Natalia Shilova was voted both Best Speaker as well as Most Improved Speaker for her Icebreaker Past, Present, and Future:


Katharine Daniels Kurz was selected best evaluator for her evaluation of Natalia's Icebreaker:


Art Testani gave a #3 speech from the advanced manual Public Relations, The Virtual World:


Karen Woodson evaluated Art's speech:



And we have at least three new folks ready to join within the next couple of weeks!

Daylight Savings Time - Love it or Hate It?

Seventeen members and three guests were present as VPE Tito DeJesus led a fine meeting revolving around the pros and cons of Daylight Saving Time! We did have to use a little imagination, however, as we were unable to bring up the computer to use PowerPoint slides. These are included in the links below.

Glenn Woodson won best Table Topics....again!


Arnie Buss' #8 CC speech The Violin:


Arnie's missing slides.

Fred Sadler won Best Evaluator for his feedback to Arnie:

Cathy Lee's #2 speech in the advanced manual The Professional Salesperson, Taking the Chill out of the Cold Call, trying to persuade Carl to buy a solar Prius:

Cathy's missing slides.

Art Testani's evaluation of Cathy's speech:

March

Thirteen members and three guests were present as Veteran Toastmaster Art Testani led us through a spirited meeting on the theme of "March" and its many dimensions - from Shakespeare to newly blooming flowers.



Christina Hicks' Opening Remarks:


Reponding to Table Topics Master John Armstrong was TT Winner Carl Thormeyer:


Elie Ishag was voted both "Most Improved Speaker" and "Best Speaker" for his thoroughly researched and beautifully organized #7 speech
Is Now the Time to Nationalize Our Insolvent Banks?


Tonya Holloway's Evaluation of Elie's speech:


Tito DeJesus amped up the vocal variety in his hilarious #6 speech 15 Minutes of My Life


Fred Sadler was selected Best Evaluator for his evaluation of Tito's speech:


Cathy Lee's had "help" from Fred Sadler in a "role play" in speech #1 from the advanced manual "Persuasive Speaking," Baby Steps


Carl Thormeyer's Evaluation of Cathy's speech: