Also, congratulations to Lacey Raak, who tied the knot on October 10.
Club president Art Testani served as TMoD with an entertaining and creative theme of "Astrology." Art continues to set the bar high, and the printed agendas were especially valuable (future TMoDs take note!)
Karen Woodson gave Opening Remarks:
Art called on Jason Lin to explain the vote counter's role.
Art was ably assisted by wordmaster Aaron Sanchez, whose choice of word ("Lunacy") perhaps reflected some skepticism about the topic. Filling the other functions were Cat Grant as Ah counter, Dennis Hickman as Grammarian, and Margaret Stevens as timer.
Table Topic Master Tonya Holloway asked some challenging questions of Cathy Lee,
Moyara Ruehsen,
and Dennis Hickman, with Dennis being voted best table topics speaker for his take on the Mayan calendar's "end of world" in 2012 forecast.
The prepared speeches were outstanding! Juliette Ferguson led off with Castles in the Sky, a number 3 speech ("Get to the Point"), for which she was voted Most Improved Speaker:
Juliette was evaluated by newlywed Lacey Raak, who added Best Evaluator to her collection:
Next Elizabeth Mitchell gave a dramatic and eventful number 5 speech ("Your Body Speaks") Traveling in the Black Hills, with highlights including elk and prarie dogs:
Elizabeth was evaluated by Moyara Ruehsen:
Finally, Fred Sadler took home the gold with his #1 speech from the advanced manual "The Entertaining Speaker" entitled A Whole New Attitude, in which that selfsame attitude was illustrated and the origin of his famous "Indiana Fred" fedora was revealed.
Fred was expertly evaluated by Cathy Lee:
General evaluator Arnie Buss gave the meeting high marks and selected Lacey as best evaluator:
Newest member Jason Lin served as vote counter:
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