Dinner Parties!

With 13 members and one guest present, our meeting this week got off to a terrific start with the addition of a new member. Here is Club President Art Testani inducting our newest member, Carolyn Keeler. Carolyn is a previous Toastmaster with Monterey Peninsula Toastmasters #934.

Lacey Raak, in her first time as Toastmaster of the Day, led a fantastic meeting with the delicious theme of "dinner parties."



Margaret Stevens gave a hint at the theme with her Opening Remarks:


Elizabeth Mitchell won a hard-fought round of Table Topics:


In what must be a first for the club, there were two speeches by DTM's, Carl and Arnie. And each was giving a speech from the basic CC manual.

Arnie Buss gave a #3 speech titled Why am I Here? and was voted Most Improved as well as Best Speaker:


Arnie was evaluated by Aaron Sanchez:


Carl Thormeyer completed another CC manual with his #10 speech Dare to Dream. This completes another CC for Carl - congratulations!


Carl was evaluated by Arnie Buss, who completed a trifecta by being selected Best Evaluator by General Evaluator Art Testani:


One of the highlights was Lacey's story about the dinner party in 1900 that included all the mayors in France: