The Pacific Ocean

Rolf Ridge used the theme of the Pacific Ocean for his first time as Toastmaster of the Day. As General Evaluator Carl Thormeyer pointed out, one wouldn't know it was the first time from the smooth way the meeting was organized and run. Congratulations Rolf!

Speaking of Carl, club president Art Testani honored Carl's achieving Advanced Communicator Gold by presenting him with the District Governor's pin to recognioze the achievement. Congratulations Carl!


Dennis Hickman was voted Best Table Topics Speaker:


Art Testani completed the speech requirements for Advanced Communicator Silver with the #5 speech from the Public Relations Manual, The Crisis Management Speech. He was voted Most Improved Speaker:


Art was evaluated by Cathy Lee, who was selected as the Best Evaluator:


Moyara Ruehsen gave the #1 speech from the advanced manual Speaking to Inform, and was voted Best Speaker


Moyara was evaluated by Tonya Holloway:


Meeting Summary:
Opening Remarks: Betsy Larkin
TMoD: Rolf Ridge
Wordmaster: Rolf Ridge ("Geoengineering")
Ah Counter: Dennis Hickman
Timer: Betsy Larkin
Grammarian: Tenly Connor
Vote Counter: Arnie Buss
Table Topics Master: Margaret Stevens
TT Speaker 2: Dennis Hickman (Best Table Topics)
TT Speaker 3: Cathy Lee
Speaker 1: Art Testani, #5 from Public Relations Advanced Manual "Crisis Management" (Most Improved)
Speaker 2: Moyara Ruehsen, #1 from Speaking to Inform (Best Speaker)
Evaluator 1: Tonya Holloway
Evaluator 2: Cathy Lee
General Evaluator: Carl Thormeyer

Bingo!

Tonya Holloway took us waay outside the box with a creative meeting with the theme of "Bingo." The highlight was a running game of "Toastmasters Bingo" where we had to guess which member had done what (like being attacked by a great white shark, winning a beauty contest, teaching dance classes).

Elizabeth Mitchell completed her #10 speech and earning her Competent Communicator. Congratulations Elizabeth!




Art Testani led off with Opening Remarks:



Table Topics was won by Carl Thormeyer:


Arnie practiced his contest speech for the evening's Division A International speech contest, The Most Difficult Person in the World:


Arnie was evaluated by Cathy Lee, who was selected as Best Evaluator:


Elizabeth Mitchell gave her #10 speech Experience Life, and was voted Most Improved speaker:


Elizabeth was evaluated by Moyara Ruehsen:


Meeting Summary:

TMoD: Tonya Holloway
Opening Remarks: Art Testani
Wordmaster: Fred Sadler ("fortuitous")
Ah Counter: Fred Sadler
Grammarian: Rolf Ridge
Vote Counter: Carl Thormeyer
Table Topics Master: Cat Grant
Table Topics Speaker 1: Joe Tacker
Table Topics Speaker 2: Jim Burlison
Table Topics Speaker 3: Carl Thormeyer (Best Table Topics Speaker)
Speaker 1: Arnie Buss The Most Difficult Person in the World (practice for Division Contest) (Best Speaker)
Evaluator 1: Cathy Lee (Best Evaluator)
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Mitchell #10: Experience Life (Most Improved Speaker)
Evaluator 2: Moyara Ruehsen
General Evaluator: Art Tetsani

Self Improvement

Margaret Stevens was Toastmaster of the day today with a theme of "Self Improvement" (and Self-Improvement Books).

Unfortunately, due to a malfunctioning video camera, all that is available from the meeting are stills.


Cathy Lee gave Opening Remarks:


Table Topics Master Rolf Ridge called on Art Testani, Cathy Lee, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Jim Burlison, with Art being voted Best Table Topics Speaker:

Arnie Buss led off the prepared speeches with a #8 speech from the CC manual, The Five A's:


Arnie was evaluated by Elizabeth Mitchell:


Fred Sadler gave his speech reviewing his High Performance Leadership project and was voted Best Speaker:



Fred was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer, who was selected Best evaluator:


Meeting Summary:
TMod: Margaret Stevens (Most Improved Speaker)
Opening Remarks: Cathy Lee
Wordmaster: Jim Burlison ("ANTs" = "Automatic Negative Thinking")
Ah Counter: Art Testani
Grammarian: Jim Burlison
Timer: Cathy Lee
Vote Counter: Art Testani
Table Topics Master: Rolf Ridge
Table Topics Speakers:
Art Testani (Best Table Topics)
Cathy Lee
Elizabeth Mitchell
Jim Burlison
Speaker 1: Arnie Buss, #8 The Five A's
Speaker 2: Fred Sadler, The HPL Project Report (Best Speaker)
Evaluator 1: Elizabeth Mitchell
Evaluator 2: Carl Thormeyer (Best Evaluator)
General Evaluator: Cat Grant

Change

Cat Grant debuted as Toastmaster of the day with a theme of "Change."



Jim Burlison gave Opening Remarks:




Rolf Ridge gave his #3 speech Property Assessed Clear Energy Financing and was tied for both Best Speaker and Most Improved Speaker:


Rolf was evaluated by Jim Burlison:


Tonya Holloway gave her #9 speech Educating for a Successful Future and tied with Rof for both Best and Most Improved speaker:

Tonya was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer, who was selected Best Evaluator:


Meeting summary:
TMod: Cat Grant
OR: Jim Burlison
WM: Arnie Buss ("transmute")
Ah: Elizabeth Mitchell
VC: Mirislav Sipowski
Table Topics Master: Cathy Lee
TT Speaker 1: Jim Burlison
TT Speaker 3: Margaret Stevens

Speaker 1: Rolf Ridge #3 Property Assessed Clear Energy Financing (tied for BS and MI)
Speaker 2: Tonya Holloway #9 Educating for a Successful Future (tied for BS and MI)
Evaluator 1: Jim Burlison
Evaluator 2: Carl Thormeyer (Best Evaluator)

General Evaluator: Fred Sadler
Attending: Wendy Goody

The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat

Elizabeth Mitchell used her alma mater, the University of Kentucky, to illustrate her theme of victory and defeat in today's meeting - how what may seem like a defeat may also be seen as a victory.


Acting President Moyara Ruehsen inducts newest member Mirislav Lipowski into the club.




Fred Sadler gave a speech from the Entertaining Speaker manual titled Accentuate the Negative. Fred  tied for Best Speaker.


Fred was evaluated by Moyara Ruehsen:

As a special treat, Area A1 International Speech Champion John Lente practiced for the Division A Contest. His speech was titled Why I Run Up The Stairs.

Let's all turn out in force at the Division A contest on Friday evening April 23 at 6pm to support John and Elizabeth Mitchell who is the Area A1 representative in the Table Topics Contest.

Other roles:
Wordmaster: Erik Brannon
Ah Counter: Arnie Buss
Timer: Jim Burlison
Grammarian: Rolf Ridge
Vote Counter: Mirislav Lipowski
General Evaluator: Cathy Lee