June Weddings

Our last meeting of the 2009-2010 Toastmasters year was emceed by Arnie with the theme of "Weddings and Marriage" it being June, the traditional month of weddings. The "ewww" factor was raised by the sharing of the origins of June weddings (in the 1500's when people took a bath only once a year in May and by June were only a little bit aromatic - hence the bride's traditional bouquet of flowers).

Emily Schell was inducted as our newest member, bringing our final membership total to 32.
Welcome Emily!
Unfortunately the video camera was misbehaving and so the only one available is of Fred Sadler's winning table topics:




TMoD: Arnie Buss
Opening Remarks: Fred Sadler
Wordmaster: Rolf Ridge
Grammarian: Juliette Ferguson
Ah Counter: Jim Burlison
Timer: Derby Luckie
Vote Counter: Steven Simmons
Table Topics Master: Betsy Larkin (Most Improved)
TT Speaker 1: Fred Sadler (Best Table Topics)
TT Speaker 2: Steven Simmons
TT Speaker 3: Emily Schell
TT Speaker 4: Rolf Ridge
Speaker 1: Fred Sadler
Special Occasion Speeches #1: A Toast
Speaker 2: Moyara Ruehsen
CC Speech #2: Love is All You Need: So Let's Go Out and Find Some (Best Speaker)
Evaluator 1: Art Testani
Evaluator 2: Carl Thormeyer (Best Evaluator)
General Evaluator: Arnie Buss

It has been another grand year for Club #2032!!!!

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet

Art Testani's theme was from an old Chevrolet commercial:

Throughout the meeting, Art skillfully deconstructed the elements of "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet" to reveal their (non-American) origins.

Opening remarks were by Jim Burlison:


Tables topics was won by our guest, Emily

Fred Sadler gave the #2 speech from Humorously Speaking entitled Cliches and was voted Best Speaker:


Fred was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:


Arnie Buss gave the #3 speech from the CC manual, Forgiveness: Myths and Practice:


Arnie was evaluated by Rolf Ridge, who was selected Best Evaluator by GE Fred Sadler:


TMoD: Art Testani
Opening Remarks: Jim Burlison
Wordmaster: Cat Grant
Grammarian: Cat Grant
Ah Counter: Rolf Ridge
Vote Counter: Betsy Larkin
Timer: Paul Salevski
Table Topics Master: Juliette Ferguson
Table Topics Speaker #1: Betsy Larkin
Table Topics Speaker #2: Emily Schell (Guest - Best Table Topics Speaker)
Table Topics Speaker #3: Jim Burlison (Most Improved Speaker)
Table Topics Speaker #4: Art Testani
Table Topics Speaker #5: Carl Thormeyer
Speaker #1: Fred Sadler #2 from Humorously Speaking, Cliches (Best Speaker)
Speaker #2: Arnie Buss, #4 from CC Manual, Forgiveness: Myths and Practice
Evaluator #1: Carl Thormeyer
Evaluator #2: Rolf Ridge (Best Evaluator)
General Evaluator: Fred Sadler

Farewell!

Club President Art Testani began by inducting Steven Simmons to membership in Club # 2032:


Rolf Ridge as TMoD chose the theme of "Farewell" in honor of departing member Tonya Holloway who is off to Georgia. Tonya - we will miss you - please keep in touch.

Tenly Connor gave Opening Remarks.

Steven jumped right in by winning Table Topics in response to Fred Sadler's question:



Cat Grant gave her #3 speech entitled Video Phobia - Does Privacy Matter?


Cat was ably evaluated by Jim Burlison:



Tonya presented an inspirational #10 speech Are You Stuck, for which she received a standing ovation and was voted Best Speaker:



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



TMoD: Rolf Ridge
Opening Remarks: Tenly Connor
Wordmaster: Paul Salevski
Table Topics Master: Fred Sadler
TT Speaker #1: Steve Simmons
TT Speaker #2: Cathy Lee
TT Speaker #2: Catherine Talbot (guest)
Speaker #1: Cat Grant #3 Video Phobia - Does Privacy Still Matter?
Evaluator #1: Jim Burlison
Speaker #2: Tonya Holloway #10 - Are You Stuck?
Evaluator #2: Carl Thormeyer
General Evaluator: Cathy Lee

Best Evaluator: Carl
Best Table Topics: Steven
Most Improved: Cat
Best Speaker: Tonya

Appreciation

Cat Grant as TMod gave us a thoughtfully crafted program with a theme of "Appreciation."


Rolf Ridge gave Opening Remarks:


Tonya Holloway won Best Table Topics Speaker:


Carl Thormeyer gave his second #2 speech:


Carl was evaluated by Margaret Stevens, who was selected Best Evaluator by GE Jm Burlison:


Arnie Buss gave his seventh #2 speech Three Steps to Forgiveness and was voted Best Speaker:


Arnie was evaluated by Moyara Ruehsen:



TMoD: Cat Grant
Opening Remarks: Rolf Ridge
Wordmaster: Cathy Lee "Gratitude"
Ah Counter: Betsy Larkin
Timer: Arnie Buss
Grammarian: Fred Sadler
Vote Counter: Elizabeth Mitchell
Table Topics Master: Art Testani
TT Speaker 1: Derby Luckie (Most Improved Speaker)
TT Speaker 2: Paul Salowski
TT Speaker 3: Tonya Holloway (Best Table Topics Speaker)
TT Speaker 4: Wendy Goody
Speaker #1: Carl Thormeyer, Icebreaker ""
Speaker #2: Arnie Buss, #2, "Three Steps to Forgiveness"
Evaluator #1: Margaret Stevens (Best Evaluator)
Evaluator #2: Moyara Ruehsen
General Evaluator: Jim Burlison

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