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