The Accidental Toastmaster

Fifteen members eventually made it to our Toastmasters room for one of the more unusual meetings in many a year.

Club President Moyara Ruehsen inducts newest member Ramez Andraus, Jr:

Glenn Woodson doing his creative best as TMoD, turned the meeting format topsy-turvy with "The Accidental Toastmaster" theme.


The meeting functionaries explained their roles in a round-robin, manner, taking several times around to get them all. From left to right: Glenn Woodson, TMoD; Margaret Stevens Wordmaster; Moyara Ruehsen, Ah Counter; Michele Banazwski, Vote Counter:

Table Topics was even more different. All four Table Topics speakers were called up at once by Table Topics Master Fred Sadler. From Left to right, Art Testani, Jim Burlison, Fred Sadler, Paul Salevski, Rolf Ridge:

They then had to answer each question as a pair using the props they were issued. Here, Paul and Rolf prepare their response:

Art and Jim contemplate a question:

They had to begin their response from the back of the room:

Here, Art and Rolf had to give their response from a sitting position, while Jim looks on with perplexed amusement:

General Evaluator Arnie Buss tries to make sense of it all:


Tom Shih's Storytelling speech "The Folk Tale" entitled How Chinese Foot Binding Came About


Carl Thormeyer's evaluation: