Change!

Seventeen members and four guests gave us the largest attendance in several weeks as we tried a few things different.

Cat Grant shook things up a bit by trying out a new format, in which the theme is revealed beforehand, and "Opening Remarks" is replaced by a "Humorist" !


The changed format involved having a Humorist instead of Opening Remarks. Here is Arnie Buss as the first NPS Humorist:


Betsy Larkin was Table Topics Master,

and Moyara Ruehsen gave the best Table Topics response:


The first speech was Suad Ali's #3 entitled Foreign Aid and Why It's Not Working. Suad was voted both Best Speaker as well as Most Improved Speaker:


Suad was evaluated by Wendy Goody, who was selected Best Evaluator:


Art Testani gave the first of several speeches in support of his High Performance Leadership project:


Art was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:


TMoD: Cat Grant
Humorist: Arnie Buss
Ah Counter: Tom Shih
Word Master: Ramez Andraus Jr
Grammarian: Jim Burlison
Vote Counter: Paul Salevski
Timer: Paul Salevski
Table Topics Master: Betsy Larkin
Table Topics Speaker #1: Moyara Ruehsen
Table Topics Speaker #2: Juliette Ferguson
Table Topics Speaker #3: Jim King (guest)
Table Topics Speaker #4: Cathy Lee
Speaker #1: Art Testani
Speaker #2: Suad Ali (Best, Most Improved Speaker)
Evaluator #1: Wendy Goody (Best Evaluator)
Evaluator #2: Catherine J Lee
Evaluator #3: Carl Thormeyer
General Evaluator: Rolf Ridge