Birth

Monique Fountain was TMoD for today's meeting, appropriately themed "Birth." For, as we were meeting, our VP Education, Kate Daniels Kurz was giving birth to our newest Toastmaster, Nicholas Ryan Kurz!

Jarrod Smith gave his #2 speech Let's Do Business:

Jarrod's evaluator, veteran Fred Sadler, was given Best Evaluator:

Moyara Ruehsen, working on her second go-around on the CC manual, gave speech #5 entitled The Circular Flow Model of the Economy:

Moyara was evaluated by Cristine Lambarte:

Tables Topics was won by new member Matt Balint:

Family

NPS Toastmasters' favorite newlywed, David Cho, chose the appropriate theme of "Family" for the meeting. And we had two Icebreaker speeches.

Humorist Don Free told a funny story about two boys with unusual names:

 First Icebreaker speech was by Annette Cain, A Short Story About a Long Run. Annette was voted Most Improved Speaker and also tied Pat Hanson for Best Speaker:

Annette's evaluator was Arnie Buss:

Returning member Pat Hanson decided to go through the CC manual a second time, and started with Pitches for the Pat Hanso Stories, for which she tied with Annette for Best Speaker:

Annette's evaluator, Kate Daniels Kurz, was selected Best Evaluator:

Humorous Speech Contest and Evaluation Contest

The annual Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests were one of the best in memory!

The winner of the Humorous Speech Contest was Pat Hanson with Aging Positively: Second Place was Arnie Buss with I Just Can't Catch a Break: Third place was Don Free, I Gotta Go: The test speaker for the Evaluation Contest was Rich Gierman, How to Move a Pool Table: Evaluation winner was Kate Daniels Kurz: Runner-up Art Testani: Third place Jarrod Smith:

The Competent Leader Manual

Veteran Carl Thormeyer chose as his theme "The Competent Communicator Manual"

Returning to the "traditional" agenda, we began with Opening Remarks by Arnie Buss, in which the meeting was to be hinted at but not given away:

Moyara Ruehsen won Table Topics:

Newest member Tetyana Margolina won both Best Speaker and Most Improved for her Icebreaker speach, Tumbleweed or Rolling Stone?

Tetyana was evaluated by Arnie Buss:

Shane Grass spoke more of his passion for flying with his #2 speech Everyone Wants to be Superman:

Art Testani was Best Evaluator in his feedback to Shane: