First Jobs

Club President Don Free was TMoD today and chose "First Jobs" as his theme, something every member could definitely relate to!

Michelle Gomez gave Opening Remarks:

Laura Franklin won Table Topics:

Annette Cain gave her #6 speech Ghost Stories of Old San Juan Batista:

Annette was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:

Tetyana Margolina earned her Competent Communicator with her #10 speech Persuade With An Accent, and was voted Best Speaker as well as Most Improved:

Tetyana's evaluator Arnie Buss was selected as Best Evaluator for the meeting:

Healthy Competition

Kate Daniels Kurz chose "Healthy Competition" as her theme, in anticipation of the upcoming club Table Topics contest on November 7.

Leisel Iverson gave humorous Opening Remarks:

Table Topics was a tie between Matt Balint and Art Testani:


Best Speaker was Jack Jackson with his #7 The More I learn the Less I Know:

Jack was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer

Pat Hanson won Most Improved for her soliloquy Reaching for Stillness, the #3 project in advanced manual Interpretive Reading:

Pat's evaluator Sheila Dundon was selected Best Evaluator:

Strike Action

In this first post-shutdown meeting, TMoD Kathleen Hanselmann chose a theme of "Strike Action," recalling other kinds of work stoppages throughout the years,

Opening Remarks was by Monique Fountain

Pat Hanson won table topics:

Arnie Buss gave a CC #5 speech False Starts:

Arnie's evaluator was Jack Jackson:

Sheila Dundon won both Best Speaker and Most Improved with her #9 speech, Advancing Women Leaders: a Win/Win Solution Part 2:

Sheila's evaluator, chosen Best Evaluator, was Kate Daniels Kurz:

Parrr-tay!

In a small, but fun, meeting during the government shutdown-induced furlough, we met in downtown Monterey to a theme of "Let's Party."  Despite just one speech, we did par-tay!

Monique Fountain gave her #6 speech Reluctant Adventure:
Monique was evaluated by Annette Cain: