Time well Spent

VPE Angi Anderson led this meeting as TMOD with the theme of "Time Well Spent" in her usual style of "setting the bar high"! The speeches below were enjoyed by 15 members (including our newly inducted member, Margaret Stevens) and one guest. We also voted into membership Masami Maeda, an MIIS student from Japan - but she was unable to attend this particular meeting. Welcome, Margaret and Masami!

Here is Angi's poem, which codified the theme of the day:

For everything there is a season:
A time to speak, a time to wait
A time to listen and evaluate
A time to ah and a time to ding
A time to practice impromptu speaking
A time to join, a time to adjourn
A time to return control of the lectern.


Best Speaker was Arnie Buss, while Carl Thormeyer was selected as Best Evaluator for his evaluation of Fred Sadler's advanced speech. Most Improved was Margaret Stevens, in her initial foray into Table Topics! Meanwhile, the Best Table Topics award was won by Brian Anderson, who explained how he would use an hour of time prior to evacuating from "Hurricane Angi" (!!!).

Fred's #1 speech in the advanced manual Speaking to Inform, "The Oh So Different World of Identical Twins"


Arnie's #10 speech in his second time through the Competent Communication Manual, "Tell Me Who You Are"


Upcoming Events:

Sat 22 Sept: Area A-1/A-2 Contest (afternoon-ish).
Sat 29 Sept: Smedley Saturday, La Mesa Community Center (afternoon).
Sat 13 Oct: Division A Contest - afternoon - Aptos Academy in Aptos.

Toastmaster 1 and Toastmaster 2 ...

Saturday 25 August 2007
Advanced Manual Speech at Smedley Saturday!

In an intimate setting, Brian Anderson gave his first advanced manual project from the Interpretative Reading manual. His project to read a story was delivered to a "sellout" crowd of 1 other toastmaster at this Special Event Speechathon! In true Toastmaster fashion, it only takes an audience that includes another toastmaster to evaluate your presentation to get credit for the project. Today, Brian earned Best Speaker honors for his interpretative reading of the Dr. Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat". Angi Anderson was Acting President, TMoD, Timer and Best Evaluator.
Stand by for our next Special Event Speechathon Smedley Saturday on Sep 29th.

Submitted by Brian Anderson

Food and ... Sockpuppets (?)

With a theme of "Food" (no, we didn't eat the sock puppets; but they threatened to eat us with their big long teeth - see Angi's speech video below), 14 members and 4 guests enjoyed another great meeting. And,two of the guests are submitting applications for membership! A third guest was visiting Toastmaster Ngan Tran from Evening Toastmasters in Capitola.

Alex and Leena shared the "Most Improved" award for their speeches, while Angi won another "Best Speaker" award for her very unique #9 persuasive speech. Glen Woodson was awarded "Best Evaluator" by GE Arnie Buss, while new member Amy Treadwell won "Best Table Topics" with a dissertation on Julia Childs as her favorite celebrity chef. Congratulations to all!

Here are the speeches:

Alex Bein's Icebreaker speech Junk Food Gestapo:



Leena Oh's #2 Speech, Adventures in Hiking:



Angi Anderson's #9 Speech, Fear Itself:



Touchdown Club:

Beaches, Water, and....Motivation!

What a great show for visiting Area Governor John Lente! Fourteen members and six guests (including two from MIIS) cheered on Brian Anderson's #10 speech (now our newest Competent Communicator) and Carl Thormeyer's final speech in the "Communicating on Television" Manual.

We also received the happy news of the birth of Eric Timmerman's baby. Congratulations to Eric and his wife!

Acting President Angi Anderson presented the "President's Distinguished Club" award ribbon for the 2006-2007 Toastmasters year - we achieved all 10 goals and World Headquarters has recognized this!

So far this new Toastmasters year (2007-2008) we have already achieved 3 goals outright and half of two additional goals out of 10 total - as once again we work to achieve "President's Distinguished Club" for the 6th time in 7 years!

Amy Treadwell's Opening Remarks (her first) - she won "Most Improved Speaker":



Angi Anderson's winning Table Topics:



Carl Thormeyer's speech #5 from the advanced manual Communication on Television: The Eight Steps to Making a Motion (Click on link to view the video).

Brian Anderson's #10 speech, When I Say Motivation... - he won "Best Speaker".



Arnie Buss' Evaluation of Brian's #10 speech - he won "Best Evaluator" (in a field of 1):



Upcoming events:

Saturday 25 August: Smedley Saturday - See Angi to speak.
Saturday 22 Sept: Area A1/A2 contest; venue TBD.
Saturday 13 Oct: Division A Contest - Aptos Academy.

Presidential Debates

Fourteen members and four guests cheered on Scott Wilbur in his inaugural run as TMoD with his theme of "Presidential Debates". The three excellent speeches follow:

Luke Lazzari's #4 speech about overcoming procrastination:


Shenequa Mitchell's #9 speech about how endings are really beginnings:


Karen Woodson's #4 speech about the joys of NASCAR racing, for which she won both "Best Speaker" and "Most Improved":


Angi Anderson's picture-perfect evaluation of Karen's speech, for which she won "Best Evaluator":


Peter Blouin led Table Topics with three questions related to elections and politicians. Here is Robin Walker's winning Table Topics speech:

General Evaluator Brian Anderson declares Scott's TMoD debut a touchdown...

Next week August 10th: Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests. We need everyone there to help select our winners to send on to the Area Contest in September!