Chocolate!

Michelle Banazwski led a scrumptious meeting with the theme of "Chocolate." She came complete with chocolate goodies (yumm!) and an extra treat for the winners.

Art Terry was inducted as our newest member - welcome Art!
Jim Burlison won best speaker for his #10- speech and received a chocolate goodie as an added bonus.


Moyara Ruehsen started us off as the Humorist:


Betsy Larkin won Best Table Topics:


Art Testani presented Arnie Buss with the Division Governor's Award as his advencaed speech "Presenting an Award":


Art was evaluated by Tom Shih:


Jim Burlison gave his #10 speech Saving One Child at a Time, making him the third CC in the past month. Congratulations Jim!


Jim was evaluated by Arnie Buss:

Super Bowl!

TMoD extraordinaire Paul Salevski led a high-scoring meeting with the apropos theme of the Super Bowl. It was complete with the lineup (big hair and all), a Bud-Bowl clone, and team colors - not to mention the fabulous munchies!






Carl Thormeyer was the humorist:


Zeynep Yilmaz was voted Best and Most Improved Speaker for her Icebreaker First Performance:


Zeynep was evaluated by Juliette Ferguson, who was selected Best Evaluator:


Suad Ali gave her #4 speech The Africa Leadership Academy:


Suad was evaluated by Moyara Ruehsen:


Here is a movie of Paul's slides that footballized each functionary:


TMoD: Paul Salevski
Humorist: Carl Thormeyer
Wordmaster: Sharon Lipinski ("Fumble")
Ah Counter: Ngan Kim
Grammarian: Tom Shih
Timer: Brian McGinnis
Vote Counter: Arnie Buss
Speaker #1: Zeynep Yilmaz, #1 First Performance" (Best, Most Improved Speaker)
Speaker #2: Suad Ali, #4
Evaluator #1: Juliette Ferguson (BEst Evaluator)
Evaluator #2: Moyara Ruehsen
Table Topics Master: Ali Ibrahim Yilmaz
TT #1: Art Terry
TT #2: Jim Burlison (Best Table Topics Speaker)
TT #3: Stan Wong
General Evaluator: Cathy Lee
Present:
Art Testani
Nusret Denizci
Michelle Banazwski