Gratitude

In her first time as TMoD, Tetyana Margolina ran a polished meeting with a season-appropriate theme of "Gratitude."

Kate Daniel Kurz brought the youngest Toastmaster, Nicholas, who joined her for Opening Remarks:

Nate Hayes channeled President Obama in his winning Table Topics speech:

Best Speaker Carl Thormeyer led off with project #2 from advanced manual "Speaking to Inform" entitled Israel and You:

Carl was evaluated by Arnie Buss:

Most Improved Speaker Shane Grass gave a #2 speech Finding Your Way:

Shane's evaluator Matt Balint garnered Best Evaluator in his first time performing the role:

Elections

Returning member Pat Hanson chose the theme of elections for today's meeting.

Table Topics was won by Monique Fountain:

Brennan Kemper won both Best Speaker as well as Most Improved Speaker with his Icebreaker speech Life's Little Instructions:

Brennan was evaluated by Sheila Dundon:

Jim Burlison gave an advanced speech from Speaking to Inform entitled College Education (you need to watch it to "get" the title!):

Jim's evaluator, Carl Thormeyer, was selected Best Evaluator: