Birthdays

Fred Sadler was TMoD and chose a theme of Birthdays to celebrate the birthday of his twin brother, Blair.

Pat Hanson won Best Table Topics:
Chuck Burton's Icebreaker speech, Where the Outsider Looks, earned him Most Improved Speaker:

Tetyana Margolina was Chuck's evaluator:
Liesel Iveron's Icebreaker speech, Three Wishes, garnered Best Speaker:
Liesel was evaluated by Jim Burlison:
Brennan Kemper gave his #2 speech, Time Management (no video)

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

St Patrick's Day

Kathleen Hanselmann was TMoD and chose a theme of St Patrick's Day

Pat Hanson was the humorist:
Carl Thormeyer won best Best Table Topics ("in a pinch"):
Don Free gave his #8 speech Remember the Alamo:
Don was evaluated by Arnie Buss:
Bill Coloe gave his #2 speech The Importance of Having Fun:
Bill was evaluated by Pat Hanson:
Kate Daniels Kurz  gave project #4 from Speaking on Television, The Press Conference:

Kate was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:

Name That Tune!

Monique Fountain has us dancing in the streets will a theme of "Name That Tune" - the importance of music in our lives.

Humorist Arnie Buss had a musical groaner:

John Mahler won Best Speaker for his #2 speech Good Fats:

John's evaluator Shane Grass as selected Best Evaluator:

Carl Thormeyer gave a #3 project from the advanced manual "Speaking to Inform" titled The Lunch Box:

Carl was evaluated by Arnie Buss:


Art Testani won Best Table Topic:

Moving!

Pat Hanson did a stint as TMod with the theme of "Moving". Together with an unforgettable word of the day - nostumania - we were all in for a real treat!

Bill Coloe was the humorist:

Don Free's #7 speech Where Are the Children? garnered him Most Improved Speaker:

Don's evaluator, Matt Balint, was also the best evaluator:

Annette Cain practiced her award-winning Tall Tales speech A Bloated Tale and was voted Best Speaker:

She was evaluated in a round-robin manner by the entire club, in preparation for the Area contest tomorrow: