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

Super Bowl!

Jim Burlison used the theme of the Superbowl to lead a great meeting. Who would have known otherwise that it was connected with hula hoops or big oil?

Cat Grant gave a historical and poetic Opening Remarks:


There was a tough battle in table topics between Rolf Ridge, Wendy Goody, and Karen Woodson,



with Karen coming out on top for her response about watching the Super Bowl on a big screen tv and getting the "wrong" dish subscription.


Prepared speeched were by two experienced members. Fred Sadler led off with a module from the Better Speaker Series, Taking the Terror out of your Talk. Fred was voted best speaker:



Fred was evaluated by Karen Woodson, who was selected best evaluator:


Carl Thormeyer gave another module from the Successful Club Series, Keeping the Commitment:



Carl was evaluated by Arnie Buss:


Rounding out the meeting were:
Moyara Ruehsen (wordmaster)

Wendy Goody (grammarian)

Aaron Sanchez (timer)
Jason Lin (Ah counter)

Rolf Ridge (vote counter)

Elizabeth Mitchell (table topics master)

Margaret Stevens (general evaluator)