Membership

Annette Cain pumped up the membership with her theme as TMoD.

Kathleen Hanselmann was the humorist:

Tables topics was won be Leisel Iverson:

Monique Fountain kicked off the membership drive with her #8 speech Campaign for Membership

Monique was evaluated by Jarrod Smith:

Best Speaker and Most Improved Speaker Jack Jackson gave his #9 speech To Lead People, Walk Beside Them.

Jack's evaluator was Tetyana Margolina:

Arnie Buss gave a #3 speech from the advanced manual "Speaking to Inform," Easy Speak:

Arnie evaluator Carl Thormeyer was Best Evaluator:

Club Table Topics Contest!

Annette Cain was TMoD for a special club Table Topics Contest. With most of the club competing, she adopted a special format in which each contestant drew their question from a hat.

The contestant responses:

Don Free:
 
Carl Thormeyer:
Jack Jackson:
 
Kyle Tobin-Williams:
Pat Hanson:
 
Leisel Iverson:
Art Testani:
 
Kathleen Hanselmann:
Arnie Buss:
 
The results:
1^st - Arnie Buss
2^nd - Leisel Iverson
3^rd - Art Testani

All Hallows Eve/All Saint's Day

Today is All Saint's Day, or All Hallows Day, from which comes the evening before, "All Hallow's Eve" - or Hallowe'en. TMoD Arnie Buss shared that and other interesting tidbits about this fall holiday.

Don Free was the humorist:

Pat Hanson won Table Topics

Best Speaker Laura Franklin gave her #2 speech The Art of Doing Nothing: A Modern Gal's Guide to Procrastination.

Laura was evaluated by Tetyana Margolina:

Jack Jackson wom Most Improved for his #8 speech Do You Believe Me or Your Lying Eyes?

Jack's evaluator Carl Thormeyer was selected Best Evaluator:

Next week - the club's Table Topics Contest!

First Jobs

Club President Don Free was TMoD today and chose "First Jobs" as his theme, something every member could definitely relate to!

Michelle Gomez gave Opening Remarks:

Laura Franklin won Table Topics:

Annette Cain gave her #6 speech Ghost Stories of Old San Juan Batista:

Annette was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:

Tetyana Margolina earned her Competent Communicator with her #10 speech Persuade With An Accent, and was voted Best Speaker as well as Most Improved:

Tetyana's evaluator Arnie Buss was selected as Best Evaluator for the meeting:

Healthy Competition

Kate Daniels Kurz chose "Healthy Competition" as her theme, in anticipation of the upcoming club Table Topics contest on November 7.

Leisel Iverson gave humorous Opening Remarks:

Table Topics was a tie between Matt Balint and Art Testani:


Best Speaker was Jack Jackson with his #7 The More I learn the Less I Know:

Jack was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer

Pat Hanson won Most Improved for her soliloquy Reaching for Stillness, the #3 project in advanced manual Interpretive Reading:

Pat's evaluator Sheila Dundon was selected Best Evaluator:

Strike Action

In this first post-shutdown meeting, TMoD Kathleen Hanselmann chose a theme of "Strike Action," recalling other kinds of work stoppages throughout the years,

Opening Remarks was by Monique Fountain

Pat Hanson won table topics:

Arnie Buss gave a CC #5 speech False Starts:

Arnie's evaluator was Jack Jackson:

Sheila Dundon won both Best Speaker and Most Improved with her #9 speech, Advancing Women Leaders: a Win/Win Solution Part 2:

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

Parrr-tay!

In a small, but fun, meeting during the government shutdown-induced furlough, we met in downtown Monterey to a theme of "Let's Party."  Despite just one speech, we did par-tay!

Monique Fountain gave her #6 speech Reluctant Adventure:
Monique was evaluated by Annette Cain:

Accounting

First-time TMoD Jack Jackson led today's meeting as if he had been doing it for years! His theme of "Accounting" had a double meaning - the financial activity as well as accountability.

Humorist was  Pat Hanson
Table Topics was won by Laura Franklin

Arnie Buss gave a speech from the Entertaining Speaker advanced manual, project #4 Car vs Train


Most Improved speaker Don Free also gave an advanced speech, #1 from Speaking to Inform, He Can't Always Be Right, Can He

He was evaluated by Kathleen Hanselmann
Best Speaker Tetyana Margolina gave her speech #9 from the CC manual, Push the Envelope
Her evaluator Art Testaniwas also the Best Evaluator:

The Fall of Summer

Annette Cain was the TMoD today and chose a theme of "The Fall of Summer".

Humorist was Laura Franklin

Best Table Topics Speaker was newest member  Lisa Ward:
 Jack Jackson gave his #6 speech Crazy on Two Wheels and was voted Most Improved.
Jack's evaluator was : Monique Fountain
Sheila Dundon got the "win" with her #7 speech Advancing Women Leaders: The Win/Win Solution:
Sheila's evaluator Matt Balint was selected Best Evaluator:

Playing Tour Guide

Sheila Dundon gave a clinic on being TMoD today. Her theme of being a "tour guide" for our vacation wonderland resonated with all of us.

Jack Jackson gave Opening Remarks with some of the more unusual laws around here:

Fred Sadler won Table Topics with a dizzying dramatic display:

Jarrod Smith won Most Improved Speaker for his #4 speech Revising Education:

Jarrod's evaluator Don Free won Best Evaluator:

Carrie Glenn gave her #3 speech entitled Toasting with the Masters and won Best Speaker:

Carrie's evaluator was Matt Balint:

Time

Tetyana Margolina took the helm for today's meeting with a mystery theme of "Time."

Laura Franklin gave her Icebreaker speech, Two Tickets from Paradise:

Laura was evaluated by Kyle Tobin-Williams:
Annette Cain presented some heart-felt Origami with her #8 speech Heart Folds:
Annette was evaluated by Chuck Burton:
Kathleen Hanselmann gave her #6 speech Curses, Foiled Again:
Kathleen's evaluator was Fred Sadler:

Mid-Summer's Night Memory

Carrie Glenn, fresh from the Toastmasters International Convention in Cincinnati, was a first-time TMoD today, choosing a theme of "Mid-Summer's Night Memory."

Annette Cain gave the humorist/opening remarks:

Best Table Topics Speaker was Kyle Tobin-Williams:

Katharine Daniels Kurz presented the Toastmasters Educational Program and won Best Speaker:

Kate's evaluator was Arnie Buss:

Jack Jackson continued his sprint through the CC manual with his #5 speech Tell Me Lies, and was voted Most Improved Speaker:

 Jack's evaluator was Celine Lai:

Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contest

All were winners at today's Humorous and Evaluation Contests!

Will Heilbut from the MIIS Toastmasters Club gave the test speech, Life Equals:
Cristine Lambarte expertly led the evaluation contest, while Don Free MC-ed the humorous contest.

Will Heilbut from the Monterey Institute Toastmasters Club was the test speaker, with Life Equals:

Second Place was Kate Daniels Kurz:
And the winner was Chuck Burton:
Kyle Tobin-Williams came in second in the humorous speech contest with He's Waiting Up All Night To Get Lucky - There Ought to be Rules:
Arnie Buss won the contest with Unanswerable Questions;

Good Eats!

Kyle Tobin Williams made a fabulous debut as TMoD, sandwiched between Concours D'Elegance events.

Carrie Glenn won Table Topics:

Celine Lai gave her #3 speech Be Grateful!

Celeine was evaluated by Carrie Glenn:

Tetyana Margolina won Best Speaker with her #8 Little Keys to Big Doors:

Tetyana's evaluator was Pat Hanson:

Carl Thormeyer gave a #3 speech from the advanced manual "The Entertaining Speaker" entitled I'm Just an Old Guy:

Carl was evaluated by Annette Cain:

Cars!

Chuck Burton chose Cars as his theme - appropriate due to the local Concours D'Elegence event happening this week on the Monterey Peninsula!

Celine Lai gave Opening Remarks:

Jack Jackson discussed the science of complexity in his #4 speech Simply Complex:

Jack was evaluated by Jarrod Smith:

Art Testani encouraged us to"make a difference" with his #7 speech, entitled You Can Make a Difference:

Art was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer, who was also chosen Best Evaluator:

Kyle Tobin-Williams won Best Speaker with her #3 The Write to Speak, in which she extolled the virtues of writing versus impromptu speaking:

Kyle's evaluator was Tetyana Margolina:

World Traveling

TMoD Celine Lai's inaugural as TMoD was a brilliant success with her theme of World Traveling.

Humorist Thomas Mallory started us of with a laugh

Table Topics was won by Jack Jackson

Cristine Lambarte #7 was voted Most Improved, How Do You Feed Your Brain?

Cristine's Evaluator was Fred Sadler

Arnie Buss won Best Speaker with his (eleventh) #4, Speaking Without Words:

Arnie's Evaluator Kathleen Hanselmann was chosen Best Evaluator:

TMoD Tips

Jarrod Smith's theme for today's meeting was "TMoD (Toastmaster of the Day) Tips" - strategies for success at this important role. Jarrod certainly succeeded marvelously in running an outstanding meeting!

Opening Remarks was by Carrie Glenn:

Kathleen Hanselmann won Best Table Topics:

Best Speaker Jack Jackson gave his #3 speech, Creating Value in Relationships:

Jack's evaluator, Don Free, was also the Best Evaluator:

Most Improved Speaker Pat Hanson gave a #6 speech Nothing is Ever Lost in the Universe: But Maybe Not So at NPS:

Matt Balint gave Pat her evaluation:

Summer Reading

Immediate Past President Jim Burlison chose the season-appropriate theme of "Summer Reading" for today's meeting. Jim gave the humor himself:

Kyle Tobin-Williams gave her #2 speech Strategic Art of Day at Disney: Mastering the Mouse:

Kyle was evaluated by Cristine Lambarte:

Matt Balint was voted Best Speaker for his #4 speech Life's Lessons From Your Favorite Hobby:

Matt's evaluator Jarrod Smith was chosen as Best Evaluator:

Most Improved Speaker Tetyana Marhgolina  rounded out the speeches with her #7 Short, Ugly, abnd Common:

Tetyana was evaluated by Carl Thormeyer:

Toastmaster Goals

Incoming President Don Free led off the new Toastmasters year with a theme of "Toastmasters Goals." We began with induction of the new club officers by Area Governor Rich Gierman:

Fred Sadler was the humorist extraordinaire with an original limerick:
Returning member Cathy Lee won Table Topics:
Best Speaker was Jack Jackson with his #2 speech So You Feel Lucky?:
Jack's evaluator, Art Testani, was selected Best Evaluator:
Most Improved Speaker Celine Lai gave her #32 speech Human Research Protection Program:
Her evaluator was John Mahler:

Gettysburg 150 Anniversary

TMoD Art Testani chose the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg as the theme.

Jarrod Smith won Tabe Topics:l

Carrie Glenn was voted Best Speaker as well as Most Improved for her #2 Speech I'm Sorry, So Sorry, Please Accept My Apology:
Carrie was evaluated by Chuck Burton: