NPS Sweeps Area Contest!

In the Area A1 competition, Robin Walker won the Evaluation contest and Chance Litton won the Humorous contest, making a clean sweep of the area by NPS Toastmasters.

Robin evaluated Test Speaker Carl Nail of San Jose, who spoke about "Showing Up".... the importance of doing your part for team by being there - whether at work or at Toastmasters! Robin was first in a field of four evaluation contestants. Second place went to Kristen Crump of Bayview Toastmasters.

Chance delighted us once again with the adventures and antics of his cat "Mr. Spock". He beat out two other speakers, including second-place winner Alisha Empleo, also of Bayview.

Congratulations Robin and Chance! Be sure to come to the Division A Contest on October 13 to support them as they compete against the winners from the other areas!

Baseball...

Fourteen members and two guests (welcome back, Elizabeth Guzman - hope you re-join us soon!) enjoyed another fine meeting, featuring an interpretive reading advanced speech of two Bobby Kennedy speeches by Robin Walker, and a seven-continent travelogue of sorts by Elizabeth Mitchell as she gave her #2 speech. Robin won "Best Speaker" while Elizabeth was Most Improved. "Best Evaluator" was awarded to a very deserving Shenequa Mitchell for her evaluation of Robin's speech.

First-time TMOD Cathy Lee assembled a great program, deftly switching assignments at the last minute when not everyone scheduled showed up. Baseball was her theme.... because she didn't know much about the game and wanted to learn more!

Margaret Stevens also showed she was on the "fast track" by taking on the Table Topics Master role, with five baseball-related questions. "Best Table Topics" was won by Mike Barksdale, who demonstrated his jiu-jitsu moves on Alex "I'm turning blue" Bein.

Robin's #5 speech from the Interpretive Reading advanced manual, Indianapolis Part 1:

Part 2:

Elizabeth Mitchell's #2 speech: Seven Lessons from Seven Continents:

Two of our stalwart members will be leaving us soon for the East Coast, where they plan on continuing their Toastmasters career with a local club there. We export Toastmasters at NPS!

Congratulations to Scott and Jolene for the birth of their son! Scott Wilbur's Farewell:

Shenequa Mitchell's farewell:

Message from Brendan Epps

I've recently been reading "Where Have All The Leaders Gone" by Lee Iacocca. It's a great read and a call to action. What struck me and drove me to write this message was the word curmudgeon. The instant I saw the word, I recalled an NPS TM meeting, where curmudgeon was the word of the day. Even after seeing it again, I couldn't use it in a sentence, but the point is the power of those words each week. They expand our vocabulary and expose us to something new. Pay attention to those words and make an effort to learn new words. Wordmasters, be sure to choose challenging words, words that will force members to grow and expand their vocabularies.

-Brendan Epps, past club president

What did YOU do this summer?

And so it was with this week's theme, as Immediate Past Area Governor Arnie Buss gave us a lesson in "how to do it" by leading us through another excellent meeting as TMOD. With 19 members and four guests present, our newest member Donna Cunningham was voted into membership and duly inducted. Donna is our 7th new member since July 1st!

One of the guests was former member Elizabeth Guzman, who we sincerely hope will be re-joining the club soon.

In addition to Shenequa Mitchell's excellent #4 speech below, Cathy Lee practiced her lawyer skills by delivering prosecution closing arguments for a criminal trial as her #5 speech. Cathy won Best Speaker, while her evaluator Scott Wilbur was awarded Best Evaluator.

Best Table Topics went to Alec Metz, fresh back from Mongolia, who described his recent marriage and associated travels. Most Improved was Donna Cunningham, who talked about her long-distance marriage. Congratulations to all!

Shenequa Mitchell's #4 Speech The Art of Communication


AREA CONTEST: Note that the date has been changed to the afternoon of Saturday 29 September, and will take place at the Agricultural Conference Center on Abbott Street in Salinas starting about 1PM. Chance Litton (Humorous Speech) and Robin Walker (Evaluation) will be competing.

India

Nineteen members and two guests were treated to three terrific speeches, which were well orchestrated by TMoD and Club President Robin Walker. Robin "set the example" with a precise, efficient meeting program which ran like clockwork. His theme of "India" helped us all get into the spirit of his upcoming around-the-world trip to Singapore, India, and Washington, DC. Table Topics Master Shenequa Mitchell hit the Web to come up with some outstanding Indian-related Table Topics.

We also inducted Masami Maeda into membership. Welcome!

Winners were:
*** Best Speaker: David Schulz's Icebreaker (see below)
*** Best Evaluator: Fred Sadler, evaluating Glenn Woodson's #6 speech
*** Best Table Topics: Luke Lazzari (In his Table Topic, he spoke of his favorite adventure sport!)
*** Most Improved: Alex Bein (In his Table Topic, he said he would buy his wife a Lexus if he could!)

We're #1 (actually, tied...)! We have now achieved three of 10 goals for Distinguished Club Plan recognition for 2007-08. We are tied with three other clubs for the District 4 lead among 200+ clubs. We have met half of three additional goals - let's be first in District 4 to become distinguished, and the first to get all 10 goals as well! To become distinguished, we need two of the following:
*** Two more new members,
*** Dues paid on time (by 30 Sept.), or
*** One more Comptent Communicator!

David Schultz's Icebreaker speech I Have Yet to Work a Day in my Life


Chance Litton's #3 speech A Mystery of Matter


Glenn Woodson's #6 speech Beyond the Nineteenth Hole


Note 1: Due to waning interest, Smedley Saturdays will be scheduled in the future only if at least three members are prepared to give speeches.

Note 2: We now have a vacancy in the office of Sergeant-at-Arms. Eric Timmerman has submitted his resignation from that office due to his overwhelming workload. An election will be held soon to replace Eric for the rest of the term through December.

Note 3: TI WHQ has rolled out the new public and members only Web sites. These sites will take some getting used to, as they are now much different in look-and-feel. For the "Members Only" Web site, you will need to establish login information in order to access all the available goodies. Your member number (as shown on the label to your TOASTMASTER magazine) is your default login. From there you can request and be assigned a password from TI WHQ, which will be returned to you via email. However, one can still conduct club business without logging in as in the past, simply by registering the club number and club password (once you figure out how to get to that part of the Web site).

Time well Spent

VPE Angi Anderson led this meeting as TMOD with the theme of "Time Well Spent" in her usual style of "setting the bar high"! The speeches below were enjoyed by 15 members (including our newly inducted member, Margaret Stevens) and one guest. We also voted into membership Masami Maeda, an MIIS student from Japan - but she was unable to attend this particular meeting. Welcome, Margaret and Masami!

Here is Angi's poem, which codified the theme of the day:

For everything there is a season:
A time to speak, a time to wait
A time to listen and evaluate
A time to ah and a time to ding
A time to practice impromptu speaking
A time to join, a time to adjourn
A time to return control of the lectern.


Best Speaker was Arnie Buss, while Carl Thormeyer was selected as Best Evaluator for his evaluation of Fred Sadler's advanced speech. Most Improved was Margaret Stevens, in her initial foray into Table Topics! Meanwhile, the Best Table Topics award was won by Brian Anderson, who explained how he would use an hour of time prior to evacuating from "Hurricane Angi" (!!!).

Fred's #1 speech in the advanced manual Speaking to Inform, "The Oh So Different World of Identical Twins"


Arnie's #10 speech in his second time through the Competent Communication Manual, "Tell Me Who You Are"


Upcoming Events:

Sat 22 Sept: Area A-1/A-2 Contest (afternoon-ish).
Sat 29 Sept: Smedley Saturday, La Mesa Community Center (afternoon).
Sat 13 Oct: Division A Contest - afternoon - Aptos Academy in Aptos.

Toastmaster 1 and Toastmaster 2 ...

Saturday 25 August 2007
Advanced Manual Speech at Smedley Saturday!

In an intimate setting, Brian Anderson gave his first advanced manual project from the Interpretative Reading manual. His project to read a story was delivered to a "sellout" crowd of 1 other toastmaster at this Special Event Speechathon! In true Toastmaster fashion, it only takes an audience that includes another toastmaster to evaluate your presentation to get credit for the project. Today, Brian earned Best Speaker honors for his interpretative reading of the Dr. Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat". Angi Anderson was Acting President, TMoD, Timer and Best Evaluator.
Stand by for our next Special Event Speechathon Smedley Saturday on Sep 29th.

Submitted by Brian Anderson

Food and ... Sockpuppets (?)

With a theme of "Food" (no, we didn't eat the sock puppets; but they threatened to eat us with their big long teeth - see Angi's speech video below), 14 members and 4 guests enjoyed another great meeting. And,two of the guests are submitting applications for membership! A third guest was visiting Toastmaster Ngan Tran from Evening Toastmasters in Capitola.

Alex and Leena shared the "Most Improved" award for their speeches, while Angi won another "Best Speaker" award for her very unique #9 persuasive speech. Glen Woodson was awarded "Best Evaluator" by GE Arnie Buss, while new member Amy Treadwell won "Best Table Topics" with a dissertation on Julia Childs as her favorite celebrity chef. Congratulations to all!

Here are the speeches:

Alex Bein's Icebreaker speech Junk Food Gestapo:



Leena Oh's #2 Speech, Adventures in Hiking:



Angi Anderson's #9 Speech, Fear Itself:



Touchdown Club:

Beaches, Water, and....Motivation!

What a great show for visiting Area Governor John Lente! Fourteen members and six guests (including two from MIIS) cheered on Brian Anderson's #10 speech (now our newest Competent Communicator) and Carl Thormeyer's final speech in the "Communicating on Television" Manual.

We also received the happy news of the birth of Eric Timmerman's baby. Congratulations to Eric and his wife!

Acting President Angi Anderson presented the "President's Distinguished Club" award ribbon for the 2006-2007 Toastmasters year - we achieved all 10 goals and World Headquarters has recognized this!

So far this new Toastmasters year (2007-2008) we have already achieved 3 goals outright and half of two additional goals out of 10 total - as once again we work to achieve "President's Distinguished Club" for the 6th time in 7 years!

Amy Treadwell's Opening Remarks (her first) - she won "Most Improved Speaker":



Angi Anderson's winning Table Topics:



Carl Thormeyer's speech #5 from the advanced manual Communication on Television: The Eight Steps to Making a Motion (Click on link to view the video).

Brian Anderson's #10 speech, When I Say Motivation... - he won "Best Speaker".



Arnie Buss' Evaluation of Brian's #10 speech - he won "Best Evaluator" (in a field of 1):



Upcoming events:

Saturday 25 August: Smedley Saturday - See Angi to speak.
Saturday 22 Sept: Area A1/A2 contest; venue TBD.
Saturday 13 Oct: Division A Contest - Aptos Academy.

Presidential Debates

Fourteen members and four guests cheered on Scott Wilbur in his inaugural run as TMoD with his theme of "Presidential Debates". The three excellent speeches follow:

Luke Lazzari's #4 speech about overcoming procrastination:


Shenequa Mitchell's #9 speech about how endings are really beginnings:


Karen Woodson's #4 speech about the joys of NASCAR racing, for which she won both "Best Speaker" and "Most Improved":


Angi Anderson's picture-perfect evaluation of Karen's speech, for which she won "Best Evaluator":


Peter Blouin led Table Topics with three questions related to elections and politicians. Here is Robin Walker's winning Table Topics speech:

General Evaluator Brian Anderson declares Scott's TMoD debut a touchdown...

Next week August 10th: Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests. We need everyone there to help select our winners to send on to the Area Contest in September!

Frustration!

Another great meeting.... 17 members and 8 guests became 19 members and 6 guests as we voted Amy Treadwell and Alex Bein into membership. Welcome, Amy and Alex! That brings our paid membership up to 40, so once again we are a "President's 40" club.

TMoD Fred Sadler became frustrated over his computer problems earlier in the week, but he got past that with a little help from his friends (especially Arnie) and that spawned the theme of "Frustration". Fred vented his as he started the program by singing a song of frustration.

Ryan Squires led us in Table Topics, where Scott Wilbur and Alex Bein tied for "Best Table Topics".

Karen Woodson won "Most Improved" for her #3 speech entitled "Have a little faith in yourself" (see below).

Angi Anderson followed with her #8 speech titled "Bag of Tricks", winning "Best Speaker" with her three piles of props representing her past, present and future (see below).

Andrew Kennedy then reported on his High Performance Leadership project, which was performed when he was an Area Governor (see below). Once the paperwork is accomplished, this completes Andrew's final requirement for Advanced Leader Silver.

Chance Litton won "Best Evaluator" for his first-time evaluation, beating out the club's graybeards Arnie Buss and Carl Thormeyer. Here is Chance's award-winning evaluation:

Coming up August 10th: Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests. Sign up with Angi to participate!

We're Back to Normal!

"Friday the 13th" didn't even merit a mention, as first-time TMoD Eric Timmerman led us through another great meeting with 17 members and four guests present. Eric's theme, "Hollywood and its Impact on your Life", was woven into the meeting throughout, as we all learned of each other's favorite movies.

To add icing on the cake, our visiting dignitary Division A Governor Tim Childers installed the new officers that were present. (Division A consists of 20+ clubs in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.)

Scott Wilbur led Table Topics, with Shenequa Mitchell capturing the "Best Table Topics" award with her dissertation on who she would like to play in a movie if she were a movie actress. New member Steve Scaggs (congratulations!) also participated; we specifically voted him into membership at the beginning of the meeting so he would be eligible for Table Topics!

We had three good speakers once again - Ned Powley gave his #6 speech about the different types of speech detractions (ahs, ums, like, you know, fade-aways, etc.). Chance Litton won "Best Speaker" for his strong defense of nuclear power while debunking the various nuclear power myths (his #2 speech). Arnie Buss won "Most Improved" for his third #2 speech (working on his 3rd CC) on "Servant Leadership".

"Best Evaluator went to Fred Sadler for setting the example with his excellent animated suggestions regarding Ned Powley's speech. General Evaluator was Carl Thormeyer.

Robin Walker as Wordmaster started what may become a new tradition in our club - if everyone uses the word, then the Wordmaster gets fined five cents as the word must have been too easy! (He didn't have to worry...)

Upcoming:
20 July: Chance Litton volunteered to be TMoD. Please help him and volunteer for a job!
28 July: Smedley Saturday. Sign up to speak with Angi.
10 Aug: Club Evaluation and Humorous Speech contest.

Surprise!

At our July 6th meeting, we had 11 members and four guests present (one of whom signed up after the meeting)! Alec Metz, with his smooth and flowing mastery of the English language, led us as TMoD in another terrific meeting with his theme of "surprises"!

The biggest surprise was that there was no assigned Table Topics Master! Instead, pieces of paper were attached to the bottom of each chair in the room, and the three lucky individuals with a black dot on their piece of paper got to each be a Table Topics Master and call on one person each! This went unexpectedly smoothly, with Scott Wilbur emerging as the "Best Table Topics" winner for his "Ugly American" diatribe about his menu expectations in a foreign country where he didn't speak the language! We even voted for a "Best Table Topics Master" among the three who drew the assignment - that award went to Leena Oh.

Oh, yes... we had speeches, too! Eric Timmerman was "Most Improved" for his #4 speech about camping in Big Sur. Scott Wilbur then won "Best Speaker" for his #3 speech on bone marrow, and how to be a donor. "Best Evaluator" was a tie between Glenn Woodson and Brian Anderson.

Another very pleasant surprise was the return of Michael Barksdale, who we promptly voted into membership!

We hope to see the rest of the active members back again soon now that the NPS term break is over. We can get a little lethargic when there are a lot of empty seats!

Upcoming events:
Mon July 16: Executive Board meeting, 6PM, La Mesa Community Center
Sat July 28: Smedley Saturday, 1PM(?), La Mesa Coomunity Center
(Sign up now with Angi to get one of the ten speaking slots)
Fri Aug 10: Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest

Bang! (...and bumble bees!)

Bang! (as in 4th of July) was the theme at our June 29th meeting... with Brian Anderson leading 11 members and one guest as TMOD (record attendance for the last Friday in June!) With three speakers and with Alec Metz leading us in Table Topics, we had a full meeting indeed!

We started the meeting with a bang by hearing three speeches. Unfortunately, we have no "You-Tube" videos this week, but here is a synopsis:

Glenn Woodson was "Most Improved" with his #4 speech about the use of analogies, metaphors, similes and other figures of speech, and the need for appropriateness.

Arnie Buss started work on his third "Competent Communicator" manual with an icebreaker, for which he won "Best Speaker". This time around, his "CC" effort will revolve around the topic of leadership.

Great speeches both, but the "piece d' resistance" (excuse my lousy French) was Angi Anderson's #7 ("Research Your Speech") about bees! Addressing the TMOD as "Mr. BuzzMaster" and dressed in a stunning handmade "bumble bee" dress made of alternate black and yellow horizontal stripes, Angi gave us a bee-utifully delightful PowerPoint "HR-rep-to-workers" lecture. Referring to the audience ("NPS Buzzmasters") as worker bees in a new hive (hive #2032), Angi provided us all with "bee and hive" training, and we learned all there is to know about bees! If you want to know more, send a B-mail to Queen Bee Angi at brrep@hive2032.bzz (!!!) Unfortunately, Angi was ineligible for the Best Speaker voting as, alas, she went overtime. (And, like the Army says, "Bee all that you can bee!")



Angi had another chance at an award, though, and once again walked away with "Best Table Topics" by discussing in what way she could be considered the center of the universe! Best Evaluator was Carl Thormeyer for his analysis of Arnie Buss's third icebreaker.

Ed. note: We now have five officers trained for the new term. Two to go to reach 100%!

Blogmasters note: A new online photo account has been set up - you can see more photos of this great meeting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/npstoastmasters/sets/72157600628951322/

"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning..."

With Fred Sadler as Toastmaster opening the meeting by leading us in singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" from the Broadway play "Oklahoma", 14 members and 3 guests celebrated Fred's theme of "Summertime"! (Note that this was a record crowd for an end-of-June meeting; usually we have fewer than 10 present at meetings during the last two weeks of June due to NPS and MIIS both being out of session.)

Robin Walker won "Best Speaker" for his third speech from the Entertainment Speaker manual - "Make them Laugh". The speech, "Canoes", is presented below. Angi Anderson won "Best Evaluator" in her critique of Robin's speech.

Robin's entertaining and humorous speech about the perils of canoing:


Meanwhile, Alec Metz gave an animated #5 speech entitled "Movement", and with lots of body language described a classmate who "danced" the story of the fall of the Soviet Union! His speech follows:



Table Topics Master Warner Howser called on five participants; Glenn Woodson won "Best Table Topics" with his description of his favorite summertime activity. Leena Oh was "Most Improved" with her description of the perfect summertime.

Upcoming Events:
Sat 30 June from 1-4 pm: Officer Training - Golden Gate Univ., Fort Ord.
Tues 3 July - 11 am: New Student Fair - Barbara McNitt Ballroom.
Sat 28 July: Next "Smedley Saturday" for those wishing to speak more.

A Fond Farewell to Glenn Tolle

It was "Family Day" at NPS Toastmasters, as a near-record crowd of 21 members and 13 guests witnessed three outstanding speeches (see below). The group also honored outgoing President Glenn Tolle, who was attending his final meeting at NPS TM the same day as his graduation! With several family members in tow, including wife Nancy, sister Kim, and his two children, Glenn once again "did us proud" with his "swan song" General Evaluation.

Angie Anderson, whose father was one of the 13 guests, led us in an outstanding Table Topics session which brought us into "the inside of Glenn Tolle's mind"! Table Topics winner was Alec Metz, who somehow ended up at a chess table in a public park!

Elie Ishag and Brian Anderson tied for "Best Speaker", Leena Oh was "Most Improved", while Robin Walker was "Best Evaluator" for his analysis of Brian's speech.

Leena Oh's Icebreaker speech, "When I Grow Up:"



Elie Ishag's #3 speech, "Live in the Moment:"



Brian Anderson's #9 speech "Single Planet Species Do Not Survive:"



The meeting ended with several presentations to Glenn Tolle on behalf of the club by Area Governor Arnie Buss. Since the role of "Ah Counter" was Glenn's favorite, the club presented him with his very own "Ah Bell" which he can use with gusto in his new post in Korea while listening to visiting VIPs!

On Saturday 16th, Angi Anderson, Carl Thormeyer, Warner Howser and Arnie Buss attended Officer Training and the Toastmasters Leadership Institute at the main Yahoo! facility in Sunnyvale. Over 170 toastmasters from throughout District 4 attended this outstanding program.

The Best of Glenn Tolle

Fred Sadler video taped two of Glenn Tolle's most famous speeches so they are now preserved for posterity....

"Humble Pie - the Fifth Basic Food Group"

Originally Glenn's #2 speech, he entered it in the club humorous speech contest and won - followed by winning the Area and Division contests, and competing strongly at the District 4 contest.



"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"

This speech, from the advanced manual "Interpretive Reading," is the "rest of the story" of Patrick Henry's original speech containing the memorable quote.

Star Wars and Toastmasters

With a meeting-long innovative analogy between Star Wars and Toastmasters International, TMoD Angi Anderson and her associates (functionaries!) had us spellbound all meeting! DTMs were compared with Jedi Masters, and the history of Toastmasters was presented in a way that related to the sequential Star Wars movie themes. (Could it be that Dr. Ralph C. Smedley was the original Obi-Wan Kenobi?) See the Opening Remarks "You-Tube" link below for more details!

The three excellent manual speeches (two #2, one #8) are reproduced at the You-Tube links below. Winner of "Best Speaker" was Arnie Buss, with Ryan Squires as "Most Improved", and Robin Walker as "Best Evaluator". Robin also won "Best Table Topics" for his description of the possible role of the Ah Counter in counteracting (no pun intended) the "Death Star".

The meeting closed with a heartfelt good-bye from our resident Mongolian member, Mashbat Otgonbayer. We will miss you, Mash; and wish you the best in the future!

And then it was "Party Time", with the potluck at the La Mesa Community Center on Saturday evening, where a good time was had by all! (More on this later!)

Scott Wilbur's inspiring opening remarks:



Angi Anderson, TMoD extraordinaire:
















Rosetta Ishag's #2 Speech "The Bar Mitzvah," a loving and moving tribute to her grandson David on the occasion of his bar mitzvah:



Ryan Squires' #2 Speech extolling the virtues of Savannah, GA and the "Spanish moss" link to Monterey:



Arnie Buss on the tools of Toastmasters, an excellent "primer" on what a Toastmasters meeting is all about:


Robin Walker's award-winning evaluation of Ryan:

















And may the Force be with you...

June Gloom - Not at NPS Toastmasters!

June in Monterey is so typically foggy and cool that today's theme was "June Gloom." Guided expertly by seasoned Toastmaster Mary Lineberger, the meeting was anything but gloomy! With 16 members and three guests (including Sterling Woodson), the meeting was lively and filled with laughter and fun.

The meeting got off to a spirited start with Rosetta's dramatic Opening Remarks. Glenn Woodson's continued his out-of-the-box style with a highly creative and challenging Table Topics session. Reminding us that it is National Donut Month, participants were requested to give a designated award to another member. In keeping with the donuts, Arnie won best Table Topics for giving Glenn Tolle an award for relentlessly "gotta make the donuts."

Rosetta gives an uplifting Opening Remarks:

We were treated to another fantastic and funny Icebreaker speech from new member Chance Litton entitled "The Three L's of Chance Litton" (which turned out to be "Lazy, Lucky, and Loquacious" btw). Chance's wife Becky, who was prominently featured in his speech, was one of the guests. You can view Chance's speech:



Arnie gave a speech in the advanced manual "Interpersonal Communications" about ways to assert yourself in a problem area without damaging the relationship, and included a role play with Glenn Tolle. The consensus in the club appeared to split along gender lines, with men being dubious about the approach and the women being more favorably inclined towards it.

Arnie and Glenn role play a situation:

Brian evaluates Arnie's speech:

Awards went to Chance for Best Speaker, Arnie for Most Improved, and to Brian for his evaluation of Arnie's speech. For an hour today, the gloom of June in Monterey was dispelled by the bright sunshine of another fantastic NPS Toastmasters meeting!

Don't forget the Spouses Social to be held Saturday evening June 9 at the La Mesa Community Center!

May Smedley Saturday

Another thrilling Smedley Saturday! We had 10 members present and four prepared speeches. Brian Anderson had the reins as TMoD and expertly guided the meeting.

Scott Wilbur led off with an outstanding #2 speech "The Google" that touched on topics from marriage to the challenges of a MySpace page. He was followed by Robin Walker's advanced "Interpretive Reading" of the rousing "St Crispin's Day" speech from Henry V. Speaking from the advanced manual on Entertaining Glenn Tolle kept us completely entertained and laughing. Finally, Arnie Buss gave a speech from the "Interpersonal Communications" manual on a reflective technique called "tracking," ably assisted by Angi Anderson in a role play.

Evaluations were led by Robin evaluating Arnie, Glenn evaluating Scott, Brian evaluating Robin, and Angi evaluating Glenn.

Scott was awarded "Best Speaker" and Angi "Best Evaluator." Mash and Rosetta took turns being timer and ah counter. Also present were Elie Ishag and Fred Sadler.

Scott's "The Google"


Robin's St Crispin's Day Speech:


Glenn's "The Truth"