Meeting Recap - November 5, 2009

We had another wonderful and inspiring meeting this morning, thanks to all who attended and participated in our theme of "Leap, and the Net Shall Appear." We also had an interesting situation of three speakers who were all doing Speech Project #3 (Get to the Point) in the C&L Manual: Ruth Fernandez, who is working on her Competent Communicator Award, Sandy Ryan, who is working on her second CC, and yours truly, working on my 3rd.

For her heartwarming and delightful speech, "Knights of My Round Table," Ruth won theToastmaster of the Day Award. Sandy's speech, "What is the DCP?" gave us all new understanding (or a refresher course) of the Distinguished Club Plan, and my speech, "Is There Life After CC?" gave some information about Advanced Manuals, and about leaping into the new speaking adventures that come after completion of the CC Award.

Dawn Anderson's inviting Table Topics were answered with enthusiasm and entertainment by Shaun Jamison and a former Toastmaster and is looking for a new club to join. He is exploring several area clubs, and we hope to see him back at Marsh Winds!

Tom Schmid was our very thorough and capable General Evaluator. Larry Everett, in addition to serving as Sergeant at Arms, evaluated Ruth's speech. Tom conducted group evaluations for Sandy's and my speeches.

The rest of our team today included Shaun Jamison as Ah Counter, Leslie Smith as Grammarian (who challenged us all to use the word of the day, "loquacious," which we loquaciously did), and our newest member, Stefan Stamenkovic, who jumped right in and served as Timer.

Thank you all for your participation and inspiration. It was a joy to serve as Toastmaster of this meeting, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next week at the Colloquium.

Always,

Betty Liedtke