Meeting Recap - November 19, 2009

Larry Everett served as TM with the theme "Thanksgiving, reflections - what you are thankful for?" Stacey Modahl served as the Table Topics Master, and did a wonderful job with selecting questions relating to the theme. Stacey also served as the Grammarian, with “humble” as the Word of the Day.

All of us were humbled with the wonderful, challenging, and entertaining speech given by Betty Liedtke. She gave her Keynote Speech from the recent District 6 Fall Conference, titled "In UNdistinguished Company." It was well received by all who were fortunate to hear her speak. Betty is a Distinguished Toastmaster, the highest award level in Toastmasters, and is a distinguished speaker.

Pamela Rediger evaluated Betty’s speech, and provided a gracious and positive evaluation, with good assessment of Betty’s topic and speaking ability.

Jean Keating filmed the speech given by Betty as well as selected parts of the meeting. This will help Betty to improve on her already superb speaking ability. We are fortunate to have such a talented person to tape presentations. Jean is a professional, and provided the back drop settings and the lighting to facilitate a taping of the presentation and meeting.

Presiding Officer – Dawn Anderson

Sergeant-at-Arms – Jennifer Ray

General Evaluator – Susan Budig

Grammarian – Stacy Modahl with word of the day “humble”

Ah Counter – Ruth Fernandez

Timer – Pamela Sakayan

Toastmaster of the Day was awarded to Betty Liedtke for her distinguished speech - "In UNdistinguished Company".

We welcomed our newest member into Marsh Winds Toastmasters, James Robertson. Larry Everett agreed to serve as a mentor to James. We look forward to hearing James’ Ice Breaker speech in the very near future.

Regards,

Larry Everett

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

Meeting Recap - October 29, 2009

We have a new member: Stefan Stamenkovic.

Welcome Stefan.

Thursday's meeting theme: An Evening of Art

Two great artists: Dawn Anderson and Susan Budig gave interesting speeches on their respective artistic abilities. Music and poetry. Our table topics master, Ruth Fernandez, took on the Halloween topic and added to our education on the how, why and what of Halloween. We learned what some Toastmasters thought of this evening of entertainment.

Larry, Ravi and Tom evaluated the speeches and the meeting overall, always room for improvements... we did do a few things well.

Lynn pointed out our Grammar and Language skills while Betty kept us on time from start to finish.

Even though our meetings are always planned in advance, the orchestration is always a surprise. WELL DONE Toastmasters.

What a great group of people! Thanks to everyone who attended and participated.

Marleen Geyen

Toastmaster