Meeting Recap for 02-04-2010

Toastmaster – Larry Everett

Theme – Treasures

The meeting theme was in conjunction with the special fund raising event – White Elephant Sale. This was a successful fund raiser for the club, with discards by one member being a treasure for another member.

There were two speakers for this meeting:

1) Betty Liedtke with the title of “Dream Big, Then GO for It." Betty has already attained her DTM award, and is now repeating speeches from the Competent Communicator manual, the first book when starting out in Toastmasters. The speech was Project #2, with the objective “Organize Your Speech."

2) Lisa Jenks with the title of “Giving an Introduction“. Lisa’s speech was from the Better Speaker Series, and covered the subject of how to introduce a speaker. She covered many great tips that were helpful to even the seasoned Toastmaster. This was also her last speech to complete the Advanced Communicator Silver award.

The White Elephant Fund Raiser event was held in lieu of the Table Topics. Larry Everett served as the chair for this event, auctioning off the various treasures. Each person who brought items for the auction was given the opportunity to describe the item, and suggest the benefit for someone to bid on the item. There were 15 members present along with three guests. All participated in this event, with several of the guests also bidding and purchasing one or more items.

The speaker evaluation portion of the meeting was deferred to allow extra time for the White Elephant Sale.

The Toastmaster of the Day was awarded to Lisa Jenks for her fine speech, culminating in completing the requirements for her ACS award.