Meeting Recap - February 18, 2010

We had a few firsts at our meeting last Thursday.

First Ice Breaker Speech: Kimberly Jurek

First time as Ah-Counter: Connie Crawford

First time as Evaluator: Leslie Smith

Working with our theme: Mastery: there can not be Mastery without taking the first action step. Hats off to these members!

Speaking of members, we welcomed one new transfer, now a Marshwinds member, and a new visitor.

Speakers: Kimberly Jurek

Macharia Waruingi

Lisa Jenks

Evaluators focused on speech presentations from three individual speakers, three different objectives and three levels of experience. Thanks, Ravi, Leslie and Larry for your evaluation content and delivery. Dawn Anderson gave an overall evaluation of the meeting, a few tips on changes for club improvement and praise for our club performance.

Betty kept us on time, Lynn challenged our word usage, Connie tallied the ahs, and Sandy worked in the theme with Table Topics.

Toastmaster for the Day Award: Kimberly Jurek, thanks for sharing who you are with us!

Participation is 100% when working along the road to Mastery in Toastmasters, I believe we have that participation in our Marshwinds club.

Best,

Marleen

TELI - February 20, 2010

Come for the Education!

Stay for the Luncheon and World Record!

That's right, District 6 Toastmasters will be setting a new world record at the TELI luncheon - and YOU can be a part of it!

What is the record, you ask? We can't tell you that, but we can tell you that it features Toastmasters at their best, that it will be exceptionally fun, and that we need you to participate! The world record will be videotaped and posted to the Universal Record Database (www.urdb.org).

So, please, join us for the full TELI experience - the educational sessions, the luncheon, 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking, Craig Valentine - and the world record!

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.

January 28, 2010 Meeting Recap

The theme of our meeting was volunteerism, in honor of the club's shared spirit in serving the hungry people of Haiti and around the world by packing food at Feed My Starving Children following the meeting.

Club President, Dawn Anderson, urged us to volunteer for meeting roles, to click "Available" on the duty roster, and participate in our Toastmasters playground, with her Toastmaster of the Day winning speech, "Your Playground."

Co-Sergeant-At-Arms, Stacey Modahl, delivered her second speech, titled "The Business of Pet Rescue." She told of her volunteer efforts with pet rescue and encouraged us all to take action to prevent and to stop the atrocities of animal mills.

As Table Topics Master, Susan Budig drew out information from others about their volunteer experiences.

A crack evaluation team of General Evaluator, Mark Forsberg, speech evaluators Sandy Ryan and Betty Liedtke, Grammarian Lynn Nodland, Ah Counter Larry Everett, and Timer Kimberly Jurek, capably assisted in in our growth as Toastmasters.