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Wednesday July 2nd, 2003
Here is a synopsis of the dynamic meeting that was held on Wednesday, July 2nd.
In attendance, we had the ever Vivacious Vixen, Christine, the Master of Disaster, Joel , Thesaurus Rex, Ned , the Dynamic Dynamo, Gaetano, along with our ever popular Macho Man, Mike, the Persevering Plato, Phil , our Maestro Extraordinaire, Colin with his sidekick, er, partner in passion, Christel, and finally, Poor Pitiful Paul R.
We enjoyed the superb and award winning speech about Music and the benefits that one may discover from Colin. This was his second speech on a very Sincere subject to him. He awakened our hearts and souls with earnest on his belief in music. He won the Best Speaker of the Nite.
Gaetano, was his usual entertaining self, in his rendition of a Toast from his next series of Advanced Manuals. This was his first in his quest for the next level of achievement, ATM- Silver.
Paul R. gave his 6 speech toward his second ATM - Bronze goal, by not only entertaining us, but informing us on the subject of Organizing your Speeches. It was a group participation with defining not only the parts of a speech, but the three main styles of speeches - Informational, Motivational, and Sincerity.
Then the evaluators were left loose to motivate and educate each of the speakers. All of the evaluators were extraordinary in their presentations and analysis of each of the speakers.
The Table Topic Master Phil made us stretch our hearts and souls with his topic on Principals. Joel came out on top with the award tonite. We got to see a different and emotional side of Joel, that may need to be brought to the forefront more often.
Our thanks to Christel for her word or the day, which was used by everyone at least two to three times. She has found her niche and I hear that next week's word will be a real "Teaser." I look forward to the challenge of her word for the day.
If you were unable to make it to the meeting, we hope that you will mark your calendar for next Wednesday. The meetings are becoming jam packed for our little room, and we may have to move back to the other side with the attendance and new visitors as they come in.
Please invite a friend to the meetings. To give the gift of improvement is one of the few things that we do, yet is remembered for a lifetime.
Take Care and hopefully by the end of the month we will have a web-site up and running to enhance the one that John Mucci has graciously maintained for us.
Paul W. Rauch, Secretary
July 9th
A light, enthusiastic crowd was present this night with Chrystel having to repeat as the word master. Outdid her self again. Two weeks in a row, Chrystel has managed to task us with an outstanding word. This week's word was Meliorate.
Ned, unfortunately, was unable to present his speech this week, so the duties fell onto the other two speakers. Phil and Paul. Phil's speech was number 5 from the Basic Manual - "The most difficult week of My Career,'" while Paul's was number 5 from the Advanced Manual Speaking to Inform - "Leader or Follower."
Phil has made great strides since starting the program and we look forward to more speeches and improvement each time he is in front of the group.
Joel was the evaluator for Phil and did an Admiral job, while Gaetano had the job of evaluating Paul the week after Christine had just evaluated Gaetano. It was a tension filled time on that evaluation. Both evaluators did fantastic performances and gave great advise.
Colin Fewkes was our Table Topic ma ster with a great question on Sports and the responsibility of the athletes to society.
Fantastic meeting, great vibes and another reason why we all are participate in Toastmasters.
Paul W. Rauch, Secretary
Meeting Summary, July 16th, 2003
The meeting started off just a couple of minutes late, with the animals and small children mentality, it was a carnival last nite. We had people jumping through hoops, balancing jobs, juggling scenarios while jumping on one foot.
Yet, we made it all the way through the meeting.
Phil was the Toastmaster of the evening and you can see the improvement in his handling of the meeting from his first time. He was definitely in charge and helped to get everyone else into the mood of the meeting.
He had a wonderful Toastmaster Information on etiquette about the flag. Did you know that you must raise the flag without stopping to the top of the flag pole, while making sure that the blue stars are on top. An upside down flag means either distress or disrespect of the county. Since our flag resides inside of the building, it must have the blue field on the left, and it must hang from the left of the lectern. He even covered the proper way to fold the flag, to fold lengthwise in half, and then half again with the blue field on top and the triangle fold the flag from the other end up to the blue field with the end being nicely tucked into the last fold.
Thanks Phil, for bringing us a small amount of etiquette and answering some questions that we as adults have, but may be afraid to ask because it is something we should have learned a long time ago.
Then we were off to the races with the Table Topic Pun Meister Joel, who challenged us with wonderful "what if" but made the fatalistic mistake of allowing Christine to have mind reading abilities, which she used to demoralize the rest of the contestants, knowing what they were going to say and then publicly bringing those secrets out. Diminishing the effect of their own table topic speeches.
However, the speakers bounced back from the scathing description of all their inner most secrets by Christine to give us presentations that were dynamic. George, had a role play scenario that work very well with Paul, who was playing the part of a tourist in an airport. Confused was he? NO, I believe that was his normal demeanor. He could get confused in a telephone booth. George then taught us about the nuances of beginning a conversation and then developing it. Even Christine the evaluator was gracious in her remarks about how well and smoothly the conversation went between George and Paul. This was from an advanced manual.
Appy was also working from another advanced manual on speaking in praise of someone. This was Rasmusin Ash. A well-known Toastmaster who cleans toilets in the golden key empire building. He was evaluated by Ned, who in his tenure as a masterful evaluator, give tremendous support and helpful hints for the performance of praising someone in public.
Paul then wrapped up the meeting with a soul-searching, on the edge of your chair rendition of the upcoming speech contest. The twists and turns of the competitors, being qualified and finally how the judging will take place. It was so much information that my head got full and started to leak with knowledge.
We wrapped up on time with our conclusions.
Ns Meeting on July 23rd, 2003
WOWW--EYY KAZOW--EY!
Ned was on a rampage, as the Thesaurus Rex, stomping on all who dared to cross his path.
He was undefeatable; while members took pot shots at him, he remained virulent and master of the night.
Christine was the Toastmaster of the night, and her tip for the meeting was some of the duties that being the Toastmaster of the evening entails. Not only are you in charge of the agenda, you are also charged with contacting the participants the day before to remind them of their duties. To confirm whether they are ready or not, then to try and make arrangements with others if there is a vacancy.
A master list for our current members with their phone numbers will be circulated at the next meeting.
The word of the day was graciously brought to us by Colin - "Panonomastic" - means "are you ready for this" " NO, I mean are YOU REALLY ready for this?" FOR SURE? - the word means "PUNS." Panomastic Master Joel was ecstatic about the word of the day. Everyone was "punning around" for examples all nite long.
George then managed to make his way to the lectern as the Table Topic Master. His topic was "Describe your favorite pet without telling us it's name, or type." Of course, Ned speaking in his wonderful slithery, reptilious manner, convinced us that his favorite pet, a "greased Lightning" speed demon, was colorful and smooth. Native to Florida and most of the Americas. A marvelous job of description without exact definition, no wonder he is going to be a teacher of our children. Paul then got up and managed to evade answering the directive of telling everyone what the other person animal was. He was descriptive as Ned, even quoted some sayings from him, but as his time ran out, he left the question to the voters on what they thought Ned had said. A true politician. Christine jumped right in with both feet as the leader she is guessed wrong on Ned's animal and proceeded to describe a furry friend of hers, the cat, while Appy not wanting to be outdone, managed to feed Christine's pet with his, the fish.
All in all, a wonderful way to practice using descriptive words to get your message across.
Our speakers for the evening "rose" to the occasion, with Phil doing his speech on Communism, Cosmetics and Color. This was "Working with Words" out of the manual for his CTM, with the real inside "scoop" of the cosmetic industry. Very descriptive words that painted pictures such as the Peruvians, capturing the pregnant beetles off the cactus and then chopping the legs and heads off. This story had " legs " to carry us through to the "steaming" end. We will remember vividly the phrase of Squish, Squash, and Smear in a new perspective. Phil has conquered one of the hardest parts of the speech - being able to end on a high note and with dynamics. Great Job Phil.
Then our word master of the day Colin, got us with a "tall tale" of his love of sailing and being on the water. With the air conditioner going he was almost "Drowned" out. But "hoisting" up to his task, he brought a wonderful story of boating benefits, and the "grounding" that we can receive from this activity. While giving us as Colin noted "a Sail's Pitch." Oh, was there no end to the panomastic abuse that we had to endure that nite. Colin's wit and thirst to take over as the Punmeister's of Naturally speaking is evident. The gauntlet has been thrown down. Let the Puns begin.
Chrystel as the grammarian and Ah counter brought us back to reality, without "ticking" the speakers off too much, her report was incredibly accurate and very helpful for the group to improve their unconscious crutches.
Our evaluators tonite were Paul and Ned. Although Ned managed to win the coveted Evaluator title tonite, his rule as King Evaluator may be dwindling. There is that contest next week and Christine has her eyes set for Thesaurus Rex. She has informed the club that Mr. Ned will be Sliced Diced and Peeled at the contest, by the Bon Bon Queen herself. sound kind of "sweet" doesn't it.
Our contestants for next week are:
Humorous Speech
Appy
Paul
Christine
Evaluation contest
Christine
Ned
Chief Judge and Contest Master will be George.
If you wish to participate in any manner, get with George before the next meetings.
Til our next meeting, in the words of the Punmeister- "Live Wrong and Perspire"
Paul
July 30th
Naturally Speaking Humor & Evaluation 2003 Contest
Wednesday meeting was a hoot. We had a full house at the meeting, and the some. We had to move back to the old location I the screened area of the workout room.
The tension was terrific, there was the Humorous speeches of both Paul and Christine. Followed by the Evaluators Contest with Ned and Christine.
Christine not above trying to arrange a win, mentioned her name predominantly along with the correct spelling for everyone in the club several times before the meeting started. Her Speech "Conspiracy Theory" was quite amusing. To think that the subliminal messages, the mind altering drugs along with the hypnotic music all were discovered at Starbucks, which turned out to be a business front for no other then Riff Raff , the arch enemy of Underdog. No wonder I have to have a sampling of that fine coffee.
Paul was not to be outdone in the speeches, his "The BEAST" was truly inspirational! He took us on a safari into the wild days of youth, where the desire and hunt begins. Then later the actually encounter with the beast, the struggle, the plotting and coolness that is necessary to control and conquer the Beast. It was a "hair raising" adventure not to say the least.
The Winner of the Humorous speech was Christine and Paul came in Second. Both will be representing our club at the upcoming contest.
Our Guest speaker had an informative speech about Mentoring and this allowed great opportunities for Christine and Ned to evaluate her presentation.
Both were trying to out analyze the other. While Christine again was the first contestant, she could not win the night, for Thesaurus REX was king of the land. Ned was in prime condition, giving out fantastic analysis of the speech, improvements that could be used and ending with a soothing, reassuring and inviting conclusion.
Blood was shed on the platform that night, all came ready for battle, to take themselves to the next level. We had a wonderfully entertaining night and look forward to the next meeting.
September 10th, 2003!
![]() WOW Everyone!
We had a dynamic free for all this week that caused us to have to meet in the workout area.
It was so boisterous and rowdy that the Sheriff Dept had to show up at the meeting. Want to know what happened? You'll just have to come to the GALA on the 17th to find out.
Our own Joel "MotorMouth" was the Toastmaster and GE for the evening. Need we say more? Well, we could, but Joel didn't give us enough time.
Ned "Thesaurus Rex" was taking revenge on the rest of the participants because of the trouncing that he took from the hands of Colin "Too Cool" at the last evaluation. He challenged us to become Greeters extraordinaire in different role models.
Of course, I had the easiest one of being shy, conservative, and bashful, Christine "It's all about Me" had to play a domineering, fortune 500 woman executive, Joel "Motormouth" became the Super Salesman, Phil "The Truth" was the oldest member alive in Toastmasters, Appy "What's Going On" was his smooth Cracker personality.
I believe the Table topics was rigged as Christine won, and an investigation in underway at this very moment.
Our speaker for the nite, Chrisitne "Can I get more Air Time" entertained us with her newest product the Excuse box.
However, all was not lost, as the ultimately, fair, debonaire and wiley evaluator, Paul "tell it like it is" brough us all to an enlightenment of her speech. We then further encouraged her with a round robin by the attending members.
It was at this time that we got to meet "Tony" - you know the kind; the strong, silent type who just sits back and takes it all in.
Tony was our honored guest this nite, who participated in the Table topics and even evaluated or should we de-evaluated Christine. It was lucky for us that the back room was available for all the inflated egos at the meeting.
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Also board meeting notes will be included.
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