Dyehard Toastmasters

Archive for November, 2009

A quick reminder that they will be no meeting this week (December 1st) due to the traffic issues created by the Belmont Christmas Parade.  We will resume our regular schedule next Tuesday, December 8th.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

I would like to expiate for not posting a recap out in awhile but your luck ran out. Expiate was word of the day, meaning to “atone for or make amends for” provided by our Mr. Bert Freeman our VPE and Toastmaster of the evening. We had two speeches tonight. Mike gave a speech that was very informative and a subject that is near to his heart, education and making a difference in a young person’s life. He discussed the cost in dollars and in lives of our educational crisis we are experiencing in this country.　 He stated five areas that young people must feel comfortable in to be able to feel successful.　 Mike gave this speech and used “PowerPoint”. This was his first attempt with a “PowerPoint” presentation and he did quite well.

 Our second speaker was Jada. Her speech was the “The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful”. Her speech was timely in this holiday season. Charitable giving, does your donation go where you intended it to go? She gave statistics, and web-sites to see which charities are prudent with your donations and which are not. It was a very logical and well thought-out speech.

Table Topics were provided by Chad. This was excellent. He stated the situation. You are a passenger on an airplane and it is going to crash. There is only one parachute. Plead your case why you should get the parachute. True to form, Chad made a slight modification. The participants drew an envelope and it contained a celebrity who was the passenger on the plane.

 Bill was Dennis Rodman.
Ken was Paris Hilton
Ron was Britney Spears
Emily was Bernie Madcoff.

 It was an extremely funny portion of the meeting, especially Ken Paris describing some of his/her best features. Emily was ah/grammarian and she lived up to her reputation. She can hear an ah/um before you can say it! That’s good from a Yankee, oops. 　”Southernisms” were also discussed; you all know what I mean.

 Finally, our General Evaluator was Charles Hutson who did great. Ron evaluated Mike’s speech. Emily evaluated Jada. Congratulations to Emily and Charles for accepting the challenge of trying a new role!!

 Last, but certainly not least we had a guest attend tonight’s meeting. Mr. John Pierce attended the meeting and expressed an interest in joining our club. WELCOME!!!!!

 WE WILL NOT BE MEETING ON DECEMBER 1^ST BECAUSE OF THE BELMONT CHRISTMAS PARADE AND TRAFFIC PROBLEMS GENERATED BY IT.

 Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our thanks to Jada who created a template for the Toastmaster to use during our meetings. 

You can get it here:  Toastmaster Template

We had a great meeting last  night with Bert Freeman serving as a wonderful Toastmaster.  Ken Levra gave us a very heartfelt speach entitled Tic Tac Toe and Jada Criswell has all of us laughing with her speech “Boys and Their Toys.” 

Emily Lowrance was our Table Topics Master and sparked some heated debate between Charles Hutson and Chad Bordeaux regarding Twitter.  Chares asserted that it was a waste of time, while Chad detailed examples of how he has grown  his business and strengthened business and personal relationships with its use. 

All in all, it was an awesome meeting!