The Meetings

a turn of phrase

a clever speech

rapier wit

a day at the beach

A clever word

oration or two

speak speak speak

That is what we do.

Learning lessons

improving skills

Having fun

jokes and thrills

A bunch of lads

and lasses too

gather around lunch

T'is not much ado

And yet we learn

succinct eloquence

delivering words

in verbose parlance

Toastmasters, Toastmasters

both great and small

come to the meeting

Discover it all.

MPA

4-26-07

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A Close Call... April 26th Meeting.

Every once in a while life encroaches on the clubs regularly scheduled meeting. Today's meeting was nearly done in due to both our speakers being pre-empted by life.

Fortunately for us, we have a very dedicated group and two speakers were ready to save the day. Luayne Trujillo and Nick Samoylov both stepped up and filled the void. Let this be a lesson to fellow toastmasters, yours truly included (guilt may be the reason I'm drawing the lesson), good speeches require a good deal of practice and preparation. That both Nick and Luayne were able to step in with less than a few hours notice is testimony to the work they put in on their speeches.

The speeches were evaluated by Mike Biggs and Dave Trzupek. Both did an excellent job. Dave took the best evaluator honors, which is high praise for his first evaluation, especially since it was earned without benefit of an evaluation form to guide him.

Table Topics were presented by Lisa Dahl. Lisa drew the table topic subject of, Career Day, from her recent acceptance of a position as CFO of Qdoba. There were many questions and by meetings end everyone had spoke.

A note from the club's Poet Laureate - Mike Angell

Permit me this small submission.
which thou wilt post
with thy permission
upon the website and yonder board

permit me, merely, a word ,a phrase
to remember those of better days
to celebrate the good times of here and yore

permit me still
to speak in silence
to listen to each utterance
as we've done a thousand, thousand times before

Yay, if thou doth seek
to improve thy skills
or drown in fun and seeketh thrills
then cometh to our meeting on 4th floor