Thanks to everyone for your participation in the meeting last week. While we were short a speaker we were not short on Table Topics fun thanks to Ed who challenged us all to come up with a unique definition to the word: "infracaninophile". Deron won by "vote" of what everyone thought was the correct answer -- which turned out to be the correct answer which is: "One who is a supporter or champion of the underdog. Great job Deron and great table topics idea, Ed! However, despite Deron's correct answer, the group voted Dan as the best table topics person -- as always he provided an entertaining and "Dan-esque" type response. Congratulations Dan!
We heard a great speech from Carolyn who spoke about our health care system and the challenges we face correcting it. Jason gave a nice evaluation of her speech noting the amazing statistics of where the U.S. stands in relation to many other countries with our health care system.
Our General Evaluator, Mike, pointed out some great suggestions for us to focus on as we continue our meetings -- namely never leaving the podium "empty" as there should always be someone at the podium addressing the group -- if not with a speaker or table topics via the Toastmaster "filling any time voids" as needed. Also, we didn't do a great job using the WOD today (which was querulous -- habitually complaining) which agreed as a group we needed better emphasis on going forward.
Our roles filled and not for the next meeting on Thursday, January 22nd are as follow:
Toastmaster -- Eric
WOD -- Linda
Speaker #1 -- Jason
Speaker #2 -- Todd or Connie (please decide between yourselves whom will speak, please and let Eric know)
General Evaluator -- Julie
Evaluator #1 -- Don Lyman
Evaluator #2 -- OPEN
Table Topics -- Mike
Ah Counter -- Carolyn
Timer -- Dan
Grammarian -- OPEN
Also, as a reminder we have Dave T. scheduled to speak at our Jan. 29th meeting.
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