Thursday, June 25, 2009
“Summer Time Blues”
Summer time blues are often brought on by too much work and not enough time to play outdoors. And even when we have had time to be outdoors the constant bombardment of storms and bad weather has interrupted our plans and added to our blues. One cure for the summer time blues caused by the bad weather was to use the time indoors to work on our Toastmaster speeches!
Ed Johnson gave a highly technical and advanced (beyond 12 minute) speech on the history and impact of “Five Equations that Changed the World”. This was definitely subject matter that was meant to be presented by a professional engineer like Ed. Ed didn’t recommend that women use this information at a cocktail party to impress the men but he suggested that knowing and sharing this information with our children would be a way to impress them.
Don Lyman evaluated Ed’s speech. Don reminded all of us that a speech ending should be strong and conclusive.
Dan Pratt presented table topics asking us to recall good or bad memories about moving. Our newest member Laura Drury and guest Jeff Johns graciously volunteered along with Dave Trzupek and Linda Holm. Jeff John was voted best table topic with his story about moving without actually moving in order to rid his home of termites!
Many thanks go to Krystyna Noworytta and Doris Steffe.
Krystyna handled multiple roles of General Evaluator and Ah counter and Grammarian. Doris did an outstanding job as timer.
I asked for volunteers for Toastmaster for the next meeting.
Remember the Triskelion Toastmaster picnic being hosted by our president, Connie Pshigoda on July 17, 2009.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Meeting Notes - 18 June 2009
We had a great meeting this past Thursday. Jason enlightened us on the history (and his love of) coffee and Don gave us all a great overview of our super new Triskelion web site and many of the great new features and additions to it!
Jason was awarded best speech, Gary was best evaluator and one of our guests, Janice as well as Don tied for best Table Topics. Thanks to everyone for your participation in what was a really great meeting.
I was hoping to use one of the great new tools on our web site - the ability to document roles for the upcoming meeting - but when we left the meeting on Thursday all roles were open as they still are today. So...to start with we need someone to volunteer for Toastmaster and begin to fill the roles for next week's meeting. Connie will be unable to attend the meeting and Gary and a few of our other "veteran and consistent" members are out for a few weeks due to other commitments so we really need to look to our officers and members to step up as Thursday will be here before we know it.
If someone can please volunteer for the Toastmaster role before the weekend is out that would be great. And if anyone else is interested in any other roles, please let me know and I will keep track of those roles until the Toastmaster for this week is identified.
Here are the roles:
Toastmaster
General Evaluator
Speaker #1
Evaluator #1
Speaker #2
Evaluator #2
Word of the Day
Timer
Grammarian
Ah-Counter
Table Topics
Thanks to everyone - have a great weekend - and to all the fathers out there
- enjoy your very special day!
Jason was awarded best speech, Gary was best evaluator and one of our guests, Janice as well as Don tied for best Table Topics. Thanks to everyone for your participation in what was a really great meeting.
I was hoping to use one of the great new tools on our web site - the ability to document roles for the upcoming meeting - but when we left the meeting on Thursday all roles were open as they still are today. So...to start with we need someone to volunteer for Toastmaster and begin to fill the roles for next week's meeting. Connie will be unable to attend the meeting and Gary and a few of our other "veteran and consistent" members are out for a few weeks due to other commitments so we really need to look to our officers and members to step up as Thursday will be here before we know it.
If someone can please volunteer for the Toastmaster role before the weekend is out that would be great. And if anyone else is interested in any other roles, please let me know and I will keep track of those roles until the Toastmaster for this week is identified.
Here are the roles:
Toastmaster
General Evaluator
Speaker #1
Evaluator #1
Speaker #2
Evaluator #2
Word of the Day
Timer
Grammarian
Ah-Counter
Table Topics
Thanks to everyone - have a great weekend - and to all the fathers out there
- enjoy your very special day!
General Evaluator Checklist
General Evaluator Checklist:
• When called for the General Evaluation, first introduce the speaker evaluators:
Evaluator For Speaker
________________________ _____________________________
________________________ _____________________________
• Call on Grammarian for the Grammarian’s Report:
• Call on Timer for the Timer’s Report:
• Give your evaluation: (consider following in evaluation)
+ Did the meeting start on time? Is it going to end on time?
+ How did the Toastmaster of the day do? (Feedback on how they filled the role)
+ Give feedback on other roles.
+ Were there any mix-ups during the meeting that could have been avoided by better planning or preparation? (Good examples: speakers giving their introductions to the TM, and giving their times to the timer).
• How was the mood of the meeting? Was there a theme or did a theme arise during the course of the meeting?
• Comment on the table topics:
• Other:
• When called for the General Evaluation, first introduce the speaker evaluators:
Evaluator For Speaker
________________________ _____________________________
________________________ _____________________________
• Call on Grammarian for the Grammarian’s Report:
• Call on Timer for the Timer’s Report:
• Give your evaluation: (consider following in evaluation)
+ Did the meeting start on time? Is it going to end on time?
+ How did the Toastmaster of the day do? (Feedback on how they filled the role)
+ Give feedback on other roles.
+ Were there any mix-ups during the meeting that could have been avoided by better planning or preparation? (Good examples: speakers giving their introductions to the TM, and giving their times to the timer).
• How was the mood of the meeting? Was there a theme or did a theme arise during the course of the meeting?
• Comment on the table topics:
• Other:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Triskelion Meeting Notes - June 11, 2009
Toastmaster Connie Pshigoda opened today's meeting by welcoming three guests: Janice Baker, Allison Mangan, returning guest Steve Brown and six members. Connie gave her final speech from the Advanced Manual series to complete her requirements for Advanced Communicator Bronze. Don Lyman served as Evaluator for Connie's speech.
The Word of the Day was: constellate, meaning to unite in a cluster.
Guest Janice Baker won Best Table Topics Speaker with her tale of the mystery midnight alarm malfunction.
Please plan on joining us next week for more spectacular speeches, brain-boosting Table Topics, enlightening evaluations and just plain fun! Have a great week.
There are several roles to be filled for the June 18 meeting. Please plan to serve in one of the available roles:
TM - Julie Williams
GE - Krystyna
Speaker #1 - Don L.
Speaker #2 -
Evaluator #1 -
Evaluator #2 -
WOD - Steve Brown
Table Topics -
Timer -
Grammarian -
Ah-Counter -
Connie Pshigoda
Speaker/Teacher, Author and Wellness Guide at the Garden Gatherings
The Wise Woman's Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Your Physical-Emotional-Spiritual Health
www.WellnessForAllSeasons.com
303-584-1612
Speaker/Teacher, Author and Wellness Guide at the Garden Gatherings
The Wise Woman's Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Your Physical-Emotional-Spiritual Health
www.WellnessForAllSeasons.com
303-584-1612
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Triskelion Officers 2009-2010
Fellow Toastmasters:
Ladies and Gentlemen, the votes are in. The results have been tallied. It is with long awaited excitement and anticipation, I announce to you the new guard. Your new officers are:
President: Connie Pshigoda
VP of Public Relations: Dave Trzupek
VP of Membership: Krystyna Noworytta
VP of Education - Ed Johnson
Secretary&Treasurer - Dan Pratt
Sergeant at Arms - Linda Holm
Webmaster - Don Lyman
They were duly sworn in. Therefore, effectively immediately, the club is now in their capable hands. Please join me in congratulating all the new officers!!
Sincerely,
Michael Angell
Past-President
Check out our website: www.3skelion.info
Ladies and Gentlemen, the votes are in. The results have been tallied. It is with long awaited excitement and anticipation, I announce to you the new guard. Your new officers are:
President: Connie Pshigoda
VP of Public Relations: Dave Trzupek
VP of Membership: Krystyna Noworytta
VP of Education - Ed Johnson
Secretary&Treasurer - Dan Pratt
Sergeant at Arms - Linda Holm
Webmaster - Don Lyman
They were duly sworn in. Therefore, effectively immediately, the club is now in their capable hands. Please join me in congratulating all the new officers!!
Sincerely,
Michael Angell
Past-President
Check out our website: www.3skelion.info
Meeting Notes - 04 June 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
How I Plan to Spend My Summer Vacation
Well, we gallivanted (roamed about for pleasure without any definite plan) as it turns out and took twists and turns in our vocal voyage.
Connie Pshigoda gave an award for outstanding physical fitness and devotion to helping others achieve their goals. I had no idea I was such a great a person, but Connie was so convincing, I had to accept. (Loved the trophy.)
Julie Williams convinced us to outsource our resources (I’m hiring her to write all of my speeches from now on). She used a phrase rarely heard nowadays: “on time and under budget.”
Don Lyman evaluated Connie’s speech and Ed Johnson evaluated Julie’s speech.
Then Ed, with such a strong desire to educate our members as to what a hot potato speech, gave us a heated tubular discussion and technical analysis of the elevated kinetics of the lowly tater. He was HOT, and I don’t mean necessarily physically attractive to me, but I think everyone enjoyed his spud-of-the-moment presentation.
Julie Williams (also double-dipping into the role pool) presented table topics. One of our guests (Laura) tied with Dave Trzupek for best answer. Their topics were based on coinage that Julie forgot to leave with the Treasurer.
Kudos go to Gary Fuller for his very comprehensive grammar report, and also to Julie for best speech and Ed Johnson for his evaluation.
Visit us at www.3skelion.info
How I Plan to Spend My Summer Vacation
Well, we gallivanted (roamed about for pleasure without any definite plan) as it turns out and took twists and turns in our vocal voyage.
Connie Pshigoda gave an award for outstanding physical fitness and devotion to helping others achieve their goals. I had no idea I was such a great a person, but Connie was so convincing, I had to accept. (Loved the trophy.)
Julie Williams convinced us to outsource our resources (I’m hiring her to write all of my speeches from now on). She used a phrase rarely heard nowadays: “on time and under budget.”
Don Lyman evaluated Connie’s speech and Ed Johnson evaluated Julie’s speech.
Then Ed, with such a strong desire to educate our members as to what a hot potato speech, gave us a heated tubular discussion and technical analysis of the elevated kinetics of the lowly tater. He was HOT, and I don’t mean necessarily physically attractive to me, but I think everyone enjoyed his spud-of-the-moment presentation.
Julie Williams (also double-dipping into the role pool) presented table topics. One of our guests (Laura) tied with Dave Trzupek for best answer. Their topics were based on coinage that Julie forgot to leave with the Treasurer.
Kudos go to Gary Fuller for his very comprehensive grammar report, and also to Julie for best speech and Ed Johnson for his evaluation.
Visit us at www.3skelion.info
Meeting Prep - 02 June 2009
Greetings, fellow toastmasters and friends,
The theme for the Thursday Toastmasters meeting is “How I Plan to Spend My Summer Vacation” and the challenge will be not to use the word “Staycation.”
For some of us, this will be the only type of vacation we’ll get, but for most of you, we’d like to meddle in your lives as much as possible, so inquiring minds just want to know!
If I can’t have a vacation, then darn it, I want to hear about someone else’s dreams.
In September, we could have another meeting to see how your plans worked or didn’t work out as you had hoped. We can also revel in your misery. It’s all good!
The only plans I have for the meeting so far are:
TM – me
Speaker #1 – Julie Williams – Speech #3 (Get to the Point) which may be a powerful point presentation.
Evaluator – Don Lyman (thanks for volunteering)
So there’s still lots of opportunity to step up and join the jamboree – M – I – C (uh – I guess that’s another song and probably copyrighted).
That was an “uh” not an “ah” if you’re counting. Anyway, love to hear from you all.
Regards,
Dan Pratt
Visit our website: www.3skelion.info
The theme for the Thursday Toastmasters meeting is “How I Plan to Spend My Summer Vacation” and the challenge will be not to use the word “Staycation.”
For some of us, this will be the only type of vacation we’ll get, but for most of you, we’d like to meddle in your lives as much as possible, so inquiring minds just want to know!
If I can’t have a vacation, then darn it, I want to hear about someone else’s dreams.
In September, we could have another meeting to see how your plans worked or didn’t work out as you had hoped. We can also revel in your misery. It’s all good!
The only plans I have for the meeting so far are:
TM – me
Speaker #1 – Julie Williams – Speech #3 (Get to the Point) which may be a powerful point presentation.
Evaluator – Don Lyman (thanks for volunteering)
So there’s still lots of opportunity to step up and join the jamboree – M – I – C (uh – I guess that’s another song and probably copyrighted).
That was an “uh” not an “ah” if you’re counting. Anyway, love to hear from you all.
Regards,
Dan Pratt
Visit our website: www.3skelion.info
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