Triskelion Toastmasters is getting a nice rhythm back in these dog days of summer. For the second week we had a full roster and two speakers.
Toastmaster Don Lyman picked on Texas by relating some of the strange laws they have. Laura Drury was our word master and brought us "desultory".
Our first speech was by Krystyna who informed us about “Casmir Pulaski a hero of American Revolution”. Pulaski even saved George Washington's life! This was Speech 3 for Krystyna: Get to the Point — Clearly state your speech goal, and make sure that every element of your speech focuses on that goal.
Our second speech was Jason's "Two-phase Flow in Piping: Part 2". This was Speech 8 for Jason: Get Comfortable With Visual Aids — Examines the use of slides, transparencies, flip charts, whiteboards, or props. He is honing his presentation for a big engineering conference coming up next Thursday.
Gary Fuller returned from out of town and served as our General Evaluator. Dan Pratt continued his evaluation of Jason from last week. Laura evaluated Krystyna's speech and got credit for it in her leadership book.
Connie was our topic master for the second week in a row and we drew from her tin of thought-provoking question cards. Gary won table topics with a story of teaching friends how to play pinochle. Krystyna took best speaker and Laura best evaluator.
Next week we have a District officer as our guest so please help us fill all roles! Let's put on a great meeting.
Best,
Don Lyman
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Triskelion Toastmaster Meeting Notes - August 6, 2009
Two guests (Christine Ames & Steve Brown) joined members for today's Triskelion Toastmasters meeting. Jason Carty and Don Lyman gave great technical speeches with Don taking the Best Speaker Award. Dan Pratt and Linda Holm served as speech evaluators and Linda won Best Evaluator.
Table topics tickled out brains with "question cards" asking: What is your favorite invention? If you could have a wild animal as a pet what would it be? Don Lyman won Best Table Topics for eloquently telling the best thing about the person seated to his right. Great topics and great speaking!
Next week's speakers will be Jason Carty, giving part 2 of his technical speech and Linda Holm, with Dan Pratt evaluating one of the speeches. Please join us next week and reserve your role as soon as possible.
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
Connie's Blog: gardengatherings.net and Twitter.com/gardengathering
303-584-1612
Table topics tickled out brains with "question cards" asking: What is your favorite invention? If you could have a wild animal as a pet what would it be? Don Lyman won Best Table Topics for eloquently telling the best thing about the person seated to his right. Great topics and great speaking!
Next week's speakers will be Jason Carty, giving part 2 of his technical speech and Linda Holm, with Dan Pratt evaluating one of the speeches. Please join us next week and reserve your role as soon as possible.
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
Connie's Blog: gardengatherings.net and Twitter.com/gardengathering
303-584-1612
Monday, August 3, 2009
Triskelion Meeting Notes - July 30, 2009
Triskelion Toastmaster Meeting Notes for July 30, 2009
The theme of Thursday’s meeting was “Excuses, Excuses” led by Toastmaster Dan Pratt, who attempted to invent several excuses for not having a printed agenda. No problem, however – a dog ate his list of excuses.
We had two guests – Tom and Jackie – who are local marriage counselors.
Jason Carty delivered his 5th speech, entitled “To Tile, or Not to Tile.” He related his experiences during a recent home improvement project and gave us all tips for doing a great tile job. Although it seems like a lot of work, I’m sure Jason will want to repeat the process for anyone who has a large bathroom or Roman courtyard they would like finished. (Just kidding, Jason. Tile work ranks up there with helping someone move their grand piano up eight narrow flights of stairs.)
Don Lyman presented table topics which involved ethics questions based on Randy Cohen’s column which is syndicated by The New York Times. There were very thoughtful responses, with no one choosing “the dark side” in their solutions.
We concluded with a challenge to all our members to bring not just a friend, but also another member.
The theme of Thursday’s meeting was “Excuses, Excuses” led by Toastmaster Dan Pratt, who attempted to invent several excuses for not having a printed agenda. No problem, however – a dog ate his list of excuses.
We had two guests – Tom and Jackie – who are local marriage counselors.
Jason Carty delivered his 5th speech, entitled “To Tile, or Not to Tile.” He related his experiences during a recent home improvement project and gave us all tips for doing a great tile job. Although it seems like a lot of work, I’m sure Jason will want to repeat the process for anyone who has a large bathroom or Roman courtyard they would like finished. (Just kidding, Jason. Tile work ranks up there with helping someone move their grand piano up eight narrow flights of stairs.)
Don Lyman presented table topics which involved ethics questions based on Randy Cohen’s column which is syndicated by The New York Times. There were very thoughtful responses, with no one choosing “the dark side” in their solutions.
We concluded with a challenge to all our members to bring not just a friend, but also another member.
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