Sportsmanship On and Off the Field -- Does it Still Exist?

In the spirit of the Olympics which are well underway, we discussed sports and sportsmanship in our meeting today. Good sportsmanship plays a role on and off the field, and in our Toastmasters meetings. We are all here to grow and learn and become better speakers. Sometimes we win the "best speech" award and sometimes we don't. It's important in Toastmasters and in life to win with class as well as learn to lose (and learn from the loss) with class.

We had a couple of great speeches today from Karen Lang who taught us all about being a good sport through her story about "Mrs. Low" -- the founder of the Girls Scouts of America (we are all still waiting for our cookies, Karen!). And Don Lindgren taught us about a sport, mountain climbing, in his speech, "Rising to New Heights in Boulder." Informative and great props, Don!

Thanks to our guest, Todd who visited us today. We hope you enjoyed yourself and come back and see us again -- you have to keep us updated on the Women's Volleyball!

Today's awards went to:

• Best Speech -- Don Lindgren
• Best Evaluator -- Cary Bradly
• Best Table Topics -- Don Lyman

Next Week's Meeting: Thursday, August 21st

We have most of the roles filled for next week, but there are a few remaining. Janet Reese is our Toastmaster for next week so please contact her at janetbreese@comcast.net if you can pick up an open role.

• Toastmaster -- Janet Reese
• General Evaluator -- OPEN
• Speech #1 -- Don Lyman
• Evaluator #1 -- Gary Fuller
• Speech #2 -- OPEN
• Evaluator #2 -- OPEN
• Table Topics -- Eric Peterson
• Grammarian -- OPEN
• Timer -- Karen Lang
• Ah Counter -- Don Lindgren

Looking ahead to our August 28th meeting we have two "pre-reserved" roles as follows:

• General Evaluator -- Cary Bradly
• Speech #1 -- Dave Trzupek

Thanks to everyone for another great meeting!