Triskelion Toastmaster Meeting Notes - February 25, 2010

Krystyna Noworytta served as Toastmaster on February 25, 2010.
She opened the meeting with a formal announcement in an absence of Connie Pshigoda. She began the meeting announcing a schedule change. We will meet on March 4, and Emmy will be visiting us. She will be reviewing our Club’s goals from last June. Our next meeting will be March 18, and we will be doing a Club Speech contest for our Table Topics.

Krystyna welcomed Joe Abey, from Country Financial, who was our guest and became an instant member.

The theme of the meeting was “Omnivore VS, Omnivore”. Krystyna compared 2 omnivores and their habits, the Alaskan Brown Bear and a today’s Mr. Anthony Smith.
 
The word of the day was Omnivore; one that is omnivorous (adj.).
Avidly taking in everything as if devouring or consuming, or feeding on both animal and vegetable substance.

We continued listening to a presentation, by Rory Vaden, in a series of six CDs focusing on how to develop humor for your presentations. The series is named “The Audience is NOT in Their Underwear.” Rory told us that we are all capable of being funny and he disclosed some of principles. His speech was about 20 minutes, and it was very instructive. We will try to continue this series each week (even in “off” weeks), unless we have two live speakers. Dan Pratt will have handouts available whenever he plays the CDs.

Don Lyman challenged us with Table Topics on outdoor activities. He himself is an advanced hiker. For example, as a Mayor of a city, how would you allocate funds if you had a choice of either a park, a trail, or public library. How would you distract a bear to protect yourself? My solution: throw the open jar of honey at him, and then, slowly walk away.  

Dan Pratt and Gary Fuller won an award as “Best Speakers”.

In conclusion, Connie Pshigoda made the decision to change
our club’s scheduled meetings. We will meet every other Thursday, the 1st and 3rd week of the month. Our next meeting will take place on March 4 and 18. Emmy will be visiting on the 4th, and we will hold a Club Speech contest the 18th.

Please join the Triskelion Toasmasters Club next week to celebrate our new schedule meetings. 
Do not forget to commit your roster duty for our next meeting.