Triskelion Meeting Notes - August 13, 2009

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

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
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Meeting Notes - July 16, 2009

Thursday's Toastmaster meeting was full of high spirits. Connie started a new manual and the first project was storytelling. We all gathered in a circle and listened to her telling of the story of "The North Wind and the Sun". She picked this story for it's moral of gentle persuasion. It is a great lesson for us as a club as we strive to meet our goals.

Don was Toastmaster, Dan served as General Evaluator, Linda evaluated Connie's speech, and Doris was our timer.

Our Table Topic Master was Ed. He asked each of us to define the word "gelogenic". Most thought the word had the Latin root gel, but it is actually Greek meaning laughter. Don won the table topic thinking the word sounded like an Italian bicycle team. The true word of the day was "ebullient".

This week we will be meeting in a different room, so please gather in the lobby. Linda will be our Toastmaster, Laura will give her Ice Breaker and Ed will evaluate. We hope to see you there!

Triskelion Meeting Notes - July 9, 2009

Yes, it's finally summer---and the temp is up----but the hottest topics were addressed in today's meeting. Eight members attended with Connie Pshigoda serving as Toastmaster. Krystyna gave her 2nd speech from the CC manual ("Organize Your Speech") on Poland's Casmir Pulaski, a hero of the American Revolution.

Dan Pratt evaluated Krystyna's speech; Doris Steffe gave the Word of the Day and served as Timer; Linda Holms challenged us with Table Topics and Don Lyman served as GE. Returning member, Neal Huffman won the Table Topic Award.

Congratulations to member Julie Williams and newborn son, Cade. Both are home and doing well.

Next week's agenda is filling, but we need all roles filled before Wednesday:
TM - Don Lyman
WOD - Connie
Speaker #1 - Carolyn
Speaker #2 -
Evaluator #1 -
Evaluator #2 -
Table Topics -
GE -
Timer -
Ah Counter/Grammarian -

Have a great week-----see you on Thursday!

Connie Pshigoda
President, Triskelion Toastmasters

Friends—You need them. But first you have to be a friend.

What political candidate greets his audience with “My Friends,” (perhaps more than he should)? John McCain. He knows that we can never have too many friends. But we can be parsimonious and have too few, or worse yet, none at all!

Did you know that this is National Friendship Week? In it’s honor, we extolled our friends today, because they are important in our lives. A good friend is indispensable. Friends inspire, support and encourage us—they enrich our lives. As Emerson said, "The only way to have a friend is to be one." Make yourself available for friendships...that way you’ll be there for each other in high and low times.

Program highlights
*Welcome new members Brendan McMillan and Todd Rys who joined today!

*Our word of the day: - par·si·mo·ni·ous. Frugal to the point of stinginess; sparingly.

*Don Lyman, our solo speaker, gave his second CL manual speech, Organize it, titled Everyday ethical conundrums. As an "integrity leader" for his company, InsureMe, Don spoke about the integrity poll, a key tool he uses to champion the virtue.

*Gary Fuller adeptly evaluated Don's speech with praise and helpful tips for next time.

*Eric Peterson carried out the theme with his Table Topics questions about friendship.

*Our general evaluator/toastmaster Janet sized up the meeting with her keen observations. We need to start using the ah-buzzer and give award certificates to winners. Janet gave herself and her TM crew excellent marks for a well-organized and executed meeting.

Awards--Congrats to:
Best speaker: Don Lyman
Best evaluator: Gary Fuller
Best table topics: Brendan McMillian

Roles for next week, Aug. 28, 2008 Note: next week is the officers' meeting.
Toastmaster - Mike Angel
Speaker 1- Dave Trzupek
Speaker 2 - OPEN
Evaluator 1- Don Lyman
Evaluator 2- OPEN
General Evaluator - Cary Bradley
Table Topics - Ed Johnson
Word of the day - Mike Angel
Ah counter - OPEN
Grammarian - OPEN
Timer - OPEN
Contact Toastmaster Mike Angel promptly to fill and open role.

"Life is a great chronicle of friendship. Friends create the world anew each day." Helen Keller

Have a great week, my friends. :)