This week’s meeting was great! We had four guests: Tom Hobbs, fellow Toastmaster and area 5 governor, John Graham and Nicole Fatchaline from the Kiewett Company and John Cannata a coworker of Don Lyman.
WOD – was fruition which was presented by Linda Holm.
Laura Drury gave her “ice breaker” speech, “Be yourself – everyone else is already taken”. Laura captured us with childhood events and how she became herself as a young adult, college graduate and computer professional. Laura credited her love of traveling and of meeting people with the person she has become.
Don Lyman evaluated Laura’s speech giving out positive and done right feedback.
Doris Steffe was our table topicmaster. Doris challenged volunteers to help “sell” and “defend” unusual housing/living quarters. Volunteers found themselves living in Titan Missile Silos, Off-Shore platforms, Nuclear Power Plants, etc. Tom Hobbs was voted best table topic with his story about living in a missile silo.
Dan Pratt was our General Evaluator. Meeting started promptly. Many thanks went to Cindy Castilow and Connie Pshigoda for being our timer and grammarian/Ah counter. Everyone was well within their time ranges. There were some tenses that did not match and several people had Ahs. We did not have a theme for the meeting which Dan would have liked us to have.
The meeting was ended with the TM testing us to remember definitions of past “Words of the Day”.
Connie Pshigoda will not be in attendance the next two weeks.
Toastmaster for the next meeting will be Dan Pratt. Thank you for volunteering Dan!
Don Lyman has volunteered to be a speaker. Thank you for volunteering Don!
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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
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
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Triskelion Meeting Notes - July 2, 2009
Our club was again in rare form with Dan Pratt as Toastmaster. The theme of the meeting went along with the 4th of July theme of Freedom and Independence. Dan was a little too free, however, as his meeting agenda was virtually invisible.
Don Lyman gave the best Word of the Day presentation we have seen for a long time, giving us the word “rectitude.” After all, it was just the right thing to do.
Next, we took a journey with Linda Holm, visiting Mexico in early July of 1976. It was there that she and her fellow expedition members were saved from scarab beetles and a sinking (and apparently stinking) minibus by a colorful character whom she compared to Indiana Jones!
Connie Pshigoda evaluated her speech, giving some expert pointers.
Krystyna Noworytta gave us Table Topics, asking us what we would do in various situations on a cruise ship. We learned that Cindy Castilow’s former boyfriend Brad Pitt was sometimes seen dining with her, possibly to make Angelina jealous. Cindy entertained us the most, and won best Table Topic speaker award.
Our club president, Connie, presented Doris Steffe and Krystyna with new member Toastmaster pins. Laura Drury just submitted her application, so we will also present her with a pin, possibly at our next meeting.
We will meet this coming Thursday, July 9th. We’re still looking for a Toastmaster, but Linda volunteered for Table Topics, and Carolyn Hariton will deliver a speech.
Also, I just talked with Krystyna. I think she is trying to prepare her 2nd speech for this Thursday.
See you tomorrow.
Dan Pratt
Don Lyman gave the best Word of the Day presentation we have seen for a long time, giving us the word “rectitude.” After all, it was just the right thing to do.
Next, we took a journey with Linda Holm, visiting Mexico in early July of 1976. It was there that she and her fellow expedition members were saved from scarab beetles and a sinking (and apparently stinking) minibus by a colorful character whom she compared to Indiana Jones!
Connie Pshigoda evaluated her speech, giving some expert pointers.
Krystyna Noworytta gave us Table Topics, asking us what we would do in various situations on a cruise ship. We learned that Cindy Castilow’s former boyfriend Brad Pitt was sometimes seen dining with her, possibly to make Angelina jealous. Cindy entertained us the most, and won best Table Topic speaker award.
Our club president, Connie, presented Doris Steffe and Krystyna with new member Toastmaster pins. Laura Drury just submitted her application, so we will also present her with a pin, possibly at our next meeting.
We will meet this coming Thursday, July 9th. We’re still looking for a Toastmaster, but Linda volunteered for Table Topics, and Carolyn Hariton will deliver a speech.
Also, I just talked with Krystyna. I think she is trying to prepare her 2nd speech for this Thursday.
See you tomorrow.
Dan Pratt
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Triskelion Meeting Notes - June 25, 2009
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.
“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.
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:
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