Arthur Storer (1920-1997) |
The
Arthur Storer Toastmasters Club Newsletter August
11th, 2007 Meeting theme: Hot
Stuff |
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NEWS Our club's
Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest date has been changed. We are holding
our contest on Saturday, September 8th now. Let Rich Bassemir know
if you would like to compete; sign up to help out if you’re not. And for
heavens sake, come and bring a guest. Contests are a wonderful way to
introduce friends, family and co-workers to Toastmasters. Stephanie and Dennis are the proud parents of baby Alex, born the last
week in July. Apologies, I do not have birth information, but Dennis said
Alex is going to be a great Toastmaster because he's already demonstrating
great vocal variety. Welcome our newest member: Deanne Repich. She joined our club today.
Deanne's business is conqueranxiety.com. We look forward to learning about
her and this fascinating company. She brings our membership up to 26, just 4
away from goal of 30 members. Did you know? You can view past newsletters online: http://www.main.org/astoast/news.html This is our club’s
original website, and I have finally completed it! (It is up to date, and the
blue theme and top banners are all consistent now!) We may be changing our meeting dates. Come and find out what is in the
air, and be there to vote on it! TODAY's MEETING RECAP Rich Bassemir was our Toastmaster today and the theme was Hot stuff. He
laughed, explaining that when he signed up to be the Toastmaster he looked
outside the window while pondering the theme and thought how darn hot
outside. (By the way, he had also tricked us because he had put "Special
Guest" in the Toastmaster role on our Duty Roster, so we were all wondering
who this Special Guest Toastmaster was going to be!) Bill Whisenant entertained us with "Summer in the City" which
delightfully matched the scene. I noticed several of us were movin'and groovin' to the music. Brought
back memories. "Hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck gettin' dirt and gritty, cool
town, lookin' for a kitty, gonna look in every corner of the city . . . " Speeches Speaker
#1: Jaime Roquebert: Speech#6: "Not a
Vacation" Jaime wowed us again
with yet another fantastic, entertaining speech. He shared with us the recent
nightmares he has experienced with air travel. The long waits in the
terminal, in planes, at customs. And true to form, Jaime inserted humor that
had us almost on the floor laughing. "I could have driven to Speaker
#2: Mary Montgomery: Speech #2,
Interpretive Mary Montgomery
delivered an interpretive reading of Tennyson's poem: Sir Galahad. James
Allen, one of our newest members, afterwards explained that he teaches poetry
and Mary did an excellent rendition of Tennyson's style. It was an era of more serious poems, he explained, and Jeff was quite accurate when
he described the feeling as melancholy. Table
Topics Steve Montgomery came up
with some real doozers today. Today, our Table Topics
questions were:
Mario explained that Cubans don't eat
spicy food, and his culinary expertise consists of frozen food going into the
microwave, with some olive oil added.
Debi gave us a wonderful Mary Kay sales pitch for
both men and women.
Bill Whisenant, saying is was a stupid movie
anyway, avoided the hot tin roof in favor of a/c.
Rich said his taste has changed over the years.
It used to be Farrah Fawcett; now it is Jill on Home Improvement.
Jeff shared that he grew up reading about guys
who did just that: one became huge and green, one was able to create spider
webs out of his hands, etc. Awards Congratulations to our
award winners: Best Speaker: Mary
Montgomery Better Evaluator: a tie between Jeff and Bill Best Table Topics:
Marvel Man, Jeff Johannigman Most Enthusiastic: Bill
Whisenant THANK YOU everyone for making this
such a great meeting. |