Christmas Party

Anyone who missed today’s meeting really missed a treat. President Carol Walters hosted a delicious brunch after the meeting set up in the Lake Point Landing Dining Room which was all decorated for the season. 
During the meeting we had a guest speaker and a Mentoring Moment by Jackie Branscum.  Sally Jones was Toastmaster. After the opening and joke by Hoyt Griffith and introduction of the eyes and ears team of Burton Hodges as Grammarian, Judy Groff as Word Master, Ron Climer as Ah Counter and Ivan Beggs as Timer.
Sally introduced our guest speaker, Meredith Summey.
Meredith is a student at Western Carolina University finishing her course in public speaking. This was her third time doing her speech to a Toastmaster club.  This speech persuaded us to accept pets as friends and medical experts in relieving stress, high blood pressure and other bad things. We all enjoyed Meredith’s speech with research backing and excellent stories to illustrate points. Afterward, we did a collective comment to give her oral feedback as well as the written evaluations used at each meeting.
Jackie’s Mentoring Moment focused on using body language as our tool in non-verbal public speaking. Jackie gave us hints about using hands effectively and convincingly for gestures. She said to make eye contact to deliver sincerity and be accepted sincerely. She emphasized that attitude may be our most valuable tool going into a speech and to get it just repeat the word you want to project. For example, say, “confidence, confidence, confidence” to prepare yourself before going on stage.
In addition to all these great pleasures, we had Betty McCallister doing Table Topics. Our new member Melinda, guest Jim Jones, Burton and Ron all answered interesting prompts Betty gave them. General Evaluator Stan Coss said we had a great meeting from starting on time to behaving nicely throughout. Other guests was Kiki, Carol Walters daughter and Meredith’s husband, Scott, her videographer.

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  1. ToastmastersDecember 8, 2017 at 8:13 AM

    No, Ron is not holding a Christmas ornament but our "refurbished" stoplight, the one that Ivan took for repair and sought out a neighbor with the expertise to make like new again.

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