An Exercise in Listening
Jackie Branscum, Toastmaster, had us Listening: Two Ears and One Mouth. This was the theme of the day and she quizzed us at the end of the meeting with three simple questions to see if we indeed were listening.
Don Groff was Timer, Ron Climer, Joke Master, Sally Jones, Ah Counter, and Hoyt Griffith, Word Master and Grammarian. The word of the day was “holus-bolus” (all at once).
We had two guests, Arlene Dwayne Hemingway, DTM, and Tomai Webb. Melinda Lowrance gave her Ice Breaker speech titled, “The Renaissance Woman”. We learned about all the many different roles Melinda plays plus owning and operating her cleaning business.
The second speaker was Judy Groff doing project #4 from the Interpretive Reading Advanced manual. This project was a Monodrama where she had to project a character while engaging another unseen character. She did an “Introduction to Winnie the Pooh”.
Brad Dienst as Table Topics Master, used a strategy of citing six people which we were supposed to remember, like Martin Luther King, Ernest Hemingway, and Winston Churchill. Ron, Carol, guest Irene, and Don Glovan were the lucky speakers. They did admirably well in identifying the quote they were given.
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Melinda Lowrance introduces herself in her ice-breaker, while Judy Groff gives a monologue as Winnie the Pooh.
Don Groff was Timer, Ron Climer, Joke Master, Sally Jones, Ah Counter, and Hoyt Griffith, Word Master and Grammarian. The word of the day was “holus-bolus” (all at once).
We had two guests, Arlene Dwayne Hemingway, DTM, and Tomai Webb. Melinda Lowrance gave her Ice Breaker speech titled, “The Renaissance Woman”. We learned about all the many different roles Melinda plays plus owning and operating her cleaning business.
The second speaker was Judy Groff doing project #4 from the Interpretive Reading Advanced manual. This project was a Monodrama where she had to project a character while engaging another unseen character. She did an “Introduction to Winnie the Pooh”.
Brad Dienst as Table Topics Master, used a strategy of citing six people which we were supposed to remember, like Martin Luther King, Ernest Hemingway, and Winston Churchill. Ron, Carol, guest Irene, and Don Glovan were the lucky speakers. They did admirably well in identifying the quote they were given.
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Ron Climer points to the placard with the famous quote from Hemingway, while Don Glovan ponders who said which quote that he can use in hugging his grandchildren.
Melinda Lowrance introduces herself in her ice-breaker, while Judy Groff gives a monologue as Winnie the Pooh.
The Ice-Breaker speech is always a treat. "Wow!" said Betty, as she began her evaluation for Melinda. I didn't want to evaluate as much as capture what "Wowed" us all. All revolved around her theme of being a unifier. Four ideas were most visualized with stories:
ReplyDelete1) Her father built her a playhouse with a nice wooden floor, and she capitalized on this by charging a nickel admission to her friends to play in it. Still, if a friend didn't have the full price, Melinda accepted whatever he or she had. She wanted inclusion from the very beginning.
2) An early job for her was being an assessor for the migrant clinic. She would visit in the home or room of migrant workers. She found that some had polluted wells and lived with as many as 12 people in a room. It made Melinda appreciative of what she had but also a champion for the less fortunate.
3) As the first black to be hired for an office job at Kanuga Conference Center, Melinda encountered a racial slur from a South Carolina teacher who told her that dark skinned people were not as intelligent as lighter skinned people. Melinda stood up to say that George Washington Carver and Dr. Martin Luther King rated quite highly in the intelligence area, thank you very much.
4) Melinda determined that it was time to speak up for the voiceless by joining the NAACP. She has since gone on to become president of the local chapter and to start six other chapters in the surrounding area.