Standing Out

Carol Walters, President and Toastmaster for the day, set the theme of this meeting, Stand Up, Stand Out. The word of the day was “Reconcile”. We had two guests that were real standouts: Nathan Garnett, a Mills River resident specializing in long term care insurance, and Ernest Mowell with the League of Women Voters.  (It was great to have guests and some members hanging out afterwards.)

Brad Dienst was Grammarian in addition to being Wordmaster. Stan Coss was Ah Counter, Melinda Lowrance assisted Hoyt Griffith on Timer and Jackie Branscum got us happy as Joke master.

Sally Jones did Project 1 from the Persuasive Speaking Manual. She gave us the main points of knowing your audience, getting their attention, and finding what they want or need and then making the close. She followed this with a demonstration with volunteer Betty McCallister.

Judy had Table Topics around the theme of Stand Up, Stand Out. Don, Brad, Stan, Jackie and Melinda all responded to prompts focused on advocacy, passions, and experiences. Jackie shared with us a real experience of being a “stand out” by being the valedictorian in high school and having to give a speech at commencement. She said the fear of public speaking is what finally got her to Toastmasters with her husband.

At next week’s meeting we have a TM guest who will be helping us understand the Pathways program being rolled out by Toastmasters International.  There will be a joke and table topics, but the Pathways will be the main focus.

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Guest Nathan Garnett converses with TM member Stan Coss.


Speaker Sally Jones interviews Betty McCallister as part of the speaker demonstration.  Then DTM Ivan Beggs gives his evaluation of her speech based on his extensive expertise.





Judy Groff has husband Don select a prompt for his table topic.



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