We Are Family!
There were clearly three stand-outs in today's meeting for which Carol Walters was Toastmaster: Dr. Stan Dienst visiting the club he'd been a past member of for more than 10 years; Melinda Lowrance giving her speech on "Women and their Rights; Karla Reese's mastering some very interesting table topics. Melinda gave a spirited delivery that included some choice words and a mini-speech by Sojourner Truth from 1851. One memorable Truth was a rebuff of a man of the era saying women can't have as many rights as men, because Christ wasn't a woman: "Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with it ." Ron Climer eagerly did the ah-counting, Sally did the grammarian report of all the descriptive language, and Nathan Garnett did the timing. Betty gave us some mentoring on how we might raise our family count to more than the current 14 members. Ron did an evaluation for Meli...