April Showers
A veteran and a newbie were featured speakers for the meeting. Sally Jones, Toastmaster, chose to use “April Showers Bring May Flowers” as the theme of the meeting. After an opening thought by Don Groff, Sergeant at Arms, and Pledge of Allegiance, President Carol Walters introduced VP Membership, Betty McCallister to induct our newest member, Jeanne Resen. Hoyt Griffith told a very funny joke as Jokester on salt water from the beach. The evaluation team members were the following: Grammarian, Karla Reese; Word Master, Don Groff; Timer, Don Groff; Ah Counter, Melinda Lowrance. Word of the Day was “Itinerant” which means traveling from place to place, like migrant workers. Speaker #1 was Nathan Garnett doing his second speech from Pathways. His project was to research a topic and prepare a speech accordingly. He chose insurance and gave us the knowledge he collected very creatively using a poem he wrote. He covered the history and reasons why insurance will be around a long, lon