Work in Progress
Our meeting this week revolved around the theme of Work in Progress, a theme given by our president and Toastmaster of the Day Judy Groff, that represented some of the changes we're undergoing now that we're in the new year. We were honored with two guests this week, Bernie Fox and Margaret Davis. The Eyes and Ears team were as follows: Karla Reese as Grammarian, Brad Deinst as Timer, Michael Thompson (shadow) and Melinda Lowrance as Word Masters (Word of the Day: Progress), and Don Groff as the Ah Counter. After being thoroughly entertained with a joke from Don Gloven, we heard from our first speaker Stan Coss with a project was from the Informative Speaking Advanced Manual, the Fact-finding report. He was to conclude with a question and answer section. Stan gave a very entertaining and informative speech on the destruction of the district-wide Toastmaster's Humorous Speech Contest. He proposed that we keep the humorous speech contest alive at the club level and e...