Hurry up and Wait!


If you were not present at today's meeting, you may have hurried here, but you will just have to wait to find out what this visual is all about.  Toastmaster Judy Groff conducted the meeting with just one speaker but plenty of time remaining for Karen Alexander's "Member Survey" of goals.  That left plenty of time, still, for table topics on the same theme with Carole Kitchen as Table Topics Master.




You can never get enough Don's at Toastmasters.  One Don was absent, as were many other members on this day.   But that still left Don Groff to deliver a joke with much animation.  Don Emon wished to take on another table topic prompt as he has so much else he'd like to do.



Stan Coss openly admitted to bombing on his last power point, so he was anxious to test out his remote on his laptop in the same setting.  Having a full 15 minutes of set up time before the meeting made a world of difference, and he advanced the slides flawlessly.  His speech was on motivating speakers to do even better after an evaluation.  Assessing and adding value was the main goal.
     Mary Beth Dallman gave a very insightful evaluation of Stan's speech.  Her comments led Stan to revise a slide that's now heading this blog and awaiting a redo with his speech before students at BRCC.
      Evaluation was a great topic because the evaluation contest will be held in place of the meeting at the same time and place on August 30.  All members are eligible to enter.  The test speaker that will be evaluated is our area director, Bryan Smith, who visited during the last meeting.



The Eyes and Ears team was composed of the following:  Susann Swan as grammarian, Melinda Lowrance as ah-counter; Vicky Balson as word master (with a selection that showed much care and relation to the theme: impetuous); Caitlin Owens as timer.  Sally Jones was GE and Table Topics Evaluator.

In attendance were the following:  Karen Alexander, Vicky Balson, Stan Coss, Mary Beth Dallman, 
Don Emon, Don Groff, Judy Groff, Sally Jones, Carole Kitchen, Melinda Lowrance,Caitlin Owens, 
Susanne Swan, and former guest and present member, Wendy Whitaker


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