Teaching and Teachers
Toastmaster Stan Coss, based on Judy Groff's aim to educate new members, conducted the meeting by having role-takers sum up their roles, beginning with his as Toastmaster. Word master Ron Climer followed with his word of the day (tutelage); grammarian, Amy Sahf; ah counter, Michael Thompson; timer, Sally Jones. Joke Master Hoyt Griffith gave advice about how to create jokes and sources for inspiration and segued into a dog joke. Stan gave Jeanne's introduction that included her objectives for the icebreaker speech, titled “Who Am I?” She described her family statistics and showed the audience the three books that she has written. She also showed the audience one of her paintings. Stan introduced Susann Swan who explained the role of the table topics master. Her responders were the following: Don Groff revealing his favorite teacher and coach; Amy Sahf, describing the music classes that she used to teach at Blue Ridge Community College and the sales class she woul