FS Toastmasters

Josh Gravley didn't just represent us well.  Henderson County has never even been represented before at so high a level as the District (state) level; that's not for for the Humorous Speech or the Table Topic Speech. Only Tucker Cox made it to District in the Evaluation Contest some time after 2010 and Moose Penfold from the "old" New Dimensions sister club made it in 2014 in the International Speech Contest. Josh's journey began only two weeks after his Ice Breaker speech when he accepted the invitation to compete and got first out of five contestants in our local contest of September 20th.  From there it was first place in the area in mid-October and then a round-robin back at our club to help propel him through the division on November 9th.  This statewide audience of December 13th was quite massive in comparison, going from only about 40 members  in the area and division to well over 200.  Josh's competition in the district were mainly f

Naturally, "Parade" was the theme of this meeting with Wendy Whitaker as Toastmaster.  The parade itself was the very next day and photos below show the outcome.     In reverse order, the mysterious woman in black had returned from an African safari and shared a great story about being faced with a tremendous bull elephant.  Fortunately, her small but spirited tour guide intervened and allowed Jeanne Resen to survive and come share her experience.  Karen Alexander was Jeanne's evaluator.      Josh Gravley was unable to share but a minute of his speech before he was overcome by his bout with the flu.  (He was in great form by the next Friday at the contest and will be reviewed in next week's blog.) Just as Wendy gave transitions on the parade, the parade itself gave opportunity to move among the swarms of bystanders and hand out candy and flyers about the open house. Table Topics Master Sally Jones supported the parade theme just as she supported