FS Toastmasters

Five members of the FSTM Board clicked their way into an application called Zoom on Friday, March 20th, in a big meeting room provided by Trinity Presbyterian.  After an hour they established that it would not be humanly possible to get everyone “fluent” in Zoom by this coming Friday but they affirmed it can, with time and practice, get done. Let us make a gallant effort to launch from our laptops and smart phones and tablets!!  And we will communicate in a semblance to a regular Toastmaster meeting at 8:00 to 8:40 AM.  Forty minutes is the maximum time the basic plan allows.  (It's also the maximum time most humans can stand at one time clicking away at buttons until one or more will give in to the temptation to smash a screen.) President Susann Swan will try to schedule several 40-minute meetings before Friday morning and notify the members of the various time slots so they can choose one that fits into their schedules. ·  ...

It would be "credulous" to think the superstition theme caused Pardee* to close its doors to our club.  Yes, Toastmaster Carole Kitchen and other members thought we'd be safe in the shelter of the hospital.  President Susann Swan had a premonition that finding an alternate location would be prudent, and she said so in the meeting. Melinda Lowrance came to the rescue when a joke master could not be found.  She told a humorous story involving Oprah Winfrey, President Trump, former President Obama, and a school girl, three parachutes, and a back pack. Ray Daley really broke the ice with his speech about his reason to join Toastmasters.   He explained that after 40 years in the newspaper business, he'd moved to Henderson County by way of Florida.  His wife found a job as a tour guide at Biltmore, and his daughter took on a newspaper internship,  so he went about finding interesting things of his own to do, like Toastmasters.  Judy...