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Summer Vacation! ...

This entry was posted on 6/21/2010 12:22 PM and is filed under Meeting.

It's That Time of Year!

The regular meeting of the Big “D” Toastmasters on June 10, 2010, was called to order at 6:30 p.m. with a quorum being present and Vice-President for Education Linda Martin presiding. The business session started at 6:34, and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read.

There were no reports from officers or committees. Danni Babik, recently elected District 50's lieutenant governor for education and training for the Toastmasters year starting July 1, announced that a location has been chosen for the TLI Kick-off on Saturday, July 10—the State Farm building on Preston Road in Dallas north of Campbell Road. Able Toastmaster Cliff Hutchinson moved that the Hospitality Committee of Big “D” extend an offer to help 60-year White House reporter Helen Thomas with the Toastmasters communication program after her recent public gaffe. Advanced Toastmaster Gold John Sessions began to point out that that committee doesn’t exactly exist; so, Cliff amended his motion that such a committee be formed. John shortly noted the time and called for the orders of the day; the business session then ended at 6:45 with unfinished business.

Competent Toastmaster Mac Smith was gladly welcomed to the lectern as Toastmaster of the Evening with the timely theme of “Summer Vacation.” Master Table Topicsmaster John Sessions asked a variety of vacation and public-relations questions of five gourmand speakers. Prepared speeches were given by Angelo Pereira, Gabriel Muñuz-Fitch, and Jim Wolff. Angelo told the all-too-true story of his marriage and reception with his nearly perfected unique sense of humor (think Texas, Oregon, Turkey, and India)! Gabriel's icebreaker was very comfortable and naturally humorous with no notes! Jim Wolff masterfully demonstrated how to cut glass—including a disk! (The only thing missing was Mac's impromptu introduction of Gabriel.J) General Evaluator Mike Weibel steered us through the speech evaluations by Victoria Perez, Diane Kirksey, and Luke Donev, and then perceptively evaluated the entire meeting.

The awards this week:
Best Table Topic—Danni Babik
Best Prepared Speaker—Gabriel Muñuz-Fitch
Best Speech Evaluation—Diane Kirksey, and
Outstanding Toastmaster of the Meeting—Grammarian Cliff Hutchinson.
(Yes, Cliff's report was so humorously yet masterfully done that I didn't think to record it!)

Our guests were Sophia Smith-Sabadov and a transplanted former Toastmaster Michelle Oh. The meeting ended at 8:19 p.m., and a good time was had by all.