Meeting Minutes
December 7, 2021
Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters
Announcements
Our Vice President of Education (VPE), Nancy, announced that Mara has completed Level 4 of the Engaging Humor Path.
Members in Attendance (in alphabetical order): Barb, Jessica, Jim, Jinxin, Kate, Kelly, Lynn C., Lynne D., Nancy, Nguyet, Robert, Warren
Guest in Attendance: Maria Cubacha (former toastmaster, some years ago)
Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne D, opened our meeting at 12:00 p.m.
Opening Comments by our President, Lynn C.
The meeting theme was: December Special Days
The word of the day was “merriment”
Our Toastmaster was Nancy, who mentioned the commonly known holiday celebrations in December. Then she kept us entertained naming some of the national special days in December including, for example:
December 3 – National Socks Day
December 7 – National Cotton Candy Day and National Dog Manicurists Day
December 15 – National Wear Your Pearls Day
December 17 – National Ugly Sweater Day and National Maple Syrup Day
Our Gate Team was:
Grammarian – Jessica.
Ah Counter – Nguyet
Timer – Robert
General Evaluator – Warren
Our Speaker was Jinxin with her speech, “Shaking Up Your Diet,” 5-7minutes. Jinxin was doing a Persuasive Speech, Level 3, Presentation Mastery, and she was very successful persuading us to take personal responsibility for limiting the salt in our diets. She started by telling us that frozen meals (TV dinners) have an excessively large amount of salt in them. The recommended amount of salt that we should have each day is 200-300 mg. Americans eat 60% more than that. Salt is a slow killer; 3 million American deaths are attributed each year to salt intake. She suggested eating home-cooked meals made of unprocessed ingredients. Jinxin pointed out that some foods have a lot of salt in them, but the salt is masked by other ingredients. Bread is a good example of that. One slice of bread has 172 mg of salt.
Our Evaluator was Kate who explained the objectives for Jinxin’s speech and complimented her on hitting every single objective. She also commented on the great title and very effective conclusion.
Our Table Topics Master was Lynn C who asked us to act like we were interviewing for jobs related to the National Days of theme of the meeting.
Kate was asked to apply for a hair stylist job for monkeys, building on her award-winning experience as a hair stylist for lions.
When asked to be a foot model for socks, Jim extolled funny socks, saying that funny socks demonstrated a person’s personality and helped develop spontaneity and creativity.
Barb was interviewed for a job inventing new flavors for cotton candy. She suggested using the flavors of vaping products, including fruit, mint, nuts and marijuana.
For dog manicurist day, Lynne D suggested calling it “dog-acurist” day. She recommended adding nail polish in different colors to match the doggy outfits, along with designs such as pictures of cats. This led her to propose National “Cat-acurist” Day.
Jessica was hired for the position of bubble bath consultant, suggesting new scents for bubble bath for National Bubble Bath Party Day. She thought champagne would be a good scent, because it is also known as “bubbly.”
Maria explained how she would make an interesting short film about grass growing, using flowers blooming, butterflies dancing over the grass, and other creatures to create color and interest.
Nguyet explained how she used exclusively food products for her painting, and she mentioned many food products including maple syrup.
Warren gave a detailed plan for acquiring ugly sweaters, including where to buy them (Goodwill) and at what time of the year (the week between Christmas and New Years. This was in reference to National Ugly Sweater Day.
Jinxin applied for a job as a diver for pearls, in response to the question about National Wear Your Pearls Day.
Our General Evaluator, Warren, commented on the “insanity and preposterousness” of the meeting, referring to the laughter created by the wonderful table topics and other humor. Warren complimented the efforts of the toastmaster, the GATE team, the evaluator, and especially the Table Topics Master.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Katz, Secretary
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