Public Speaking Northwest #9406

 

Meeting Minutes

March 8, 2022

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

 

Announcements 

We will have an Open House meeting on March 29.  This is an IMPORTANT MEETING. BRING GUESTS.

 

Jim will be our representative at our Area Contest, Saturday March 12, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Use this link to register to attend the contest: https://d2tm.org/event/areas-51-52-53-54-55-contest/

 

Members in Attendance: Amy, Barb, Jean, Jim, Jutta, Kate, Lynn C, Lynne D, Maria, , Nancy, Nguyet, Warren

 

Guests in Attendance: Meera Basnet

 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne D, opened our meeting at 12:00 p.m.

 

Opening Comments by president pro temp, Nancy.

 

The meeting theme was:  “Spring Forward”

 

The word of the day was “polyhistor,” meaning “a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.”

 

Our Toastmaster was Lynne D. She talked about the history of Daylight Savings Time (DST) , and the reasons for it. In the 1700’s, Benjamin Franklin suggested it to the French court, to save on candles.  In 1907 it was suggested to prevent “waste of daylight.”  In WW 1, Germany ordered it to save on fuel. The U.S. has been through different stages in adopting DST.  At present, there is a bill in Congress to change permanently to DST, but it is held up.  Lynne also talked about standardizing “time.” It wasn’t until 1918, in the administration of Teddy Roosevelt, that standard time and time zones were created.  Before that, time was based on the clock of each town, individually.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian –Jutta           

Ah Counter – Amy

Timer – Nguyet

General Evaluator – Nancy

 

Speaker #1 was Maria, with her speech “Unlock Your Potential,” 5-7 minutes.  She described the work of psychiatrist Donald Clifton, focused on people’s strengths, and teaching them how to build on them, rather than focusing on mental disease and distress.  Maria gave us a reference to explore further, Clifton Strengths 2.0.

 

Evaluator #1 was Barb, who praised Maria’s speech very strongly, and suggested adding humor where possible, and providing more info on the primary strengths.

 

Table Topics

Instead of Table Topics, we had a round robin for Jim and his speech. There was much praise and a few helpful suggestions.

 

General Evaluator was Kate.  She complimented all roles on the excellent job that they did.  Nancy closed by urging us to attend the Speech Competion.

 

The meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m. exactly.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara Katz, Secretary