Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2022
Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters
Announcements: Our next in-person meeting will be in two weeks, in Room A at Country Inn.
Members in Attendance: Amy, Barb, Jean, Jim, Kate, Kristin, Lynne D, Mara, Maria, Meera, Nancy, Robert, Warren
Guests: Dan Sakaki, from Richmond, Canada, Unicorn Tribe Toastmasters Club
Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne D, opened the meeting at 12:00 p.m.
Opening Comments were presented by our President pro temp, Nancy, who welcomed our guest and talked a little about “Toastmaster Tourism.” At the end of the meeting, Nancy offered Kudos to Lynne for handling the recordings and always starting our meetings on time.
The meeting theme was: “Earth Day”
The word of the day was “Verdant,” meaning green, as in a verdant forest. A second meaning is naïve or new, as in verdant college students.
Our Toastmaster was Mara, who provided thoughts, ideas, and history about Earth Day, which was created in 1970 by a U.S. Senator. Ever since, Earth Day has inspired events by people around the world. Earth Day is always celebrated on April 22nd.
Our Gate Team was:
Grammarian –Amy
Ah Counter – Warren.
Timer – Lynne D.
General Evaluator – Barb
Speaker #1 was Kristin, with her speech, “Leadership and Personality Tests,” 5-7 minutes. In her quest to increase her knowledge of leadership, Kristin recently took several personality tests and shared her results with us. She provided a chart which showed her strengths based on the Clifton tests, taken 8 years ago and recently. One of her strengths is WOO= Winning Others Over. The Toastmaster leadership test said that she was bureaucratic, which surprised her at first. In the Myers-Briggs test taken at work, she was revealed as ESFJ, (Extrovert, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) particularly good for “teaching and preaching.”
Table Topics
Maria showed Memes and asked questions regarding Earth Day.
Meera talked about the things from earth that she would like to introduce to another planet. She said “animals,” and she also mentioned all the coffee grown in Nepal. The meme said, “Save the earth – it’s the only planet that has coffee.”
Amy was asked to talk about how she manages with the rotating differences in daylight between summer and winter. Both she and her fiancé suffer from the SADD syndrome in winter, so they create very light spaces in their house to counteract that. In the spring and summer, they go outdoors as often as possible.
Jim said that if he was colonizing another planet, he would bring vegetables to one of the outer rings of Saturn. He thinks that the Fountain of Youth might be found there, and he would welcome the chance to be verdant again.
Robert, when asked about an event that hadn’t had enough preparation, said that he enjoys doing events spontaneously. He mentioned his 45th birthday party as an example, in which none of his friends knew each other but still enjoyed themselves exploring their connections to him.
Warren was asked, “What would you want planted in your honor?” Warren’s immediate response was that he would like planted something that provided support and food, such as orange or apple trees. He added, “Something with seeds, that continues to help society after I am gone.”
Dan responded to the meme, “Earth is the only planet that has cats,” and was asked which animal he would take to another planet. He talked about his love/hate relationship with cats. He loves cats but they spark his allergies. Dan concluded with his love/love relationship with dogs.
Jean was asked, “Do you remember your re-usable bags when you go shopping?” Jean responded that Jim remembers. Jean forgets the bags, but not what goes into them. Because of her age, she doesn’t like talk about “old bags.”
Evaluator, Nancy, said that she loved the topic of Kristin’s speech. Nancy said that Kristin is no longer a verdant speaker. She excelled at immersing herself in the topic, sharing joy, and leading with her heart. Nancy commented on the good introduction and suggested using pauses as transitions between the tests. Nancy said that using Power Point is challenging, and suggested minimizing use of words during set up. She called it a great speech with good delivery.
General Evaluator, Barb, commented on how enjoyable the meeting had been and suggested that members arrive 10-15 minutes early to join in the interesting discussions before the meeting. Barb called out the great job done by Nancy in evaluating Kristin’s speech, including the sandwich method and specific suggestions.
Mara concluded her toastmaster duties by giving riddle jokes about Earth day.
Our guest Dan, said that he liked that we had presented the club Mission Statement, and he offered praise to Maria because she nodded and smiled to make Table Topics speakers feel comfortable, not intimidated.
Robert provided a great joke at the end of the meeting.
The meeting ended on time.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Katz, Secretary
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