September 2,2025

 September 2, 2025, Meeting Minutes   

President:   Theresa opened our meeting and noted we had no guests 

Our Toastmaster was TK with " Fall Reboot” 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie, called our meeting to order 

VPE Next   Lynne for Nancy Meeting Roles and Education Minute.  Lynne shared information on the Brightwater Center where we meet in person on the first Tuesday of each month.  Brightwater opened in 2011. Besides being a waste treatment facility, there are several miles of walking/ hiking trails. The facility has classrooms used for environmental education and other classes.  The pipes run 9 miles and treated water goes to Puget Sound.  Tours of the facility are also conducted. 

GATE TEAM: 

Grammarian: Deanna with Word of the day “Power” 

Ah Counter –Katie 

Timer –Lynne 

General Evaluator Theresa 

Our speaker was Warren with “Are You Smarter Than ChatGpt5?   

Zoom vs In- Person.” 

Evaluating Warren's speech was Bill 

Our Table Topics Master was Kelly 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Robert, Lynne Amy, Barb and Katie 

Members in Attendance were Bill, Katie, Barb, Robert, Kelly, Warren, Theresa, Deanna TK, and Lynne 

Guests in Attendance:  none 

Motion to adjourn: Deanna, 2nd Robert 

August 26,2025

 August 26, 2025, Meeting Minutes   

President:   Theresa Haynes

 

Our Toastmaster was Deanna.

Theme: On this day in history. She shared historical facts that happened on today, August 26^th.

Our Sergeant at Arms, Katie

 

VPE: Nancy tried to fill meeting roles. The education minute was Ask More and Better Questions Article and Podcast  a link she dropped into chat and I did not capture it…sorry.

 

GATE TEAM: 

Grammarian: TK. The word of the day was not a word. She asked us to use slang words from when we were sixteen, for example Rad Man.

Ah Counter – No ah counter. Small group of 7 people.

Timer – Amy

General Evaluator  - Katie

Our 1st Speaker  - Theresa, “If These Walls Could Talk.”

Our 2nd Speaker Deanna, “Effective Rental Property Management.” 

 

Evaluating Theresa was Kelly

Evaluating Deanna, she asked group to do a ‘round-robin’ style evaluation were we all gave her a 30 second evaluation.

 

Our Table Topics Master was Nancy.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Katie and TK.

 

Members in Attendance were Katie, Theresa, Nancy, Kelly, Deanna, and Amy.

 

Guests in Attendance:  None

Motion to adjourn: Deanna and Nancy second.

Meeting Minutes 08/19/2025

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

August 18, 2025

 Announcements:

• We need a Speaker, an Evaluator, Timer, Ah Counter, and Humorist next week, Aug 26^th. Go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/16thcxdcU0xxWlLNVq3lzKutu6x5Tv3WWkpIknM1wkDg/edit?tab=t.0 to sign up.
•  Maria completed level 1 of Engaging Humor.

 

Our Toastmaster was Turtle with the theme Reframing.

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

Our President Pro Tem Nancy opened our meeting.

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Turtle

Word of the day was Perspective

Ah Counter – Nancy

Timer - Maria

General Evaluator – Warren

 Our Speaker was Kelly with her path review speech, marking the end of the Persuasive Influence path.  

 Kelly’s Evaluator was Nadine.

 Our Table Topics Master was Katie with questions regarding reframing.

 Our Table Topic Speakers were Nancy, Maria, Warren, Kelly, Turtle, Anvitha, and Nadine.

 No Humorist today

 Members in Attendance were Katie, Turtle, Warren, Nadine, Maria, Kelly, Nancy

 Guests in Attendance were Alex and Anvitha. Gabriel and Manasa dropped off before they could be introduced.

 

Motion to Adjourn: Turtle   Second: Warren

August 12, 2025 Meeting Minutes

August 12, 2025, Minutes 

 

President:  Theresa Started our meeting and there were no guests. 

Our Sergeant at Arms:  Katie called our meeting to order. 

VPE Nancy Meeting Roles and Education Minute:  Nancy referred us to an article in Toastmasters Magazine “Take Your Presentation Skills to Work.” https://www.toastmasters.org. Magazine/ magazine=issues/2024/APR=bring-tm-skills-to-work . 

Toastmaster:   Kerry  with the theme “Winding  Down Summer” 

GATE TEAM 

Grammarian:  Nadine with the word of the day “Frolic” 

Ah Counter: Katie 

Timer –Bill  

General Evaluator: Nancy  

Our  1st speaker was Theresa with “If These Walls Could Talk.” 

Our 2nd Speaker was TK  with  “The Good Bahgawk” 

Evaluating Theresa’s speech was Kelly 

Evaluating TK’s speech was: Deanna 

Table Topics Master was Warren Table topics speakers were Deanna, Kelly, Nancy, Nadine and Kerry 

Our General Evaluator was Nancy 

Members in Attendance were Theresa, Katie, Nancy. Kelly, Deanna, Warren, Nadine, Turtle, and Bill 

Guests in Attendance: none  

Closing: Theresa closed our meeting. 

Motion to adjourn:  Deanna 2nd  Bill