Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - February 23, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - February 23, 2021

Announcement: I am happy to announce our newest member Kristin Gulledge to our club! YAY!! WELCOME! :-)

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute.

Our President Barb introduced the Toastmaster.  

Our Toastmaster was Mara with the theme “Speech & Evaluation Showcase” 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Glenn

Word of the day - Merry - Mara, Kate, Giri, Jim, and Lynn used the word today

Ah Counter -  Kameh

Timer - Lynn C

General Evaluator - Barb

Our 1st Speaker was Jean with her speech entitled “The Card Table”. She’s working on her Presentation Mastery Pathway; Jean will be participating in the competition with this speech. This will be the second time she’s done this speech incorporating some of the suggestions from her evaluator (5-7 mins)

Our 2nd Speaker was Adlai (AJ) with his speech entitled “Words Do Matter”. He is our guest speaker and will also be participating in the competition with this speech. 

Our Evaluators were Giri (evaluating Jean) and Warren (evaluating AJ). Warren is participating in the Evaluation part of the competition and also received feedback on his evaluation today.

Our Table Topic Master was Jim.  

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Kate, eating contest - hot dogs or pie-eating contest? Why? She would pick a pie-eating contest because she thinks she can shove it down faster and she also has a sweet tooth. 

Midori, historical facts or spelling contest in English? She would enter a spelling bee contest. It would be difficult but she would like to try. English is more difficult than Japanese words because with Japanese words you can sound the characters much easier

Glenn, weight-lifting or wrestling contest? Wrestling might be better for him. There is room to run around to run down the time. 

Kristin, triathlon has the swim, bike, marathon leg, which leg would you do? She would not pick swimming because she’s allergic to chlorine. She would not pick biking because she doesn’t own a bike. She would pick running but would have to practice by walking first.

Caryn (Director 55), suggests the Timer today tell the people their time due to it being competition day and the Speaker / Evaluator should know what their time is. She also suggests telling people ahead of time that we are recording and why.

Members in Attendance were Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Lynne, Midori, Mara, Kameh, Lynn, Glenn, Giri, Kate

Guest(s) in Attendance: Caryn (Director 55), Hannah Del Carlo (back), Adlai “AJ” (New)

Motion to Adjourn,

Secretary,

Lynn