Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - March 16, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - March 16, 2021

Announcement: April 6th is our Zoom Open House. Our guest speaker that day will be Todd Cudaback with the speech “How to Craft A Speech”. We’re also doing a membership drive so please invite people. If you can, go to our Facebook page, share the invite, and select “going” on the invite. 

Saturday 3/20/21 at 1:00 PM, Jean will be participating in the speech contest. She will send out the link. Come support her if you can. 

Jim our Treasurer reminded everyone to pay their dues if they haven’t done so already.

** Everyone in this group is wonderful about helping each other. You can reach out to anyone, not just your mentor for help with anything **

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement, flag salute, and reminded members and guests that the speech and evaluation part of our meeting are recorded. 

Our President Barb introduced the Toastmaster.  

Our Toastmaster was Warren with the theme “Saving Time” 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Kristin

Word of the day - Multitasking - Warren, Glenn, Giri, and Jim used the word today

Ah Counter -  Hannah

Timer - Kameh

General Evaluator - Jean

Our 1st Speaker was Robert with his speech entitled “My Comic Style”. He is working on his Engaging Humor Pathway; Level 2; Project 1, Know Your Sense of Humor (5-7 mins)

Our 2nd Speaker was Mara with her speech entitled “A Story For Any Occasion”. She is working on her Engaging Humor Pathway; Level 4 (8-10 mins total). She is actually doing 2 speeches and both are unprepared. Warren will put Mara in 2 situations or ask her a question and introduce Mara to speak on it. She will speak to each for 2-3 mins. 1) Our company is having a merger, Mara will introduce the changes. 2) We’re having an open house, Mara will tell you how Toastmasters has enriched her life. 

Our Evaluators were Giri (evaluating Robert) and Jim (evaluating Mara). 

Our Table Topic Master was Lynn C.  

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Glenn, If you had extra time in a day, instead of 24 hours/day, you have 26 hours/day, how would you spend your time and what would you be doing? Due to COVID, Glenn feels he has more time than he needs. When he was a graphic designer, 6 projects was the perfect amount. If he had 3-4 projects, he would slack. If he had more than 6 projects, it would be too much.

Lynne, if you were a time traveler and can go back in time and revisit any part of your life, what part would you revisit and why? Lynn would go back to when she was 23 years old and was a student teacher at Ingraham High School.  She didn’t enjoy it back then. She would come back enjoying it more.

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

Guest(s) in Attendance: None

Motion to Adjourn,

Secretary,

Lynn