Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - March 23, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - March 23, 2021

Announcement: Friday 3/26/21 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Giri will be putting together an interactive speech on how we can unlock and unleash our creativity and potential. He will teach us how we can apply techniques from his speeches to practical problems. Please join and support him on his Level 4 project. Please invite anyone you think might be interested. It’ll be the same Toastmasters zoom link.

Kate, our VP Membership, reminded us that we’re in the middle of a membership drive and to invite your friends, family, coworkers, and/or anyone you think would enjoy and benefit from Toastmasters to check out our club. We’re trying to get at least 20 members and we currently have 18. The Zoom Open House on April 6th would be a great opportunity for guests to check out our Toastmasters club.  We’ll have a great guest speaker, Todd Cudaback, speaking on “How to Craft A Speech”.  If you can, go to our Facebook page, share the invite, and select “going” on the invite. 

Reminder, FREE PATH sign-up ends this month!  Sign up for your next path if you haven’t done so already. Go to www.toastmasters.org → Pathways → Choose a path

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 VP Education Nancy to review roles for the next meeting and introduced the Toastmaster.  

Our Toastmaster was Barb with the theme “Childhood Memories” 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Lynne D

Word of the day - Memory Bank - Jim, Kristin, Glenn, Lynn, Jean, Kate, and Midori used the word today

Ah Counter -  Lynne D

Timer - Robert

General Evaluator - Jim

Our 1st Speaker was Kristin with her first Ice Breaker speech entitled “An Executive Assistant in the Making”. She is working on her Innovations Pathway; Level 1 (4-6 mins)

Our 2nd Speaker was Giri with his speech entitled “Turn on Your Peak Performance Switch”. He is working on his Motivational Strategies Pathway; Level 3 - Inspire Your Audience (5-7 mins). 

Our Evaluators were Jean (evaluating Kristin) and Kate (evaluating Giri). 

Our Table Topic Master was Warren.  

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Glenn, looking back, tell us of a competition memory you had. Glenn had a bad memory with wrestling. He had 1 match and it was over so quick that he only remembered looking at the ceiling. It was fun to be part of a team and he made friends.

Lynn C, earliest memory of cooking. Her family is not the “I’ll teach you how to cook and bake” kind of family so no childhood memory. She doesn’t do well in reading instructions so baking is not her type of cooking. Her type is to create as you go.

Midori, what is your philosophy of life that makes you how you act today? Her father's philosophy is to take care of things and shouldn’t waste anything. If things are still usable, use them to the end and not waste anything. It has been an act she still uses today.

Hannah, what is your earliest initial impression of going to school and being taught with other peers? She remembers sitting down next to someone that ended up being her friend throughout the school years. She remembers chocolate chip cookies being brought to class and she thought school would be cool and it’s been wonderful after that.

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

Guest(s) in Attendance: None

Motion to Adjourn,

Secretary,

Lynn