Tri-State Toastmasters #8196

07/29/2016

What a great meeting! VP Membership Taylor Sutton welcomes our newest members, Cindy Thomas and Tomas Chale, while President Thomas Forland presents awards to club members Bob Wolff and Debra Morton-Chale. And there was minimal tohubohu!

07/28/2016

Thanks to C23 Area Director Nancy Jennett for installing our 2016-17 officers!

07/01/2016

End of year celebration at Brownville Lyceum Cafe!

01/20/2016

1/14/16

We had two speakers today. Debra Morton-Chale gave a humorous speech titled “Getting Even”. Ken Thomas told an original story Titled “Moon dance”. Ken won for Best Speaker.

Debra’s speech was evaluated by Taylor Sutton and Ken’s speech was evaluated by Thomas Forland. Taylor won for Best Evaluator.

There were a variety of topics for Table Topics. Deb Joy won for Best Table Topics speaker.

12/18/2015

Another good meeting. Toastmaster Taylor Sutton started us off with a moving story about his new son and a prayer.

Deb Joy gave an informative speech on ST. Nicolas and Thomas Forland gave an interesting speech on Working in Retail. They tied for best speaker.

Thomas won for Best Table Topics Speaker.

Taylor Sutton won for Best Evaluator.

Since this was our last meeting in 2015, I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

12/17/2015

Coy gave a speech on nuclear fission and Thomas gave a speech on Disc Golf. Both speeches were interesting and both speakers received the Best Speaker award.

Ken evaluated Coy's speech and Nita evaluated Thomas's speech. Nita won Best Evaluator.

We did not have Table Topics today.

12/07/2015

We had eight members today and no guests. Ken gave a speech on "Invictus" from his Storytelling manual #3 5-7 minutes. Doug Hitzel gave a speech on the FLEX program within our nuclear industry from his CC #8 with an extended time of 13-16 minutes.

Doug won for best speaker.

Thomas Forland gave us Table Topics today and gave many some interesting things to discuss. Bob Wolff won for best table topics.

A huge "Thank You" to Doug for volunteering to be an evaluator today. Deb Joy won as Best Evaluator.

Bessie performed double duty today as Grammarian and vote tabulator. Bob Wolff is pictured below receiving his award in completion of his "High Performance Leadership Project".

11/09/2015

11/09/2015

We had a good meeting today with ten club members present.

Toastmaster Rich Dewhirst did an excellent job.

Doug Hitzel won best speaker with his powerful presentation on "The Intolerance of Tolerance." Bob Wolff presented the results of his high performance leadership project.

Topics Master Debra Morton-Chale challanged us with some innovative questions. Coy Blair won for Table Topics.

Ken Thomas evaluated Doug's speech and Taylor Sutton evaluated Bob's. Ken won for Best Evaluator.

Club President Bob Wolffannounced that Officer's meeting will be held on the first Thursday of each month.

11/03/2015

October 29th 2015

We had 8 club members present. Doug Hitzel was the Toastmaster for today.

Debra Morton-Chale gave an informative speech on how to address your fear of speaking. Ken Thomas gave a speech about his visit to the town of Ootschorn in South Africa. Ken won best speaker today.

Debra's speech was evaluated by Bob Wolff. Ken's speech was evaluated by Thomas Forland. Thomas won for Best Evaluator.

Coy Blair led Table Topics. Thomas also won for Best Table Topics Speaker.

Deb Joy reminded everyone to use the sign up sheet for speeches. She also pointed out that New Year's Eve is a Thursday and asked if we wanted to meet that day?