Dawn Yawn Toastmasters

09/30/2026

Another great meeting !

09/30/2026

09/16/2026

It’s evaluation time ! Great job, Linda !

09/02/2026

And the winners are….

08/19/2026

Aaron speaking about the importance of not reading from your slides during a presentation.

Dawn Yawn Toastmasters
08/19/2026

07/22/2026

On July 8th, Paul charmed us with his stories as a lifetime hunter. As a young boy, he was paid 35 cents for every mouse he caught.

01/31/2026

Wow! What a fun and educational time we had at Dawn Yawn Toastmasters this week. Great speeches! And a wild time during the Table Topics portion, when members were called on to spontaneously answer questions and tell stories about....SOUP! We had a chance to practice speaking in response to questions we didn't have in advance, and to be humorous. Things got funny as speakers talked about childhood soups...or soups that were fantastical.

Our winners, Left to right --

Kudos to Beth as Best Speaker for her winning speech (in the serious portion of the program) about "One Key to Motivating Others." Beth made excellent points about how to engage people in effective effort.

Jean for Best Table Topics, with her winning speech about a "big reveal" soup that produced a quacking duck. What?!

Nancy as Best Evaluator for Beth's speech -- which was not an easy speech to evaluate since Beth is such an accomplished public speaker. Nancy gave observations and pointers we all benefited from.

John as Most Improved for his speech about "Being Single" after the sudden passing of his wife of more than 50 years.

What a rich and diverse group of talent there is in this bunch.

Come join us on Wednesday mornings, in-person or on-line.

01/16/2026

Sometimes our club gets asked, "What's the Lemon Award?" We have a long-standing, light-hearted tradition of giving this award to the person who um...ah...well... uses the most filler words in their speech. We point this out all in fun so that all of us are aware of using words that can be discarded to make a clearer presentation.

On January 14 --
Lemon Award - Yuanting
Table Topics - Beth
Best Evaluator- Chris
Most Improved Speaker- John Paul
Best Speaker - Aaron

Come join us in person or on Zoom! We're a fun bunch and, in more than 60 years, we've helped countless people improve their speaking skills.

We meet every Wednesday at 7 a.m. at Sunrise Sunset Restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado. Participants from other states and even other countries also join us online!

01/12/2026

We're off and running! Happy New Year Dawn Yawn!

Mary Wang, online from Texas, won both the Most Improved and Best Speaker Awards at our first meeting of the new year. Club President Aaron Cure is holding up the awards in front of Mary on the screen.

Chris Anderson was honored for Best Table Topics speech, and
Beth Boaz won the award for Best Evaluator.

Welcome to Rouven Krauer who visited in person but will usually be joining us online from Steamboat.

We have many people participating online.

Guests are welcome!

Come improve your speaking skills and enjoy the companionship and encouragement of our club members.

01/06/2026

Do you need to improve your public speaking? Begin the new year with a fun group of people to help you do that! We meet every week online or in person, and you'll still have time to get to work. 7 a.m. mountain time each Wednesday in Lakewood, Colorado. Email me for the details: [email protected] or check out an earlier post.