Our Halloween Themed Meeting was a whole lot of fun!!!
Tim P. opened the meeting and Neal gave us our word of the day to improve our vocabulary.
Our Joke Master Janice shared a joke about coffins in honor of our Halloween theme.
Our first speaker was Rob, who did his Icebreaker speech. This is a member's first speech. We learned a lot about Rob, including his extensive knowledge of Thomas Edison. He even brought in a working Edison talking machine phonograph from his own collection to show us. We even got to hear it work at the end of the meeting. It was neat.
Our second speaker Geoff is the 2009 winner of the Toastmasters District 53 Division A Humorous Speech Contest on October 9. He came to visit us from the IBM Poughkeepsie Speechmakers club. Geoff came to share his winning speech with us for three reasons.
- To demonstrate the skills of an advanced toastmaster for our club and our newer members.
- this opportunity allowed Geoff to practice his speech in advance of the next round of competition, which will be in
- Finally to share a great story and make us laugh and remember going through that special “rite of passage” the Driver’s test!!
Our table topics master Ruth challenged our story telling skills in line with our Halloween theme by beginning a story and supplying a line that needed to be incorporated into your next section of the story a great way to teach us to think on our feet!!
We had two very special visitors all the way from
We always welcome visitors and encourage everyone to join us for our next meeting on November 2 at
