Jean-Marc took on the role of Toastmaster for the first time and explained that our theme for the meeting was Unreal/Real and suggested that on Martin Luther King day we consider how his achievements made the Unreal/real – by taking that idea of inequality and worked to make it a reality.
As an artist, Jean-Marc stated that part of his job is to make the Unreal/Real, by taking a concept and bringing it into reality.
Tim P. was our joke master and told a golf joke to get us all laughing.
Janice B. was our Ah/Grammarian and shared a special word to help expand our vocabulary – Neophilia – and while it sounds a little odd, it means “a love of novelty and new things”.
Jane gave her first speech and shared the history of the St. Cabrini girls home the new focus and the work taking place there to help the girls lead normal lives. The speech was very enlightening and helped us to know of the good work that is going on there.
Rob R. was our second speaker and discussed the value of time – he challenged us with the question – if you had only 86,400 seconds left – how would you spend your day? Consider this question on a daily basis in order to live your life to the fullest. Why is it that we think that we have unlimited time at our disposal? In light of the tragedy in Haiti, make the choices of how you spend your time with more thought and consideration.
Swarna was our Table topics master – it is at this point in the meeting that we all get an opportunity to practice our impromptu speaking skills.
The questions that Swarna challenged us with were:
What has been the biggest challenge you have ever faced – how have you faced it – and how have you overcome that challenge?
Many people spoke on the challenges of parenthood or education and other personal challenges that they have faced – it was an excellent question which not only helped us to practice our speaking, but to get to know one another better.
We then moved on to our speech evaluations for the night.
Janice P. evaluated Jane’s speech and offered her insight on what strengths she already has as well as what things can be improved in her future speeches.
Karen vK. Evaluated Rob R.’s speech and offered him suggestions for making the speech even better.
We then heard our reports from the timer Julie – who helps us to keep our meetings on time and then from our ah/grammarian Janice B. who helped us to recognize those verbal crutches we used during the meeting.
Then we all got to enjoy the snacks that the snack master brought for the meeting.
We were all happy to have Trishla join us again and happy to see Saul back after the holidays.
We look forward to our next meeting on February 1, 2010 and we hope that you will join us!!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! January 4, 2010 Meeting
HAPPY NEW YEAR – and Welcome Back to Southern Dutchess Toastmasters
We began our year with a familiar face as Toastmaster – Janice B.
Swarna kept us on time for the evening
Jane was our Ah/Grammarian and shared with us a very interesting word to help us expand our vocabulary:
Hebitude – meaning lethargy or dullness – suggesting mental dullness or torpor and comes from the Latin.
Tim P. – provided us with a joke to make us laugh and relax before we began the formal portion of our meeting.
Our speaker this evening is Rob R. whose speech was entitled “40 pounds – goals and how to meet them”. His speech dealt with looking at a goal and deciding how to break it down into manageable pieces. He chose to follow the book 8 minutes in the morning as that seemed reasonable. Rob reminded us that looking at and beginning a quest for a goal requires that you set up a specific way to measure those goals and if you are not attaining them or moving towards them with the object to reevaluate your quest if you are not moving towards them as you feel you should be.
It was a very inspiring speech and timely considering most people have just completed making their resolutions for the New Year. We all enjoyed it.
Our table topics master was Julie C. and she had some great questions for us to practice our impromptu speaking skills.
Janice P. provided Rob with feedback on his speech and provided some suggestions to help him improve his speeches in the future.
We then had all of our reports including our Ah/Grammarian and timer.
We had a special visitor who was visiting the club for the first time named Trishla, we all had a nice time meeting her and getting to know her better and look forward to seeing her again in the future.
Our meeting ended with a nice time catching up after the holidays and enjoying the snacks provided by our “snackmaster”.
Our next meeting is on January 18th at 7 p.m. and we hope you can come and join us for another exciting meeting!!
We began our year with a familiar face as Toastmaster – Janice B.
Swarna kept us on time for the evening
Jane was our Ah/Grammarian and shared with us a very interesting word to help us expand our vocabulary:
Hebitude – meaning lethargy or dullness – suggesting mental dullness or torpor and comes from the Latin.
Tim P. – provided us with a joke to make us laugh and relax before we began the formal portion of our meeting.
Our speaker this evening is Rob R. whose speech was entitled “40 pounds – goals and how to meet them”. His speech dealt with looking at a goal and deciding how to break it down into manageable pieces. He chose to follow the book 8 minutes in the morning as that seemed reasonable. Rob reminded us that looking at and beginning a quest for a goal requires that you set up a specific way to measure those goals and if you are not attaining them or moving towards them with the object to reevaluate your quest if you are not moving towards them as you feel you should be.
It was a very inspiring speech and timely considering most people have just completed making their resolutions for the New Year. We all enjoyed it.
Our table topics master was Julie C. and she had some great questions for us to practice our impromptu speaking skills.
Janice P. provided Rob with feedback on his speech and provided some suggestions to help him improve his speeches in the future.
We then had all of our reports including our Ah/Grammarian and timer.
We had a special visitor who was visiting the club for the first time named Trishla, we all had a nice time meeting her and getting to know her better and look forward to seeing her again in the future.
Our meeting ended with a nice time catching up after the holidays and enjoying the snacks provided by our “snackmaster”.
Our next meeting is on January 18th at 7 p.m. and we hope you can come and join us for another exciting meeting!!
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