May 30th review

Brian was the Toastmaster of the day, whose theme was May 30th, the previous memorial day. He talked about how this day was rumored to start the graves of the fallen were decorated in the civil war. Laimons was the general evaluator, who said that the meeting ran long, but we improvised well with skipping the table topics voting.
The first speaker of the day was Lauralee who gave her last speech for the Technical presentations advanced manual. This also completes her Advanced Communicator Bronze award. She talked about her experiment for growing food on Mars. Lauralee described how she has green onions and radishes growing under 50% and 100% light. She showed pictures, like in this post, of how she measured the height in centimeters, took pictures, and recorded caretaking facts to find out how 50% light plants grew in comparison to 100% light plants. John was Lauralee's evaluator. He said that she did a good job of making sure everyone could understand her topic, and making it relevant to the group. One thing he did suggest was giving the group materials earlier before the meeting, so that they had at least a few days to understand her project.Lee was the second speaker of the day who talked about how we need to remember to respect the flag. In his speech, he told us about how he was on flag duty in elementary school. For this he had to make sure the flag was up during the school day, and take it down before school ended. He told us that he also had to make sure the flag was not up when it rained. After that, he talked about becoming a boy scout, and how they taught him more about respecting the flag. When he looks at the flag, he always sees his best friend from elementary school, who went off to fight in Vietnam but did not make it home. Lee's friend was 19 years old when he passed away, and right then Lee made a promise to live his life for both of them. The flag reminds him not only of his country, but also his promise.
The winners of Table topics. Tuesday's Table topics were very short during our meeting because of our two long speeches. Pen and Brian were the winners of our outrageous table topics. Pen talked about a vacation she took with her mother, where she paid to go on a road trip. She talked about how her mother was displeased at the room, and offered to pay for their next trip. Brian was asked why he lives in Lincoln County, to which he said that he took the first job he was offered as a Lawyer and moved here to work at one of our local law firms.
The word of the day was outrageous, given to us by Peter. The timer of the day was River.

Christa was Lee's evaluator, and she said that she did not know how to evaluate his speech. She was very emotional in her evaluation of his speech, saying it moved her to action to make sure the flag was up more often. She also talked about how she did not know most of the rules of respecting the flag that he talked about and wanted to make sure her flag was being properly respected.