Tuesday, July 11, 2017

July 11th meeting review

We would like to welcome our guests Viki, Brian, and Brandy, and invite them back to our meeting next week Tuesday July 18th at 7:00 AM at Pig 'N Pancake.
Our Toastmaster of the day was Diane, whose theme was travelling. She talked about how packing was an issue for her when she recently travelled to the galapagos island, and that she needed to sit on her suitcase to make everything fit. Laimons was her evaluator, who complimented her on her time management, and how she got introductions for both the speakers.
Lauralee was the first speaker of the day, who did a speech from the Toastmasters successful club series, which is part of the requirements for receiving her Advanced Communicator Bronze. She talked about the education program, and how each of the manuals work. During her speech, Lauralee went through the requirements to receive the Advanced Communicator Silver and Gold, as well as the Advanced Leadership Bronze and Silver. Lauralee concluded by asking what people's goals were? Brian was the evaluator for Lauralee, who mentioned that because this was a Toastmasters scripted speech, that he appreciated how she personalized the speech. He also said that he understood that not everything was the style that Lauralee would normally use, and so there were some awkward pauses as she had to make the slide reveal all of the lines of text. One thing that Brian did compliment was her presence in front of the lectern.
Kathleen was the second speaker of the day, who gave a science fiction speech. She talked about how we sent out a radio signal into space saying that we were here on Earth. During her speech, Kathleen referenced several movies including the Star Trek series and Cosmos. While talking about the possibility of life on other planets, she said that we did not realize that when we sent out this signal into a cluster of stars in the hercules constellation, that there would be several planets inhabiting that system. There were some major concerns as to contacting aliens that we knew nothing about. What if they are like the Klingons? How are we to communicate with them? We can always point to a cow and repeat the word cow several times to try to have them understand that the word cow is what we say to represent that creature, but... are there space cows? She said the biggest obstacle is that we do not know who is out there, and if they have better technology than we do. Her last minute evaluator was Peter, who complimented how Kathleen used her voice to communicate a suspense. He said when she was talking, her speech made him think of the T.V. series Ancient Aliens. Peter also said Kathleen did a good job of balancing the mystery of whether life exists in space, and concerns of that fact. 
Laurie was the Table Topics master of the day, whose theme was her family reunion. She asked Paul what is one thing he would share as an experience that was significant to him in his years of life. He said that one of his earliest memories is when President J. F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. Paul said he remembered how he felt the day he heard the president had been assassinated, as well as the great fear of Sputnik being launched into the sky, and having a spacecraft watching him. Brian H was asked if he would like to live to be 100 years old by Laurie. He said that he would like to live to be that old, and teased that he did not know what the world would do without him. Brian Haggarty said that he would hate to get to 99 years old and not make it to a full century. The winner of Table Topics was Brian. 
Paul was the grammarian of the day, whose word of the day was eclipse. Avital was the timer of the day.

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