Review of May 14th

The Toastmaster of the day was Dave, for his last time as a Toastmaster for Newport Toastmasters. He talked about how he has made a lot of friends at our club, like Peter who he enjoys talking about fishing with, and Paul who has been a friend through church and Toastmasters. Brian was the general evaluator who said that Diane, our grammarian, gave a great description of her job, and Dave had a smooth meeting.
There were two speakers of the day, Avital and Christa. The first speaker was Avital, who gave a practice speech for a conference she will be speaking at soon. She talked about how she used to work for Microsoft before she was diagnosed with a disease that changed her life. After that she left her job to find a way to heal, which she did. Now she goes around to teach others that life can be better than it is now. Lauralee was her evaluator who said that she was very energetic and expressive with her hands. Her volume was really good, and she was expressive in her facial expressions. One thing that Lauralee did point out was that her speech was a very brief overview on how Avital has her eyes on the goal and how she puts service first. Something Lauralee suggested was that she adds some specific examples of how she does that.
Christa was the second speaker of the day, who gave her second to last speech for her competent communicator. She talked about why fish need managers. During her speech she talked about the tragedy of the commons, which is a theory about how if there is a field to graze, shepherds will continue to grow their herds to exploit the land to get more money. Similarly, fishermen would continue to fish to gain more and more profit, which would cause overfishing, leading to the collapse of the population of fish. To combat this, there are limits on how many of a type of fish you can catch, there are plans put in place to protect populations of fish, and bolster fish populations that are endangered. Lee was her evaluator who said that she did a very good job on applying why fish need to be managed to our live because of the way Newport is supported by the fishing industry.
Paul was in charge of table topics today, who decided to try something new for table topics today. He had the members write down their own table topics and allow people to choose from the three table topics prompts their neighbor wrote. Brian, a guest, talked about why he came to Toastmasters. He said that since his mother was a Toastmaster, and Lee had invited to come see what Toastmasters was like, he decided to try it out. River talked about how she had a Volkswagon beetle that she learned how to drive a stickshift on. She said that her dad took her around the back roads in Texas to teach her how to drive it, and assured us that she did master being able to change gears and not roll backwards on hills. River was the table topics winner.
John was the timer, and Diane was the grammarian of the day with the word of the day being elevate.