The review of June 13th

We would like to welcome our guests Viki, Brian, Keith, and Joel! We hope you enjoyed our meeting and would love to hear what you thought. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday at 7 AM at Pig 'N Pancake next week if you would like to come again.
The Toastmaster of the day was Avital, who talked about the lessons that her dad, such as going camping and traveling around the United States. Her general evaluator was Lee, who complimented Brian on giving both positive and constructive feedback to Diane, and reminded us that we do not take over the podium but a lectern because it does not have a stand.
Diane talked about going to junior high school and then high school in Colorado. Fifteen years ago she moved to South Park, Colorado, and was married to Keith. In the last three years, she told us about how she went back to school to get her doctorate's degree, after already having a degree in accounting. Now, Diane works for Washington State University as an online professor, and lives in Newport, Oregon, where she plans to make her forever home. Brian was the evaluator for Diane's ice breaker speech, who complimented her calmness and openness during her speech. He told her she had a believability to her that let everyone into her life. One thing for her to work on is her speed, and narrowing her topic.
Joel was a guest speaker of the day is a DTM, who also happens to be travelling to see Avital during this time, as he is her dad. During his speech, he talked about the ten principles of communication. He talked about principles of communication, from interruptions to introductions. To demonstrate his point of interruptions, he picked up his phone during the speech and pretended to be distracted for a second. Avital's dad, Joel, talked about how you need to make sure the other person has time to listen to you, and when you are being spoken to, you need to listen to them. Another thing he talked about was introductions, and how A last thing Joel talked about was gratitude, and how we need to be gracious when we communicate with others, with both words like thank you, and our overall attitude. Kathleen was his evaluator, who is off from her nine month run of school, thanked him for his speech. She also complimented the structure of his speech, comparing the ten principles of communication to the how the ten commandments were structured. One thing she did touch on was the professionalism of throwing cards over his shoulders during the speech. 
The Table Topics master of the day was Peter, who felt like it was random question day. Viki, a past member and a guest, talked about how she was sleepy this morning, but likes to take naps after staying up late. Paul was the winner of table topics, as he debated the benefits between using pencils and pens. When using a pencil, he said, nothing is permanent, whereas pens, even those with erasers, are more lasting. He then went on to say that it would be better to use a pen to ask a question like Will you marry me? 
The word of the day was principle and principal by Laimons, and the timer of the day was Christa.