Awesome meeting, awesome recap!
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On Jan 16, 2021, at 12:42 PM, Alan Wong <drwongdds27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Date: 14 January 2021
Greetings Fellow Toastmasters,
Our amazing toastmaster for the evening was Bill Farrand. His theme was time
travel. We had 15
members and one guest (Jarvis).
Speaker #1. Pattie Apple. Do you have a heart? Organ Donor. 2699 eyes donated
in Colorado resulting
in 2715 cornea transplants. (How can there be more corneas than eyes donated?
Just saying). When
you expire, the decision to donate takes priority over everything else.
Speaker #2. Kathleen Jewby. Conflict management. Marriage and divorce. War
and Peace. Colors of
the rainbow. Interruptions by the audience. Condescending tone, what makes
that person a jerk?
Separating problems and persons. Task over people.
Speaker #3. Minjun Zhao. Story telling. Life beyond death. Debate on
supernatural beings. Pam has an
aneurysm located at the base of the brain. Flat line and yet she is able to
describe her out of body
experience where she describes drilling through the skull. Doing business in
the bathroom and hears old lady
voice “help me”.
Table Topics Master was our equally amazing Ray Pezolt. Some great questions
and notable answers
1. Katelynn Pau. What would you have spent more time doing five years ago? A:
Asking the right
questions. Stand up for myself. Valuable lesson, advocate for yourself.
2. Jennifer Dunne. When you are 80 years old, what will matter to you the
most? A: Whether a 93 year
old man is still crotchety.
3. Elizabeth Wong. How old would you be if you did not know how old you are?
A: 12 years old. I’m
almost 20 and still looking young. Kids meals and kids clothing.
4. Robin McIntosh. If the average life span is 40 years old, how would you
live your life differently? A:
Who to haunt? Wife will have money from the insurance company. Would have
still gotten married.
Actually do nothing different.
Dirk Kittridge was our wonderful General Evaluator.
1 Evaulator #1. Jonathan Kolber on Pattie Apple. Personal speech front and
center. Emotional. Heart
showing on driver’s license. Educational speech. There were no points to
pauses. Loved a powerful call
to action.
2. Robin McIntosh on Kathleen Jewby. Difficult speech to give. Out of comfort
zone. Interruptions;
engaged disruptors and confronted them. Handled disruptors very well with a
difficult audience.
3. Jennifer Dunne on Minjun Zhao. A storytelling speech. The pacing of the
story in the bathroom slowed
down. Suspenseful with whispers. The first story of Pam in the ER was more
dry and clinical.
Incorporated two different stories into speech. Well done.
Dirk evaluates the evaluators
1. Jonathan Kolber. Solid ending. Look into the camera when talking to the
audience.
2. Robin Mcintosh. Watch the rocking.
3. Jennifer Dunne. Blue spruce hair.
Grammarian was Katelynn Pau. Phrases. Patties opening “do you have a heart?”.
Jennifer on Jonathan
and using the word Crotchety. Robin and prairie dogs on alert.
On Elizabeth Wong. Person on radio, take the radio and present it. Deliver it
yourself.
Best Evaluator: Jonathan Kolber
Best Table Topics: Dirk Kittredge
Best Speech: Kathleen Jewby
It was another wonderful toastmasters meeting. Bill Farrand reminded us
before the meeting that he
knew nothing of what was going on. Don’t let him fool you. He was in control
of the meeting the entire
time. Excellent host, great theme. Thank you to everyone for attending. Look
for the recap on
website. Revathy is kind enough to enter the recaps there. I will continue to
email the recap via emails
I will end my recap with a question. If you have to choose between true love
or travel the world, which country would you visit
first?
Until next time, I am your humble secretary.
Alan Wong
