by Jodi Michael Horner Ever watch an awards show where the recipient thanks their costars and crew by saying they feel honored to be part of such a professional & talented team of players? Parker’s “Talk of the Town” seems to provide that experience for its members. There isn’t a single person in our group […]
Parker Toastmasters’ last meeting on November 17 was very busy, with six speeches and an educational topic. Stacy Hayden gave a top-notch icebreaker with a speech titled “How I went from Zero to Hero in Four Years”. It was an inspiring speech about Stacy’s recent career developments, along with her raising two young children. You […]
Parker Toastmasters had another fun and educational meeting on November 10, 2011. Caroline Nguyen was our Toastmaster and did a superb job of navigating us through the meeting. Twelve Members attending were: Caroline Nguyen , Joanna Knott, Bill Morgan, Bill Bevard, Sandy Marthaler, Jodi Michael Horner, Jyoti Jain, Bruce Ekins, Eric Dunham, Kellan Stephens, Michelle DeVore, and Nina […]
Photos by Jodi Michael Horner
The month of July brought many wonderful speeches, learning experiences, and laughs in our well-knit and quickly growing group. But there’s nothing like the president letting it all hang out to really keep things — hairy? See the Table Topics prop (a wig) and club president Joanna Knott’s accompanying storyline of the wild and flailing […]
Parker Toastmasters would like to extend it’s heartfelt gratitude to Rich Hopkins for giving a great speech to help him prepare for the International Speech competition in Las Vegas in two weeks. Rich taught us a great and humbling lesson. Rich is at the top of his game as a speaker. He just delivered for […]
How is it possible that the meetings keep getting better and better each time? What do we do to bring so much energy and keep momentum going? The enthusiasm of the Club members is beyond words. Eric Dunham was our Toastmaster and provided with a handful of interesting quotes about public speaking. Here is one […]
2010-11 was a great year for the club! We reached our goal of President’s Distinguished Status from Toastmaster’s International. Let’s not forget that it was accomplished because of the continual individual and collective efforts of every member. Let’s also congratulate our fellow area Metro Six clubs: Lunch Out Loud and Castle Rock Toastmasters for achieving […]
Spring Newsletter Greetings! Attached is the spring edition of our club newsletter highlighting what has happened over the last quarter.
It was a very good meeting, with Sandy Marthaler as our Toastmaster for the first time! Sandy gave us a great theme with “New Beginnings”. Sandy is a substitute teacher, and her talk about how this time of year and her students provides us time to reflect upon both the past and future was well-received […]
