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 by an appreciative group.

We had lots of guests tonight! Thanks to Debbie Hall, Michelle DeVore, Samantha Tino, Jodi Horner, Kaitlyn Wolf and Kellen Stephens for visiting us, as well as letting us learn a little more about themselves.

We had three speeches tonight. Joanna Knott helped us know more about CRM software with a strong presentation called CRM Software Selection . Bill Morgan gave us a glimpse into what traffic cops really want us to do in Late One Night. And Sandy Marthaler helped us to understand more about why it is important to Apologize.

Bruce Ekins did a great job as our Grammarian/Ah-Counter and his Word of the Day was “Transitions”.

Joanna Knott finished up the meeting as our General Evaluator and finished up with club business.

Our best speech evaluator tonight was Michelle DeVore, and our best speaker was Bill Morgan.

Let’s celebrate as we have four new members! We are proud to say that Samantha Tino, Kellen Stephens, Jodi Horner and Kaitlyn Wolf are now members of Parker Toastmasters!

Sandy Marthaler is our Toastmaster this Thursday!

Please let her know what speech your are giving, or what Role you would like to have.

Open roles include:

Table Topics Master
Grammarian/Ah-Counter/Word of the Day
Speech Evaluator
Timer
General Evaluator

Don’t forget to bring your Competent Leadership manual! Any role you fulfill during a meeting helps you get credit towards a project in the manual.

Tonight’s meeting was one of the best of the year. There were great speeches which were very informative and engaging, and there was participation by everyone at the meeting.

Bill Morgan was our Toastmaster for the evening. Eric Dunham served triple-duty as Timer, Table Topics Master and Speech Evaluator.

Karen Bennett and Bruce Ekins were our guests tonight.

Janelle Ames, Mrs. Colorado, was our special guest tonight. Janelle talked about how her pageant journey was helped by being active in Toastmasters.

We had five speeches tonight. Caroline Nguyen gave a great speech on the Art of Breathing.  Sandy Marthaler gave an interesting speech on Cell Phone Etiquette. Eric Dunham gave us a lesson on Rules of the West, cowboy hat and all. Joanna Knott presented an informative speech on Manage and Motivate while Michele O’Brien-Rose gave a valuable speech on Making Ethical Decisions, done in the Ignite! style of speaking with 20 slides going every 15 seconds.

It was Michele’s 10th overall speech so she earned her Competent Communicator award, and received a standing ovation for her achievement.

Joel Stevenson, Paul Johnson, Michele O’Brien-Rose, Eric Dunham and Bill Morgan were speech evaluators.

Table topics run by Eric was very innovative. Eric gave pictures from newspaper articles and the speaker had to give a short speech on the subject. Karen Bennett earned Best Table Topics speaker for her great speech about how the fisherman evoked fond memories of her brother. Our other guests, Janelle Ames and Bruce Ekins, also participated in table topics.

Our best speaker tonight was Eric Dunham and our best evaluator was Bill Morgan.

Paul Johnson was grammarian and ah-counter, and the word of the day was Zeitgeist. Joanna Knott did a great job as our General Evaluator.

We have a great meeting underway, with two new guests, Karen Bennett, and Bruce Ekins.

Our special guest tonight is Janelle Ames, Mrs. Colorado, who gave a short speech on her toastmasters and pageant experience.

Also participating are members Eric Dunham, Paul Johnson,  Joel Stevenson, Caroline Nguyen, Michele O’Brien-Rose, Sandy Marthaler and Bill Morgan.

We have lots of speakers lined up for Thursday’s meeting, where I am honored to be your Toastmaster.

So far Michele O’Brien-Rose, Joanna Knott, Caroline Nguyen, Eric Dunham and Sandy Marthaler are committed to give a speech.

Paul Johnson will be the grammarian/ah-counter. Joel Stevenson will be a speech evaluator. We have spots open for Timer, General Evaluator, Table Topics Master and Speech Evaluators. Please email me to let me know what Role you would like to take!

Last but not least we are expecting a few guests, among them someone that you may have heard about in the news recently!

Tonight was Eric Dunham’s first try as the Toastmaster, and he did an admirable job in leading the club through tonight’s meeting.

We had two guests tonight – Amy Jordheim visiting from the Lunch Out Loud club, and Elaine Holm, who is considering joining our club.

Amy Jordheim gave a great speech from the Public Relations manual, speech 5 – Crisis Management. “Taken Over!” was from the point of view from a CEO who was announcing a hostile takeover. Caroline Nguyen’s “Cultural Differences Between the West and East” was from her perspective of someone who grew up in Vietnam but now lives in the United States. This was speech 2 from the Competent Communicator manual. Sandy Marthaler gave speech 3 from the CC manual as well, with her entertaining and informative “Inbox Zero”.

Amy and Caroline shared the Best Speaker award tonight.

Bill Morgan was the Best Evaluator.

Paul Johnson had a great table topics idea – he handed out a penny to each speaker. The speaker had to come up with something to say about the year that the penny was made. Every one at the meeting tonight, including our guests Amy and Elaine, participated in Table Topics.

Eric Dunham gave the Best Table Topic, reminiscing about Newton Jr. High back in 1978.

Bill Morgan presented Impromptu Speaking from the Better Speaker series. He included this handout with his speech.

Joel Stevenson finished up the meeting on a strong note as our General Evaluator.

We’re underway!

Eric Dunham is our Toastmaster tonight. Great to see Paul Johnson, Caroline Nguyen, Sandy Marthaler, Bill Morgan, Joel Stevenson and Amy Jordheim here tonight!

And it’s great to see our guest Elaine Holm visiting us!