August 15th Meeting

Eagles,

Tonight’s meeting, hosted by our Toastmaster Robin Corrigan, featured 12 members, 2 guests, and 3 thought provoking speeches.

Joseph opened up with a humorous story about an interesting use of turpentine. Robin followed with Table Topics “straight from the headlines”. Our two guests, Tavit and Maryanne, also joined in the fun.

Speaker #1, Joseph, spoke from the Advanced Storytelling book. The theme of his speech was “you have options” that pondered the thought provoking question “when is it OK to quit”.

Tom Corrigan, our second speaker, gave an inspiring speech from the Competent Communicator manual. His speech, aptly titled “Reaching Your Goal Step by Step”, started as a great idea at a pub. Tom described how we resolved to climb Mount Washington using a several step plan that included going to the gym, practicing at a local hiking trail, and ultimately achieving his goal.

Speaker #3, Conrad, gave speech #2 from the Competent Communicator manual. His speech was titled “The Tradition Unlike Any Other”. Conrad used great imagery that allowed us to experience the Masters Golf Tournament using all five senses. His speech concluded with a serious and poignant message.

Special thanks to all of our functionaries…..Robin (Toastmaster, Evaluator, Table Topic Master), Tom Corrigan (Quote), Chris (Timer), and Ian (Grammarian and Ah Counter). Also a special thanks to Tom Piekarski for pinch hitting as Sergeant at Arms in Richard’s absence.

Note September will have two consecutive meetings….September 12^th (a typical Toastmaster Meeting) and September 19^th (Humorous Speech and Evaluator Contest).

Our club has many experienced contestants…..If you haven’t competed in a contest before, please consider doing so for September 19^th. More news to follow!

Have a great summer! See you all on September 12^th…..And don’t forget to sign up for something!

Tony Centorino

Eagle Secretary

August 1st 2016 Meeting

Eagles,

August 1^st featured 16 Eagles and 8 guests, 2 of which have turned into Eagles…..Welcome to Thom Knowlton and Josh Dummitt!

Amy, our President and Toastmaster of the evening, ran the proceedings with her usual aplomb (maybe we should have used that as our word of the day)!

Ian, our Table Topics Master, invited Paula to talk about her vacation and members and guests about the weather. Joseph’s quote that advised us not to fight with pigs in the mud led our Tom P, our VPE, to rush to the defense of pigs (OK….he didn’t rush, he waited until the end of the meeting). In any case, I learned a couple of lessons on the subject of people and pigs.

Kate Kelly kicked off the speech portion with a speech called “Know Your Audience” from the Better Speaker Series. Her speech was significant as it not only brought some excellent speaker tips to our attention, but it also completed her Advanced Communications Silver. Congratulations, Kate!

Your esteemed Secretary followed with a speech about Monkeys and Business, not to be confused with Monkey Business. I assure you that no animals were mistreated during the creation of my speech.

Special thanks to our functionaries…..Cecil (Grammarian), Richard Freeman (Timer), Allie (General Evaluator), and Evaluators Ian and Heather.

Our next meeting is on 8/15…..At the time of this summary, we still have a very light agenda and no Toastmaster. We really could use another speaker or two!

Please log onto www.eagletoastmasters.com and sign up for something!

See you on August 15^th!

Tony Centorino

Eagle Secretary