Father's Day

     New Member Idris Rasheed contemplates how he will respond to Glenda's prompt in table topics.

     Toastmaster Rei Fuller gave insights into her Father’s Day theme.  The eyes and ears team was composed of the following:  Grammarian, Katherine Alford;  Timer, Tony Kombol, timer.

     Stan Coss’s speech was titled “Speaking of Father’s Day. . . .”   He tried to encourage Father’s Day memories in his audience with three sets of memories of his own:  lessons in humility, self-control, and productivity.  His tales included a run-in with poison ivy, impact with spinach, a CB handle of “Red Eyes,” and “Crying in the Bucket.”  This was from the Entertaining Speaker manual, project three of Make Them Laugh.

      Alicia Hughes’s speech was titled, “If It Could Talk.”  “What does it mean to touch history?” she asked.  She then described aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg, where rebel forces under General Lee numbered 75,000 men and were opposed by over 93,000 men on the Union side commanded by General Meade.  She focused on the fighting that occurred in and around John Kuhn’s brickyard where two Confederate brigades were slowed down by a single Union brigade.  Union troops then took the high ground of Cementery Hill which they successfully defended the next two days of the much larger battle.  Alicia described the Town of Gettysburg that had 40 structures and 2,400 citizens.  She passed around a part of the “Witness Tree,” a piece of wood that had been carved as a memento of that momentous battle.  This was for the Level Two Project Two of the Presentation Mastery Pathways.

      Glenda Teams-Edwards as Table Topic Master had a penny for all these and other thoughts: Using the date on your coin what is something your children will say about you that is most memorable to them?  What is something your father taught you that has stuck with you to this day using the date on your coin?   As a father, using the date on your coin, what is the most memorable gift you received from your children?   Based on the year on your coin what was the most memorable vacation you took with your father?  Using the date on your coin what is an activity that you and your father did that has become a tradition year after year?  All members of the audience drew a penny and then individually responded to the prompts.

     Phyllis Kombol led the evaluation of the meeting by first calling on the two speech evaluators.    John Bowen gave his evaluation of Stan’s speech, and Tim Edwards gave his evaluation of Alicia’s speech.  Two to three others in the audience also made impromptu comments on each of the speeches.  Phyllis then called on the eyes and ears team for its reports.  One of Phyllis’s suggestions was to consider building in more glows into the overall round-robin if lesser-experienced speakers were in the audience.

      After the GE Kombol relinquished control back to the President/Toastmaster Rei Fuller, there was extensive discussion of the grab bag meeting planned for July 20th (with TM Glenda) and the backwards meeting planned for  August (with TM Tim).
       Basically, in the grab bag, all the roles are drawn out of a hat at the start of the meeting.  So, have your back pocket speech ready, just in case.  In the backwards meeting, the GE begins, followed by the eyes and ears team, the evaluators, and then the speakers.  Each participant tries to incorporate something of what was said by the prior speaker.  The prepared speakers prepare beforehand but also put something into the speech to validate what the prior evaluators said.

       In attendance were the following: Rei Fuller, Stan Coss,  Alicia Hughes, John Bowen, Tony Kombol, Phyllis Kombol, Katherine Anne Alford, Glenda Teams-Edwards, and Tim Edwards.  Idris Rasheed was a guest who transformed into a new member.

      The new officer induction for all the officers elected the last meeting will take place when most or all the officers will next attend, which may be in August.

The link for our club’s website is the following:   https://6988955.toastmastersclubs.org/

Minutes submitted by Secretary Stan Coss.