Useful information.

July 15, 2008 Meeting

Member of the Month/ Quarter contest for the 2007-08 Toastmaster year has concluded.  Be sure to attend our August 5 meeting to find out who won!

Toastmaster Robin Barnes encouraged members to take on those seemingly daunting personal tasks with his theme of Do-It-Yourself.  Members also got to see the progress of the Barnes’ home remodel.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

--  Peggy Noonan (presidential speechwriter)

Table Topics Master Cindy Hunt challenged participants with deceptively simple topics by requiring 4-second pause between each sentence to encourage thoughtful speech, to minimize filler words or sounds and to discourage run-on and fragment sentences.

Table Topics:

New officers received their new leadership manuals this week.   Thank you to Cindy and Lisa for agreeing to perform their roles for another 6 months.  Also, thank you to all of the holdovers and new officers for committing to serve in the 2008/09  Toastmasters Year.   For those officers who served this past year and who did not re-up for another tour of duty, we appreciate all of your efforts, creativity and leadership.   We will especially miss Robin’s knowledge and experience.

Danny

Doer or Dreamer Treehouse

Bill

Timing Is All in the Timing

Lisa

Fences Make Good Neighbors

Jennelle

Childhood Home Improvement?

And the Toasty goes to:  Jennelle (who had a heckuva time with the pauses).

Toastmaster:

Robin Barnes

Table Topics Master:

Cindy Hunt

General Evaluator:

Danny Gette

Congratulations to Joey Phillippi!  Joey will be leaving Oregon (and Statehouse Toastmasters) to pursue a Masters Degree in Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University.  While we will miss Joey’s sunny personality and “true grit” at our meetings, we are excited that she has this opportunity to pursue a long-held dream.  

Speech Evaluator:

n/a

Grammarian:

Martha Anderson

Timer:

Joey Phillippi

Attending:

Jennelle Barton

Lisa Jeffries

Guests:

Alisha Arnesen

Dwight

Absent (We missed you!):

Roz  Barnes

Another Way to Go to Robin and Roz!  From the pictures distributed by Robin at the meeting this week, it looks like the remodel is complete.  What a project! 

Louise Biffle

Shane Walker

Peggy Coates

Frank Silkey

On Hiatus:

Larry Hyatt

Club Announcements

July 17 – District meeting at Wilsonville High.  See Cindy’s emails for more info.

New officers:  Board meeting for July still TBA.  Stay tuned.

Vote for your “First Half Favorites.”   More info to follow…

Remember, there’s a lot more online (including officer contact information) at:  http://statehouse.freetoasthost.org/members/roster.cgi