Our meeting promptly began at 6:30 AM
The Toastmaster for this meeting was Lee W. The theme was "Our U.S. Currency." Lee W. offered some thoughts about money and shared observations about the symbols that appear on actual legal tender, notably the one and five dollar bills. The meeting was complete when Lee performed a magic trick on a real five dollar bill: apparently, there is a hard-to-find hole right above President Lincoln's head that's big enough for a ball point pen to slide easily through without tearing it. I'm still looking for it.
Attending: Lee W., Stephanie, Kelly, Daohua, Connie, Lee D., Theo, Claire, Jane, Laura, Bud, and Josie.
Daohua offered the day's inspiration: "True wisdom is not in never falling, but in getting up again after you fall." --Confucius (Excuse my paraphrase.)
Awards at this meeting:
Best Speech - Laura
Best Evaluation - Kelly
Best Table Topics - Kelly
The speeches at this meeting:
1. Claire, "Reward Comes with a Price"; Competent Communication manual speech #6 (vocal variety), 5-7 minutes. Evaluated by Kelly. Actual time: 08:05 :( A great speech that unfortunately went overtime.
2. Laura , "The Dark Side of the Bright Lights"; Entertaining Speaker manual speech #2, 5-7 minutes. Evaluated by Stephanie. Actual time: 08:10. Note: Laura endured TWO interruptions during this speech from passersby intent on getting directions for locating the AA meeting a few doors down. We basically just had to halt the meeting and Laura's speech right there. Speech time was "recalculated" to be under 7 minutes.
3. Connie, "Toast to Title IX"; Special Occasion Speech manual, speech #1 (making a toast), 2-3 minutes. Evaluated by Theo. Actual speech time: 02:40. Nice going, Connie.
Note: All evaluations were within the time limit.
Other roles at this meeting:
Grammarian/ah-counter - Bud
Timer - Daohua
WordMaster - Josie; the word was lucrative
TableTopics Master - Jane (Jane had engaging questions about designing the look of money and inventing ways of taking and processing money at vending machines.)
General Evaluator - Lee D.
Announcements and closing remarks by Stephanie:
Stephanie reviewed the schedule for next week. There are still many openings for joining the upcoming Humorous Speech and Evaluators contests. Lastly, remember to fill out the back of your manuals with information about the speeches you have done. Stephanie also brought a large tracking chart to help you as well. Remember your club dues for next month before September 26. See the emails for more information.
The meeting closed at 8:00 AM.
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