A Serendipitous Meeting

We had a great open house meeting. Theressa Frasch, our Toastmaster, used speaking lessons from "The Karate Kid" as her theme. We got some great advice such as get help, practice, if something works keep it up, and discipline and respect always win.

If you had an occasion to use the word "serendipity" after our meeting that was serendipity, a marvelous coincidence. Roger Wells brought us the word serendipity.

Since last week was the start of school our topic master Mike DeLeon asked us to talk about some of our school memories.

With an election coming up Kieth Weir used the occasion to give a speech on referendum 52. He was able to fit it into the TM manual lesson 9 speaking to persuade. Jean Schmidt spoke from the advance manual and talked on how Toastmasters changed her life.

September 23rd is our club humorous speech contest where we will chose someone to represent our club at the Area Humorous Speech Contest.

Toastmaster......................................................... Jean Schmidt
Food and Joke..................................................... Mike DeLeon
Contestants.........................................................Roger Wells and Kieth Weir
Evaluation will be on a round robin basis.
If any one else would like to participate feel free to prepare a 5 to 7 minutes humorous speech

Seattle Summer Was Not Ubiquitous

We had a great last meeting of the summer with Darleen Burrill as our toastmaster, who used summer as her theme. Both speakers gave book speeches. Our newest member Gerri Barker gave her ice breaker and gave us all something to look forward to at future meetings. Bang Parkinson, speaking from an advance manual on story telling, entertained us with a tale about building relationships titled "Uncle John and Jojo". The word "ubiquitous" seems to pop up all over the place, which is appropriate since it means the state of being everywhere. Ubiquitous was our word of the day. Our topicmaster Jean Schmidt had us talking of back to school memories.