Our Toastmaster, Dan Flick, started the meeting with a question: Do we want to keep the club going?We had two interesting speeches. Keith Weir recalled his time in the Navy when "General Quarters" were called during tense time while serving in the middle east, in an aptly titled speech "The Day I turned Gray."
Mike DeLeon gave an informative speech about the changes he would like to see in the tax code with "Keep It Simple." Our "word of the day" was "renew" a good word for our spring season.
Theresa Frasch as our Topic Master noted the debut of the movie Water for Elephants based on the book of the same title. Topic questions ranged from the elephant in the room, to pink elephants, to movies based on books, and rides ant Disneyland.
We discussed Dan's at the business meeting. There is a consensus to continue but we do have to put out an effort to bring more people in. Our current year is coming to an end so it is time to think about officers for the next year. If you want to keep the club going this is a good place to begin.
The Club Fitness Team has suggested Four Open Houses and a SpeechCraft to help out membership grow. Burien Breakfast Toastmasters needs its members to step up and volunteer to chair each event. That would mean being the "go to" person for setting the dates, contacting the Club Fitness Team for speakers, getting a team together to help promote the event, making sure we had enough snacks, scheduling the room if we used it extra days, and assigning roles for the rest of Burien Breakfast members. If you want to keep the club going this is another good place to begin.
