End of an Era

Burien Breakfast is no longer meeting at this time. For other Toastmaster meetings in this area go to the Toastmasters International Find a Club Site. For local events and contact information go to Toastmasters District 2 site.

Clear Direction

Darlene was our Toastmaster.

When defining words Keith doesn't obfuscate, which is a good thing since "obfuscate" was the word of the day. It means to cloud. confuse or bewilder.

Our incoming President, Dan Flick, was our topic-master. He wanted to know as a club, who are we and what are we trying to do. He also asked for suggestions on how to grow and wanted to know about a club marketing plan. He wanted answers that gave clear direction not answers that obfuscated the listeners.

The always clean shaven Keith gave the club a looking into the long history of shaving, from the caveman to today's resurgence of shaving with a straight razor.

Mike gave us a humorous look into the customer service policy of Safeway. He told stories of escorting customer around the store and letting them sample goodies.

For a list of who is doing what at our next meeting on June 23rd go to Schedules and Roles.

Elect to Run for Office

Our club election for the new term starting July 1, 2011 will be held at our meeting. So far the only offices with people running are Secretary and Treasurer.

Although we had a few people missing from the agenda the meeting went smoothly, with members picking up the slack.

We had two guest who added to our meeting by participating in Roger's topic session. Roger's topic had members and guests speaking on various aspects of spring. Mike, our Toastmaster, hosted the meeting and explained Toastmasters and how our club runs.

In a moving speech, entitled "Why me", Jean talked about her blindness and how the doctors gave her back her sight and Toastmasters opened her eyes.


See WHO is doing WHAT next meeting HERE!

Club Contest

We finally had our Club Contest for the International Speech and Evaluation Contest. Jean Schmidt hosted the event as the Toastmaster of the morning.

Roger Wells and Darlene Burrill competed for the right to represent the club as a speech contestant for the Area Contest. Darlene spoke first - Living With Tragedy. Roger was next - Two Minor Events.

Next up was the Evaluation Contest. Lorylee Lejon from Soundwaves Toastmasters in Des Moines was our Guest Speaker. She gave a seven minute speech about using a vision board to make your dreams come true. The three evaluation contestants were (in the order they spoke): Darlene Burrill, Theresa Frasch, and Roger Wells. Each one of them gave a thoughtful and thorough evaluation of Lorylee's presentation.

Our congratulations go to Roger Wells for coming in First Place in the Speech Contest, and to Theresa Frasch for coming in First Place in the Evaluation Contest. We wish them luck as they move onto the Area Contest!

Snow Fooling!

Snow joke - we got snowed out of our Contest Meeting! But do not fear, we will hold it at our next meeting, March 10th at 7am sharp. Jean Schmidt will be the Contest Toastmaster. She has a surprise guest speaker lined up for the evaluation contest. And I am sure we will have some interesting speeches (with some extra practice time) lined up for the competition as well. Let's get ready to COMPETE!

A few notes:

• Dues are due! Bring your check for $30 made out to Burien Breakfast Toastmaster to our next meeting

• Theresa will bring our new club business cards to our next meeting