April 29, 2013 Club Meeting

Present at the meeting were: Samya Boxberger-Oberoi, Eric Jones, Randy Lee, Suzanne Mulcahy, David Nazzaro, Venkat Senapati, Ruth Wadsworth, and Eric Yan. Suzanne was the Toastmaster. Eric Y. was the General Evaluator. Venkat was the Grammarian. Randy was the Ah Counter. Randy was the Vote Counter. Randy was the Timer.

Speaker: David

Manual: Speech  #4  “How to Say It”
Title:  “Humorous Tales”

David created three tales using Toastmaster members as the main characters in each of his stories.  He was very creative in how he integrated Toastmaster members into the tales as he told them.  David invented stories about hippies, Donald Trump, and Al Capone.  He told them with vivid images and made them all believable.  David was able to keep the audience’s attention in each of the story lines.

Speech Evaluator:    Eric J. gave the evaluation of David’s speech.  He stated that David gave excellent stories, and they were very humorous.  He interweaved Toastmaster members very creatively.  He jokingly asked him if the tales were true as he stated them so convincingly.   David showed god voice intonation and volume. 

Speech:   Samya:  Advanced Communication Manual:  “Interpretive Poetry”

Samya read If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda. 

Samya opened with the biography of the poet and went into his life experiences.  Among his accomplishments, Neruda was the Chilean Ambassador to Mexico and France as well as other countries.  He also won a Nobel Peace Prize.  Samya then read one of his most famous poems - If You Forget Me - with sincere passion for what the poet had tried to convey. 

Speech Evaluator:   Ruth gave the evaluation for Samya.  She stated that Samya gave us good background information on the writer before she read the poem.  It was fascinating to hear all of the details of this poet’s life. Ruth suggested that Samya could have given the poet’s background like a speech and have most of it memorized.  When she read his background and then his poem, it didn’t have a clean break from one to the other.  Overall the poetry reading was very powerful. 

Venkat  was the Table Topics Master. The theme of the meeting was: “Outdoor Living”; The word of the day was: “Alfresco”.

Samya asked for the guests remarks and then closed the meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:15