The following is a summary of the minutes from our November 18th meeting.
Meeting Location: The Hillsdale Mall, San
Mateo, CA 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Attendees:
Present at the meeting were:
Maia Ashkenazi, Samya Boxberger-Oberoi, Randy Lee,
Lara Miller, Suzanne Mulcahy, David Nazzaro, Sharon Pappas, and Venkat
Senapat.
David was the Toastmaster; Lara was the General Evaluator;
Venkat was the Grammarian; Randy was the Ah Counter; Sharon was the Timer and
the Vote Counter; and Samya was the Table Topics Master.
The theme of the meeting was: “Thanksgiving”; the word of the
day was: “Gratitude”.
Speaker #1: Maia - “Ice Breaker”
Manuel Series – Project #1
Maia gave a wonderful speech about her journey and expressions
of her love of art. She began at the
preschool level explaining how she would tie together scarves in creating
designs. Maia shared her constant desire to doodle art work throughout grade school and a middle school
experience of having a fashion show where she took clothing, re-designed them, and
then made completely new designs.
Maia told about her high school years creating an art magazine
and finally college where she explored photography, graphic design, fine arts,
and digital media.
Maia concluded with her current passion for art in the form of
“patterns”. She also shared the programs
in which she has participated:
·
Became an illustrator and layout design person for a “Coffee
Table Book”.
·
Participated at an art museum program for mentoring children in
discovering the beauty of art.
Evaluator: Suzanne
Suzanne began her evaluation stating how confident Maia was
delivering her first speech. Her love of
art and enthusiasm shined through from the beginning. Maia’s speech was well organized and flowed
chronologically through her life.
Suzanne gave the suggestions that she could use an introductory and concluding sentence providing an overview of her speech about her life long love of art, as
well as using a personal
experience to emphasize her story.
Suzanne concluded by saying that Maia’s speech truly conveyed
her passion and love of art and that we were all able to get a glimpse of who
she really was as a person. Maia more
that completed her objectives for the “Ice Breaker” speech.
Table Topics: Samya hosted the Table Topics. Lara won the ribbon for the best Table Topics
speaker.
Samya closed the meeting at 7:15 p.m.
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