Chamber
Speakers Circle Toastmasters
Attendees:
David N., Samya, Aditi, David K., Suzanne, Ruth, Jim, Vishal, and Kira
Guests: Gustalvo,
Luis, Lucy, and Belinda
Theme of the day: Autumn
Word of the day: Harvest
Jim
was the Toastmaster; Vishal was the General Evaluator; Belinda was the
Grammarian, Gustalvo was the Ah Counter, Kira was the Vote Counter, and Suzanne
was the Timer.
Samya
started the meeting, by saying that our club was well represented at the area
speech contest. Ruth was in third place
in the Humorous Speech Contest, and Aditi was in third place as an evaluator.
Speaker #1: David N.: Advanced Manual: Entertaining Speech, Project # 4; “Sam,
Somebody Wants a Second Chance”
David
gave a very powerful speech about “Sam’s life”.
David described how Sam had a difficult beginning getting 3 DUI’s. He then began to turn his life around. Sam worked as a janitor for Heald College and
won the “Employee of the Month” award three times. He became the Director of Safety and Security
and in four years did not have any negative incidences. Heald College shut down and now Sam is
searching for a new job. His three
felonies have made this a daunting task and his future does not appear hopeful. Sam desperately wants to get these felonies
expunged.
David
showed an impressive ability to share this story with us. We could truly feel Sam’s pain and
frustration.
Speaker #2: Samya:
Advanced Communicator, Speech Project #5, Speaking to Inform Manual: “Why is
Toastmasters Relevant to our Success”
Samya
gave a very strong opening when she made the statement, Toastmasters is not an
organization about “Public Speaking” but rather one that teaches its members
about “Speaking in Public”. Toastmasters
provides training in the following areas that add skills for all occupations
and overall life skills:
1. Provides a place to practice our speaking
skills.
2. Learn to prepare to deliver a speech with a beginning,
body, and conclusion;
to use visual tools, and
aides; to use voice tonality; how to select a goal; and how to do multiple
projects.
3. Doing evaluations helps in many areas of your
career.
4. Samya went over achieving our Competent
Communicator book and our Competent Leadership skills.
Samya
then went into a question and answer session.
Table Topics: Suzanne was the Table Topics Master.
Questions were asked around of the theme of “Harvest”.
Vishal
called on his team of evaluators.
Evaluator #1: David K. evaluated David N. David
N. gave an excellent speech on a very important matter. His speech was well organized and easy to
follow. The audience was captivated and
could experience Sam’s life as David told his story. David demonstrated his expert knowledge of
the law in simple enough terms for us to follow.
David
K. said that it was hard to find any suggestions to improve David’s speech;
however, maybe he could slow down and pause at times to emphasize his
significant points. The story of Sam was
powerful and told very well.
Evaluator #2: Suzanne evaluated Samya. She said that Samya gave a good presentation
on an important topic. She was well
organized and laid out the steps for members to follow and the skills that we
can all develop. Samya explained how Toastmasters can be used to develop skills in many aspects of our lives. Suzanne gave the suggestion that Samya could
pause for emphasis at important points in her speech, and allow us to take in
the information. Overall Samya’s speech
was excellent and informative. The
question and answer period was well done.
Samya asked for the guests remarks and then closed the meeting.
Samya asked for the guests remarks and then closed the meeting.
