Another night, another virtual zoom Toastmasters meeting. Tonight was another special Greensburg meeting. We had two awesome guests, International Speech Contest competitor Rich Hopkins and our incoming District Program Quality Director Bob Johnson. A great meeting lay ahead for us with three speakers and an awesome table topics session.
Greg Burcz opened the meeting as backup Sergeant at Arms. We said the pledge and then we got underway. President Jim Teague introduced this evening’s Toastmaster, Faerie Grace. Since it was her first meeting, Sam and Michelle helped lead the way for her. She introduced our guests, Rich and Bob, went over the roles, and then called up our first speaker Greg. He talked an easy to access app
Michelle was up next, and gave a presentation on how to navigate base camp and figure out your progress in Pathways. Later on, Mike Dalton called it one of the best talks on Pathways he’d ever heard. It would have shored up a lot of the questions people had early on. Rounding out the speaking session was guest Rich Hopkins. His speech was on chess ♟. He talked about how well he mastered the game and referenced chess master Bobby Fischer.
Claudette Kane served as Table Topics Master. The theme was all about flowers 🌺. Which one gives you rest? All the participants had great answers, whether or not they had green thumbs. Bob stepped up to the plate and talked about lilacs and Michelle Teague spoke on crocuses. The two best speakers for the session right there.
Chuck Dietz served as General Evaluator. He introduced our evaluators for this evening. Jim Teague provided suggestions for Greg to improve his camera position and how to avoid “bridge words”. I picked up on those as well serving as the meeting’s grammarian. Diane Svec and Sam Wieder gave great feedback for Michelle and Rich’s speeches. Faerie called for my Grammarian/Ah Counter report and Denise Pullen’s timer report. She then called for guest comments.
Bob and Rich were impressed with our meeting. It was Rich’s second meeting of the day and he was a speaker there too. Bob told me our meeting was top notch and he’s going to promote our upcoming June 17 open house on social media and the district website. He returned the favor for our club by paying a visit after I’ve done the same for his Cranberry High Noon chapter. He also visited Achievers on Sunday and attended the tribute to Charlie Wilson before our meeting.
Time to close off the blog with my encouragement to you as the weekend nears. Remember to live your best life. Be your best you. ROCK OUT because you are worth it. Make your own sunshine. Don’t forget to laugh because laughter is the best medicine. A smile is your best accessory.
Bye everyone. ❤️ you.
Stylish 🍒 