At Tuesday night’s Laurel Highlands meeting, we had two amazing speakers. One gave her ice breaker speech. We also held nominations for new officers for the 2026-27 Toastmasters year. We took the last half hour installing our new officers. I’ll be serving as Vice President Education for both of my clubs, so that will be a nice challenge for me. It will be rewarding and will keep my focused on the success and health of my clubs.
Greensburg will do the same Wednesday night at their meeting. I may step away from speaking as I need some more time. I may evaluate (if our current Vice President Education gives her presentation from the Better Speaker Series) or take on the role of time or grammarian/ah counter.
June 9 I plan to attend the South Hills meeting as a guest. Thus, I’ll be absent from the Laurel Highlands meeting. I have reached out to their officers about my plans. South Hills is one of two clubs in the District to achieve Smedley Distinguished (10 goals and 25 members). Maybe I’ll get some pointers on how to achieve their success. The other club to achieve highest honors is the Eloquent Speakers and Leaders Club (ESL).
I evaluated Ryan’s speech on ups and downs as he talked about his work in robotics and as President of Laurel Highlands Toastmasters. He began and ended with quotes that really stood out. “Life is like a Rollercoaster” at the beginning, and his famous coined phrase to close out the speech, “R. I. O. T.” The latter stands for “Relax, It’s Only Toastmasters”.
He was able to bounce back after sharing tragic news that derailed the high he was on during his holiday weekend at camp. I liked how he covered in the speech, using good vocal variety.
I have reached out to South Hills Toastmasters about visiting on the Tuesday that I’m on vacation. The club has 28 members and has met all ten goals. Also, the day before, I plan to visit Cranberry High Noon. They’re a few speeches and a couple of members away from Smedley Distinguished too.
A visit to the Johnstown club is in the plans for October.
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