A Visit from a Toastmaster Area Governor

Attendance 14 (1 New, 1 Second Visit and 1 Guest and 11 Regulars)
Meeting Duration – 12pm-1:10pm
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

This week’s meeting began with a welcome to our guests in attendance and a short address by Area 41 Governor Hsiao-Bai (Bob) Wu. In addition to some words of encouragement, Bob gave an overview of the Toastmaster International organizational structure and made a call to members regarding our vacant Area 40 governorship. As described, governors try to visit multiple clubs and observe as often as they can. Anyone interested in taking on the vacant Area office can contact club officers and we’ll forward your information on to Bob.

Today’s meeting took on a different form than many recent ones. Our program included three prepared speeches instead our customary two so Table Topics and Word of the Day weren’t included this week.

Angelia Watkins was first up and performed like a veteran in her Icebreaker (Speech 1). Speaking on the virtues of being kind and a good deed she performed. She pleasantly described in detail on how she communicated basic information (hand gesturing the numbers 4-4-4 or making a circle to describe a bus) and helped a lost pair of non-English speaking visitors from China travel to the other side of town on the bus system. Her warm manner and emotional delivery easily won the audience over and received high marks from Falan Guan during evaluation.

I (Joe Simpson) presented my fifth speech, Your Body Speaks describing membership for the ladies in attendance into an exclusive secret society - Foot. The goal of this speech was to demonstrate use of body gestures and Garth Garrett’s evaluation was a great example of the same. It opened with a call for a cheer, was very energetic and was very constructive in demonstrating how to strengthen this type of project.

Kathy Hendry completed her tenth speech (Inspire Your Audience) in the Communications and Leadership Program, Inspire Your Audience. CONGRATULATIONS on this accomplishment! Donning a headset, visual aids and her usual wit, Kathy described the reasons why we procrastinate. Drena Graham’s evaluation was very positive and during our guest roundtable, Paul Burke’s comments were very thorough and insightful. His comments seemed as if he were a seasoned evaluator. Everyone’s comments and input was appreciated and is ALWAYS welcome.

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