Time to Rhyme

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Attendance 9

During the course of my membership in Toastmasters, I've witnessed and commented on a number of occurances in our meetings for your review. As with life, when you think you've seen everything, life shows you something new.

This week I saw something different -- and I liked it. One of our many talented new members, Paul Burke gave his audience a twist on a prepared presentation. Delivering project four, Paul shared his pain as a The Ohio State University alumnus in the form of a poem.

Although I enjoyed the pain (as a University of Michigan fan), the idea of delivering the content of a speech by rhyming for such a lenghty period of time (5 to 7 minutes) was clever indeed. Tying it together with his trademark sense of humor and good vocal variety, Paul showed the way to attempt something different successfully.

Gene Hargreaves (Treasurer) served up thought-provoking Table Topics as our nation celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr's holiday by posing questions on our views of race (Jaceri White won Best Table Topic).