Another fun and exciting tuesday meeting.
Our Club President David Williams started the meeting off on time with Jerry Bessette providing the invocation and pledge. We had 2 guests attending, our area governor Karen Bragg Matthews and Matt Scott. Yes Harry Kepner was there, but hard to consider him as a guest, more as Carol’s roadie. Our first order of business was to vote in our latest members Phillip Craddock and Marta Soncodi.
Then it was onto the meeting with “The Professor” Gene Deluke as presenting the theme “Hope Spring Enternal” a positive and motivating theme for a cold January Tuesday morning. He introduced her helpers; Kendall Helfenbein as Grammarian with the word of the day “sanguine”, Marta Soncodi as Ah Counter, Mike Amis as Timer and Stephen James as Vote Counter.
Gene then introduced the prepared speeches and evaluators.
- Allen Krom showed us how to use visual aids with his speech “What Keeps You Up at Night?” about employee training. With some nifty animated graphics in his slide show.
- John Wakeman gave us a personally animated speech about Dexter his new dog and tips on getting a dog of our own, with his speech “Help”. Providing three pieces of advice 1) go to a shelter for a dog, 2) how to be a responsible dog owner and 3) do your homework and research on the best breeds for your situation.
- Carol Kepner influenced us with her speech “A Woman of Influence” reading a selection from one of her favorite authors (no, I didn’t write down her name, stupid me). The she amazed us with a selection of her own authorship.
The timer’s report was requested with all speakers qualifying.
Patricia Brown took over as Table Topics Master:
- Phillip Craddock and Chad Allison provided cogent and well thought out answers to Patricia’s tough questions relating to handling tough times.
The timer’s and grammarian’s reports were requested with both speakers qualifying.
Jerry Bunk led off the evaluation portion as the General Evaluator:
- Steve Burgess evaluated Allen Krom’s speech crediting Allen for his smooth delivery and avoidance of over wordy slides.
- Rose Custodio evaluated John Wakeman’s speech commending him on this excellent use of gestures and good organization.
- Tina Drucker evaluated Carol Kepner’s reading remarking how her selection and presentation was very moving and Tina was heading straight to Amazon for a copy of the Carol’s book.
The timer’s report was requested with all speakers qualifying.
Jerry Bunk finished with his evaluation of the meeting.
Gene called for the Ah Counter’s and grammarians report’s.
Margaret present her joke about a genie who would rather build a road to Hawaii than try to teach a man to understand women.
Awards were presented by Gene to Better Table Topics: Chad Allison, Best Evaluator: Stephen Burgess, and Best Speaker: John Wakeman.
Our Area Governor, Karen Bragg Matthews, presided over the release of the outgoing officers and the induction of the new officers.
David Williams closed out the meeting with next week’s schedule.
PS> Looked like Matt Scott was filling out an application as I was headed out to work.
