Excellent recap Dirk. Love the phrase it was a solid bus. And nice comments
on Durga and Jerrod. And adding color does add bling. Thank you for recapping
for me. Alan
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-------- Original message --------From: dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 7/2/17 8:57 AM
(GMT-07:00) To: frtm club <frtm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: FRTM - You Shoulda
Been There
I'll start by stating the obvious, "You shoulda been there!"
Jonathan ran this week’s meeting with the theme of alien conspiracy theories.
This involved discussing information that demonstrated an extraterrestrial
involvement with Earth.
He made his case with things like testimonials from military generals,
discussed a device found which was put on a workbench and ran for two years --
with no power! Furthermore, he presented physical evidence like the Starchild
skull that has DNA and other elements that scientists have not been able to
connect back to known materials on Earth. Bill, you shoulda been there 'cause
it may have given you new fodder to look for with the rovers on Mars.
The meeting had four really interesting speeches - three not of your standard
"five-to-seven" variety.
Marietta gave a recap of her HPL Conference chair project -- a report on her
video marketing effort. You can tell your planning was effective by how many
places the wheels came off the bus and by what I heard, it was a solid bus!
Good job Marietta!
Robin enlightened us with one of his best presentations yet! It was presented
seriously in three parts. He had Jeff Stoll join him on stage so that he could
council Jeff on techniques to keep his presentations from running over time.
The rationale from Robin was the he wanted to vote for Jeff as best speaker and
because he ran over time he could not do that. Jeff and Robin arrived at the
conclusion that where most people can have three points in a 5-7 speech, Jeff
will need to pare it down to a single point going forward. So, here is a "You
must be there" moment where you need to see Jeff's next presentation! This is
directly coupled with "You shoulda been there" to see Robin tactfully and
effectively help Jeff. Good job you two!
Alan took the stage with a folk tale. As you know, our club has recently been
putting an emphasis on gestures. Alan's folk tale required him to beat a dog
with a stick, emulate water and fire, show a butcher both being hung and
chopping, an ox, a mouse, a cat, etc... repeatedly. This was such an energetic
speech that Alan was panting being out of breath midway through! I'm telling
you, Y-S-H-B-T!
Finally, Colette did an interpersonal relationship exercise. She brought in
her own speech partner from another club! That's right, Sandra Oliver -- new
meat! Colette did a superb job and in the end, the two of them figured out
where to go to eat. Perhaps a little anti-climatic(!), but entertaining
none-the-less.
Jennifer was our Table Topics Maiden, and she used slides/images to show alien
related images, requesting the respondents to explain what was going on. A
giant alien house? A skull that apparently did not come from any homo sapien.
Yes, this could have been you dealing with this stuff! But in this case it was
Ray, Sandra & Kathy who got to be creative.
Finally, Katelynn was our General Evaluator. She gave an outstanding
evaluation of the meeting. Russ used a positive/negative technique for
evaluation. Adam used a chronological technique. Richa used the manual
evaluation points as her guide. And Jerrod (What??? Jerrod was there too, and
you weren't?) used the tried and proven sandwich technique.
Of all the ancillary roles, however, I thought Durga's inspiration was the
best. She hand wrote-out what she wanted to say and carefully and eloquently
read a story about a person with Alzheimer’s that demonstrated absolute love.
It was awesome. Durga, I loved it.
When it was all said and done, best Table Topics went to Ray, best evaluator
went to Adam, and best speaker went to Alan!
Next week its the Jeff Stoll Show -- don't miss it!Also, next week its
out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new officer team. Especially if you're an
officer, you should be there!
Have a safe and fun Independence Day my friends!
Dirk Kittredge(this week filling in for your humble Secretary, Alan Wong)
