What I like most about my appearance is it is disappearing. I wish I had your
hearing. Great recap.
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Greetings Fellow Toastmasters,
Jonathan Kolber was our wonderful Toastmasters. His theme was “water”. One
fascinating story on water was a women drinking 30 to 40 glasses of water a day
and died because she did not have enough sodium in her system. There were 13
members and one guest; Raymond Marosi.
Speaker #1: Pattie Apple. Objective on mentoring. What can a mentor do for
you? Job situations have mentors. Mentors can also be found in all parts of
life. Passion with history and genealogy. Mentor in Gayla for association.
Speaker #2: Robin McIntosh. I’m in NOOM, weight loss program. Weight at 291
pounds. Wanted the whole enchilada. NOOM combines humor and science.
Recording of weight and suggest eating habits. No food is unacceptable. What
is your big picture? Lost 23 pounds. Target weight of 240 pounds. Call to
action
Speaker #3: Susie Minsky. 20 years ago. Diagnosed with cancer twice and beat
it both times. New Orleans to Texas to Colorado. It is so refreshing we are
almost 40 years. Agree to disagree.
Table Topics Master: Katelynn Pau. Excellent questions and here are a few of
those questions and notable answers.
1. Bill Farrand. Q: Age forward or backwards? A: Age diagonally sideways.
Parallel universe where Kennedy was never assassinated and the twin towers
never fell. Problem with going backwards is getting dumber. No offense to the
younger club members.
2. Jennifer Dunne. Q: Let little things get in the way of big things? A:
Like bugs? If it flies and bites it stops everything. Aqueous stream to kill
it.
3. Robin McIntosh. Q: What do you most admire about your parents? (a side
note here, I thought I heard what do you most admire about your appearance?
And I though oh boy, Robin is going to answer my beautiful Chippendale body).
However, my hearing deceived me and that was not how he answered. A: Father
is emotional, water out of the eyes. Mother is the strong person and decision
maker.
4. Pattie Apple. Q: What makes a house a home? Spare bedroom. Children
needs to come home; no harsh judgment. A place to come home to where everybody
is happy to see you. Love and where people look forward to seeing you.
General Evaluator was our wonderful Revathy Sukumaran
#1 Evaluator Minjun Zhao on Pattie Apple. Like how speech started with a
question. Do you have a mentor? Liked how the speech was delivered.
Structure and pacing was good. Improvement suggestion on having better
descriptions on how manager helped you? What specific things? Elaborate more.
Challenge to add more emotion.
#2 Evaluator Luis Estrada on Robin McIntosh. Excellent with standing to
deliver speech. Hard time spelling NOOM. Great use of the screen. Challenge
to consider using props. Show and represent 22 pounds (and Luis actually holds
up a bag of potatoes that looks like it might be 22 pounds. Which is ever more
impressive because that means Robin lost a lot of potatoes).
#3 Evaluator Jeff Stoll on Susie Minskey. Led into history. Class reunion.
Different approach, covered a lot of things. Loved dialogue between
characters. Good vocal variety. Closed with reference back to the reunion.
Revathy evaluated the evaluators. Suggested to Minjun to turn off virtual
background because it was a distraction but it was a great evaluation. On Luis
good call out for props and images. On Jeff, good mention on position and
improvements and to be more expressive.
Best Table Topics: Pattie Apple
Best Evaluator: Minjun Zhao
Best Speaker: Robin McIntosh
Congratulations to all the Ribbon winners. It was another fun filled evening.
I enjoyed Jonathan's theme theme on water. I know I should drink more water
myself. And I do feel thirsty sometimes and actually drink water. And from
time to time, I surprise myself and say Wow, that's why people drink that.
During the break, Robin and I were talking about recaps and how different
people write them. From Robin to Jonathan to Colette. It shows how different
we all are and how great we all are. Diversity is why we're all so amazing.
If I don't say it enough, I appreciate all of you. Until next time, I am your
humble secretary.
Alan Wong
