Welcome back both as Recap especial and table topic extraordinaire!
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On Oct 12, 2019, at 10:56 PM, Alan Wong
<drwongdds27@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:drwongdds27@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Greetings Fellow Toastmasters,
Toastmaster of the evening was the amazing Luis Estrada. Theme was
Opportunities. There were 11 members in attendance and one guest; Alex.
Highlights of the evening.
1. There three very good speakers in Jonathan Kolber, Kathleen Jewby, and Ray
Pezolt. All very good speeches but the winner was Kathleen Jewby with her
Rabbit ears and listening skills.
2. Break with Ice Cream by Luis Estrada. No matter how difficult of a day
anyone has. Ice Cream makes it all better.
3. Table Topics by Bill Farrand with interesting questions. Jeff Stoll. 40th
wedding anniversary and you forgot. Alex was our guest and he also
participated in table topics. Extra points for being over dressed in a Velvet
Blazer. One is never over educated and one is never over dressed. (next time
I'm showing up in a tuxedo). And me with the question, what do you do when
someone comes up to you and they obviously know you but you don't know them.
4. Best Evaluator was Colette Smith, evaluating Jonathan Kolber. Excellent
sandwich technique with her evaluation. Robin also gave an excellent
evaluation on Kathleen Jewby's saying it was by far her best speech ever. I
evaluated Ray's speech, Flight plan on success. Great speech, great slides.
Take off full throttle.
5. Ribbon winners were Colette Smith for best Evaluator. Kathleen Jewby for
best Speaker. And myself for best Table Topics.
Congratulations to all the ribbon winners. I've been away for the past three
weeks which is unusual. And being away I've had time to reflect on
toastmasters. It's a commitment to have to be there every week but it's worth
it. It's an opportunity to grow and an opportunity to support others. Being
that opportunity was the theme of the evening, another word for opportunity is
"choice". Long ago, it was Luis that mentioned - Tonight I could be anywhere
else and I choose to be at Toastmasters.
Quote: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ----- Plato.
Until next week, I am your humble secretary.
Alan Wong
