Fellow Toastmasters,
And The Winners Are:(drum roll) Best Speaker: Evan Robbins, with his Icebreaker (with nary a note, except for a humorous "legal" warning).(All took heart: he could have read us our rights or even read us the riot act.); Best Evaluator was Joy Cole, and Best Table Topics, Kevin Higgins.
At Thursday's meeting Evan's Ice-Breaker was so polished it shone, and on top of that we heard two award-winning speeches. What talents SDTM has. We were all at a loss when the Table Topics Master AKA Byron Robertson asked for a rap on an animal. So belatedly, here's a Rap for Toastmaster Homo sapiens:
"Calling All Members to the Fore
(Boom cha cha Boom Diddy Boom)
We've Got Some Now But We Need Some More
(Boom Cha Cha Boom Diddy Boom!)"
To be exact, SDTM does need 3 more members to qualify for yet another Smedley award. Let's get a reclamation project going for the rest ot the year, which should net some more good people.
Tom Baugh came up with a Word of the Day which no doubt earned the most use during any recent meeting. Perhaps everyone was thinking about the first syllable in the Word: "Ginormous." Rumor has it, however, that the first syllable actually rhymes with "By;" but if it takes a little imaginary to gets us actually using the word ....
No doubt, due to the tone set at the beginning and the expert Humorous speeches, the meeting flew by in a relaxed, informative way. Theresa Bruce gave her District Contest Speech, where she won Second Place with "Toastmasters & Dating." (Theresa is a font of innovation when it comes to finding news that Toastmaters can use.) District Winner Jeff Walton gave another view of "The Dating Game" from the father's perspective. Both had some side splitters.
Finally, in a Round Robin Evaluation, the members passed on a few fine points to our Winners to aid them in the upcoming competition, e.g., plan in advance for something to go wrong at the last minute, so you can kick it to the curb and go on. Evan, who must have been a Boy Scout, observed that when a speaker's microphone suddenly went dead, the speaker said "I've talked to more dead Mikes than an Irish funeral director" and went on.
All yuks aside, the President closed the meeting by urging all to cheer our winners on at the Area Speech Contest, September 8, to be held in Durant.
Next meeting: September 13, at the Renaissance. Join us almost any Thursday, except holidays and special days, at 6:30 a.m.