Sherman DayBreak

November 8 Meeting

The Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster Club had a great meeting  Thursday November, 8, 2007. Seventeen members and three guest were called to order by Acting Sergeant at Arms Jeff Walton. Club President Lee Clayton was the Toastmaster for today's meeting.

We had three outstanding speeches:  "Who are our leaders of the future?" was the subject of a speech by Richard Sneed. Patty Barker spoke on "Sandpaper people" and David Hames speech was titled "Transformers". His subject was on antibiotics and how they can change.
Kevin Higgins acted as the General Evaluator and introduced the evaluator for each speaker. Michael Hicks was the Evaluator for Richard Sneed, Tim Dungan the Evaluator for Patty Baker and Jeff Walton the Evaluator for David Hames.

Richard Sneed and Patty Baker tied for the best speaker ribbon. Jeff Walton was voted best Evaluator.

If you missed today's meeting, be sure to be at our next meeting November 15, 2007 6:30 A.M. at the Renaissance. Mark December 13, 2997 on your calendar as we will have the Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster Christmas partyon this date.

November 1 Sherman Daybreak meeting

A great Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster Club meeting was held Thursday morning November 1, 2007. The meeting was called to order by Sergeant at Arms Sue Bird at 6:30 A.M.  David Hames was outstanding as our Toastmaster for the meeting. If you were not at the meeting, you missed two great "ice breaker" speeches. Gwen Braxton talked about good things that come from the "projects" and Linda Taylor ask "Do you know Who I am." They were two of the best "ice breaker" speeches we have had. Gwen Braxton won the best speaker ribbon.
     Lee Clayton was the Table Topic Master and Michael Hicks won the best Table Topics speaker.
Joy Cole was voted the best Evaluator of the meeting. 
     What a wonderful way to start the day by taking part in the Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster Club. Be sure to be at our next Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster meeting Thursday, November 8, 2007, at 6:30 A.M. We will have three speeches and Joy Cole will lead our Table Topic with Lee Clayton as our Toastmaster.

Meeting on October 11

Thursday morning 10-11-2007

Toastmaster for the meeting was:    Kevin Higgins

Best Speaker award went to:           Jeff Walton

Best Evaluator award went to:        Michael Hicks

Table Topic award went to:            Tim Duncan

We had 11 members and guest. Dean Speder was guest of Lee Clayton. One new member- Gwen Braxton. Welcome to the Sherman Daybreak Toastmasters Club.

We had two speakers this morning: Jeff Walton--Subject: "The REAL story of the Three Little Pigs" and Richard Sneed - Subject: "So You Want to Make a Speech"

We had several members out of town this week. The members and guest that were here had a great meeting. It was full of life, great fun, and outstanding fellowship.  Be sure to join us next Thursday.

Richard F. Sneed
VP of Public Relations

First Quarter results for Sherman Daybreak are IN!!!

The first quarter has ended and now is the time to take a quick look back and see what we have accomplished in Sherman Daybreak since July 1, 2007.

1 - ACB for Theresa Bruce (1 DCP Point)
6 - Ice Breaker Speeches (two more scheduled!)
8 - New members  (2 DCP Points)
Winner of the District's High 5 membership Award
SMEDLEY AWARD WINNER!

We came so close to having a High 10 Award and a DOUBLE SMEDLEY!!!!!!  Hey, the District didn't even know these two awards existed until we invented them!

However, now is not the time to look back on accomplishement but the time to look forward to the next quarter.  The EC committee has met every month and we are on track to complete President's Distinguished (drum roll, please) for the 8th CONSECUTIVE YEAR! ... not by June 30....but by March 31, 2008.  By December 31, I expect two CC's and one more ACB to be earned.....AT A MINIMUM!  We still have one member scheduled to receive a DTM this year......assuming she can get the paperwork submitted!

Sherman Daybreak Toastmasters continues to be the PREMIER CLUB in North Texas!  Remember the challenge for our first meeting in October.....PACK THE ROOM!  We will hear a ice breaker speech (Linda Taylor) AND a CC speech (Sue Bird giving speech #10).  We need to pack the room out for these two ladies and give them a terrific audience to demonstrate their skills!

Lee Clayton, President

Speak-A-Thon Thursday

What a novel problem to have....needing more speaking slots!  Where Sherman Daybreak is having that problem, other clubs in North Texas are stuggling to have A speaker.  The Executive Committee met Tuesday morning and talked extensively about speaking slots.  We are going to have a Speak-A-Thon on the FIRST Thursday of every month......starting with the first October meeting.  On Speak-A-Thon Thursdays we will have 5 speaker slots (all will be 5-7 minutes) and 5 evaluators.  We will forgo Table Topics and any other filler material that takes up time.  Speak-A-Thon's will be constantly evaluated to make sure that they are meeting the need and not just taking slots from other Thursdays and moving them to the Speak-A-Thon day.  You may type a comment to leave on this subject.

September 6 Sherman Daybreak

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.