2009-07-12: History of the Christmas Tree
Phil Deland was Toastmaster of the day with his theme: "History of the Christmas Tree". Grammarian Yana Yatkovskaya had "addict" as the word-of-the-day.
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2009-05-17: Summer Vacations
Phil Deland was Toastmaster of the day with his theme: "Summer Vacations". Grammarian Yana Yatkovskaya had "trivia" as the word-of-the-day.
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2007-10-07: Murder in Paradise
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Red-shirted Toastmaster Phil Deland took us on an Agatha Christie-like whodunit mystery with his theme "Murder in Paradise". Phil dropped clues throughout the meeting then spilled-the-beans at the wrapup giving some hard-earned mint awards to those who got it right (it's okay everybody else received chocholate chip cookies for playing).
John Conley Organized His Speech from the basic manual and introduced us to Ron Pitts in his excellent speech entitled: "Someone You Should Know". He took both the Best Pre-CC Ribbon and Most Improved Speaker Ribbon. Debbie Shapiro gave us a speech about her recent wins. Seargent at Arms Bruce Delfeld talked about the problem of having a lot to talk about with "What To Talk About". Immediate past-president Jeff Harman is working from the Communicating on TV Advanced Manual doing the Straight Talk speech. Jeff's message was to "Take Heart", America is not as bad as The News makes out. Secretary Barbara Lewis did a practice technical presentation from the advanced manual "Get A Black Belt In Marketing Optimization & Increase Your Web Budget" which she will deliver and a technical conference in Washington, D.C. next week.
Our last speaker of the day was guest Subbaiah Cherumandanda practicing for the Division Tale Tales contest. He was coached by Richard Stewart whom Subbaiah had beaten in the Area Contest. Richard should have been properly humbled, but instead won both the Best and Most Improved Coach Ribbons--who knew?
The consensus is that Toastmaster Phil Deland managed to contrive (the word-of-the-day) another excellent, fun meeting for all!
