2010-01-17: Rachel Ladd-Delgado, Newest Renaissance Speaker
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Our newest member, Rachel Ladd-Delgado was welcomed by President Roberta Perry after being voted in by the membership. Rachel pledged to abide by the Toastmasters International guidelines and our Renaissance Speakers policy and to, above all, Have Fun!
Congratulations and Welcome Rachel we can hardly wait to learn about you in your Icebreaker speech. We home your journey in Toastmasters is both educational, fulfilling and (of course) fun!
2010-01-10: Elvis - Happy 75th Birthday
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Toastmaster of the day Roberta Perry hosted a celebration: "Elvis - Happy 75th Birthday" remembering The King with stories about her visit to Nashville and Graceland. Grammarian Sue Zenger talked of the "ubiquitous" presence of rock-and-roll with her word-of-the-day.
Table Topics Master Yana Yatkovskaya joined right in the theme with her fun questions.
The meeting's prepared speeches were delivered by: Marie Warren, Willard Michlin, Annette McCullough, Susan Boughton, Bill Moon and Barbara Lewis.
Let the Renaissance continue...
2009-12-20: The Joy of Giving
Toastmaster of the day Roberta Perry with her theme: "The Joy of Giving" talked about our relations with others and the fun it is to give gifts to others! Grammarian Bruce Delfeld would "bestow" upon us a word-of-the-day as his gift.
Table Topics Master Mick Coventry asked (of course) unique questions and challenged us to answer up.
The meeting's prepared speeches were delivered by: Christina Warren, Marie Warren, Paula Michel, Annette McCullough, Cliff Noble and Bill Moon.
Let the Renaissance continue...
2009-09-13: 20 Years Young!
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Club President, Club Co-Founder and Toastmaster of the day Roberta Perry hosted our 20th Anniversary meeting "20 Years Young!" with hoopla, cheers and lot's of guests. Grammarian Val Rodionov supplied us with a "stupendous" word-of-the-day used throughout the meeting.
Table Topics Master Saffouh Dabboussi provided stupendously applicable questions to enliven the crowd, and we all ate cake during the break!
Our speakers for the day were: Guy Martin who told us about himself in his Icebreaker speech while revealing his comic sense of humor, Paula Michel who "...got to the point", Annette McCullough, then birthday boy Ray Korns, Ingrid Smith, who may have been taken advantage of and lastly Lance Miller.
The Coaching was, as usual, brilliant, insightful and fun. The guest comments showed all had a good time! Here's to twenty more years!
2009-03-29: A Story Behind Every Word!
Roberta Perry was Toastmaster of the day with her theme: "A Story Behind Every Word!". Grammarian Val Rodionov had "imbibe" as the word-of-the-day.
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2007-09-02: The Joy of Work!
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Distinguished Toastmaster and club Co-Founder Roberta Perry was Toastmaster for the Labor Day version of Renaissance Speakers. Her theme: "The Joy of Work!" was easy on those who love what they do for employment and hard for those who feel otherwise.
Table Topics Master Lance Miller picked right up on Roberta's theme asking questions that gave us ample opportunity to expound pro and con about different jobs we have held and loved or despised. Mike Baron won the "best" ribbon for his slightly discreditable tale on after high-school employment.
Newest Renaissance member, John Conley won the "most improved" ribbon with his excellent speech: "Imagination". Keeping with the theme Carol Worthey, in a new impromptu "Icebreaker," demonstated her most recent creative work products. Mick Coventry in the funniest "non-funny" speech became astronomical in attempting a science lesson with "Space, the Final Frontier" (I seem to have heard that title before. Hummmm?) Mick's wife Kathy Coventry blew us all away with a non-funny speech that netted her the "best speaker" ribbon. Cathy Bersier gave us a version of a speech she is preparing for her work entitled: "The Problem is the Solution." Lastly, Barbara Lewis working from an Advanced Manual helped her (pretend) client Ray Korns to see the value of her software product with some role playing following a speech "Helping the Client." The whole club helped during her question and answer period immediately following the speech.
While we were cool in the Little Theatre, Mother Nature used Cliff Noble's word-of-the-day "Global Warming" to increase the outside air temperature to 99 degrees Farhenheit.
The whole meeting was topped off when Club Coach and wordsmith Sue Zenger used the word "Gleen" making our day!
