Nine members and three guests attended today’s meeting, led by our immediate past president, Dave.  The theme was “spring cleaning”.  Dave revealed that cleaning in his house involves removing massive amounts of dog hair from his furniture, clothes, and carpet (yikes!).

Raymound kicked off the speaking section of the meeting.  He spoke on the topic of personal leadership.  Personal leadership involves taking control of yourself.  In his final speech before moving out of town, Raymound cited a number of sources to support the statements made in his speech. (Competent Communication project 7, Research Your Topic)

Our club president, Ray took the lectern as our second speaker.  He revealed his vision for the club: so many members that we get noise complaints!  Ray suggested the Speechcraft program as a way to achieve this objective. (CC project 9, Persuade with Power)

Tables topics were led by Mary.  Our guest, Sally, won table topics speaking about how she hopes to get her infant daughter to landscape the front yard one day.

Our evaluators of the meeting were Sonja, Nicole, Scott, Amara and Andrew.  It was Sonja’s first outing as general evaluator, and she identified opportunities to make the club meetings more efficient.

At the end of the meeting guests Sally and Dillibe submitted their applications for membership. Yeah!

Our next meeting will be on 6/2.

The theme of this week’s Seattle Sunrise toastmasters meeting was “Law and Order”.  Our toastmaster of the morning was the honorable Scott and he led the meeting like a court proceeding.

Nicole started the speaking session by talking about an organization called Charity Water which makes water available to those in countries where clean drinking water is not accessible. (Competent Communication Project 9, Persuade with Power.)

Our second speaker, Andrew, delivered project 4 from the competent communicator manual.  His objective was to use vivid language in his speech.  The topic he chose to speak about was “crucial conversations”, or those conversations that area challenge to navigate in work and our personal lives. (CC No. 4, How to Say It)

Raymound rounded out the speaking session.  He spoke about how he was able to “bounce back” from a tough life event by “thinking like a winner”. (CC No. 6, Vocal Variety)

The court proceedings recessed into a table topics session led by Ray.  Guest, John won the best table topics by speaking about how he’s never been called to jury duty (though he would like to be).

Our evaluators of the morning were Sonja, Tammy, and Stephen.  Mary was the general evaluator of the meeting.  At the end of the meeting, the jury (all meeting attendees) found Tammy guilty of being the best evaluator of the morning.

In another development, Dave was awarded a new badge for achieving Advanced Communicator Bronze. Congratulations, Dave!

The verdicts rendered by our guests included “Fun!” and “Lots of positive energy.”

The next meeting will be on 5/19 and Dave will be the Toastmaster.

Four guests attended the Seattle Sunrise open house, including Sharon, Kathryn, Dillibe and our Division B Governor – Colin.  Amara led the meeting under the theme “spring into action”.  She called on members and guests to take charge and make their aspirations reality.

Raymound delivered his fifth speech from the Competent Communicator manual (Your Body Speaks) titled, “The Breakthrough in Self Discovery”.  Raymound spoke about the need for people to spring into action and take responsibility for their own lives.

The second speaker was Scott.  He presented project 2 from The Entertaining Speaker advanced manual (Resources for Entertainment) and proposed a solution to social awkwardness.  His suggestion:  use mace as a tool to break through the awkward silence and get people to spring in to conversation.

Our table topics session was led by Andrew.  Dave won “best table topics” by revealing that he springs into action a little too willingly.

Nicole and Colin evaluated Raymound and Scott’s speeches, respectively.  Because the meeting was led in an “open house” format, there was no general evaluator and no award was given for best evaluator.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Raymound was recognized for having completed his 5th speech since joining.  He his now half way through the Competent Communicator manual and progressing at an impressive rate.

The next meeting will be on 5/12 and will be in the atrium.

We had a fun meeting this time! Highlights:

• Andrew made his debut as the meeting emcee (“Toastmaster”)
• Steve stepped out for the first time as Table Topicsmaster
• Ray F. served as evaluator for the first time.
• Nicole tackled the research speech, Competent Communicator Project No. 7, presenting well-documented reasons to cut back on our consumption of red meat. . .
• Guest Todd C. performed his contest speech, to be given at the Division B contest as the winner from our Area 23. He received a special round-robin evaluation to give him as much feedback as possible.

 Detailed Agenda:

8:53      President Makes Closing Remarks       Ray R