Meeting #561 - August 15, 2006

We had our first meeting after our brief summer break on August 15, 2006. While it was a somewhat smaller than usual meeting, our participants were keen. Our theme was New Toastmasters Year.

We were ably led by Toastmaster Kathryn, who also brought us a Word of the Day: fauxtography, which means the staging, tampering, or otherwise directing of news photographs. Toastmaster Louise brought us a Quote of the Day. And Toastmaster John H. brought us a Joke of the Day.

Then we turned to our first speech of the day. We initially heard from Toastmaster John H., with the objectives for a Competent Toastmaster #8 speech. Then, we heard from Toastmaster Bill, with "Post-mortem of a presentation".

Then we had a bit of a Quiz on our progress so far from Toastmaster Louise. We followed this with a bit of free-flowing discussion of Toastmaster Bill's speech. This turned out to be quite successful and enjoyable for all. We may wish to include it in future meetings, if given adequate time.

Then we moved into the evaluation portion of the meeting with an evaluation from Toastmaster John H. of Toastmaster Bill's speech. Next up was General Evaluator, Toastmaster Bill, assisted by Grammarian/Ah Counter Toastmaster Angie and Timer Toastmaster Aldo.

Chair Toastmaster Kathryn returned to thank all for their enthusiasm, to review the agenda for next week, and to adjourn the meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you for on August 22!