Silver Spring Toastmasters November 3, 2010 Meeting Summary by Desiree Payne

We soared to another exciting and memorable meeting as our Club President , Mel Bayo, transitioned from his Presidential role to his speech project for the evening, from the Advanced Communication Series Storytelling Manual.

He told a historical story and captured our undivided attention as he enlightened us about Sir William Osler, one of the greatest icons of modern medicine who organized the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and later became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford.

Mel’s speech (taken from Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living") entitled “Day-Tight Compartments”, was a story telling lesson on how to live one’s life worry-free by preparing for the future by doing your best of today’s work today.

Oswaldo Ortega, one of our newer members, is definitely soaring through the Competent Communicator's Manual without missing a beat. Oswaldo’s speech, entitled “Emotional Intelligence, It's All About Your EQ Not Your IQ” took us on an emotional journey and encouraged us to be honest with ourselves. He touched on social awareness and relationship management. It was a teachable moment.

David Buresh, Club Vice President of Education, presented “A Hat, A Coat, A Chair: How to Mix Topics, Skills and Audiences as You Move Through the Toastmaster Communication Series” Project #3 from the Technical Presentations Manual in the Advanced Communication Series.

WOW! By literally moving completely around the room, donning and removing jackets and hats AND changing his view of the audience by alternately standing on chairs and the floor, David actively and cleverly demonstrated how to use various speaking skills and tools to accomplish our Toastmaster speech goals.

Talking about creativity, we have that too at Club 1314. Barry Piatt, our District Lieutenant Governor of Education and Training and club member, presented “The Talk Show” which was a project from the Advanced Communication Series (Communication on Television).

The topic of Barry’s Talk Show was the Annual District 36 Fall Conference. He detailed the itinerary for the two day event and aroused everyone’s interest and curiosity . Barry was interviewed by Joan Phillips and videotaped by Mike Nolan who transitioned from Toastmaster of the Evening to do the taping. We are multi-talented and we multitask expertly.

Three of our speech evaluators for the evening were Fiona Morrissey, Merlyn Kettering (Area 62 Governor) and Maxine Blanks. Each did an outstanding job as they put the icing on the cake.

Marcia Snyder was excellent as our Table Topic Master for the evening. She appropriately selected Autumn and Halloween as the theme for Table Topics.

And to round out yet another fantastic Silver Spring Toastmaster meeting Bill Aley was Master Evaluator. He actively conducted the evaluation process as he cheerfully moved us toward the meeting conclusion.