Start of Speech Crafter Program Sept. 30, 2010

On Thursday Sept 30th, we started our Speechcraft workshop with two participants (Diane Schalk and Joan Dietrich). We had very good attendance with 13 members including our newest member Lucy D'Arcey-Curran. The theme for the night was "Hats" and pretty well everyone either was wearing or brought their favourite hat.

The chairperson for the meeting and for our Speechcraft program is Richard Boertien. He was well prepared and had lots of fun with the theme. When he was introducing everyone, he had a special hat for that person.

Our Toast and Timer was Marilyn Miller who was performing the role for her first time. She did a great job with her toast to Canada and included our theme. The Grammarian role was filled by Heidi Menzi and she challenged us to use the word "Onamonapia". George Nichol did the role of Literary Corner where he read an interesting story about a dog called "Tip".

Next our chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters the Importance of Public Speaking. Diane Bender did the Educational Session on "Selecting Your Topic" and I gave the sample Icebreaker speech which was called "My Time at Campbell`s Soup". Keith McCluskie did a great job evaluating the speech by giving some great glow points speech and showing the speechcrafters how we give instant feedback.

Jane Stoltz had everyone describe why they picked the hat they did for Table Topics. We ended up with a 3 way tie for the winner (George Nichol, Audrey Orth and Diane Bender). Audrey Orth as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting.