Meeting attendees were; Heidi Menzi, Jane Stoltz, Val Hummel, Tony Galvao, Vern Noseworthy, Brent Jemmett, Leo Brisebois, Keith McCluskie, Keith Stoltz, Audrey Orth, and Apryl Browning.
Speech craft participants were; Horst Dankewitz and Daniela Tremlin.
Vern
Noseworthy called the meeting to order.
Tony Galvao welcomed everyone and had everyone participate in
introductions. Audrey Orth served as
Toast and Timer for the evening. She
explained her role then read a short story from a Chicken Soup for the Soul
book before her toast to Canada. Brent explained his role as Grammarian and
identified the word of the evening as “Tenuous”. Tony provided a short session on the
importance of public speaking in everyday life.
Jane gave an education module called “Selecting Your Topic” for the
benefit of the Speechcrafters and as a refresher for regular members. She encouraged attendees to talk about what
they know, and identified many potential speech subjects including hobbies,
jobs, trips, health, pets, home renovations, social activities and TV
shows. Speech topics can be found in
everyday life, you can Google topics, and use books and magazines for
inspiration. Religion and politics are
to be avoided.
Apryl
and Vern gave demonstration ice breaker speeches. Table topics followed with Apryl starting the
group off with a story and each person added to the story. The final outcome was humorous.
Speech
evaluations were next with Leo evaluating Apryl and Val evaluating Vern. Tony then gave the Speechcrafters their
assignments for January 24th.
They must read Chapters 1-3 in the Speech craft manual and prepare a
short ice breaker speech for next week.
Keith
Stoltz was the general evaluator. He
noted that the Speech craft participants will need mentors assigned. He suggested the introductions be repeated at
the next meeting but with people introducing someone different. He encouraged members to help out with the Speech
craft program as much as possible.
Submitted by,
Val Hummel
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