November 5, 2009
Welcome to Mission Chapter Toastmasters. Our club was founded in 1979 and is open to the community. If you live in the Santa Barbara area and are looking for a Toastmaster club to join or just check out. We would like to welcome you as guest. Semi-annual dues are modest and include a subscription to the Toastmaster Magazine.
Where: St. Raphael Catholic Church 5444 Hollister Ave, Goleta. Community Meeting Room “A”
Turn from Hollister on to (Signal Light) Sumida Garden Lane, then right into San Raphael Church. Plenty of parking at the North end of the property. The Community Center Rooms face to the East. (Mission Toastmasters Directions)
When: Every Tuesday evening from 5:40PM to 7:10PM (best to arrive a few minutes early).
Questions? Please call us at 805-682-6943. Leave a message, we’ll call you back. Or email Grace Rachow grachow@aol.com
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Posted by Ron
November 5, 2009
Ron will be our Toastmaster and the theme will be “Battery Powered“
Jokemaster Thia
Speaking tip Christine
Word-of-the-day Mary-Jo
Ah-counter Debbie
Timer Juan
Speakers: Stephanie, Pat, Grace
Tabletopics Larry
General Evaluator Keith. with Ann, Molly and Mark evaluating.
Awardmaster Zac
Rooney Sam
Back-up speaker Thia
Members RSVP and or questions to Ron
And of course bring a guest, or here is your invitation to come as a guest (no need to RSVP, just show up)
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Posted by Ron
November 5, 2009
Our first meeting at St. Rafael. We all paid homage to Sam for securing our new meeting room. It is excellent.
Christine was our Toastmaster and her theme was time.
Ann provided our word of the day insinuate which we did plenty of in the meeting.
Ron was our ah counter. There was a bounty.
Juan brought us our joke.
Timing by Zac.
Speaking tip by Thia
Our first speaker was Mark with a very humorous and insightful look at the Movie Biz.
Molly was our next speaker who made a powerful case that going to the Movies all by yourself was perfect.
Our third speaker was Carol who gave us an informative overview of bonds and the bond market.
Our Tabletopics Master was Debbie who brought some controversy to Tabletopics. We all stayed civil. And Sam did win in an arm wrestling bout with Ron.
Larry was our General Evaluator with Stephanie, Mary-Jo and Karen evaluating.
Presenting the awards was Grace.
Mary-Jo gave us a “Rooney”
We had one guest, Michael.
18 in attendance.
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Posted by Ron
November 1, 2009
Welcome to Mission Chapter Toastmasters. Our club was founded in 1979 and is open to the community. If you live in the Santa Barbara area and are looking for a Toastmaster club to join or just check out. We would like to welcome you as guest. Semi-annual dues are modest and include a subscription to the Toastmaster Magazine.
Where: St. Raphael Catholic Church 5444 Hollister Ave, Goleta.
Turn from Hollister on to (Signal Light) Sumida Garden Lane, then right into San Raphael Church. Plenty of parking at the North end of the property. The Community Center Rooms face to the East. (Mission Toastmasters Directions)
When: Every Tuesday evening from 5:40PM to 7:10PM (best to arrive a few minutes early).
Questions? Please call us at 805-682-6943. Leave a message, we’ll call you back. Or email Grace Rachow grachow@aol.com
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Posted by Ron
November 1, 2009
Christine will be our Toastmaster and her theme is time
Opening words Azim
Jokemaster Juan
Speaking tip Thia
Word-of-the-day Ann
Ah-counter Ron
Timer Zac
Speakers Mark, Molly & Carol
Tabletopics Debbie
General Evaluator Larry
Evaluators Keith, Mary-Jo, & Karen
Awardmaster Grace
Rooney Mary-Jo
Closer Sameer
Members RSVP and or questions to Christine
And of course bring a guest, or here is your invitation to come as a guest (no need to RSVP, just show up)
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Posted by Ron
November 1, 2009
Grace was our Toastmaster and the theme was Scary Stuff
Juan gave us our opening words – ‘have no fear.”
Jokemaster was Larry – “top ten scary houses to avoid on Halloween.”
Sam gave us our word of the day – predilection.
Ah-counting by Carol.
Timing by Thia
Awardmaster was Ann
Speaking tip was offered by Mary-Jo – “watch the time, everyone has to help keep the meeting on schedule.”
Keith was our first speaker and he gave us an overview of GPS with a humorous idea to take it to the next level.
Pat was our second speaker who made us aware of the possible risks with genetically modified foods.
Ron was our third speaker and he recounted his stay at the Orlando Hilton. Disappointing in a nutshell – stay somewhere else.
Our Tabletopic Master was Christine with scary theme questions.
Our General Evaluator was Deborah with Thia, Azim and Mark evaluating.
The “Rooney” was delivered by Zac. Who transformed himself into Andy Rooney for one minute.
Karen offered closing words.
We had two guests, Sameer and Juan. 19 in attendance.
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Posted by Ron
October 25, 2009
Welcome to Mission Chapter Toastmasters. Our club was founded in 1979 and is open to the community. If you live in the Santa Barbara area and are looking for a Toastmaster club to join or just check out. We would like to welcome you as guest. Semi-annual dues are modest and include a subscription to the Toastmaster Magazine.
* Where: Goleta Valley Boys & Girls Club 5701 Hollister Ave.
The Boys & Girls Club is located in back of the Goleta Valley Community Center on Hollister. Follow the driveway all the way…
* When: Every Tuesday evening from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm (best to arrive a few minutes early).
Questions? Please call us at 805-682-6943. Leave a message, we’ll call you back. Or email Grace Rachow at grachow@aol.com
* Mission moves on November 3rd to a new location and time (5:40 pm to 7:10 pm). Please check back for details)
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Posted by Ron
October 25, 2009
Our Toastmaster will be Grace and her theme is Scary Stuff.
Opening words: Juan
Jokemaster: Larry
Speaking tip: Mary-Jo
Word-of-the-day: Sam
Ah-counter: Carol
Timer: Thia
Tabletopics: Christine
Speakers: Pat, Keith and Ron
General Evaluator: Debbie
Evaluators: Azim, Mark, Thia
Awardmaster: Stephanie
Rooney: Zac (We are bringing back this interesting role from a long hiatus*)
Closing words: open ________
Back-up speaker: Ann
* What is a Rooney? It is a 1-minute speech in the style of Andy Rooney of 60-Minutes fame. The “Rooney” was introduced to the club by long-time Toastmaster Latifa.
Members RSVP and or questions to Grace at 805-682-6943 grachow@aol.com
And of course bring a guest, or here is your invitation to come as a guest (no need to RSVP, just show up)
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Posted by Ron
October 25, 2009
Powertalk 2009 was a huge success with the largest attendance ever. There were City College students, Toastmasters and members of the community participating. Grace, Sam, Christine, Mary-Jo, Keith, Karen and Ron helped and or attended the event. Powertalk is public speaking workshop series held on a Saturday each year at SBCC in conjunction with local Toastmaster Clubs.
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Posted by Ron
October 25, 2009
Comfort Foods was the theme brought to us by our Toastmaster Ann.
Ann also brought some delicious Cup Cakes and had a very artful agenda. Thank you Ann.
Azim delivered opening words and gave us an overview of benefits of the CFL light-bulb. By saving money on electricity, there could be more money for comfort foods.
Word of the day was brought to us by Thia and the word was concomitant.
Sam was our timer.
Keith shared with us a speaking tip – reminding us that with humor, stretching the truth was a trusted ally.
Our Jokemaster was Karen
Our first speaker was Mark who introduced us to the brief story of his life including an illustration showing his Golden Years (which in this example is not to be confused with retirement)
Our second speaker was Grace who dramatized a yoga injury and transformed the experience into a life lesson. If we did not know it was a reenactment, we would have had to call for medivac.
And finally Larry gave us in miniature play that had several members of the audience helping to sell the story of Gorgonius. The person who Mount San Gorgonio was named for. Assisting Larry bring Gorgonius to life was Azim, Zac, Sam, Carol and Juan.
Our Tabletopics Master was Ron who challenged us with “Lightning Tabletopics” with less than one minute to give your responce.
Our General evaluator was Carol with Mary-Jo, Zac and Keith evaluating.
Pat was our AwardMaster.
Molly was also with us but had to leave early.
Juan was our guest also counted ahs.
We had 16 in attendance.
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