February 7, 2010
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 our 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
February 7, 2010
Toastmaster Zac, theme FOOTBALL (not soccer, would be my guess).
Opener: Stephanie
Jokemaster: Molly
Speaking tip: Karen
Speakers: Karthik, Christine, Keith
Tabletopics: Larry
General Evaluator: Crystal
Evaluators: Justin, Carol, Azim
Timer: Debbie
Word-of-the-day: Sam
Ah counter: Ron
Rooney: Lynn (This role now will come before the awards)
Awardmaster: Ann
Closer: Jim
Thia will not be able to make the meeting.
Back-up Speaker: Grace
Members RSVP and or questions to Zac
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
February 7, 2010
Carol was our presiding officer.
Karen was our Toastmaster and her theme was “Movies“
Zac gave us our opening words with advice to see movies, especially “chick flicks” to insure marital harmony.
Azim was our Ah-Counter and gave us serendipity as our word of the day.
Thia was our Jokemaster with the perfect dog/movie joke.
Debbie offered an educational on evaluation.
Grace gave us our speaking tip – how to give and receive awards.
Speakers
Pat speech was on her favorite activists. She made a strong pitch for The Harmony Program.
Justin spoke about his favorite director James Cameron.
Crystal reminded us of the value of chiropractic.
Ron led a lightning round of Tabletopics introducing the “Respond-O-Meter”, the “Time-O-Meter” and the “Truth-O-Meter.”
General Evaluator was Thia with Keith, Ann and Karthik evaluating.
AwardMaster was Jim.
Shylu did the Rooney and it must have been darn good, she got a rare or maybe even unheard of spontaneous standing ovation.
Lynn was our guest and she is now our newest member.
We had 17 in attendance.
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Posted by Ron
January 30, 2010
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 our 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
January 30, 2010
Karen will be the Toastmaster and her theme is “Movies“
Opener Zac
Jokemaster Thia
Speaking Tip Grace
Speakers Crystal, Pat, Justin
Tabletopics Ron
General Evaluator Thia
Evaluators Keith, Ann, Karthik
Word-of-the-day and ah counter Azim
Rooney Shylu
AwardMaster Jim
Closer Azim
Unable to attend: Larry, Christine, Molly, Stephanie.
(If you have more than one role it is possible that one of the roles might be offered to a member who comes to the meeting without one)
Members RSVP and or questions to Karen
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
January 30, 2010
Grace was the Toastmaster and her theme was “Trains“.
We chugged right into the meeting with Ann doing opening words sharing some early train memories.
Keith offered the speaking tip, tooting the merits of the 3″ x 5″ index card.
Thia offered our word of the day “meretricious” as well as did the ah counting (which I might add was very complete).
Jokemaster was Stephanie.
Timer was Crystal.
Molly was our first speaker offering “The Case for Divorce”, a counterpoint to Ron’s recent speech on how to stay married forever.
Our second speaker was Azim with part two of reflecting on the news makers of 2009.
Our third speaker was Christine with a ride down memory lane, describing rather poetically some of her experiences cycling in Santa Barbara.
Tabletopics Master was Justin who was on theme with his train-related questions.
Our General Evaluator was Keith with Ron, Jim and Karen evaluating.
Zac was our AwardMaster.
Larry did our Rooney (it was a rather nice short play).
Pat was our caboose did closing words.
Carol and Karthik were also at the meeting. Karthik’s wife Shylu was our guest.
We had 19 in attendance.
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Posted by Ron
January 23, 2010
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 our 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
January 23, 2010
Grace will be the Toastmaster and the theme is “Trains“
Opening Words: Ann
Jokemaster: Stephanie
Speaking Tip: Keith
Speakers: Molly, Azim, Christine
General Evaluator: Keith
Evaluators: Ron, Jim, Karen
Word of the day: Thia
Ah-Counter: Thia
Timer: Ron
Award Master: Zac
Rooney: Larry
Closer: Pat
Back-up Speaker: Carol
(If you have more than one role it is possible that one of the roles might be offered to a member who comes to the meeting without one)
Members RSVP and or questions to Grace
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
January 23, 2010
Ron was the Toastmaster and the theme was “Stars and Planets“
(If you are an iPhone or iPod touch user Ron recommends the application “Planets”)
Thia offered the opening words. “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas” which is a mnemonic to help remember the order of the planets in our solar system. Starting with Mercury…and some of us still consider Pluto more than just a Disney character.
Azim was acting Sergeant at Arms.
Karen’s guest Steve provided the joke.
Word-of-the-day and Ah-Counting by Zac. The word – lanai.
Speaking Tip by Christine
Speakers
Karen spoke on her pest removal expertise. A second career maybe?
Ann spoke on her recent trip to Hawaii with Zac. We were all ready to board the next flight.
Grace spoke on resolutions and her first one admitted too.
Tabletopics Master was Keith
General Evaluator was Christine with Justin, Thia and Pat evaluating.
Awardmaster was Justin
Jim offered out “Rooney”
Crystal was the closer.
We had 14 in attendance.
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Posted by Ron
January 17, 2010
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 our 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
