Toastmaster: Bernadette Medeiros
Speaker: Jill Allen
Evaluator: Wes Johnson
General Evaluator: Rick Santos
Table Topics Master: Della Johnson

 

The versatility of a Toastmaster shows when we have absences in our membership. A small but mighty group carried out a great meeting this week. We welcomed back Carlos and Andrea and as well as a 1st time visitor, Juan Maestre. Soon our small but might group will not be so small!

Toastmaster: Jim Prestwood
Speaker #1: Richard Santos
Speaker #2: Wes Johnson
Evaluator #1: Renee Fink
Evaluator #2: Richard Santos
Table Topics: Renee Fink
General Evaluator: Della Johnson

Wes continued his Motvational Strategies path by sharing about “My Mentor Protege Experience”.

Rick laid out the plans for his High Performance Leadership project with District 39 Toastmasters.

Carlos showed us that you don’t have to be a seasoned Toastmaster to win Best Table Topics. Congrats to Carlos and next week we’ll welcome him as our newest member. Yeah!

Once again our club produced a great meeting with speakers and Table Topics. Bernadette handled her first assignment as Toastmaster like a veteran. Another ‘first’ for the evening was Jill giving her “Icebreaker” speach.

Toastmaster: Bernadette Medeiros
Speaker #1: Renee Fink
Speaker #2: Jill Allen
Evaluator #1: Jim Prestwood
Evaluator #2: Richard Santos
Table Topics Master: Jim Prestwood
General Evaluator: Wes Johnson

A very busy meeting tonight! Besides our usual 2 speakers and evaluators, tonight Wes inroduced a small change in Table Topics. He was required to have a verbal evaluation of his presentation of Table Topics based on his Active Listening skills. Even though we were a little short-handed, everyone picked it up and filled the gaps. Success!

Toastmaster: Rick Santos
Speaker #1: Della Johnson – “Childhood Seizures and Epilepsy”
Speaker #2: Bernadette Medeiros – “Icebreaker”
Evaluator #1: Renee Fink
Evaluator #2: Rick Santos
Evaluator #3: Jim Prestwood
Table Topics Master: Wes Johnson
General Evaluator: Jim Prestwood

Della’s speech on “Childhood Seizures and Epilepsy” was a personal story and was good enough to garner Best Speaker Award for tonight.

Bernadette’s Icebreaker Speech (her first at Toastmasters) was about her family’s love of water skiing. She also added some history of water skiing.

Wes gave a theme in accordance with the season and Table Topics was focused on Valentine’s Day. We had a tie for Best Table Topics Speaker between Daniel and Bernadette.

 

This was an educational meeting. Our speaker, Rick Santos, presented an education module from Toastmasters’ Better Club Series: Evaluate to Motivate. This module emphasized the importance of giving positive feedback to the speaker at the same time as giving ways to improve their speaking skills.

Toastmaster: Della Johnson
Speaker: Rick Santos
Evaluator: Wes Johnson
Table Topics Master: David Cushman
General Evaluator: Jill Allen

David kept us on our toes in Table Topics matching historical figures and mythical characters with positions in life that may or may not have been suitable for them. Our objective was to support the match or not.

Renee Fink was selected as giving the Best Table Topics speech.

 

We had two guests tonight: Donna Benz and Harjit Kaur. We appreciate their visit and hope to see them again soon.

What a great meeting tonight! It was our Open House and Ben Cantu, candidate for Mayor of Manteca, was our special guest speaker.

Jim Prestwood gave a Toastamonial (Toastmasters testimony) about his experience with Toastmasters.

Ben spoke about the needs of the City of Manteca and what he would do as mayor to meet those needs. 

Jim Prestwood led Table Topics giving all in attendance an opportunity to speak for a couple of minutes with only a moments notice of the topic. Roman Neri, a first-time guest at the meeting, won the Best Table Topics award. Yeah Roman!

Angela Boykins was also in attendance for the first time.

We look forward to Roman and Angela returning as members.

Toastmaster: Wes Johnson
General Evaluator: Rick Santos
Speaker 1: Jim Prestwood (Toastamonial)
Speaker 2: Ben Cantu, mayoral candidate
Evaluator for Ben: Renee Fink
Table Topics: Jim Prestwood

Small group, but still a great meeting.

Toastmaster: Jill Allen
Speaker #1: Bernadette Medeiros
Speaker #2: David Cushman
Evaluator #1: Rick Santos
Evaluator #2: Renee Fink
General Evaluator: Jim Prestwood

Jill showed her growing skills as a leader by running a smooth meaning with great transitions between speakers.

Bernadette gave her Icebreaker Speech, telling how she expects Toastmasters will help her improve her leadership and management skills for a future promotion.

David’s speech was an endorsement for Ben Cantu as Mayor of the City of Manteca.

A full schedule tonight and a great meeting, led by Toastmaster of the Day, Jill Allen.

Toastmaster: Jill Allen
Speaker 1: Daniel Blunt
Speaker 2: Wes Johnson
Evaluator 1: David Cushman
Evaluator 2: Renee Fink
Table Topics: Jim Prestwood
General Evaluator: Rick Santos

Daniel gave his second speech, “Rabbits”, which gave us some interesting facts about raising rabbits.

Wes started his Level 2 project with his speech, “I’m Analytical, I need to adapt”. We learned about different personalities.

Our first meeting of the new year and as usual, winners all around.

Toastmaster: Daniel Blunt
General Evaluator: Wes Johnson
Speaker #1: Renee Fink – “Everyone Needs Water”
Speaker #2: Rick Santos – “The Puma – Great Cat or just a pretty good one”
Evaluator #1: Jim Prestwood
Evaluator #2: David Cushman
Table Topics Master: Wes Johnson

Renee gave a great speech about providing water to people in countries that do not have adequate systems to provide clean water to the people.
Rick’s love of cats was seen in his speech on determining if the Puma is a big cat or felis – domestic size cat.
Daniel showed that he is a rising star by commendeering the Best Table Topics Award from a group of veteran Toastmasters.

Rick Santos was
selected as the Best
Speaker for the evening.

Toastmaster: Wes Johnson
General Evaluator: Daniel Blunt
Speaker: Rick Santos
Evaluator: David Cushman
Table Topics Master: Della Johnson