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.