Tonight’s meeting was fun. Toastmaster Richard led timely meeting (we actually finished 15 minutes “early”, but without being rushed)

Michelle talked about how to accept an award – since she is our newest Distinguished Toastmaster.

Steve (Stefano) had us in stitches as he explained how the lowly Pigeon became an Italian Icon. Stefano stayed in character as he described the city-state wars of the 13th century.

Immediate Past President Melissa did Project # 4, The Play. Melissa did a scene from the TV show “Star Trek: Enterprise – Vox Sola”. Star Trek: Enterprise was the prequel to the original Star Trek series. It put Captain Archer in charge of the ship that came along about 100 years before James Kirk.

Topic Master Will Wilcox had us thinking about numbers. He had us draw a number-oriented phrase from an envelope, and make a topic from it. Examples are “Every dog has one free bite”, or “On a scale of 1-10…”   There were some ah, creative responses……

Club President James was out General Evaluator, and led a very experience evaluation team. Julie S evaluated Michelle W, Karin G evaluated Steve K, and Fred C evaluated Melissa A.  James had some insightful comments on the entire meeting.

Toast of the Day went to Michelle – for having achieved Distinguished Toastmaster

Most Improved Speaker went to Steve K
Best Table Topics went to John A and Barney C (tie)
Best Evaluator went to Karin G

• TLI July 31st at Renton Tech College, 0730 registration, meeting is 0800 to Noon
• Club Contest is September 15th.
• Area Contest Sept 23rd at Fairview School
• Quarterly Newsletter is up on the Web site

Meeting was adjourned at 6:42

Richard
Club Secretary