Highlights from April 1st Meeting

Word of the day “thwart” transitive verb \ˈthwȯrt\ : to prevent (someone) from doing something or to stop (something) from happening. Nothing could thwart our productive and fun meeting. Our Toastmaster Vernon Budinger explained the history of April Fool’s Day. Jolene Horn and Nancy Huang both gave speeches from CC Manual Project 2 “Organize Your Speech”.   Sonja-Sophie and her team of evaluators provided us with feedback on what was done well and offered tips for improvement. Kim Acedo is no prankster when it comes to being Table Topics Master who offered up great questions allowing participants to practice speaking for 1-2 min. with no advance preparation. Best awards went to: Speaker - Jolene Horn; Table Topics – Andy Tien; Evaluator – Michelle Bender. Congratulations to Shannon O’Connell who won 2nd place in the Area B2 International Speech contest! Kudos to Michelle Bender and Leslie Suhy who competed in the Table Topics speech contest and to Vernon, Rose & Karen, who volunteered and helped to make the area contest last Saturday a successful one