"Neighborhood Schools"

Ouote of the Day:
"The school is the last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd President)

Word of the Day:
Scholastic: adv., Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters.

Meeting Officials:
Toastmaster - Jon Evans
Timer/Speaker 2/Listener Quiz - Bill Forristall, ATM-B, CL
Grammarian - Jim Raley
Ah Counter - Caroline Edwards, ATM-S
Speaker 1 - Kimberly Hunt
Evaluator for Speech 1 & 2 - Charlie Peters
Call to Order/General Evaluator/Educational Moment - Renee Zimmerman, CL
Table Topics Master - Jon Fleming

Kimberly Hunt gave a speech titled "Changes", Assignment #3 "Get to the Point" from the Communication and Leadership Manual.

Bill Forristall gave an impromptu speech titled "If", Assignment #2 "Interpreting Poetry" from the Interpretive Reading Manual.

Charlie Peters pulled double duty as the evaluator for both speakers. He did an outstanding job as usual.

Announcements - Club Officer Elections will be held on June 23, all nominations must be sent to our club President, Renee Zimmerman, prior to the 23rd.

"Motion Pictures"

"I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public." George Lucas
"I don't know who you are or where you've come from, but from now on you'll do as I say, okay?" Princess Leia

Word of the Day:
Photoplay: n. 1)Motion Picture, movie 2) A magazine that was devoted to promoting films and celebrities

Meeting Officials
Toastmaster/Table Topics Master/Quote of the Day - Kimberly Hunt "loves B movies, such as Inbred Rednecks Alien Abduction, for their absurd plots and silly special effects."

Timer/Educational Moment - Jack Buce, DTM - quoted International Director Gary Schmidt as saying ""Star Wars" is the best movie ever made."

Ah Counter/Grammarian - Caroline Edwards, ATM - "Loves the black comedy style fo the Cohen Brothers and also likes the dark drama and wierdness of David Lynch. One of her favorite movies is "The Usual Suspects". Kaiser Zozay!"

Speaker 1 - Jon Fleming - "A real James Bond fan who prefers Roger Moore to Sean Connery and loves the gadgets and gizmos that Q comes up with in every movie."

Speaker 2 - Sarah Gagnon - "Looking forward to seeing the new Star Wars Movie as she fell in love with the series at the tender age of nine when she saw "Star Wars" for the first time."

General Evaluator - Jim Raley - "God saved him from watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with his uncle by making sure the tape they rented was fatally injured."

Evaluator 1 - Gwen Whipple -

Evaluator 2 - Charlie Peters - "Loves spaghetti Westerns and thinks "The Wizard of Oz" is the worst movie ever made. As a kid, he really loved watching "Davy Crockett"."

references used by the Toasmaster:
Box Office Leaders by Decade
Film History before 1920
Short History of Hollywood

The meeting moved along very well. Jon Fleming Gave a fabulous speech titled "Date Night" (speech#4 from the Communication and Leadership Manual) where he discusses his goal of giving his daughter a good example of how she should be treated and how he tries to set a good parenting example by making sure to spend time with his wife every day. The next speech, by Sarah Gagnon titled "Memories of Molly" (speech #5 from the Communication and Leadership Manual), was very entertaining and beautifully described her experience when she learned how to drive. From the description of her driving instructor, a former drill sergeant, to the loving descripton of "Molly" who turns out to be her old car we were entertained from beginning to end.

Everything went as scheduled.

"Dancing"

Meeting Officials:
Call to Order/Table Topics Master - Renee Zimmerman, CL
Toastmaster/Quote of the Day - Jon Fleming
Timer - Sheila George
Grammarian - Caroline Edwards, ATM
Ah Counter - Krista Jones
Speaker 1 - Gwen Whipple
Speaker 2 - Sarah Gagnon
General Evaluator - Charlie Peters
Evaluator 1 - Jack Buce, DTM
Evaluator 2 - Jim Raley
Listener Quiz - Bill Forristall, ATM-B, CL
Educational Moment - Kimberly Hunt

Quote of the Day:
"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it." - Christopher Morley

Word of the Day:

Terpsichorean: of or pertaining to dancing. Dancer.

Gwen Whipple gave a speech titled "How to Avoid Escaping Prisoners" (Speech#9, Persuade with Power:Communications and Leadership Manual), which gave everyone great information on keeping an audience's interest.

Sarah Gagnon gave a speech titled "Look to the Horizon" (Speech #4, How to Say It:The Commincation and Leadership Manual)

"A Mother's Day Out"

Meeting Officials:
Call to Order/Evaluator/Educational Moment - Renee Zimmerman, CL (President)
Quote of the Day - Gwen Whipple
Toastmaster - Sheila George
Timer - Jim Raley
Grammarian - Jack Buce, DTM
Ah Counter - Charlie Peters
Speaker - Caroline Edwards
Table Topics Master - Kimberly Hunt
General Evaluator/Listener Quiz - Krista Jones

Attendees: Elinor Schott

Quote of the Day:
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Anonymous

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret love outlives them all." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Word of the Day:

Maternal: adjl 1. Pertaining to or having qualities of a mother 2. Related through a mother

Caroline gave a wonderful and lively speech titled "Cinco De Mayo", speech 1 from the Speaking to Inform Manual. It included handouts on travel in Mexico.

Here are the resources she mentioned:
AIM - Americans in Mexico
Lonely Planet
Moon Travel
www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm