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Weekly Meeting

Spirited Speech Masters meets online every Thursday (excepting institutional holidays) from 12 noon to 1 PM. Visitors are always welcome though only employees of MD Anderson are permitted to join.

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Thursday November 21, 2019 12:05 PM

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Meeting Theme

The meeting theme for this week’s meeting will be Preparation! As in, “I sure wish I had more time for preparation to serve as Toastmaster this week…”

Toastmaster of the Day Loni Huff
Master of Ceremonies. Introduces meeting roles and calls the first speech evaluator.

Prepared and Impromptu Speeches

Evaluator 1 Open
Evaluator 2 Usamah Zagaar
Introduces a speaker and provides an introduction of the speaker's prepared speech.
Speaker 1 Open
Speaker 2 Sally Boyd, DTM
Delivers a prepared speech; turns meeting over to the Toastmaster.
Topics Master Joann Hester
Invites attendees to deliver 1-2 minute impromptu speeches; turns meeting over to General Evaluator.

Evaluation

General Evaluator Member not found
Calls up Speech Evaluators, asks for Timer, Grammarian, and Ah Counter reports.
Timer Douglas Van Camp
Records and reports upon the time elapsed during each speech and table topic.
Grammarian Member not found
Introduces and monitors usage of the “Word of the Day” and listens for both excellent and imprecise use of the English language.
Ah Counter Sara Gilheart
Listens for the use of filler words (ex. “um”) and repeated “double clutch” words.
Vote Counter Open
Delivers results for best speaker, best table topics speaker, and best evaluator.

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