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Guests Welcome Would you like to develop your public speaking skills? Are you interested in learning more about Toastmasters or, attending one of our meetings? Click here for more information. Hitting the Ground Running (Recap of WCTM’s January 11th Meeting)
Putting the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” behind them, 25 members
of Warner Center Toastmasters’ (WCTM) and ten guests gathered Table Topics: What’s Your Commitment?
Returning to the lectern, Carolyn
Goldman served as Topics Master for “Table Topics,”
the first segment of the evening’s program. Explaining, that the
beginning of the year is a time to think about New Year’s resolutions,
she tied this idea to WCTM saying, “Commitment
Prepared Speeches: Smile When You Say that Stranger The highlight of each WCTM meeting is the “Prepared Speeches” portion of the program. For the11 January gathering, three club members brought to life talks that highlighted both the talent found within WCTM and the diversity of its members. Leading off the segment was Eleonor Arellano with her version of Speech #2 from the Competent Communications Manual (CCM), “A Simple Smile Makes a Lot of Difference.” Flashing a “killer grin”, Eleonor described the many interpersonal pluses from smiling (a good first impression, new friends, attracting the opposite sex) as well as the health benefits that accrue (improved healing, respiration, and blood pressure). “A simple smile makes a lot of difference,” she concluded. “It is the curve that sets everything straight.”
Up next was Glen Rankel with
“You’d Better Know Who Your Teenager’s Friends Are,” Speech #9 from the
CCM.
The evening’s final speaker, Dan Marzec, ATM-B, offered “Where the Flowers Grow”, an Advanced Talk from The Entertaining Speaker Manual. Taking his audience back the halcyon days of “psychedelia,” Dan described his life in the sixties as a young man who embraced the counter-culture and the many adventures it offered. One of these was an impromptu hitchhiking trip to Las Vegas where he and a partner were arrested and convicted for being “disorderly people” and promptly escorted out of town. Summing up, Dan observed, “I was a hippie then and… I’m pretty much a hippie now. When I die, I don’t need a headstone. Just bury me beneath where the flowers grow!” These three great speeches made the voting for the meeting’s Best Speaker award especially difficult for WCTM Members. Rising to the occasion, they voted the award it to Glen Rankel. Evaluations: The “Crux” of the Evening
“Evaluations”, the evening’s final segment, was
moderated by General Evaluator, Erin
O’Neil, CTM.
Announcements WCTM President, Carolyn Goldman, CTM announced that Club Founder, Rose Lane, DTM was recovering at home from surgery performed on December 20th. A “get well” card, passed around for Member signature, will be sent to Rose. WCTM wishes you a speedy recovery Rose! Come back to us soon!
January 25, 2007
Club #2966
Editor: Bill Anderson
Upcoming District 52 Events Mastering Your Speech – Sunday, January 28, (1 – 4 PM). Where: Celebrity Centre International, Garden Pavilion, 5939 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA. Cost: $12. What: A workshop on how to find your voice and connect with the audience for more powerful and effective presentations. Offered by Lance Miller, DTM, 2005 World Champion of Public Speaking. RSVP: Roberta Perry, DTM, 310-709-2613; 323-650-4330; rperry2121@aol.com. District 52 Spring Conference – Saturday, May 19. Where: Beverly Garland Holiday Inn; 4222 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, CA. For more information go to the District 52 Web Site: http://www.district52.org/. Winter Officer Training Sessions – Saturday, January 27 (9AM – 1PM).
Where: Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA.
What: (Officers, Judges and optional seminar).
Contact: Div C Governor Jorge Ribeiro at division.c@district52.org.
Wednesday, January 31 (Noon – 1PM).
Where: Garland Building, Downtown LA.
What: (Officers’ training only).
Contact: Div D Governor Andrea Sebera at division.d@district52.org.
Saturday, February 3 (8AM – 1PM).
Where: Spirent Communications, 26750 Agoura Blvd., Calabasas, CA.
What: (Officers, Judges and Chief Judges Training).
Contact: Div A Governor Erin O'Neill at division.a@district52.org
Saturday, February 10 (8AM – 1PM).
Where: Spirit Works, 260 N. Pass Ave., Burbank, CA.
What: (Officers, Judges, optional seminar)
Contact: Frank Giambarresi at fwgiam@aol.com
Saturday, February 24 (9AM – 1PM).
Where: Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA.
What: (Officers, Judges and Chief Judges).
Contact:Div C Governor Jorge Ribeiro at division.c@district52.org
Wednesday, February 28 (5:50 – 7PM).
Where: Garland Building, Downtown LA.
What: (Officers’ training only).
Contact:Div D Governor Andrea Sebera at division.d@district52
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in the Ventura Room at the Marriot for the club’s first meeting of 2007.
The theme for the night was 
to
our club is what we need to succeed as Toastmasters.” Carolyn then
explored the meaning of “Commitment” with the following WCTM members:
One
of WCTM’s master story tellers, Glen offered the audience a layered tale
that recounted a dream he had at the age of 13 which featured a car trip
to China Town, a young tough named Jerry McMullen who jerks the aerial
from a police car, and a hasty retreat back to Van Nuys without the
aforementioned Jerry. Magically compacting space and time the way that
only a dream can, our Glen arrives home only to find the previously
abandoned Jerry waiting for him. “Rankel! Do you wanna fight??!!”
screamed the enraged hooligan. “With that I woke up…glad it was only a
dream,” said Glen. “But in my bed…I found a broken car antenna!”
In
reference to an earlier remark by the evening’s Trophy Master, Erin
observed, “I have to disagree with Sunit, trophies are not the
crux of the meeting. It is the evaluations.” Congratulating all on a
“good” meeting, Erin went on to call for an improvement in speaker
etiquette, “Speakers, please remember that after you complete your
speech, you do not have to say 'thank you'. It is the audience who
should express their 'thanks' to you.” Individual evaluations were done by
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