Is it shocking that a millennial Toastmaster schooled the rest of us on 70s Rock Music? With his tenor voice, Jimmy started his introductions with data from the Billboard Music, merging the statistics with commentary highlights on the inequality of representation of black artist and women. Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe and where is her tombstone? Then another shock to wake us up in the early morning meeting, Traci, as the grammarian gave us the word of the day, “Bitchen” and “Skinny”, which were throw-backs to 70s vernaculars. That’s how the meeting started, with shock and laughter.
Paula led as the Table Topics Master and provided a lighter side of the meeting. Answering impromptu questions, Jovica, Judy, and Steven quip on gossip, favorite snack, and walking on the wild side.
We had two speakers, Jovica and Young, who prepared their speeches on two different topics. Jovica finishing his 5th project assignment in the Technical Presentations advance manual, gave a technical talk on the platform Canvas, an online collegiate platform for remote classes period of our days. Young gave his speech on Pathways Presentation Master Level 1 with a titled, “If you had 10 million dollars”. Each of our presenters experimented on their delivery and experienced the reward of growth. It is interesting to calibrate and adapt to presenting projects in-person versus in a remote Zoom platform.
The evaluation section was at the end of the meeting. Aleli evaluated Jovica against his project 5 assignment objectives. Bill evaluated Young on his project delivery. Steven evaluated the general meeting thoroughly and encouraged all members to come early and not late to the regular meetings.
The meeting started at 8:01 AM and ended at 9:15AM. Paula, the meeting presider ended with words of encouragement and reminder to members that the Zoom bridge will be changing starting next meeting, and the outgoing officers will end their term at the end of the month.
