Four Great Talks and More

At our meeting Wednesday the 10th of Feb., we had no less than four speakers sharing their stories and wisdom.

Mel Springer gave her Ice Breaker, telling about her family’s idyllic vacations on Croton Island in New York. She gave vivid description and even drew charts on the white board.

The part about predator capitalism attempting to rip off the legacy of the Croton native American tribe was a bit of a downer. But we appreciated the personal story Mel shared with us.
A similar personal story came from Ron Hughes. Ron is a guest who visits us during the winter. He told about establishing a gavel club in a prison. It sounded like a positive experience all the way!

Sparkie Lovejoy revealed a simple breathing exercise she discovered that improves her mood and spirit. She had us all breathing in unison!

Arnie Milnes rounded out the evening of talks by giving his revised contest talk, Power 101. He told us how we could reclaim our power by overcoming addictions. He did not specifically mention Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but I knew that’s what he was talking about.

He will give the talk again tomorrow at the Area 74 contest at Aston Gardens at Westchase. The event starts at 9:00 AM and should be finished before 12:00.

Open House February 24 at Tarpon Talkers

The meeting coming up this week [in 2010] is our open house. Teachers and staff members of St. Pete College have been invited. The general public is cordially invited. I’m even inviting my two friends.

The meeting is oriented towards showing what a Toastmasters Club meeting is like. I’m hoping to give a talk on Advocating Toastmasters. Robert will be giving a talk on a recent discovery about learning skills.

Arnie is to be Toastmaster for the meeting. Loretta will serve as General Evaluator. Mel is up for Table Topics Master.

I’ll be contacting other members to completely fill out the agenda before the green flag drops.

Don’t miss this one!

After the Toastmasters Meeting

Here is a casual group image of our members, including our club coaches, Jim Setaro, Area 74 Governor, on the end at the right side, and Jack Lynch, second from left.

Other members are, left to right, Arnie Milnes, Chantel Korkis, a guest, Pam Cohn, Issel Vento, Elan Chalford and Loretta Buckner.

Members of Tarpon Talkers

Attention Online SPC Speech Students

Yesterday, one of the online speech class students came to our meeting. Sarah had the intention of completing an outside assignment by giving a talk in front of us and video recording it.

We got her lap top computer situated for the web cam to see her talk. Then, she gave an excellent presentation on the benefits of smoothies.

In the course of her presentation, she even made a carafe of smoothie, right in front of us. And we got to sample it! It was great.

Unfortunately, the talk did not take online.

The problem, as we see it, is the lack of band width available by wifi at the Rho building.
There is not enough to get the job done.

I notice that there is an ethernet connection. I don’t know if it can be used for this purpose, though.

The bottom line is this. You are welcome to attend our meeting on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 6:30 PM in the Rho building. If arranged ahead of time, you may be able to give a talk, if you wish.

But, don’t count on getting your talk online directly through the online course server.
(You might look into the use of the ethernet connection.)

Welcome to Tarpon Talkers!

Tarpon Talkers is a new Toastmasters club in Tarpon Springs, Florida. In the Tampa Bay area, it’s just at the north end of Pinellas County.

We’ve been through some changes lately. Now we are meeting at the St. Petersburg College campus.You will find us in the Rho Building, not far from the big Lyceum on the hill. We get together the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 6:30 PM.

In the casual classroom building we practice our presentation skills in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. We also do some improv, or off-the-cuff speaking, too.

You are welcome to just drop by and see us. No pressure to perform! Just check us out.