Tarpon Talkers Toastmasters Club met Wednesday, July 14, Bastille Day.  I believe  we achieved a further measure of liberation in our self expression.

First we had wee bit of a business meeting. We decided to allow and hour and a half for our club meetings. This permits three speakers and five to seven table topics, as desired.

We have another bit of business coming up. We shall discuss and decide how we want to handle voting for best table topic, best speech,best evaluation.

This was the first meeting presided over from beginning to end by our new President, Loretta Buckner. She did a fine job of that, and also treated us to a story she made up, “The Goldfish Boy.” She’s starting the Advanced Manual in Storytelling.

Arnie Milnes gave a talk that reminded us about the warning, “The British are coming. The British are coming.” The reminder was that we had failed to pay attention. Now we have British Petroleum.

Elan Chalford spoke about “Teaching Violin.” He drew a comparison and contrast between teaching one on one the traditional way, and teaching by video on YouTube.

Robert Chalford, as Table Topics master, cued each question with a personal tidbit of self revelation, to set the context. This encouraged participants to really spill some beans about themselves.

Jack Lynch nearly brought down the house with his physical humor. The room was rockin’. (Well, it is a portable classroom.)

Our guest, Rochelle Goodner, joined the talk with a confession of being a staunch Harry Potter fan. We shall hear more from her, as she is joining the club.

Next time, July 28, Jonathan Teller and Pam Cohn will be speakers. One more spot is open.

Arnie will be Table Topics Master, Elan will be Toastmaster, Jim Setaro will be Timer. Other roles will be filled as we can fill them.

Thanks to everyone for making it a memorable meeting.