Thursday, February 26, 2009
Blankenship completes Advanced Toastmasters Manual
The Tri-County Toastmasters club met on Thursday 2-5-09 at the Virden Area Community Center. Club members present at Thursday’s meeting were: Todd Austin, Jim Blankenship, John Davidson, Liz Mollett, Casey Tom and Bill Watkins.
Liz Mollett served as the meeting’s master of ceremonies. >Bill Watkins served as the Topicmaster, conducting the impromptu speaking portion of the program. Each participant then gave a 1 to 2 minute impromptu response to his or her particular question.
The evening’s prepared speaker was Jim Blankenship. Blankenship owns a financial planning business in New Berlin, but is originally from Nokomis. His humorous presentation which was about “Acronyms” was the fifth and final project from the Toastmasters Advanced Manual on “Humorously Speaking”. After completing 10 projects in the Basic Manual, members have 14 different Advanced Manuals to choose from. Dr. Todd Austin from Virden was assigned to evaluate Blankenship’s talk.
The Toastmasters club will next meet on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Virden Area Community Center. Todd Austin is scheduled to be the prepared speaker at the next meeting. For more information about the Toastmasters program, or about joining or attending a club meeting, please call (217) 965-3100 or send e-mail to draustin@royell.net.
Liz Mollett served as the meeting’s master of ceremonies. >Bill Watkins served as the Topicmaster, conducting the impromptu speaking portion of the program. Each participant then gave a 1 to 2 minute impromptu response to his or her particular question.
The evening’s prepared speaker was Jim Blankenship. Blankenship owns a financial planning business in New Berlin, but is originally from Nokomis. His humorous presentation which was about “Acronyms” was the fifth and final project from the Toastmasters Advanced Manual on “Humorously Speaking”. After completing 10 projects in the Basic Manual, members have 14 different Advanced Manuals to choose from. Dr. Todd Austin from Virden was assigned to evaluate Blankenship’s talk.
The Toastmasters club will next meet on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Virden Area Community Center. Todd Austin is scheduled to be the prepared speaker at the next meeting. For more information about the Toastmasters program, or about joining or attending a club meeting, please call (217) 965-3100 or send e-mail to draustin@royell.net.
// posted by Jim @ 2:17 PM 
