February 7, 2015 Meeting Recap

Three wonderful speeches were the highlight of Saturdays meeting.  

Richard Gonzales started us off with with a motivational message about lessons learned from his kids. Jodie Sanders then inspired us all to achieve our Toastmaster goals through partnering and accountability. She told us the story of how she and several others in our club decided to finish their DTM's together in a very aggressive timeline. In sharing this story she encouraged us all to find partners and work on our goals together. Eunie Yook was a guest speaker on Saturday. She was practicing an Ice Breaker speech that is to be delivered for her schooling. 

Regina Clay, as Table Topics Master, provided some wonderful questions about favorite vacations spots. We discovered that Ana likes to visit castles and Jerry would like to time travel backwards to watch the Big Bang.

We had two guests in attendance. Richard Layne from Sprint Speakers and Eunie Yook. Please welcome Eunie as she is now the newest member of Top of Texas.
Richard will be visiting again and is on next week's agenda as a guest speaker.

Submitted By 

Jeff Wright

President Top of Texas 

January 31, 2015 Meeting Recap

What a fun meeting we had on Saturday morning! Not only did we have two speeches, but we also had two guests. We also had the opportunity to officially vote our newest member, Jerry, into our club.

But first our toastmaster of the day, Anne, reminded us how silly The Super Bowl viewing ritual can be! Our theme of the day was The Not So Super Bowl. Leftovers for days and cleaning up after your party guests, anyone?

Our first speaker, Judy, shared with us a brief portion of a real-life workshop she recently held for after-school program organizers. Judy's workshop gave the program leaders tips and suggestions on how to lead and operate programs that are fun for the kids and stress free for the leaders. It was a privilege to hear Judy give us a small sample of her exciting job with the city of Fort Worth!

Next, Sandra told us the story of how she came to adopt three "dachshunds." The funny part is that each time she thought she was adopting a true dachshund, she came to find out that only one of the three is a true dachshund! Nevertheless, Sandra and her husband could not turn their backs on the critters and one by one they were each adopted and currently live happily at the Price residence.

As always we had a fun Table Topics session and our topics master of the day, Aparna, led our participants through some fun answers.

Overall we had a great meeting: we got to meet some new guests, saw some returning members, and we took advantage of a quorum to vote a new member into the club. Lots of fun packed into one hour!

Submitted by: Ana Ortega, ACB, ALB

Picture Credit: Sandra Price