What would you say if you had the chance to tell the world one thing?
In the monthly Beachcomber’s Advance Toastmasters meeting on April 21, William B. stepped up to the podium to deliver a powerhouse speech for the club level International Speech contest.
William B., an accomplished speaker and current President of the Gibsons Chamber of Commerce, performed his speech “Commit, Not Quit” about learning a valuable life lesson during some scary horse riding lessons.
Narrowing our life experience done to the moment where we “break and mend” can be difficult — especially in a five to seven-minute time frame. William expertly led us through the backstory to the climatic conclusion with expertise.
William advances to the next round of competition, the Area 73 Contest on April 25th at the Sechelt Arts Centre. The contest starts at 6:30pm — so arrive early!
Congratulations!
Other highlights from the “Stepping Up” meeting:
We were honored to receive a visit from Michael Gurney from Prince Rupert, who serves as VP of Membership and the Area Director for Area 45. He visited all four clubs on the Coast and served as our General Evaluator for the evening! Well done and thank you, Michael!
Each member of Beachcombers stepped up this evening to serve as our Inspirator (Rifa), Grammarian (Dorothy), Table Topics Master (Dawn Miller) and Table Topics Evaluator (Kate Wotton).
A fun twist was offering William’s speech a round robin evaluation with five evaluators. Each evaluator offered a slightly different viewpoint or approach to his contest speech — a further demonstration of the benefits of an advanced club.
By the end of the meeting, we had managed to capture TWO new members — Margo and Sarah!
It was a lovely spring evening meeting at Beachcombers Advanced Club!
Next Meeting is on May 12 at 6 pm at Sita’s. The theme will be Keeping Afloat in Tumultuous Times!
