Thanks Richard for the main comedy speech, wow; tornado, skateboarder et al. - he mentioned put your speech inside your body not head, breath, no speech is perfect 0 for 3000 is his record, sentence and phrase duration eye contact to establish audience connection, and "re-framing" the art of choosing what aspect of the situation you look at. Thanks Ebede for the extemporaneous talk on Cameroon plum wine. Welcome to the Bay Area from West Africa. Need Ebede's e-mail address to add to the list please. Terry welcome. You are added to the chapter's listserv. Reminder: (1) the meetings are free, (2) TM is a non-profit. Debbie, HBS, thanks for attending.
Wayne from the SF Chronicle will be in the house for our next meeting. Welcome. The facility for June 4th will again be the residence at the corner of Oregon & McGee in Berkeley.
The upcoming roles we agreed to were:
Belaji - Speech
Sally - Icebreaker Speech
Jeff - Evaluator
Brooks - General Evaluator
Arlene - Evaluator
Bettie - Table Topics
Jeff - Grammarian
Julie - Timer & Joke Master
Perry - Toastmaster
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place for the roles for each meeting spreadsheet for instance. It was mentioned that some of the materials could be scanned in. In this repository they can be a common resource accessible to all. Best,
Perry
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