Meeting Report for 22nd April, 2020

Twenty-five Excalibur members attended our Zoom meeting, with Sarah acting as Toastmaster and Rembrandt performing the ZoomMaster role.

Andrew kept everyone on their toes with his Table Topics session. 
The formal speeches were:
Lynne: "Go Forth and Lead" (Strategic Relationships #2-1 - Understanding Your Leadership Style.)
Sonia: "Six Degrees of Separation" (Interpretive Reading #4 - The Play).
Sue: "Yearbook" (Presentation Mastery #2-3 - Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring).
The speeches were evaluated by Ian, Cat and Flemming before Simon hosted the Open Feedback session. This session invited everyone present to add 2 mins more commendations and one minute more of recommendations.
Thanks to Excalibur club member Simon, who delivered the Open Feedback report.
The awards for the evening were:
Best Speaker: Lynne
Best Table Topic: Ken
Best Evaluator: Cat

Our next meeting is on 29th April - courtesy of an extra Wednesday in the month. This will be a speakathon, with six speakers delivering high quality and very different speeches. Guests are most welcome - please see our EasySpeak page for meeting-joining details.

In Other News...
Huge congratulations to Excalibur members Cat and Latifa, who recently conquered all in the Division L Speech Evaluations and International Speech Competition. And congratulations also to Excalibur member Flemming, who also performed superbly. Cat and Latifa now advance to the District level competition. Good luck to both of them!