San Jose Toastmasters

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow's Toastmasters Club meeting will be postponed as Mimi's Cafe is now permanently closed. We will announce the next meeting and new location as soon as we have more details. Thank you for understanding.

Do you know what the word gallinaceous means? Most of us didn’t either, but we had a gallinaceous meeting anyway listening to Thanksgiving stories over table topics and being inspired and captivated by our three amazing speakers! Congratulations to our table topics winner, Elena, best evaluator, Sue, runner up speaker, Dennis, and winning speaker, Maria. #toastmasters #publicspeaking #sanjosetoastmasters #toastmastersinternational #d101tm

In keeping with our club’s heritage, our members delivered yet another exceptional meeting! Congratulations to Martin for winning Best Evaluator, Katty for Best Table Topics, and Sue for Best Speaker. One of our newest members, Peter, won runner-up speaker, staying close to the meeting theme of roots in his ice breaker speech. Well done, everyone!

We had our second lecture of the Fall Lecture Series and Declan lectured on leadership and coaching. He used the GROW method to walk us through some group problem solving. Short presentations were given on how to resolve the problem given. Please sign up for our lecture series: https://sjtmlectures.wufoo.com/forms/fall-lecture-series/

At this week’s meeting, themed colonial America, several members were recognized for completing a Pathways level. Congrats to Jane, Elena, Sue, Joel, and Tushar! And congratulations to the club for receiving the President’s Distinguished Club Award! Well done, everyone!

We held our first lecture of the Fall Lecture Series on Oct 30 and it was a great success. Elaine explained how to give a great evaluation and how to bring a winning desire to a contest and to anything you wish to accomplish in life. We explored how to listen better using an improv exercise that was interactive and fun. Don’t miss our next lectures: Nov 6, Declan Shalvey will discuss leadership. Nov 13, Dennis Dawson will discuss how to tell your original stories.... Nov 20, Janet Hebert will discuss how she won the District 101 International Contest and how to write and re-write a winning speech. Please sign up if you haven’t already! Please register to attend: https://sjtmlectures.wufoo.com/forms/fall-lecture-series/ Any questions or issues, contact: [email protected]

Our Toastmasters and guests were enfranchised with an exceptional meeting this week. First of all, two new members were inducted - Peter and Kate - an official welcome to them to San Jose Toastmasters! Another major highlight was a phenomenal speech by Declan on why fear isn’t such a bad thing. Well done!! And finally, cngratulations to our table topics winner, Oga, for his speech on why he’d like to have dinner with James Bond!

Last week’s meeting gave our newest members a chance to shine! Oga (wearing the crown) was inducted and Doug, one of our newer members, won best speaker with his icebreaker speech. And finally, Marilyn won best table topics for her speech about a snake’s infatuation with a turtle - very fitting given our theme of star-crossed love

Are you interested in developing your speaking, leadership, and storytelling skills? Join us as we welcome the following lineup of skilled and experienced Toastmasters at Mimi's Cafe in San Jose. October 30: Take It Up A Notch: Lessons Learned from the District Speech Evaluation Contest. Speaker: Elaine Lung November 6: The Leader as a Coach. Speaker: Declan Shalvey November 13: Writing and Telling your Original Stories. Speaker: Dennis Dawson... November 20: My Journey to Winning the District 101 International Speech Contest. Speaker: Janet Hebert Address: 1200 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose, CA 95129. Time for each talk: 6:30-8:00pm, Wednesday evenings. Cost is free and dinner is available for purchase. Please register to attend: https://sjtmlectures.wufoo.com/forms/fall-lecture-series/ Any questions or issues, contact: [email protected]

A tempestuous meeting it was this week at San Jose Toastmasters! Winning speaker, Tushar, delivered an upheaval (word of the day) with his winning speech. Congrats to all the winners - Katty for Table Topics, Dennis as runner up speaker, and Declan as best evaluator.

Last week was Nicole’s birthday and a few of our club members got to celebrate her Happy birthday, Nicole! Keep celebrating!

We had an edifying meeting on Wednesday learning about Colombian emeralds and a member’s perspective on capital punishment. Congrats to Devin for winning best speaker, Virginia for an entertaining table topics story, and Anthony for best evaluator. You are all gems!