Dec. 4th Meeting Notes

Last night’s meeting was awesome!  With Phil Drake as our Toastmaster for the evening, the meeting flowed like a precision swiss watch.

Nancy Porter started us off laughing at her catchy joke about the young boy’s first semester at Catholic School.

Michele Hubbs continued the light-hearted attitude with her “Table Topics” based on the theme of ‘I’m so Grateful’. All three of the Topics participants spoke from their hearts and memories within their alloted times very successfully.

Two of the Topics speakers were regular members Danny Clifton and Tim Hubbs. Our third Topics speaker was a brand new member in front for the first time, John Becker. We all agree that John is a natural and very welcome member to the Gem City Forum group. During his speech, John treated us all to the beautifully visual phrase “stained glass forest” as he talked of his love for walks in the woods during the falls leaf color changing period. Thank you John.

The meeting continued with Kathy Clifton’s uplifting speech about overcoming life’s challenges by focusing on strengths and positives, rather than being further limited by our beliefs on top of our adversities. Kathy’s based her speech on a chapter out of her life when she got her first job out of college working for Al Thieme and his “Amigo Mobility International” company in it’s infancy. A very moving and uplifting speech, well done!

The meeting was concluded with a reminder about our upcoming Christmas Party on the 18th and we adjourned at 6:32PM.