Latin Leaders - Toastmasters Club #583774

The Toastmaster for our meeting today, Pat Gary, began our program by introducing the theme of the day as being “Proactive” and with the Word of the Day as “Paradigm” or “thinking out of the box”.   She began by explaining that the definition of being proactive means to cause something to happen rather than waiting for something to happen.  She continued by stating that she joined our Toastmasters club by taking a proactive approach and making her paradigm shift to improve her public speaking.   
We had a surprise visit by our area, Governor Ed Hill.   Mr. Hill enlightened our group on different views and aspects of Toastmasters.  He invited our speakers to attend his Monday afternoon Toastmasters group (held at noon) in Santa Ana and offered us an “exchange” student.  Nahetzin volunteered to be the exchange speaker for our group.  Mr. Hill was assigned as the AH counter and joined in on our Table Topic discussions (bailing one of our “frozen” members out — thank you Ed!)  We were also provided member training by Mr. Hill at Original Mikes. He informed us that there is a Humorous speech contest coming up in October – we are looking for volunteers.  See Dan Cossack if you are interested.  It was such a pleasure to speak and learn from Mr. Hill and he assures us that he will be dropping by again.  
David Urquizo a new member to our group, presented with a strong Icebreaker speech.  He shared with our group that he has been married for 22 years, a rarity in today’s society, and a reflection of his character.  He is of the baby-boomer generation, enjoys, music, vintage items, is in the real-estate related business and has one child attending college.  He showed fantastic patience and calm when his speech was interrupted by an unexpected screaming, child visitor.  Good job David!  David presents with excellent speaking skills and shared with us that he joined Toastmasters to build on the current skills.  He presents as an asset to our group. 
Carlos Ortiz, a veteran (veterano) of the Toastmasters group presented with his eighth speech entitled “Evolution In Reverse”.  His speech brought to our attention, with its excellent visuals and story, the affect that human society is having on this earth.  He enlightened us as to how our earth is being destroyed by toxic waste dumping, and showed the effects of pollution dumped into the ocean and how we are killing off masses of sea life.  With no solution in sight.  Carlos expanded on his lessons learned from previous speeches, i.e. speech organization, getting to the point sentence structure and vocal variety.
Our topic masters, general evaluators, evaluators and duty masters all helped make this meeting run smoothly.  A superb job by all.  
The Toastmasters meeting for September 5th will go forward, as there was some discussion as to cancellation of this meeting due to the Labor Day weekend, however, everyone is encouraged to attend.