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John Fleming

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Oct 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/10/99
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Here is an idea for table topics that I used the other day in a
meeting with the theme Lifelong Learning.

I took a copy of our local public school system's Continuing Education
calendar and selected a number of course titles, things like: Hair
Braiding--Braiding Your Own Hair, Public Speaking Level 1, Basic
Cooking for Retired Husbands, and so on.

Each table topic recipient was given a course title, and asked to
explain why s/he signed up to take that particular course.

The answers were pretty creative.

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Dennis & Gloria Chada, St. Paul, MN

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Oct 13, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/13/99
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In article <38016...@ecn.ab.ca>, nos...@sprynet.com says...

>
>Here is an idea for table topics that I used the other day in a
>meeting with the theme Lifelong Learning.
>
>I took a copy of our local public school system's Continuing Education
>calendar and selected a number of course titles, things like: Hair
>Braiding--Braiding Your Own Hair, Public Speaking Level 1, Basic
>Cooking for Retired Husbands, and so on.
>
>Each table topic recipient was given a course title, and asked to
>explain why s/he signed up to take that particular course.
>
>The answers were pretty creative.

John,

I was Table Topics Master last night at our regular club meeting. I had been the
contestant in the Club, Area and Division Table Topics Contest this year. So the
questions were the very ones which I had just faced in those three arenas!

It gave our members who could not attend a flavor of the types of question and (I
hope) gave all of them an idea that they were capable of answering the questions
without a problem and should perhaps compete.

It was very well received by everybody, and also the responses showed an
interesting spin in the answers, a different slant then we had seen at the contests.

It was great fun, especially for me, when I posed the Divisional Table Topics
Question to the incumbent Division Governor! We all discovered together that
additional time to ponder a question does not always improve the answer.

As we are in the contest cycle, contest topics are timely, give it a try .

Good Luck

Dennis Chada


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Judith Nightingale

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Oct 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/23/99
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Dennis & Gloria Chada, St. Paul, MN wrote in message
<7u0qjc$qpl$1...@nw001t.infi.net>...

>In article <38016...@ecn.ab.ca>, nos...@sprynet.com says...
>I was Table Topics Master last night at our regular club meeting. I had
been the
>contestant in the Club, Area and Division Table Topics Contest this year.
So the
>questions were the very ones which I had just faced in those three arenas!
>

Come on Dennis....give!

What were those topics? We could all use them then.

bye,
Judith
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