Wednesday, November 30, 2011

November 17, 2011

Club Members in attendance:  Rick Boyer, Magda Brugos, Stan Dalziel, Allen Foretich, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Nancy Hogg, Janet Krenn, Nita Langford, Victor Lopez, Wade Miner, Jean Smith, Lauren White, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood, Zach Fauver.

Guests:  Seth Uteche, Darius Peterson, Sean Todd

Club meeting was called to order by SAA John Harman at 6:45pm and President Christy Gardner took control of the lectern to conduct a special segement of the meeting.  Three new members were inducted into the club; Zach Fauver, Phillip Sweat and Lester Yearwood.
After the induction ceremony, President Christy Gardner introduced the Toastmaster of the Evening, Magda Brugos.  As TMOD, Magda's role was to keep the flow of the meeting consistent and on task and she did it wonderfully.  She introduced the General Evaluator, Stan Dalziel, who inturn introduced the evaluation team.  Once description of the different roles was shared Magda then introduced the two speakers for the evening, Danita Fox and Victor Lopez.  Danita spoke about how a wish changes into a goal, and she used her recent accomplishment to motivate club members to focus on their goal of improved public speaking the same way.  Victor Lopez brought laughter to the group with his speech about "a day in the life of a cab driver". 

Once the speeches were complete, Magda introduced President Christy Gardner as the Table Topics Masters, where she challenged everyone to be able to "speak of the cuff".
After 8 participants spoke for 1-2 minutes on varies topics, Rick Boyer and Janet Krenn delivered their evaluations for speakers Danita and Victor.

President Christy Gardner concluded the meeting with announcements and awards.  She asked Rick Boyer to recap the District 66 Conference and she also invited all members and guest to mark calendars for December 15th meeting which will be our annual holiday "white elephant" party (bring a wrapped gift, $10 limit).
The meeting was adjourned at 8:23pm

Ribbon Winners
Best Table Topics  Jean Smith
Best Evaluator  Janet Krenn
Best Speaker   Danita Fox

Respectively submitted,
Club Secretary, Danita Fox

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

November 3, 2011

Club Members present:  Rick Boyer, Stan Dalziel, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Janet Krenn, Nita Langford, Curtis Lassiter, Wade Miner, Tim Tonkovic, Lauren White, Linda Williams, Brett McGee, Jonthan Register, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood

Guests:  Zach Fauver, Tim Herrity, Jackie Allen.

Toastmaster of the Evening, Tim Tonkovic, managed a wonderful meeting where three members delivered speeches, and nine people participated in Table Topics. 
Linda Williams and Lauren White both delivered speeches from the Compent Communicator manual as they are working to complete ten speeches.  The third speaker, Rick Boyer, spoke from an advanced manual delivering a technical speech where he unveiled the club's new website.
Table Topics Master, Curtis Lassiter, challenged nine others to "speak off the cuff" with some interesting topics such as; "red" and "tie".  There was some talk after the meeting as to how did he come up with those topics
General Evaluator Janet Krenn and her evaluation team offered feedback that would both enhance speeches and also improvements for the meeting itself.  One important comment is that we all need to commit to our club by signing up for roles and then being prepared to fulfill them appropriately.
President Christy Gardner wrap the meeting up with announcements and and invitation to guests and members alike to attend the next meeting.  Christy also awarded "best" ribbons to the following:

Best Table Topics: Zach Fauver, guest
Best Evaluator:  Wade Miner
Best Speaker:  Lauren White

Next meeting Thursday November 17, 2011.  Look forward to seeing you, respectively submitted club secretary Danita Fox