Members present: Barbara Basabilbaso, Rick Boyer, Magda Brugos, Charisse Carter, Zach Fauver, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Tim Herrity, Curtis Lassiter, Victor Lopez, Tim Tonkovic, Lauren White, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood, Katherine Crawely, Charlene Gilbert
Guests: Samuel Gilbert, Regina Gilliam
Promptly starting the meeting at 6:45pm, SAA John Harman introduced Club President Christy Gardner to welcome members and guests, then she introduced Toastmaster of the Evening, Danita Fox. Danita guided members and guests through the agenda, making changes and updates as well as explaining to guests what some of the TM jargon meant. General Evaluator Rick Boyer continued with explanations with the introduction of the Evaluation Team; grammarian, Ah counter, speech evaluators, listen-up master and timer.
Four club members delivered speeches: Lauren White, Charisse Carter, Zach Fauver and Magda Brugos. Lauren's speech titled "Customer Service for Toastmasters" was number 6 towards the ten required for Competent Communicator. Second was new member Charisse giving her ice breaker speech titled; "Faith Family and Friends". Following Charisse, club member Zach Fauver took advantage of the forum to deliver a speech presentation that he'll be giving professionally on Monday. His speech was titled; "Virtual Simulation Technology". Last but not least, Magda delivered a persuasive speech from an advance manual and she challenge the members to be officers.
Following the speeches Table Topics Master Tim Tonkovic, challenged everyone with topics to speak "off the cuff" for 1-2 minutes. Participants were: Katherine Crawley, Curtis Lassiter, Christy Gardner, and Phillip Sweat.
General Evaluator Rick Boyer lead the next part of the meeting, feedback for growth and improvement. Speech evaluators offered constructive comments to enhance speakers methods and style when delivering speeches and the ah counter and grammarian gave comments about use of fillers and grammar. Evaluators: Victor Lopez, John Harman, Christy Gardner and Katherine Crawley.
Rick summarized the meeting with comments of actions that were good and ones that need to continue to be developed.
President Christy Gardner brought meeting to a close with announcements and ribbon awards. Announcements included the status of club towards President's Distinguished and needing two CC's and 2 AC's.
Ribbon Winners
Best Table Topics: Katherine Crawley
Best Evaluator: Christy Gardner
Best Speaker: Lauren White
Respectively submitted,
Danita Fox, Club Secretary
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