May 17, 2012

Members present:  Barbara Basabilbasco, Magda Brugos, Charisse Carter, Danita Fox, John Harman, Charlene Gilbert, Nancy Hogg, Nita Langford, Naomi Lewis, Wade Miner, Tim Tonkovic, Lauren White, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood, Kathrine Crawley

Guests: Amanda Bekolay, Ciara Lewis, Brittany Pokorny, Samuel Gilbert

John Harman, Sargent-at-Arms, opened the meeting and introduced Nancy Hogg who was standing in for absent club president Christy Gardner.  Nancy announced officer elections coming up in June.  She then introduced Tim Tonkovic as Toastmaster of the evening.  After a brief welcome, Tim introduced the meeting's three speakers: Barbara Basabilbasco, Charlene Gilbert and Lauren White.  Both Barbara and Charlene delivered their ice-breaker speeches, project number one from the Competent Communicator manual.  Lauren White's speech was project number 8 towards the 10 required to complete the Competent Communicator maual, and her speech was on how to use visual aids effectively.
Katherine Crawley, as Table Topics Masters, challenged six people to speak for 1-2 minutes "off the cuff".  She brought each person up, stated a quote and then asked a specific question relating to the quote for that person to speak about.  Participants were: Magda Brugos, Danita Fox, Charlene Gilbert, Charisse Carter, Ciara Lewis and John Harman.
Wade Miner, General Evaluator, introduced speech evaluators and meeting improvment roles.  Evaluators: Danita Fox, Nancy Hogg and John Harman, offered feedback and comments to each speaker of things done well and parts of improvement.
Nancy, standing in for Christy, closed the meeting with ribbon winners.

Ribbon Winners

Best Table Topics:  Danita Fox

Best Evaluator: Danita Fox

Best Speaker: Charlene Gilbert

Respectfully submitted,
Danita Fox, club secretary

May 3, 2012

Members present:  Barbara Basabilbasco, Rick Boyer, Magda Brugos, Frank Connelly, Zach Fauver, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Charlene Gilbert, Janet Krenn, Nita Langford, Curtis Lassiter, Naomi Lewis, Wade Miner, Lauren White, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood

Guests: (none)

Sargent-at-Arms John Harman opened the meeting and then introduced President Christy Gardner.  Christy welcomed members and delivered announcement about upcoming 2012-2013 officer elections.  Christy then introduced Toastmaster of the Evening, John Harman.
Four members delivered speeches; Christy Gardner, Lauren White, Naomi Lewis and Curtis Lassiter.   Christy's speech was an advanced manual project where she spoke about diffusing crictism. Second speaker, Lauren, spoke from the Competent Communicator "research your topic" project about John Merryman.  Naomi Lewis was the third speaker of the evening, speaking from Competent Communicator manual, she delivered an inspiring speech about cancer survivors.  Rounding out the speakers for the night was Curtis Lassiter delivering the first of a four part speech series on investing.
Table Topics Master, Danita Fox, followed the speakers by challenging other members present to speak "off the cuff" for one-to-two minutes. Danita put general "table topics" on each table, such as "food, polictics and employment".  One person from each table had to select a topic then Danita had specific questions or statments prepared about each that the person was to speak about.  Participants were: Rick Boyer, Lester Yearwood, Zach Fauver and Janet Krenn.
After Table Topics, General Evaluator for the evening, Magda Brugos, took control of the meeting for speech evaluations and meeting improvement.  Speech evaluators gave feedback for improvement to each speaker. Evaluators: Frank Connelly, Wade Miner, Rick Boyer and Nita Langford.
President Christy Gardner brought the meeting to a close with announcements and ribbon winners. Announcements: club currently has 7 of the 10 points required to make President Select status and need 2 members to complete their Competent Communicator and 1 person to complete Advance Communicator. 

Ribbon Winners:

Best Table Topics: Janet Krenn

Best Evaluator: Rick Boyer

Best Speaker: Naomi Lewis

Respectfully submitted,

Danita Fox, club secrectary