Thursday, May 24, 2012

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

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