Thursday, January 26, 2012

January 19, 2012

Members present: Rick Boyer, Magda Brugos, Stan Dalziel, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Janet Krenn, Wade Miner, Lauren White, Phillip Sweat, Tim Herrity, Zach Fauver, Katherine Crawley

Guests: Micah Downs , Beverly Gray

SAA John Harman opened the meeting with the pledge and then introduced Magda Brugos as TMOD to lectern. As emcee for the meeting, Magda kept the flow of the meeting steadily moving through two speakers, seven Table Topics participants and evaluators. President Christy Gardner delivered an advance communicator speech titled “Walk the Talk” where she encouraged members to be actively involved in the club and personal growth and improvement through speeches and fulfilling meeting roles. Katherine Crawley was the second and last speaker for the evening speaking about herself as she delivered her first speech as a new club member, the Ice Breaker.

New member Zach Fauver was the Table Topics Master and he challenged seven people to think (and speak) quick on their feet about random topics. Topics included: “Wrong Number”, “advantage of being male”, “perspective of youth today” , and “rush hour”.

As General Evaluator, Lauren White and her team offered valuable feedback that fosters the growth and improvement that fundamental for Toastmasters. Speech evaluators, John Harman and Stan Dalziel gave positive and helpful comments to the speakers, and Janet Krenn as grammarian helped everyone to be aware of word usage.

President Christy Gardner wrapped up the meeting with announcements about upcoming events and ribbon winners. Feb 4th is Winter Leadership Institute training, and March 1st is the International Speech/Table Topics club contest.

Ribbon Winners:
Table Topics: Tim Herrity
Best Evaluator: Stan Dalziel
Best Speaker: Katherine Crawley

January 5, 2012

January 5, 2012

Members present: Rick Boyer, Magda Brugo, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Janet Krenn, Wade Miner, Phillip Sweat, Tim Herrity, Juan Martinez, Tim Tonkovic

Guests: Jackie Scott, Sheila Whitt, Anu Bedi, Micah Downs, Katherine Crawley

John Harman brought meeting to order and introduced president Christy Gardner. Christy lead club in the induction ceremony welcoming new member Tim Herrity. Christy then introduced TMOD Frank Connelly, and as emcee for the evening he set the tone for a great meeting.
Frank had the honor of introducing the evening's three speakers; Rick Boyer, Phillip Sweat, and Magda Brugos.  Rick delivered a speech from the Advance Communicator manual about project managment. Phillip was second giving his "ice breaker" speech from the Competent Communicator manual, where he shared interesting facts about himself.  Magda completed the speakers section of the meeting with a speech from an Advance manual and she challenge the audience to start a "mental diet".

Table Topics Master Janet Krenn put a twist on a appropriate theme of "resolutions" to challenge audience members to speak for 1-2 minutes about various topics.  Nita Langford spoke about "eating right", Jean Smith about "finish what you start", Curtis Lassister about "signing up for roles", Juan Martinez about "reading more", Zach Fauver "resolve to be punctual", Lester Yearwood "appreciation of the small things", and Tim Herrity wrapped the TableTopics section speaking about his resolve to watch better television.

President Christy Gardner brought the meeting to a close with announcements and awards. Announcements: Next meeting January 19th, Winter Leadership Institute trainings Jan 14, Feb 11.

Ribbon Winners:
Best Table Topics: Tim Herrity
Best Evaluator: Tim Tonkovic
Best Speaker: Magda Brugos

December 15, 2011

Members present: Rick Boyer, Magda Brugos, Allen Foretich, Danita Fox, Christy Gardner, John Harman, Lanette Kelly, Janet Krenn, Nita Langford, Curtis Langford, Victor Lopez, Phillip Sweat, Lester Yearwood, Juan Martinez

Guests: Tim Herrity

Meeting called to order by SAA John Harman. 
Toastmaster of the Evening, Janet Krenn took control of the meeting and set the tone for a great meeting.  She began by introducing General Evalutor, Danita Fox, and her  evaluation team for guests to understand the different roles throughout the meeting. Janet then introduced the two speakers for the evening, Nita Langford and Lanette Kelly.  Nita and Lanette delivered speech number two of the ten planned for Competent Communicator. Nita spoke about "Christmas Celebrations" enlightening the audience to customs around the world, while Lanette kept us grounded with words of wisdom for finances with her speech titled "Don't Wait til Its Too Late".
Advanced Communicator Rick Boyer was the Table Topics Master and challenged random members of the audience to think and speak "off the cuff" for 1-2 minutes on objects that he had in a bag.
General Evaluator Danita Fox and evaluation team, gave comments of improvements for the two speakers as well as others who fulfilled roles for the meeting.  The goal of feedback is improvment and competencies with communicating verbally.
President Christy Gardner concluded the meeting by giving out ribbons and inviting everyone to stay around for the white elephant gift exchange.  Next meeting January 5, 2012.

Ribbon Winners
Best Table TopicsCurtis Lassiter
Best Evaluator:  John Harman
Best Speaker: Lanette Kelly



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