Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Minutes of June 3, 2013


Minutes of June 3,  2013
President’s Remarks:  Kate has accepted the position of Interim President until July 1 when Sonia will take over the position.  We are waiting for Kate’s tenth speech so we can be recognized as President’s Distinguished.  Let’s not let Chandra hold his breath any longer; he did so much to encourage all to do their part to achieve the distinction.

Today’s Toastmaster:  Kate Kelly
Humorist:  Kevin Manner

Word of the Day:  Rich F—Photobomb-To drop in a photo unexpectedly.  To hop in a picture before it is taken.  An otherwise normal photo that has been ruined or spoiled by someone who should not be in the photo..
Quote of the Day:   Tom C.--Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television…which means in a typical life span, we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets!  …Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life—for music and family, exercise and reading, and conversation.” Michael Medved, Radio talk-show host--------"and Toastmasters" Tom C.

Table Topics Master:  Robin gave us all un-birthday gifts, photos from the paper that we thanked her for and spoke about. Robin always has a clever bag of tricks so we can visualize speech information.
Speaker 1:  New Member Eva, CC  #3, Get to the Point; “”Gender vs Technology”—Eva gave her first speech by speaking on a Math Class  presentation that she would actually be giving in a couple of weeks.  She informed us about the widespread use of technology with men preferring video games while women preferred texting.  She set out to prove this theory by gathering data and presenting the results of the survey in graphs. 

Speaker 2:  Rachel presented a speech on mentoring, with the goal of the mentor being to learn to be a leader while the goal of the mentee being to learn faster.  She gave us a challenge—each of us should be a mentor. 

General Evaluator:  Kate

Evaluator #1:  Elaine for Eva—Elaine solicited feedback from all members, as requested by Eva.  Eva is on the fast track to improving her “English as a Second Language” presentation skills as she prepares for the college experience.

Evaluator  #2:  Tom for Rachel—Rachel made a dry subject personal by inserting personal stories to her very polished speech style. 

Ah Counter:  Susanne
Timer:  Richard F.
Grammarian:  Robin

President’s Remarks: 

·        An Officer Training session has been added for July 13 at Hamden Hall Country Day School..

·        August 10 is the Division C Officer’s Training at Manchester; Officer Slate needs to be confirmed by next meeting

·        Our deadline to finalize the Officer Slate is June 17.  All Potential Officers should attend so we can finalize.

o               Sargent-At-Arms

o               President is

o               VP Membership

o               VP ED

o               Secretary

o               Treasurer

o               VP Marketing (Public Relations)

 21 were present including 3 guests and 2 new members.

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