January 28, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (1.28.09)

Meeting Call to Order: 12:05PM

Attendance: Wanda Brown, Jeanne Hammond, JoAnne Heinrich, Warren Hinrichs, Jose Lepervanche, Steve Nguyen, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa and Tom Snead

Invocation provided by Jose Lepervanche

Guests: Lisa Hethington, Area 12 Governor, was a guest at this week’s meeting. Lisa talked to our Club about how to get started on the right foot in the New Year, this includes setting new goals and new successes. She provided a few handouts that were reminders of upcoming events and important Club information. Important things she talked about are imperative to remember: officers do not forget the training that is taking place this weekend (1.31.09) at the Towers located across from UF and Shands; in February we will need to have our Club level International Speech and Table Topics Speech Contest; the 84 Challenge, which challenges us to have 8 new members between November and February 28th; and the ambassador program.

Grammarian (Wanda Brown): Word of the day was imbue. The word means to inspire and permeate. Example sentence: The crowd was imbued with Barack Obama’s speech.

Speakers
Speaker #1: JoAnne Heinrich (Competent Communication-Project 3) – Joanne’s speech titled What to look for, touched on a recent topic on a lot of people’s minds – financial establishment. It is on people’s mind a lot today – what my financial future and planning looks like. Joanne took us through the stages that you should consider with your financial advisor. As she informed us you need to be in good physical health and financial health when you retire.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jacqueline Rudloff, who provided a great evaluation on how the meeting was handled.

Evaluator: Jeanne Hammond was the evaluator for JoAnne’s speech. Jeanne provided a great evaluation of JoAnne’s speech – covering the goals and points of the speech.

Table Topics
Andrea Siracusa provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with the topic of would you rather. Each question was asked to the speaker of would they rather: be able to fly or read people’s minds; be rich with an unhappy job or make less money with a job you like; be saved by superman or meet Winnie the Pooh; have an ugly, loyal dog or a prize-winning snobby cat. Jose Lepervanche, Wanda Brown, Jacqueline Rudloff and Lisa Hethington all had the chance to participate.

Congratulations to Jacqueline Rudloff who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

Roles
Um and Ah Counter : Wanda Brown
Vote Counter: Andrea Siracusa
Timekeeper: Tom Snead

Club Business:
“Home Club of the District Governor” ribbon was presented to the Club from Wanda Brown.

Jose Lepervanche addressed the Club asking that members come forward to participate in the upcoming speech contest.

Minutes recorded by:
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com

January 21, 2009 Meeting Minutes

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Meeting Minutes (1.21.09)

• Meeting Call to Order: 12:03PM
• Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Jeanne Hammond, Steve Nguyen, Juan Carlos Perez, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack.

Invocation provided by Debbie Wofford

Guests: Stephen Wooden was a guest at this week’s meeting. Stephen is a member of another Toastmasters Club and came to our Club as part of the Ambassador program. Stephen it was great to have you at our meeting and we look forward to seeing you again.

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was germane. The word means to have a significant purpose or connection.

• Speakers

Speaker #1: Jacqueline Rudloff (Impromptu Speech) – Jacqueline came forward and provided an impromptu speech entitled “Bold and Swift.” Her speech dove into the bold and swift actions that need to be taken in today’s education system. She gave us some great facts about the education system. Andrea Siracusa served as Jacqueline’s evaluator.

• Evaluations

Master Evaluator was Steve Nguyen, who provided a great evaluation on how the meeting was handled.

• Table Topics

Sue Stack provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with various issues and discussions. Everyone at the meeting had a chance to speak, including our guest. The topics included: what you do when a spouse asks for help around the house; good teachers are …; explain to the boss why you came to the board meeting in pajamas; if you created a holiday what would it be; activities with your mother-in-law; worst punishment; end of the rainbow; best place to be and what neighborhood would you want to live in.

Congratulations to Tom Snead who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

• Roles

Um and Ah Counter : Stephen Woodin

Vote Counter: Jemerson Diaz

Timekeeper: Jeanne Hammond

Club Business:

- Andrea Siracusa was provided with her Top O’ The Rock name tag that symbolized the completion of her Competent Communication manual.

- Catalina Agustin reminded all officers about the Jan. 31^st officers training, and to please let her know if you will or will not be attending so she can have the payment ready.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: Steve Nguyen

If you have not yet signed up for a role next week please contact the Toastmaster

( Steve.Nguyen@usace.army.mil). Remember: we started our membership and participation drive this week, so sign up for roles to get those points.

Meeting Minutes (1.14.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes (1.14.09)

• Meeting Call to Order: 12:02PM

Invocation provided by JoAnne Heinrich

Guests: Bill Kastelz was welcomed as a guest for the meeting. Bill is a financial representative and is interested in Toastmasters as an avenue in combating his fear of public speaking. We were happy to have him in attendance with us.

Club Business (Andrea Siracusa): A “Membership and Participation Drive” was brought before the Club. This drive will extend from January 21^st-March 29^th, allowing members to gain points through their participation in roles and increasing new membership. A few changes were made to the point system (such as the removal of the 8 points for non-manual speeches and the reduction of the substitute speech from 10 points to 8). Tom made a motion to accept the changes and drive, Jose second the motion and the changes and drive was moved by the members.

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was caterwaul. The verb means to make a harsh cry; protest or complain nosily.

• Speakers

Speaker #1: Jemerson Diaz – “Frisco.” Jermson worked on his fourth speech that was based on the effectiveness of using words. Jemerson provided us with a vivid description of San Francisco. His speech was evaluated by Andrea Siracusa.

Speaker #2: Wanda Brown – “The Best Things In Life Are Free.” Wanda talked about the things in are daily routines that are skills which in return can help us in being successful. Her speech was evaluated by Tom Snead.

Both speakers were either under or over their allotted time, so there was no vote for Best Speaker.

• Evaluators

Jose Lepervanche served as the Master Evaluator. Andrea Siracusa was voted as the Best Evaluator.

• Table Topics

Wanda Brown provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with some of the things we find as necessities and important in our lives. Topics include the discussion of water, patients, love and nurturing. John Lee, Steve Nguyen, Bill (our guest) and Flor Lepervanche all had a chance to participate in the Table Topic discussion.

Congratulations to Flor Lepervanche who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: Tom Snead

If you have not yet signed up for a role next week please contact the Toastmaster (tom.snead@prudential.com )

Toastmasters Kollege of Knowledge

Toastmasters Kollege of Knowledge
Divisions A & F
Saturday – January 31ST
8:30am - 12:30pm (Breakfast Served)
Cost: $5.00 payable at the door
TOWERS (located across from UF & Shands Hospital)
580 West 8th St - Jacksonville, FL - 32209

NOT JUST FOR CLUB OFFICERS!

ALL are invited to attend the greatest Toastmasters training event in Northeast Florida.
The Kollege of Knowledge is a fabulous semi-annual educational seminar with multiple
workshops where you will enjoy a half-day of learning. The bonus to attending is that
you can easily achieve credit for officer training while you are there!

What? You’re not a Toastmaster member? We extend a special invitation to you most of
all to attend this semi-annual educational seminar. Come have fun and see what we are
all about!

ALL Toastmaster club members are invited to attend and benefit from the fantastic
educational sessions and networking at this semi-annual extravaganza. However, Club
Officers are REQUIRED to attend this event.

Please register your attendance online. Follow these links to register:
www.toastmastersd84.org/divF and www.toastmastersd84.org/divA

Meeting Minutes (1.7.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (1.7.09)

We had a productive first of the year meeting.

We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Connie Rhodebeck. Jemerson Diaz provided the word of the day – faze. Faze means to disturb.

Jeanne Hammond was our only speaker for the day. Her speech entitled “Revising History,” explored the story of the three little pigs, with the underline meaning that things we were told at children should not be taken at face value, we act based on past experiences. Sue Stack was Jeanne’s evaluator, and provided great feedback regarding her speech.

Tom Snead organized our Table Topics which dealt with two topics. Some speeches talked about the New Year, while the remaining topics dealt into past speeches that were used at area contests. Everyone had a chance to participate, and congratulations to Jeanne who was voted as the best table topics speaker.

Thank you to Connie who was our um/ah counter, Jacqueline Rudloff our time keeper and Warren Hinirichs our Vote Counter.

Please Note: At next week’s meeting we will be discussing a membership/participation campaign that will be implemented over the next few months to help in the drive of getting new members and participation out of current members, so please try to make it next week (Wednesday, January 14, 2009).

Having roles already assigned before the meeting allows the meeting to follow in a very stable manner, providing the best atmosphere for members and guests. Please take the time to send the roles you would like to participate in to Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com) our VP of Education, if you have not already done so.

Club Officers: Remember our upcoming training will take place January 31, 2009. We need all officers to attend, as this helps us in completing our Club Success Plan. There should be a flyer posted on the blog or sent to you via email. Non-officers are also welcomed to attend the training, but this is mandatory for all officers.


Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com