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