Meeting Minutes (2.4.09)

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Meeting Minutes (2.4.09)

• Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM
• Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Steve Nguyen, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack.

Invocation provided by Flor Lepervanche

Guests: Wayne Smith was a guest at this week’s meeting. Wayne is with Lender Process Service, a branch of Fidelity. He is looking to join Toastmasters to build confidence in speaking.

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was derelict. The word means to run down or be negligent.

• Speakers

Speaker #1: Jose Lepervanche (Impromptu Speech) – Jose provided an impromptu speech today about impromptu speaking. His speech looked into the form of impromptu speaking and how to be prepared to give that type of speech.

• Evaluations

Master Evaluator was Tom Snead, who provided a great evaluation on how the meeting was handled.

Evaluator for Jose’s speech was Sue Stack who provided great feedback and constructive criticism.

• Table Topics

Steve Nguyen provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with various issues and discussions. Everyone at the meeting had a chance to speak twice, including our guest. The topics included: first crush; favorite comfort food; greatest accomplishment; love or money; brains or beauty; dream job – just to name a few.

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

• Roles

Um and Ah Counter : Catalina Agustin

Vote Counter: Flor Lepervanche

Timekeeper: Jacqueline Rudloff

CLUB BUSSINESS - Club Contest

Our Club Contest for International Speech and Table Topics will be held on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at Prudential. We are in need of a contest master to help in planning the contest. If you are working towards your Competent Leadership certification then the role will be counted towards it. If you are interested please speak with Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com) who can get you on the right direction.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: - Sue Stack

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

(sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu ). Remember: we started our membership and participation drive this week, so sign up for roles to get those points.