Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (3.25.09)
San Marco Library

Meeting Call to Order: 12:05PM

Attendance: Jemerson Diaz, JoAnne Heinrich, Warren Hinrichs, Steve Nguyen, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa and Tom Snead

Guests: Valerie Actkins and Murika Davis. Valerie is a former Toastmasters member from another local chapter and came to our meeting today to see how were conduct our meeting. She plans to join Top O’ The Rock as our newest member. Murika is a member of Castle.com and she attended our meeting for the opportunity to see how we conduct our meetings and what might be something they can incorporate at Castle.com. Thank you to our guests for joining us.

Invocation provided by Jemerson Diaz

Grammarian (Steve Nguyen): Word of the day was trepidation. The word means to have a trembling or quivering movement; fear, alarm, or agitation. Example sentence: She had no signs of trepidation when she was giving her speech in front of the large crowd.

Speakers
Speaker #1: Jacqueline Rudloff – Jacqueline is working on her CC, and gave a speech from the CC manual; titled Illegal Contracting, she talked to us about the effects felt in the community from illegal contractors.

Speaker #2: Jemerson Diaz – Jemerson is working on his CC, and gave a speech from the CC manual; titled Money Tips, he talked about ways we can save money during these tough times.

Congratulation to Jemerson for being voted best speaker.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Tom Snead.
Evaluator: JoAnne Heinrich was the evaluator for Jacqueline’s speech and Andrea Siracusa was the evaluator for Jemerson’s speech.

Congratulation to Andrea for being voted best evaluator.

Table Topics
Warren Hinrichs provided the table topics for our meeting. The table topic session included each speaker finishing a part of the story created by Warren. The story started as “one day I was sitting under a tree, the sky so blue and the sun shining. I was watching my twenty sheep when I realized that there was only 19, one was missing…..” Each speaker (Steve, Murika, Tom and JoAnne) had the opportunity to add to the story.

Congratulations to Murika who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

Roles
Um and Ah Counter : Murika Davis
Vote Counter: Valeria Actkins
Timekeeper: Steve Nguyen

LOCATION NOTICE:
We will be meeting a Prudential next week (April 1st). Please arrive early, as we need to sign in before going to our meeting location. Directions and additional information will be sent by Secretary, Andrea Siracusa this week and next.

REMEMBER:
It is that time again – Dues. All members need to pay their dues to treasurer Catalina Agustin by March 31, 2009. The dues fee is $45.00. The money goes to support our Club and Toastmasters International – so please get your due money in so you do not miss a beat in completing your speaking and leadership goals. Individual emails will be sent to all members reminding them of their dues.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: Andrea Siracusa.
If you are interested in signing up for any role please contact Andrea Siracusa (ajsiracusa@yahoo.com) or Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com).

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