Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (3.11.09)

Meeting Call to Order: 12:05PM

Attendance: Jemerson Diaz, Robert Garrett, Andrea Siracusa and Tom Snead

Invocation provided by Jemerson Diaz

Guests: Jacklyn Wynn, Michael Johnson and Nekia Holland

All of our guests were back for a second time. Thank you for coming once again to see what Toastmasters has to offer.

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was militate. The word means to have weight or effect; having force or influence. Example sentence: In our current era of politics, many factors militate the decisions being made.

Speakers
Speaker #1: Andrea Siracusa (Impromptu Speech) – Andrea provided an impromptu speech titled “The Greatest Barrier.” Andrea talked about her greatest barrier in life and how she overcame it.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jemerson Diaz.

Evaluator: Jemerson Diaz was the evaluator for Andrea’s speech.

Table Topics
Tom Snead provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt titles of Beatles’ songs. Everyone had a chance to participate and talked about things such as: all you need is love; 8 days a week; winding road; let it be; fixing a hole, etc.

Congratulations to our guest Neika Hollan who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

Roles
Um and Ah Counter : Robert Garrett

Vote Counter: Jacklyn Wynn

Timekeeper: Robert Garrett

Club Business:

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: Jacqueline Rudloff

If you are interested in signing up for any role please contact our Toastmaster for next week Jacqueline Rudloff (jrudloff1@hotmail.com) or Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com).

NEXT WEEK’S LOCATION:

The library will be closed on Wednesday, March 18^th. PLEASE NOTE we will be meeting at prudential. An email will be sent by Secretary, Andrea Siracusa, noting the change of location for next week. A reminder will also be sent on Tuesday.

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