Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (5.27.09)
San Marco Library

Meeting Call to Order: 12:10PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Jose Lepervanche, Steve Nguyen, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack.

Guest: In attendance was Karen Jessee. Karen is a member of the City of Jacksonville Toastmasters Club. She came to our meeting as part of the Ambassador Program.

Club Business:

Officer Elections- 2009-2010 Officer Elections were held. Nomination form was provided to those in attendance, and any changes or nominations for positions was requested. With no changes requested, a motion to accept the nominees was given by Tom Snead, and second by Catalina Agustin. With unanimous approval, the nominees were accepted and approved in their respective offices.

Below are the new officers for 2009-2010, which will go in effect July 1, 2009:

President: Andrea Siracusa

V.P. of Education/Secretary: Sue Stack

V.P. of Membership: Jemerson Diaz

V.P. of Public Relations: Jose Lepervanche

Treasurer: Catalina Agustin

Sergeant-At-Arms: Tom Snead

In addition, Tom Snead and Steve Nguyen were appointed on the audit committee to review the books for the current year.

We also took the time to recognize some of our members who during the spring celebrated their membership anniversary with Top O’ The Rock. Those individuals were Steve Nguyen (5yrs) and Catalina Agustin (2yrs).

MEETING:

Grammarian (Steve Nguyen): Word of the day was neophyte (nee-uh-fahyt). The word means “a new group or individual – a beginner OR a recent convert to a new belief.”

Speakers
Speaker : Jemerson Diaz – Jemerson presented his seventh speech from the Competent Communicator manual. The speech titled, “The Stars of Our Future,” dove into the development of our children. Do we think our child’s early life experiences determine who they will be? He provided great research and conclusions within his speech.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jose Lepervanche.
Evaluator was Tom Snead.

Table Topics:
Andrea Siracusa provided the table topic session which revolved around “The Summer Months Ahead.” Everyone, expect the speaker and evealutor, had a chance to participate in table topics. Speakers talked about subjects, such as: special plans for the summer; special spots they always visit, or would like to visit, during the summer; tips on what you can do during the summer; and summer vacations that might not have gone as planned.

Congratulations to our guest Karen Jessee who voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Sue Stack
Um and Ah Counter : Steve Nguyen
Vote Counter: Andrea Siracusa
Timekeeper: Catalina Agustin

LOCATION CHANGE
It is almost summer, and that means our meetings will be taking place elsewhere than the library for the next 2 months. Below is the future meeting locations for the summer. Reminders will be sent each week, regarding where the meetings will be held. Please be sure if your contact information changes in the next two months to alert the Secretary or President so we can make sure you are on our email reminders of where the meetings will take place.

June 3 and 10 (Prudential Building – Southbank of Downtown Jacksonville)

June 17 – August 5 (Julia Landon College Prep School – located just blocks from the San Marco Library)

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, June 3
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
PRUDENTIAL BUILDING (Downtown Jacksonville Southbank)

Off San Marco Blvd, across from M.O.S.H (Museum of Science and History)

[Directions and additional information will be sent by email to all members]

Next week’s Toastmaster: Tom Snead

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