Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (5.27.09)
Prudential Building

Meeting Call to Order: 12:15PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Marc Hirst, Steve Nguyen, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack.

Guest: In attendance was Francisco Adrian. Francisco was a guest at this weeks meeting, he is looking to improve his speaking skills and feels that Top O’ The Rock is the place for that. With no hesitation, Francisco turned in his application to be a member – we are excited he has decided to join our organization.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was elicit (i-‘list-әt). The word means “to draw out by discussion.” Example sentence: The doctor was able to elicit the patient’s true feelings.”

Speakers
Speaker: Andrea Siracusa – Andrea presented a speech from the Advanced Communication Manual – Public Relations. She was working on the first project that dealt with the goodwill speech. She talked about Toastmasters and tips on speaking and combating nerves.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Catalina Agustin.
Evaluator was Tom Snead.

Table Topics:
Sue Stack provided the table topic session which involved chosen speakers to promote possible vacation spots. Sue provided the speaker with a location and they had to promote the location. Everyone had a chance to speak, and places discussed where: Daytona Beach; Dollywood; Golf Shores, Alabama; Disney World; Kentucky.

Congratulations to Andrea Siracusa who voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Tom Snead
Um and Ah Counter: Marc Hirst

Vote Counter: Catalina Agustin
Timekeeper: Steve Nguyen

Invocation: Steve Nguyen

LOCATION CHANGE
It is 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 10th (Prudential Building – Southbank of Downtown Jacksonville)

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

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, June 10
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]

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