Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (6.17.09)
Crowne Plaza Hotel

Thank you to Ms. Christine Payne for allowing us to use a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel this week, and next week, for our meetings. We truly appreciate your support in making our meetings a success.

Meeting Call to Order: 12:08PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Hung-Hen Chen, Jemerson Diaz, Marc Hirst, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead and Sue Stack.

Guest: In attendance was Francisco Adrian. This was Francisco’s second visit to our Club, and today he was voted in as a new member. Welcome Francisco, we know you will find Toastmasters very beneficial.

Also in attendance was Alison Last. Alison has lived in Jacksonville for about two years, and participated in Toastmasters in Michigan. She was looking to restart her involvement and sought out our Club via the internet. We are glad she could join us and hopefully she will able to attend future meetings.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Jemerson Diaz): Word of the day was genial (jēn-‘yәl). The word means “to have a friendly or pleasant disposition or manner.” Example sentence: She seemed very genial, even though she was going through some rough time.

Speakers
Speaker: Jose Lepervanche – Jose presented an impromptu speech titled “Household Finances During Stormy Times.” In his speech, Jose provided us with tips on how to handle our finances – from making sure not to spend to impress, to remembering that saving money is key.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Sue Stack.
Evaluator was Andrea Siracusa.

Table Topics:
Marc Hirst provided the table topic session which revolved around some of the well known table topic cards and some of his own table topic questions. The session involved topics such as: new career; job you would not want; first job; happiest moment; donating money; and a favorite sitcom.

Everyone in attendance, including our guests, had a chance to participate; congratulations to Tom Snead who was voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Tom Snead
Um and Ah Counter: Jemerson Diaz

Vote Counter: Francisco Adrian
Timekeeper: Catalina Agustin

Invocation: Jose Lepervanche

LOCATION CHANGE
Please remember that due to it being summer, and the library being unavailable for use, we have to meet in different locations. Below is a reminder of where we will be meeting for the last meeting in June and for all our meetings in July.

June 24^th:

Crowne Plaza Hotel (1201 Riverplace Blvd.) Parking is located under the hotel. Drive up in front of the Crowne Plaza’s front doors and proceed under the hotel into the parking area. The room at this time has not been confirmed, but that information will be sent before the meeting.

June 17th – August 5^th:

Julie Landon Prep School (1819 Thacker Ave.) – located just blocks from the San Marco Library

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, June 24

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown Jacksonville Southbank)

TOASTMASTER will be Sue Stack. If you would like to fill a role please contact Sue at (sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu); if you are planning to speak please be sure to provide her with your speech information.

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