Meeting 7/29/2009

We had a great meeting this week – I must say that it was auspicious! Jemerson Diaz was our Toastmaster and did a wonderful job. Marc Hirst provided our Word of the Day (auspicious) and gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator too. Both of the speeches were from advanced manuals (Humorously Speaking and Entertaining Speaker), so hopefully everyone was entertained. Steve Nguyen, CC, CL spoke about “Turning Failure Into Success” and I spoke about how to help your spouse by doing “Other Duties As Assigned.” Jose Lepervanche, AC-G, AL-S, evaluated Steve’s speech while Warren Hinrichs, AC-S evaluated mine.

Jose also was the Table Topics Master and asked various questions relating to getting along without cell phones and other technology. Warren also did double-duty and served as Master Evaluator. Jemerson was also a busy man – he served as Um and Ah Counter and Toastmaster. Catalina Agustin was our Timekeeper and Alison Last as our vote counter.

Winners: Steve Nguyen as Best Speaker; Jose Lepervanche as Best Evaluator; Catalina Agustin as Best Table Topics Speaker

Announcements: The Humorous Speech Contest will be on August 26 with the castle.com (Army Corps of Engineers) club. Date for the Evaluation Contest will be announced later. Contact Jemerson Diaz, Contestmaster if you want to participate in the contests.

Toastmaster Training is Saturday, August 8 from 8:30 to 12:30 at the Shands Towers on 8^th Street.

Next Week: Tom Snead will be the Toastmaster and Catalina Agustin, Marc Hirst, and Warren Hinrichs will be speaking.

See you next week!

Sue Stack, AC-B, CL

Vice President, Education/Secretary

Top O' The Rock Toastmasters

Club # 2155, Area 12, Divison A

District 84

sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu

(904) 244-2168

7.15.09 Meeting

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (7.15.09)
Landon Prep School

Meeting Call to Order: 12:01PM

Attendance: Francisco Adrian, Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, JoAnne Heinrich, Warren Hinrichs, Marc Hirst, Steve Nguyen, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead and Sue Stack.

Announcements:

· Francisco Adrian was inducted as a member of Top O’ The Rock. Congratulations again Francisco! We are happy to have you as part of our Club.

· Next week’s meeting will be at Landon Prep School again – but starting July 29^th – August 26^th we will be meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

· Our Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will take place on August 26^th. So far we have two contestants for the Humorous Speech and one for the evaluation contest. If you are interested in participating as a contestant, OR for any role –judge, timer, vote counter, etc.- please alert the Contest Master Jemerson Diaz (jemersondiaz@yahoo.com) as soon as possible.

· We are looking for an active member who would like assume the role of Secretary. If you are interested in retaining the role of Secretary please let me know and I will be happy to go over it with you.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Francisco Adrian): Word of the day was synergy (sĭn'ər-jē). The word means “interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.” Example sentence: There synergy of the members, proved that great results would be coming.

Speakers:

Mar Hirst – Marc presented his second speech of the Competent Communicators manual. Titled “ Pyramid of Egypt,” Marc spoke about the design and structure of the Egyptian pyramids.

Tom Snead- Tom presented and impromptu speech about “Healthcare Reform.” Tom provided great facts and insight into what healthcare reform will do, and is it the choice we seek.

Congratulations to Marc for being voted “Best Speaker.”

Evaluations:
Master Evaluator was Warren Hinirchs.
Evaluator for Marc’s Speech was JoAnne Heinrich
Evaluator for Tom’s Speech was Steve Nguyen

Congratulations to JoAnne for being voted “Best Evaluator.”

Table Topics:
Andrea Siracusa provided the table topic session which revolved around “choices.” Topics included: habits, to write a book or movie, choices of where to live, choice of a career. Jemerson, Warren, Sue and Francisco had the chance to participate.

Congratulations to Warren for being voted “Best Table Topic Speaker.”

Roles
Toastmaster: Catalina Agustin
Um and Ah Counter: Jemerson Diaz
Vote Counter: JoAnne Heinrich
Timekeeper: Sue Stack
Invocation: Jemerson Diaz

LOCATION CHANGE Please remember that due to it being summer, and the library being unavailable for use, for our next meeting (7/22/09) we will be meeting at Landon Prep School (1819 Thacker Avenue) – just blocks from the library.

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m Landon Prep School (1819 Thacker Avenue)

If you would like to fill a role please contact our VP of Education, Sue Stack (sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu).

7.8.09 Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (7.8.09)
Landon Prep School

Meeting Call to Order: 12:05PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, JoAnne Heinrich, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead and Sue Stack.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was daedal (deed-l). The word means “skillful; ingenious; complex.” Example sentence: There meeting yesterday was so daedal, it was hard to follow what was going on.

Speaker: Andrea Siracusa – Andrea presented her second project from the Public Relations manual. The project involved the speaker pretending to be on a talk show in which she was talking about an organization she was involved in. Sue Stack served as the radio show host.

Evaluations:
Master Evaluator was Andrea Siracusa.
Evaluator was Tom Snead.

Table Topics:
Jemerson Diaz provided the table topic session which revolved around celebrities and goals that some people where hoping to be able to achieve. Everyone had a chance to participate in the table topic session; and congratulations to Tom Snead who was voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Sue Stack
Um and Ah Counter: JoAnne Heinrich
Vote Counter: Sue Stack
Timekeeper: JoAnne Heinrich
Invocation: Andrea Siracusa

LOCATION CHANGE Please remember that due to it being summer, and the library being unavailable for use, for our next meeting, and up through July 22nd, we will be meeting at Landon Prep School (1819 Thacker Avenue) – just blocks from the library.

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m Landon Prep School (1819 Thacker Avenue)

TOASTMASTER will be John Lee. If you would like to fill a role please contact John at (john_lee2@doh.state.fl.us); if you are planning to speak please be sure to provide him with your speech information.

Minutes recorded by: Secretary
Top O’ The Rock

2009-10 Club Officers

July 1st, 2009. Induction of the 2009-2010 President Andrea Siracusa by 2008-2009 President Jose G. Lepervanche. Congratulations Andrea.

2009-2010 Club Officers:

President: Andre Siracusa

VP - Education: Sue Stack

VP - Membership: Jemerson Diaz

VP - Public Relations: Jose G. Lepervanche

Treasurer: Catalina Agustin

Sergeant-At-Arms: Tom Snead