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).