Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (8.19.09)
Crowne Plaza Hotel

Meeting Call to Order: 12:01PM

Attendance: Marc Hirst, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Steve Nguyen, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead and Sue Stack.

Guest(s): Alison Last

MEETING:

Grammarian (Steve Nguyen): Word of the day was meritorious (mĕr'ĭ-tôr'ē-əs, -tōr'-). The word means “deserving reward or praise; having merit” Example sentence: The volunteer received an award for a lifetime of meritorious service.

Speakers:

Andrea Siracusa spoke from project 3 of the Public Relations Manual from the Advanced Communicator Series. Her speech was titled “The Bright Light Above.”

Jose Lepervanche is currently working again from the Competent Communicator manual after recently receiving his DTM. Working on Project 2, he provided the speech titled “Summer 2009 Tweets and Thoughts.”

Congratulations to Andrea who was voted as the Best Speaker.

Evaluations:

Master Evaluator was Tom Snead.

Evaluators: Sue Stack, who evaluated Andrea’s speech; and Tom Snead, who evaluated Jose’s speech.

Congratulation to Tom for being voted Best Evaluator.

Table Topics:

Marc Hirst who provided the table topics for the meeting. The topics ranged from a variety of issues – from predicting the future to talking about dreams. Members and guests had the opportunity to participate. Speakers were Sue Stack, Tom Snead, Alison Last, Steve Nguyen and Flor Lepervanche.

Congratulations to Alison who was voted as the Best Table Topics Speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Steve Nguyen

Um and Ah Counter: Alison Last
Vote Counter: Alison Last
Timekeeper: Flor Lepervanche
Invocation: Flor Lepervanche

LOCATION REMINDER Please remember we will be meeting at PRUDENTIAL, off San Marco, next week. We will be having our joint Humorous Speech Contest with Castle.com. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY SO WE CAN START THE CONTEST ON TIME. Remember we all have to sign in with security so that does take extra time.

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Prudential Building

701 San Marco Blvd.

CLUB BUSINESS
REMEMBER IT IS TIME FOR CLUB DUES – ALL MEMBERS PLEASE GET YOUR SEMI-ANNUAL CLUB DUES INTO CATALINA NOW! We look forward to everyone staying part of Top O’ The Rock, as we have some great opportunities ahead for our Club and all members. Please contact Catalina with any questions.

CONTEST MASTER next week will be Jemerson Diaz. If you would like to help please contact Jemerson. We do need assistance with food for the contest.