Meeting Minutes (9.23.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (9.23.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM

Attendance: Jemerson Diaz, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, Sue Stack, Catalina Agustin, Marc Hirst, Josh Nathanson. Guests: William Clifford and Vanessa Francis.


Club Business/Announcements:


The Area 12 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will take place on September 26 at the Crowne Plaza. We are hoping for a good turn out from Top O’ The Rock. Any members who can attend are encouraged to register. The Club is looking at the possibility of paying for members to attend. The details of that possibility will be disclosed soon.



MEETING:

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was Refulgent. The word means “Radiant".

Speakers
Speaker #1: Jemerson Diaz - Jemerson provided an interesting speech from the advanced story telling manual titled "Rumpelstilskin"
Speaker # 2: Mark Hirst - Marc provided an interesting speech (Project # 4) about "Hazards of Plastics in Our Food".


Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jose Lepervanche
Evaluators were Sue Stack to evaluate Jemerson's Speech and Andrea Siracusa to evaluate Marc's Speech.


Table Topics:
Andrea Siracusa provided the table topic session about stories. Jose was voted as best Table Topics Speakers but he handled the ribbon to Catalina who spoke about bed sides stories without bed sides stories.


Roles
Toastmaster: Jose Lepervanche
Um and Ah Counter : Catalina Agustin
Vote Counter: William Clifford
Timekeeper: Josh Nathanson

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, September 30

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster: Jemerson Diaz
Minutes recorded by:

Flor Lepervanche
Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters