Minute 02/24/10

Good afternoon, Top O’ The Rockers!

We had a great meeting this afternoon! For those who could not come, you missed a great time! Jemerson Diaz gave his speech, Lesson from the Soup Kitchen, which was Project # 4, A Touching Story, in the Storytelling Advanced Manual. This speech is also his International Speech Contest speech. After his speech, Andrea gave the formal evaluation and then we had a roundtable evaluation. Some suggestions were made, and compliments were given. Jemerson will be doing his speech again before the Area Contest on March 20.

Sue Stack served as Toastmaster, William Clifford as Timekeeper, Steve Nguyen as Um and Ah Counter, Yeidy Feliciano as Grammarian, and Andrea Siracusa as Master Evaluator. Yeidy picked “faze” as our Word of the Day. As Toastmasters, we should not let anything faze us since we are training to be versatile on our feet!

You may have noticed “Backwards Day” on March 31. This meeting will be done backwards – in other words, evaluations before speeches. You might be wondering how that would work. Basically, the evaluator can say that the speaker did something in his/her speech such as saying, “La La La,” or moving their arms around, and then the speaker would have to incorporate that into his/her speech. It really keeps you on your toes since you have to remember to do what the evaluator said that you did. Same type of scenario with Um and Ah and Grammarian – whatever they said you did, you have to do. It should be fun and will definitely be different!

Everyone please note, as you will see on the attached schedule. The Area 12 contest is on March 20th and our Club meeting location will be hosting it. I hope to see a great turnout in support of our contestants and because the contest is being held at our club meeting location. A flier will be sent out over the weekend/Monday the latest

Thanks,

Sue



Sue Stack, AC-B, CL

Vice President, Education

Top O' The Rock Toastmasters

Club # 2155, Area 12, Divison A

District 84

sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu

(904) 244-2168

Minute (02/17/10)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,

We had a great meeting this week – Catalina Agustin was our Toastmaster and she did a wonderful job. Flor Lepervanche provided our Word of the Day (Xenophobia) and Yeidy Feliciano gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator. We had one speaker Yeidy Feliciano with her speech Icebraker. Steve Nguyen evaluated Yeidy’s speech.

Jose Lepervache was the Table Topics Master and he asked various questions about "The Olimpics Games in the life". Andrea Siracusa served as Timekeeper. William Clifford served as Vote Counter and Sue Stack as Ah Counter. Sue Stack was our Master Evaluator too.

Winners: Flor Lepervanche as Best Table Topic; Yeidy Feliciano as Best Speaker and Steve Nguyen as Best Evaluator.



See you on Wednesday!

The minutes from the meeting are available on the blog at www.toporock.org, please be sure to check out what took place.


Attendance: Andrea Siracusa, Jemerson Diaz, Steve Nguyen, William Clifford, Jose Lepervanche, Flor Lepervanche, Sue Stack, Catalina Agustin and Yeidy Feliciano.

Minutes recorded by
Flor Lepervanche
Secretary

Minutes (02/10/10)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,

We had a great meeting this week – Jemerson Diaz was our Toastmaster and he did a wonderful job. Andrea Siracusa provided our Word of the Day (Ideology) and Jemerson Diaz gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator too. We had two speakers, William Clifford with his "My Life" and Andrea Siracusa CC,CL gave to us an interesting speech about the "Toastmaster Game" with the different functions in a Toastmaster Club. Jose Lepervanche evaluated Andrea’s speech and Jemerson Diaz evaluated William's speech.

Flor Lepervache was the Table Topics Master and she asked various questions about "Sometimes situations in our daily routine". Jose Lepervanche served as Timekeeper. Yeidy Feliciano served as Vote Counter and Flor Lepervanche as Ah Counter. Jose Lepervanche was our Master Evaluator too.

Winners: Jose Lepervanche as Best Table Topic; Andrea Siracusa as Best Speaker and Jemerson Diaz as Best Evaluator.



See you on Wednesday!

The minutes from the meeting are available on the blog at www.toporock.org, please be sure to check out what took place.


Attendance: Andrea Siracusa, Jemerson Diaz, William Clifford, Jose Lepervanche, Flor Lepervanche and Yeidy Feliciano.

Minutes recorded by
Flor Lepervanche
Secretary

Minutes (02/03/10)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,

We had a great meeting last week – Sue Stack was our Toastmaster and she did a wonderful job. Steve Nguyen provided our Word of the Day (Vicissitudes) and Flor Lepervanche gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator. Jose Lepervanche, DTM gave to us a impromptu speech of Project # 5 "Your Body Speaks" from the Basic Communication Manual. Andrea Siracusa evaluated Jose’s speech.

Andrea Siracusa was the Table Topics Master and asked various questions relating to survival tools to use in life. Catalina Agustin served as Timekeeper. Jose Lepervanche served as Vote Counter and William Clifford as Ah Counter. Jemerson Diaz was our Master Evaluator.

Winners: Jose Lepervanche as Best Speaker; Andrea Siracusa as Best Evaluator and Flor Lepervanche as Best Table Topics Speaker.

Today we voted in a new member - Yeidy Feliciano. Yeidy is now our newest member to the Club. Congratulations!!!!


See you on Wednesday!

The minutes from the meeting are available on the blog at www.toporock.org, please be sure to check out what took place.


Attendance: Andrea Siracusa, Sue Stack, Jemerson Diaz, Steve Nguyen, Catalina Agustin, William Clifford, Jose Lepervanche, Flor Lepervanche and the new member Yeidy Feliciano.

Minutes recorded by
Flor Lepervanche
Secretary