Minute (May 18, 2011)

Top O’ The Rock
Toastmasters Club 2155
Region 8, District 84, Division A, Area 10
May 18, 2011
Location: Midtown Centre Business Park, Building 2200
Community Room #151
4040 Woodcock Drive, Jacksonville, FL

Members Present:
VP Education – Sue Stack, ACB, CL (Presiding Officer, Toastmaster)
Secretary – Steve Nguyen, CC, CL (Evaluator, Vote Counter)
Sgt. Of Arms – Flor Lepervanche, CC (Time Keeper, Um Ah)
Treasurer – Catalina Augustin (Speaker)
Warren Hinrichs (Table Topics)
Nicole Kent (Speaker)
William Clifford (Master Evaluator, Invocator)


Speakers:
Nicole Kent – Nicole’s speech titled “It” was project No. 3 from Competent Communicator Manual. What was “It” that drew us to our spouses or significant others. Projected time was 5-7 min. Actual time was 6:48 min.
Catalina Augustin – Catalina’s speech titled “Victim” was project No. 10 from the Competent Communication Manual. Catalina spoke about how she was a victim of discrimination at a restaurant. Expected time was 8-10 min. Actual time was 10:04 min.

Table Topics:
Warren led the table topics session.
Sue spoke about the ordeal of taking care of her husband. Time was 3:00 min.
Nicole talked about preparing her favorite pasta dish. Time was 1:04 min.
Lorraine spoke about her 15 min of fame. Time was 1:30 min.

Evaluations:
William Clifford introduced the evaluators.
Nicole’s speech was evaluated by Lorraine. Evaluation time was 1:30 min.
Catalina’s speech was evaluated by Steve. Evaluation time was 2:10 min.
William conducted the general evaluation of meeting.

Best Table Topics – Nicole
Best Evaluator – Steve
Best Speaker - Catalina


Word of the day – Winnow – To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad