Minute (April, 17 2012)

Top O’ The Rock
Toastmasters Club 2155
Region 8, District 84, Division A, Area 10
April 17, 2012
Location: Midtown Centre Business Park, Building 2200
Community Room #151
4040 Woodcock Drive, Jacksonville, FL

Members Present:
President – Sue Stack, ACB, CL (Toastmaster)
VP Membership – Jose Lepervanche, DTM (Topics Master)
Treasurer – Catalina Augustin, CC (Timekeeper)
Secretary – Steve Nguyen, CC, CL (Speaker)
Warren Hinrichs, ACS (ME, Evaluator, Invocator)
Flor Lepervanche, CC (Grammarian)

Guests:
Nora Santamaria (Guest of Flor, Vote Counter)
Printella Bankhead (Um Ah Counter)

Speakers:
Steve Nguyen – Completed speech no. 4 Demonstration Talk from Advance Communication Speaking to Inform Manual. Title was “Lessons Learned from Running”. Steve shared his experience and lessons learned while training for the Gate River Run. As part of speech he demonstrated some exercises for strengthening the lower leg and feet. Expected time was 6-8 min. Actual time was 7:24 min.

Evaluation:
Warren Hinrichs served as Master Evaluator and Evaluator for Steve’s speech. Warren’s evaluation time was 3:17 min. Warren gave a general evaluation of the meeting.

Table Topics:
Table topics led by Jose. The theme was “time”.
Sue spoke about her most difficult time management challenge. Time was 2:01 min.
Flor spoke about how she loses track of time when going to her Facebook page. Time was 1:45 min.
Printella gave us her tip on how to effectively manage time. Time was 1:47 min.
Catalina spoke about where she would like to go with extra time. Time was 1:29 min.

Word of the day – Genial – Adj. Cheerful.

Best table topics speaker was Catalina.

Club Business:

Printella officially inducted as member of Top O the Rock.