Minute (Aug 21, 2012)

Top O’ The Rock

Toastmasters Club 2155

Region 8, District 84, Division A, Area 10

August 21, 2012

Location:  Midtown Centre Business Park, Building 2200

Community Room #151

4040 Woodcock Drive, Jacksonville, FL

Members Present:

President – Jose Lepervanche, DTM (Topics Master)

Vice President Membership -  Warren Hinrichs, ACS (Invocator, Toastmaster)

Treasurer – Flor Lepervanche, CC (Evaluator)

Secretary – Steve Nguyen, CC, CL (Master Evaluator)

Sgt. Of Arms – Printella Bankhead (Speaker)

Sue Stack, ACS, CL (Timekeeper)

Kevin Kochensparger (Grammarian)

Catalina Augustin (Grammarian, Um Ah, Vote Counter)

Guests:

Nora Santamaria (Guest of Flor, Vote Counter)

Diana Galavis

Jerod Powers

Frances Powers, Area 11 Governor

Toastmaster Warren changed up the meeting format by starting with table topics.

Table Topics:

Table topics led by Jose.  Participants were asked about their summer experience.

Steve talked about his Key West Vacation.  Time was 1:16.

Kevin spoke about experiencing Ichetucknee on a not so pleasant day.  Time was 1:09.

Diana spoke about her conference in nations capital.  Time was 2:12.

Speaker:

Printella Bankhead completed her second speech from the Basic Communication Manual.  The title was “Positive Thinking”.  Printella spoke to members and guest about the power of positive thinking and how it helped her persevere through a difficult upbringing and not be a statistic.  Expected time was 5 – 7 min.  Actual time was 7:10.

Evaluation:

Steve Nguyen served as Master Evaluator and introduced first time evaluator Flor Lepervanche.  Flor’s evaluation time was 2:20.  Steve gave a general evaluation of the meeting.

Word of the day – Acuity – n. Emptiness

Best table topics speaker was Steve.

Area Governor Frances Powers gave a brief presentation about upcoming Toastmaster events and incentive programs.

Toastmaster for next meeting September 4 is Steve.