Minute - November 06, 2012

Top O’ The Rock

Toastmasters Club 2155

Region 8, District 84, Division A, Area 10

November 6, 2012

Location:  Florida State College Kent Campus

3939 Roosevelt Boulevard

Jacksonville, FL

Members Present:

President – Jose Lepervanche, DTM (Toastmaster, Evaluator, Master Evaluator)

Treasurer – Flor Lepervanche, CC (Table Topics)

Secretary – Steve Nguyen, CC, CL (Speakers)

Sgt. Of Arms – Printella Bankhead (Invocator, Grammarian, Evaluator)

V.P. Membership – Warren Hinrichs, ACS (Speaker)

Guests:

Nora Santamaria

Josh Beard

Faculty and Students Florida State College

Speakers:

Warren gave a speech from the Basic Communication Manual How to Say it Project.  The speech title was “Global Challenge”.  Warren speech focused on the fiscal cliff and the European debt crisis.  Expected time 5-7 min.  Actual time was 6:28.

Steve gave a speech from the Advanced Communicator Speaking to Inform Series.  The speech title was “My Barefoot Experiment”.  Steve speech was about his experiment with barefoot running.  Expected time 7-9 min.  Actual time was 7:18 min. 

Table Topics:

Table topics led by Flor. 

Josh spoke about his least favorite profession(s), criminals and bank tellers. Time was 1:50.

Warren spoke about why he arrived at work in his pajamas.  Time was 1:05.

Evaluation:

Jose served as Master Evaluator.  Jose evaluated Warren’s speech.  Printella evaluated Steve’s speech.  Both evaluations were within time.  Students were given the opportunity to comment on the meeting.

Word of the day – Obsess – v.  To preoccupy the mind excessively.