Minute (07-07-10)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,


We had a great meeting last week (July 7) –

Lorraine Haataia, Area 10 Governor visited our Club to induct our new Officers using our new Dedicated Leaders Award Gavel.

The new Officers are:

President....Jose Lepervanche
VP of Education......Sue Stack
VP of Public Relations.....Andrea Siracusa
Treasurer.....Catalina Agustin
Secretary.....Steve Nguyen
Sgt. At Arms....Flor Lepervanche


Sue Stack was our Toastmaster and she gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator doing a wonderful job.

Jose Lepervanche spoke about “Who is in control” Project # 7 - Competent Communication. Jemerson Diaz evaluated Jose's speech.

Andrea Siracusa provided our Word of the Day (Caterwave) and she served as Table Topic Master and Umm n' Ahh Counter too.

Flor Lepervanche was our Timekeeper too and she was our Vote Counter too.

Lorraine Haataia served as Master Evaluator.

Sue Stack was the winner as the best table topic.


Attendance: Sue Stack, Jemerson Diaz, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa and Lorraine Haataia.

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.


Top O’ the Rock Toastmasters Club # 2155
Midtown Business Centre
4040 Woodcock Dr., Bldg. 2200, Rm #151
(Community Room)
Meeting: Wednesday, 12:00 pm
www.toporock.com/directions.html
Jemerson Diaz (904-210-1406)

Meeting Minutes (03/17/2010)

We had a great meeting last Wednesday!

Jemerson Diaz practiced his speech for the International Contest. At the end of the meeting the attendants gave feedback. Andrea Siracusa gave the formal evaluation. Catalina Agustin served as Master Evaluator.

Jose Lepervanche served as Toastmaster and Table Topic Master too. Sue Stack was the Timekeeper and the Gramarian too with the word "Banal". Yeidy Feliciano was the Um and Ah Counter and Flor Lepervanche was the Invocator and Vote Counter too.

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

All the attendants approved the motion to deduct $ 6.00 of the membership fee to people to register during the Contest Day (March 20,2010).


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, Jose Lepervanche, Flor Lepervanche, Sue Stack, Catalina Agustin, Yeidy Feliciano.


Minutes recorded by
Flor Lepervanche
Secretary

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

Minutes Meeting (01/20/10)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,

We had a great meeting last week (Jan 20) – Jose Lepervanche was our Toastmaster and he did a wonderful job. Flor Lepervanche provided our Word of the Day (Comity) and Jemerson Diaz gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator.

Jemerson Diaz spoke about “The Violin’s maker” an interesting story from the Story Telling Advanced Manual. Sue Stack evaluated Jemerson’s speech.

Sue Stack was the Table Topics Master and she served as Master Evaluator too. Flor Lepervanche served as Um and Ah Counter and Vote Counter. Jose Lepervanche was our Timekeeper too.

Winners: Jemerson Diaz as Best Speaker and Best Table Topics.
Sue Stack Best Evaluator.

We are starting the new year with wonderful challenges and the opportunity to have more members.

Thank you to everyone who has been constantly coming to the meetings and helping to make our Club strong. We have a great location that is bringing in new members, and we want to continue to grow. If you have missed some meetings please try to come.

See you tomorrow!

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

Minutes recorded by:
Flor Lepervanche, Secretary

Top O’ the Rock Toastmasters Club # 2155
Midtown Business Centre
4040 Woodcock Dr., Bldg. 2200, Rm #151
(Community Room)
Meeting: Wednesday, 12:00 pm
www.toporock.com/directions.html
Jemerson Diaz (904-210-1406)

Minutes Meeting (12/02/09)

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,

We had a great meeting this week – Sue Stack was our Toastmaster and she did a wonderful job. Jemerson Diaz provided our Word of the Day (macabre) and gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator too. Jose Lepervanche, DTM spoke about “Social Responsabilities” . Jemerson Diaz evaluated Jose’s speech.

William Clifford was the Table Topics Master and asked various questions relating to the inventions. Catalina Agustin served as Master Evaluator. Flor Lepervanche served as Um and Ah Counter and Vote Counter. Catalina Agustin was our Timekeeper too.

Winners: Jose Lepervanche as Best Speaker; Jemerson Diaz as Best Evaluator and Flor Lepervanche as Best Table Topics Speaker

See you next week!

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

Attendance: Sue Stack, Jemerson Diaz, Catalina Agustin, William Clifford, Jose Lepervanche, Flor Lepervanche and the guest Yeidy Feliciano.

Minutes recorded by:
Flor Lepervanche, Secretary

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (11.04.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:05PM

Attendance: Jose Lepervanche, Jemerson Diaz, Flor Lepervanche, Steve Nguyen, William Clifford and a new guest Tony Baker.


MEETING:

Grammarian (William Clifford): Word of the day was "Beguile" (bi'gail). The word means to trick you into doing it. When you are charmed and attracted by it.
Speakers:
Speaker #1: William Clifford. William gave his ice breaker speech, titled “Untitled.” William did a great job in introducing himself to the Club.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Steve Nguyen
Evaluator was Steve Nguyen.

Table Topics:
Jose Lepervanche provided an easy way to be Table Topics Masters with the cards. He encouraged to the members to sign up for this role.
The Table Topics winner was a new guest Tony Baker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Jemerson Diaz
Um and Ah Counter : Flor Lepervanche
Vote Counter: Flor Lepervanche
Timekeeper: Jose Lepervanche

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, November 11
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster:

Minutes recorded by:
Flor Lepervanche, Secretary

Meeting Minutes (9.23.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (9.23.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM

Attendance: Jemerson Diaz, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, Sue Stack, Catalina Agustin, Marc Hirst, Josh Nathanson. Guests: William Clifford and Vanessa Francis.


Club Business/Announcements:


The Area 12 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will take place on September 26 at the Crowne Plaza. We are hoping for a good turn out from Top O’ The Rock. Any members who can attend are encouraged to register. The Club is looking at the possibility of paying for members to attend. The details of that possibility will be disclosed soon.



MEETING:

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was Refulgent. The word means “Radiant".

Speakers
Speaker #1: Jemerson Diaz - Jemerson provided an interesting speech from the advanced story telling manual titled "Rumpelstilskin"
Speaker # 2: Mark Hirst - Marc provided an interesting speech (Project # 4) about "Hazards of Plastics in Our Food".


Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jose Lepervanche
Evaluators were Sue Stack to evaluate Jemerson's Speech and Andrea Siracusa to evaluate Marc's Speech.


Table Topics:
Andrea Siracusa provided the table topic session about stories. Jose was voted as best Table Topics Speakers but he handled the ribbon to Catalina who spoke about bed sides stories without bed sides stories.


Roles
Toastmaster: Jose Lepervanche
Um and Ah Counter : Catalina Agustin
Vote Counter: William Clifford
Timekeeper: Josh Nathanson

NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, September 30

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster: Jemerson Diaz
Minutes recorded by:

Flor Lepervanche
Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes (9.16.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (9.16.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM

Attendance: Jemerson Diaz, Alison Last, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, Steve Nguyen. Guests: William Clifford and Greg Gaines.


Club Business/Announcements:

Congratulations to Josh Nathanson who will be inducted as our newest.

The Area 12 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will take place on September 26 at the Crowne Plaza. We are hoping for a good turn out from Top O’ The Rock. Any members who can attend are encouraged to register. The Club is looking at the possibility of paying for members to attend. The details of that possibility will be disclosed soon.

IT IS TIME FOR DUES. Please get your $45 membership dues into Catalina NOW. The deadline for members is by 9/23/09.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Jose Lepervanche): Word of the day was Logorrhea. The word means “Excessive use of words".


Speakers
Speaker : Andrea Siracusa - Andrea provided an interesting speech about "Evaluate to Generate".


Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Jemerson Diaz.
Evaluator was JoseLepervanche.


Table Topics:
Alison Last provided the table topic session. Jemerson, Josh, Steve, Flor, and Greg Gaines, a visitor from another Toastmaster Club, had a chance to speak.


Congratulations to Greg Gaines who was voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Steve Nguyen
Um and Ah Counter : Josh Nathanson
Vote Counter: William Clifford
Timekeeper: Flor Lepervanche


NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, September 23

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster: Jose Lepervanche

Minutes recorded by:

Flor Lepervanche
Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters
Posted by Top O' The Rock Toastmasters at 9:38 PM
Labels: Meetings

Meeting Minutes (9.9.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (9.9.09)
Midtown Centre Community Room

Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Alison Last, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, and Sue Stack.


Club Business/Announcements:

Congratulations to Alison Last who was inducted in as our newest member and gave her ice breaker speech about "Labels I wear".

The Area 12 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will take place on September 26 at the Crowne Plaza. We are hoping for a good turn out from Top O’ The Rock. Any members who can attend are encouraged to register. The Club is looking at the possibility of paying for members to attend. The details of that possibility will be disclosed soon.

IT IS TIME FOR DUES. Please get your $45 membership dues into Catalina NOW. The deadline for members is by 9/23/09.

MEETING:

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was countermand (Peradventure). The word means “Possibly; Chance, uncertainty or doubt” Example Sentence: She was, beyond peradventure, one of the greatest writers in the past century.


Speakers
Speaker : Alison Last – Alison provided her first speech in the Competent Communicator manual. Titled “Labels I wear,” Alison talked to us about her labels in life.


Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Catalina Agustin.
Evaluator was Jemerson Diaz.


Table Topics:
Jose Lepervanche provided the table topic session. Sue, Catalina, Flor, Andrea and the guest Josh Nathanson had a chance to speak.


Congratulations to Andrea Siracusa who was voted as the best table topic speaker.

Roles
Toastmaster: Sue Stack
Um and Ah Counter : Flor Lepervanche
Vote Counter: Flor Lepervanche
Timekeeper: Sue Stack


NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, September 16

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m
Midtown Business Centre Community Room

Bldg. 2200, RM 151

Next week’s Toastmaster:

Minutes recorded by:

Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting 7/29/2009

We had a great meeting this week – I must say that it was auspicious! Jemerson Diaz was our Toastmaster and did a wonderful job. Marc Hirst provided our Word of the Day (auspicious) and gave us inspirational thoughts as our Invocator too. Both of the speeches were from advanced manuals (Humorously Speaking and Entertaining Speaker), so hopefully everyone was entertained. Steve Nguyen, CC, CL spoke about “Turning Failure Into Success” and I spoke about how to help your spouse by doing “Other Duties As Assigned.” Jose Lepervanche, AC-G, AL-S, evaluated Steve’s speech while Warren Hinrichs, AC-S evaluated mine.

Jose also was the Table Topics Master and asked various questions relating to getting along without cell phones and other technology. Warren also did double-duty and served as Master Evaluator. Jemerson was also a busy man – he served as Um and Ah Counter and Toastmaster. Catalina Agustin was our Timekeeper and Alison Last as our vote counter.

Winners: Steve Nguyen as Best Speaker; Jose Lepervanche as Best Evaluator; Catalina Agustin as Best Table Topics Speaker

Announcements: The Humorous Speech Contest will be on August 26 with the castle.com (Army Corps of Engineers) club. Date for the Evaluation Contest will be announced later. Contact Jemerson Diaz, Contestmaster if you want to participate in the contests.

Toastmaster Training is Saturday, August 8 from 8:30 to 12:30 at the Shands Towers on 8^th Street.

Next Week: Tom Snead will be the Toastmaster and Catalina Agustin, Marc Hirst, and Warren Hinrichs will be speaking.

See you next week!

Sue Stack, AC-B, CL

Vice President, Education/Secretary

Top O' The Rock Toastmasters

Club # 2155, Area 12, Divison A

District 84

sue.stack@jax.ufl.edu

(904) 244-2168

Meeting Minutes (2.18.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (2.18.09)

Meeting Call to Order: 12:00PM

Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, JoAnne Heinrich, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead and Sue Stack

Invocation provided by JoAnne Heinrich

Guests: Nekia Holland and Ingrid Rodriguez-Mackey, both are looking to improving their speaking skills in a Toastmasters Club that provides a supportive and growing environment. They were welcomed by all members.

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was indolent. The word means to be lazy; slow in growth; slothful. Example sentence: She was too indolent yesterday, she did not do any of the work she was assigned to complete.

Speakers
Speaker #1: Flor Lepervanche (Competent Communication-Project 1) – Flor gave her Ice Breaker Speech titled My Wonderful Life. She gave us a great look into not just herself but also her family.

Evaluations
Master Evaluator was Sue Stack, who provided a great evaluation on how the meeting was handled.

Evaluator: Catalina Agustin was the evaluator for Flor’s speech. Catalina provided a great evaluation of Flor’s speech – providing great insight and constructive criticism.

Table Topics
Jemerson Diaz provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with jobs. Members talked about: jobs they would have wanted to have; if they could do it all over again what would they do; aggravations at the workplace; and what is best about their current job. All members had a chance to participate.

Andrea Siracusa who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

Roles
Um and Ah Counter : Andrea Siracusa
Vote Counter: Jose Lepervanche
Timekeeper: JoAnne Heinrich

Club Business:
(Andrea Siracusa): Andrea went over the current standings for our Membership and Participation Drive. The top three members in the drive before yesterdays meeting are: Tom Snead, Jacqueline Rudloff and Jose Lepervanche. We are half way through the drive and there is still plenty of time for members to participate – you can get 10 points for just competing in our upcoming contest this Wednesday for our Club level. Andrea informed members to sign up for roles or the contest by contacting Tom Snead the VP of Education. The prizes for the winners of the drive will be (1st place) $25.00 Gift Certificate to Outback Steakhouse; (2nd place) $20.00 Gift Certificate to Panera Bread; (3rd place) $15.00 Gift Certificate to Panera Bread

INTERNATIONAL SPEECH AND TABLE TOPICS CONTEST:
Our International Speech and Table Topics Contest will be held NEXT WEDNESDAY at the Prudential building on Jacksonville’s Southbank (701 San Marco Blvd); parking is available off San Marco Blvd., next to the JTA Skyway and Acosta Bridge overpass. Please try to arrive at Prudential early, due to security check in. We will all meet on the second floor by the security desk. If you are interested in participating in either the speech or table topics contest (or maybe both) please let Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com) our VP of Education know as soon as possible so he can inform the Contest Master Wanda Brown. We are looking for contestants and a Chief Judge so please come forward – it is a great experience and learning tool.

Minutes recorded by:
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O' The Rock Toastmasters
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com

Our Weekly meeting in Jacksonville.com

This is the link to the event submitted to Jacksonville.com, the website of the Times-Union.

http://events.jacksonville.com/jacksonville-fl/events/show/86184888-top-o-the-rock-toastmasters

Share with your friends and invite them to come to our meetings.

January 21, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes (1.21.09)

• Meeting Call to Order: 12:03PM
• Attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Jeanne Hammond, Steve Nguyen, Juan Carlos Perez, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack.

Invocation provided by Debbie Wofford

Guests: Stephen Wooden was a guest at this week’s meeting. Stephen is a member of another Toastmasters Club and came to our Club as part of the Ambassador program. Stephen it was great to have you at our meeting and we look forward to seeing you again.

Grammarian (Catalina Agustin): Word of the day was germane. The word means to have a significant purpose or connection.

• Speakers

Speaker #1: Jacqueline Rudloff (Impromptu Speech) – Jacqueline came forward and provided an impromptu speech entitled “Bold and Swift.” Her speech dove into the bold and swift actions that need to be taken in today’s education system. She gave us some great facts about the education system. Andrea Siracusa served as Jacqueline’s evaluator.

• Evaluations

Master Evaluator was Steve Nguyen, who provided a great evaluation on how the meeting was handled.

• Table Topics

Sue Stack provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with various issues and discussions. Everyone at the meeting had a chance to speak, including our guest. The topics included: what you do when a spouse asks for help around the house; good teachers are …; explain to the boss why you came to the board meeting in pajamas; if you created a holiday what would it be; activities with your mother-in-law; worst punishment; end of the rainbow; best place to be and what neighborhood would you want to live in.

Congratulations to Tom Snead who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

• Roles

Um and Ah Counter : Stephen Woodin

Vote Counter: Jemerson Diaz

Timekeeper: Jeanne Hammond

Club Business:

- Andrea Siracusa was provided with her Top O’ The Rock name tag that symbolized the completion of her Competent Communication manual.

- Catalina Agustin reminded all officers about the Jan. 31^st officers training, and to please let her know if you will or will not be attending so she can have the payment ready.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: Steve Nguyen

If you have not yet signed up for a role next week please contact the Toastmaster

( Steve.Nguyen@usace.army.mil). Remember: we started our membership and participation drive this week, so sign up for roles to get those points.

Meeting Minutes (1.14.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes (1.14.09)

• Meeting Call to Order: 12:02PM

Invocation provided by JoAnne Heinrich

Guests: Bill Kastelz was welcomed as a guest for the meeting. Bill is a financial representative and is interested in Toastmasters as an avenue in combating his fear of public speaking. We were happy to have him in attendance with us.

Club Business (Andrea Siracusa): A “Membership and Participation Drive” was brought before the Club. This drive will extend from January 21^st-March 29^th, allowing members to gain points through their participation in roles and increasing new membership. A few changes were made to the point system (such as the removal of the 8 points for non-manual speeches and the reduction of the substitute speech from 10 points to 8). Tom made a motion to accept the changes and drive, Jose second the motion and the changes and drive was moved by the members.

Grammarian (Andrea Siracusa): Word of the day was caterwaul. The verb means to make a harsh cry; protest or complain nosily.

• Speakers

Speaker #1: Jemerson Diaz – “Frisco.” Jermson worked on his fourth speech that was based on the effectiveness of using words. Jemerson provided us with a vivid description of San Francisco. His speech was evaluated by Andrea Siracusa.

Speaker #2: Wanda Brown – “The Best Things In Life Are Free.” Wanda talked about the things in are daily routines that are skills which in return can help us in being successful. Her speech was evaluated by Tom Snead.

Both speakers were either under or over their allotted time, so there was no vote for Best Speaker.

• Evaluators

Jose Lepervanche served as the Master Evaluator. Andrea Siracusa was voted as the Best Evaluator.

• Table Topics

Wanda Brown provided the Table Topics. The topics dealt with some of the things we find as necessities and important in our lives. Topics include the discussion of water, patients, love and nurturing. John Lee, Steve Nguyen, Bill (our guest) and Flor Lepervanche all had a chance to participate in the Table Topic discussion.

Congratulations to Flor Lepervanche who was voted best Table Topic Speaker.

NEXT WEEK’S TOASTMASTER: Tom Snead

If you have not yet signed up for a role next week please contact the Toastmaster (tom.snead@prudential.com )

Meeting Minutes (1.7.09)

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes (1.7.09)

We had a productive first of the year meeting.

We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Connie Rhodebeck. Jemerson Diaz provided the word of the day – faze. Faze means to disturb.

Jeanne Hammond was our only speaker for the day. Her speech entitled “Revising History,” explored the story of the three little pigs, with the underline meaning that things we were told at children should not be taken at face value, we act based on past experiences. Sue Stack was Jeanne’s evaluator, and provided great feedback regarding her speech.

Tom Snead organized our Table Topics which dealt with two topics. Some speeches talked about the New Year, while the remaining topics dealt into past speeches that were used at area contests. Everyone had a chance to participate, and congratulations to Jeanne who was voted as the best table topics speaker.

Thank you to Connie who was our um/ah counter, Jacqueline Rudloff our time keeper and Warren Hinirichs our Vote Counter.

Please Note: At next week’s meeting we will be discussing a membership/participation campaign that will be implemented over the next few months to help in the drive of getting new members and participation out of current members, so please try to make it next week (Wednesday, January 14, 2009).

Having roles already assigned before the meeting allows the meeting to follow in a very stable manner, providing the best atmosphere for members and guests. Please take the time to send the roles you would like to participate in to Tom Snead (tom.snead@prudential.com) our VP of Education, if you have not already done so.

Club Officers: Remember our upcoming training will take place January 31, 2009. We need all officers to attend, as this helps us in completing our Club Success Plan. There should be a flyer posted on the blog or sent to you via email. Non-officers are also welcomed to attend the training, but this is mandatory for all officers.


Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com

Holiday Party and Toastmatser Meeting Dec 10, 2008

Top O’ The Rock Toastmaster Meeting Minutes
Dec. 10, 2008
Holiday Party and Toastmatser Meeting

We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Debbie Wofford. Jacqueline Rudloff provided the word of the day – opulent; opulent means sleek; luxurious.

Welcome once again Kathleen Whelan who was our guest once again. We hope you enjoyed your second visit to our Club.

We had one speaker, Jose Lepervanche, who presented his speech from the High Performance Leadership manual titled “Presenting the Results.” His speech gave us a look into the results that were achieved in the establishment of a leadership training program in the Boys Scouts. Jemerson Diaz was the evaluator for Jose’s speech.

Jeanne Hammond organized our Table Topics which was organized as a continuing story. Members who participated, which include Wanda Brown, Andrea Siracusa, and Jemerson Diaz, choose bags containing secretive items. The first speaker started a story about the object she picked and the following speakers had to continue the story using their chosen objects. Congratulations to Wanda who was voted as the best Table Topic Speaker.

Thank you to Juan Carlos Perez who was our um/ah counter, JoAnne Heinrich our time keeper and Andrea Siracusa our Vote Counter.

Reminder: Next week’s meeting will be our last for 2008. We will be meeting at the San Marco Library. We look forward to seeing everyone one last time before the New Year approaches. Jeanne Hammond will be our Toastmaster for next week, so please speak with her if you do not have a role or if you are doing a speech. Let’s make our last meeting the best for 2008!!!


Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com

Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes: 12/3/08

Recorded by: Andrea Siracusa, Secretary

GREAT ATTENDANCE!!! Thank you to everyone for coming.

Members in attendance: Catalina Agustin, Jemerson Diaz, Donna Emanuel, Jeanne Hammond, JoAnne Heinrich, John Lee, Flor Lepervanche, Jose Lepervanche, Juan Carlos Perez, Jacqueline Rudloff, Andrea Siracusa, Tom Snead, Sue Stack. Congratulations to Jacqueline Rudloff and Flor Lepervanche who were inducted as new members.

Guests: Katheleen Whelan and Angela Cohen

Innvocator: Andrea Siracusa

Grammarian: Sue Stach. Provided the word of the day – boggle. Boggle means: pull away from with astonishment.

Speakers: Jacqueline Rudloff. Jacqueline’s speech was titled Who’s Water Is It? This was her second speech in which she worked on the organization of her information.

Andrea Siracusa served as Jacqueline’s evaluator. Our second speaker was Jemerson Diaz. Jemerson’s speech was titled School Life. His speech was the third and dealt in getting to the point with your speech. Donna Emanuel was Jemerson’s evaluator.

Congratulations to Jacqueline Rudloff who was voted as the Best Speaker and Andrea Siracusa who was voted as the Best Evaluator.

Table Topics were organized by Tom Snead. The table topics were short because of time restraints, but they were still a great part of our meeting. The topics centered around silliness. John Lee and Flor Lepervanche were the only two able to participate. John’s topic was on “favorite silly person” and Flor topic was “silly technology”. Congratulations to John Lee who was voted best Table Topics Speaker.

Vote Counter – Juan Carlos Perez

Toastmaster – JoAnne Heinrich

Timekeeper – Jeanne Hammond

Um and Ah – Catalina Agustin

Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 – 12:00Noon – Prudential, located on Jacksonville’s Southbank. We will meet on the second floor at the security station and be escorted to the cafeteria for our holiday party. We look forward to seeing everyone at the party.

Andrea Siracusa

Top O’ The Rock

Secretary

ajsiracusa@yahoo.com

625-1405

December Meetings and Holiday Party

Good morning Top O' The Rock Toastmasters,   We had an excellent turnout yesterday at our meeting, and I wanted to thank everyone for attempting to make it. Let's keep it up.   The minutes from yesterday's meeting are available on the blog at www.toporock.org, please be sure to check out what took place.   There are very important dates that you need to note: 1. We will not have a meeting next Wednesday 11/26, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. 2. We also will not be meeting December 24 and 31 in observance of the holiday season. 3. Officers, we will be meeting after our meeting on December 3rd, in attempts to see where we stand at the end of 2008. If you can not make it please provide Jose or myself with your report on where you stand with your responsibilities and what you are working on. We will take the information you provide and represent you at the meeting. 4. We will be having a holiday party as part of our meeting on December 10th. We will have our regular meeting, and at the same time eating some great food in a small holiday party. Our meeting for that day will take place at Prudential. As we get closer to the date I will send a reminder and additional information. To make the meeting enjoyable for all I need some help. Jeanne is going to assist me in getting the sandwiches, but I need help from people in attaining the following items: - drinks - paper products (plates, eating utensils, napkins and cups) - chips and dip - cookies - veggie plate   If you can provide any of these items please let me know by responding to our Secretary. Thank you in advance for your help.   I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving Holiday and we will see everyone on December 3rd.   Andrea Siracusa Secretary Top O' The Rock Toastmasters 625-1405 ajsiracusa@yahoo.com