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
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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
625-1405
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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 |
11-19-2008 - Meeting Minutes
Good morning fellow Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters,
We had a productive meeting on November 19.
First we voted in our newest member Flor Lepervanche. Welcome Flor!
We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Jose Lepervanche. Flor Lepervanche provided the word of the day – kinetic; kinetic means relating to motion; energy.
We had two speakers, Andrea Siracusa and Jeanne Hammond. Andrea presented her 10th and final speech in the Competent Communication Manual. Her speech entitled Dedication…Says It All focused on a fictional setting in which Andrea worked to inspire employees to work hard in 2009. Sue Stack was the evaluator for Andrea’s speech. Jeanne presented her fourth speech in the Competent Communication Manual, entitled Long Ago and Far Away. Jeannne took us into her experience in living in Hyde Park in Chicago. Wanda Brown was her evaluator.
Congratulations to Andrea who was voted Best Speaker and Sue Stack who took the honor of Best Evaluator.
Jose Lepervanche organized our Table Topics which focused on acting out emotions. Individuals had to act out the emotion that they chose unknowingly from a pile created by Jose. The person that was to speak next, had to guess what emotion the previous person was acting out. The emotions that were acted upon included anger, happiness, friendship, joy and stress. Congratulations to Jacqueline Rudloff who was voted as the best Table Topic Speaker.
Thank you to Catalina Agustin who was our um/ah counter, Jacqueline Rudloff our time keeper and Juan Carlos Perez our Vote Counter.
Reminder: We will NOT be meeting on November 26, December 24 and December 25, all in observance of the holidays. Enjoy the break! We WILL STILL MEET on December 3rd and 10th. On the 10th we will meet at Prudential and celebrating our Holiday Party.
Club Officers: We would like to meet December 3rd after our meeting, to discuss possible considerations for the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. So please be sure to note that we want to meet for about 20-30 minutes after the meeting. If you can not attend please send Jose or Andrea your officer update so your information can be distributed during the meeting.
Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
Monday, November 17, 2008
2008 Nov - District 84 Fall Conference
Aloha! We attended the first ever District 84 Fall Conference in Melbourne, Florida
It was a great experience to be there competing in the Speech Evaluation Contest. We had a lot of fun. Our Division A was represented by members from different clubs.
It was a great experience to be there competing in the Speech Evaluation Contest. We had a lot of fun. Our Division A was represented by members from different clubs.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Wed. 11.05.08 Toastmaster Meeting Summary
Wed. 11.05.08 Toastmaster Meeting Summary
Good morning fellow Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters,
We had a productive meeting yesterday.
We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Wanda Brown. Catalina Agustin provided the word of the day – plethora. Plethora means fullness or to be full.
Jemerson Diaz was our only speaker for the day. His speech entitled “Fascinating Concept,” guided us into the different styles of communications between men and women. Warren Heinrich was Jemerson’s evaluator, and provided great feedback regarding his speech.
Wanda organized our Table Topics today which took an interesting change of pace. Our table topics session consisted of all members creating a story using the one word they were provided. With the start of Warren, we each continued the story, making sure we used our words chosen for us, which included: private schools, secret services, air force one, Michelle, two little girls, White House, united and Jessie Jackson; as you can tell our theme for today’s topics centered on politics. Congratulations to Warren who was voted as the best table topics speaker.
Thank you to Juan Carlos who was our um/ah counter, Sue Stack our time keeper and Jacqueline Rudloff our Vote Counter.
Reminder: In the efforts to make all our meetings successful and to allow all members the opportunity to reach their communications and leadership goals, please remember that we need all members to sign up for roles each week. 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.
Club Officers: We would like to meet next Wednesday after our meeting to discuss possible considerations for the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. So please be sure to note that we want to meet for about 10-20 minutes after the meeting.
Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com
Good morning fellow Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters,
We had a productive meeting yesterday.
We opened our meeting with an invocation provided by Wanda Brown. Catalina Agustin provided the word of the day – plethora. Plethora means fullness or to be full.
Jemerson Diaz was our only speaker for the day. His speech entitled “Fascinating Concept,” guided us into the different styles of communications between men and women. Warren Heinrich was Jemerson’s evaluator, and provided great feedback regarding his speech.
Wanda organized our Table Topics today which took an interesting change of pace. Our table topics session consisted of all members creating a story using the one word they were provided. With the start of Warren, we each continued the story, making sure we used our words chosen for us, which included: private schools, secret services, air force one, Michelle, two little girls, White House, united and Jessie Jackson; as you can tell our theme for today’s topics centered on politics. Congratulations to Warren who was voted as the best table topics speaker.
Thank you to Juan Carlos who was our um/ah counter, Sue Stack our time keeper and Jacqueline Rudloff our Vote Counter.
Reminder: In the efforts to make all our meetings successful and to allow all members the opportunity to reach their communications and leadership goals, please remember that we need all members to sign up for roles each week. 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.
Club Officers: We would like to meet next Wednesday after our meeting to discuss possible considerations for the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. So please be sure to note that we want to meet for about 10-20 minutes after the meeting.
Thank you
Andrea Siracusa
Secretary
Top O’ The Rock
ajsiracusa@yahoo.com
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