Regular Meeting Minutes of South County Toastmasters Club # 1957
Theme: Elections
Meeting Date: Wednesday November 4, 2009
Called To Order At: 7:00 pm CDT
Location: Cafeteria, downstairs
Presiding Officer: Rich Ullrich, President
Toastmaster: Rob VanWinkle
General Evaluator: Carl Hendrickson
Time Keeper: Laura Zemann
Ah Counter: Steve Hamm
Vote Counter: Steve Winheim
Grammarian: Joe Archembault “Punctilious”
Invocator: Paul Ferguson
Camera Operator: Kathy Denton
Table Topics: Don Clair
Joke Master Brent Stewart
Hot Seat: Bill Collier
Greeter:
The minutes from last week’s October 28h meeting were accepted as sent via e-mail to all members.
OFFICERS’ REPORTS:
President:
VP of Education: Kevin Wilson announced that there will not be a meeting on November 25th (the day before Thanksgiving), and instead, the November speech marathon will be on Nov 18th. Kevin also announced that in December, there will only be meetings on the first two Wednesdays, with the third being a Toastmasters party. Clarification will be announced during an upcoming meeting.
VP of Membership:
VP of Public Relations:
Treasurer:
Secretary:
Sergeant of Arms:
Officer at Large:
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE:
NOMINATING COMMITTEE:
MARKETING COMMITTEE:
SCHEDULING COMMITTEE:
FILL-IN COMMITTEE:
OLD BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
Motions were introduced regarding speaking-order and awards structure for the monthly speech marathons. The first motion was to have two groups of winners (before and after the break), with one group being experienced Toastmasters, and the other being less-experienced members. An amendment was added to the first motion for members to choose which group they wanted to be included in. Both the amemdment and this motion failed.
The second motion was to have 1st and 2nd place winners, and not to have separate groups. This motion passed.
During discussion on the two motions, Bill Collier mentioned that it is difficult and time-consuming to intersperse video-recorded speeches with non-recorded ones, and that we should try to make a point of scheduling video- recorded speeches at the beginning of the marathon so the camera-operator can finalize the disks during the later non-recorded speeches.
CORRESPONDENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please contact Carl Hendrickson if you are interested in assisting a public-speaking workshop for Cardinal Ritter Prep H.S.. The message received/forwarded by Carl Hendrickon to the secretary on 11/6/09 is as follows:
Carl,
I hope all is well with you. Since we last spoke, a few of our students
participated in the Youth Leadership Program facilitated by Albert Fields
and Jim Salih. It was a great experience for them. We still haven’t started
the Gavel Club yet but we hope, too. Unfortunately, speech class has been
dropped from our curriculum this year. May I interest your group in
conducting a public speaking workshop on Tuesday, December 15 @ 10:00 am?
The target market is college freshman. I am expecting at least 20 students.
Please let me know your availability.
April D. Cotton
Director, Intern Leadership Program
Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School
GUESTS:
Amby Mafort
ATTENDANCE:
Joe Archembault
Jack Bettag
Howard Brandt
Don Clair
Bill Collier
Kathy Denton
Sue Dickemper
Mike Dobrich
Paul Ferguson
Alica Flamm
Erin Gissel
Steve Hamm
Carl Hendrickson
Richard Hiers
Alan Kirby
Adam Kutell
Petrina Monti
Mark Roling
Jim Ruzicka
Nilsa Scott
Brent Stewart
Rich Ullrich
Rob VanWinkle
Dave Welshon
Gina Willard
Kevin Wilson
Steve Winheim
Laura Zemann
(Total: 28 members plus 1 guest)
SPEAKERS & EVALUATORS:
Speaker 1: Sue Dickemper
Speaker 2: Howard Brandt
Speaker 3: Alicia Flamm
Speaker 4: Bill Collier
Evaluator 1: Nilsa Scott
Evaluator 2: Jim Ruzicka
Evaluator 3: Mark Roling
Evaluator 4: Gina Willard
AWARDS:
Most Improved: Sue Dickemper
Best Evaluator: Jim Ruzicka
Best Table Topics: Carl Hendrickson
Best Speaker: Bill Collier
OTHER:
Rating for the meeting: 8.5
Meeting adjourned at 9:06 pm CDT
Respectively Submitted, Adam Kutell: Secretary
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