Regular Meeting Minutes of South County Toastmasters Club # 1957
Theme: Speech marathon
Meeting Date: Wednesday November 18, 2009
Called To Order At: 7:01 pm CST
Location: 107-C (Right-side)
Presiding Officer: Rich Ullrich, President
Toastmaster: Carl Hendrickson
General Evaluator: none
Time Keeper: Erin Gissel
Ah Counter: none
Vote Counter: Diane Fawcett and Brent Stewart
Grammarian: none
Invocator: Sue Dickemper
Camera Operator: Kevin Reichardt
Table Topics: none
Joke Master Judy Sowers
Hot Seat:
Greeter: Nilsa Scott
The minutes from last week’s Nov 11th meeting were accepted as sent via e-mail to all members.
OFFICERS’ REPORTS:
President:
VP of Education: Kevin Wilson announced that the schedule would be completed on Thursday Nov 12th.
VP of Membership: Sue Dickemper read the group of contact letter recipients and some of the comments received.
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: Rich Ullrich announced some of the Distinguished-Club goals and where we are towards attaining that recognition. Please contact Rich for more information.
Rob VanWinkle announced that he is on-track to attain his A.C. Silver status by June.
Rich Ullrich announced that the Toastmasters Holiday party will be held on December 16th.
NEW BUSINESS:
CORRESPONDENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Rich Ullrich announced that the nominating committee, let by Karl Beck, will be making contact with members to take officer positions shortly.
The Fall Conference scheduled to be held on the weekend of Nov. 21st.
The Marketing committee will meet on Dec 2, at 6:30pm in the MetLife building.
The Education committee will meet starting at the beginning of the New Year.
Rich Ullrich announced that he is in a search for a new building as a fallback if something happens with our arrangement with MetLife. He had looked at the Tesson Ferry Library as a possibility, and is open to suggestions.
Rich Ullrich received an updated set of rules from Toastmasters International regarding contests. This is an update from the 2009 rules.
Carl Hendrickson announced his updates to the Speaker-Forum and listed some upcoming engagements he, Howard Brandt, and Jack Bettag, and Tom Terrific are scheduled for in December:
REVISED SPEAKERS FORUM
Carl Hendrickson reported on upcoming speaking engagements. He will be addressing residents of Orchid Terrace Senior Home on Identity Theft on Tuesday, December 1st. Howard Brandt will be providing his presentation on Dizzy Dean on Monday, December 14th, to residents of Crestview Senior Living Home. Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School has requested that a public speaking workshop be presented the morning of Tuesday, December 15th. Jack Bettag and Tom Terrific have volunteered, along with Carl. If anyone else is interested in participating in this morning workshop, contact Carl.
GUESTS:
Amy Penick
George Kiser (former member)
ATTENDANCE:
Joe Archambault
Howard Brandt
Kathy Denton
Sue Dickemper
Diane Fawcett
Paul Ferguson
Steve Flick
Erin Gissel
Carl Hendrickson
Richard Hiers
Alan Kirby
Adam Kutell
Amby Mafort
Petrina Monti
Kevin Reichardt
Nilsa Scott
Judy Sowers
Brent Stewart
Rich Ullrich
Rob VanWinkle
Dave Welshon
Gina Willard
Kevin Wilson
Laura Zemann
(Total: 24 members plus 2 guests)
SPEAKERS & EVALUATORS:
Speaker 1: Petrina Monti
Speaker 2: Steve Flick
Speaker 3: Adam Kutell
Speaker 4: Paul Ferguson
Speaker 5: Alan Kirby
Evaluator 1: Dave Welshon
Evaluator 2: Joe Archambault
Evaluator 3: Rob VanWinkle
Evaluator 4: Kevin Wilson
Evaluator 5: Laura Zemann
AWARDS:
Most Improved: Petrina Monti
2nd Best Speaker: Adam Kutell
Best Speaker: Steve Flick
OTHER:
Rating for the meeting: n/a
Meeting adjourned at 9:01 pm CST
Respectively Submitted: Adam Kutell, Secretary
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