Meeting Minutes September 8, 2010

Record of Meeting of South County Toastmasters – # 1957

Theme:  Birthdays

Meeting Date: Sept 8, 2010_ Called to order at: 7:00______ Location: Met Life bldg. 107-c__

Presiding officer:  Kevin Reichardt_______________   Toastmaster: Judy Sowers ______

Time Keeper: Joanne Korba_______                              Camera Op: _Nilsa Scott________

Ah Counter: Erin Gissel      _______________                Table Topics: Gina Willard_____________

Vote Counter:  Sue Dickemper____________                  Joke Master: Don Clair _______________

Grammarian:  Steve Winheim__________________       General Eval: Chris Brown______________

Invocator:   Eric Rechtin        ________________           Greeter:  _____Kevin Wilson___________

Correction to previous minutes:  Area Contest will be held at, The First Free Evangelical Church, from 1:00-4:00.

Minutes were read, corrected and accepted.

Officers’ Reports (VP Ed, VP Membership, VP PR, Treasurer, Sgt-at-Arms, Officer at Large)

Club Treasurer, Joe Archambault, informs us of the inception of dues renewal.  A dues statement was given out for us to complete and mail back to him.

Barb Sapienza, VP of Education, is requesting us to communicate with her our project goals for the upcoming months so that she can have them in mind when making the calendar.    ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Committee Reports:

Carl Hendrickson reported that the Education Committee will be having a Coaching and Mentoring workshop, Sept 22nd and Oct 6th, at 6:30 pm.  Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Carl is also looking into clubs to participate in the Club Exchange Program for Oct or Nov.  Each club will provide a Speaker as well as an Evaluator. ____________________________________________________________

Old Business:

Howard Brandt states that a flyer for the upcoming Anniversary Dinner has been prepared and distributed.  It’s going to be a lot of fun!!  Special thanks to Tom Terrific for the design of the flyer.  Here is the invitation.

http://www.southcountytoastmasters.org/graphics/35th-anniv-party-large.jpg

President Reichardt thanked Sue Dickemper for an outstanding job on the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest.

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New Business:

Becka Clark, Area Governor, is looking for two volunteers to serve as judges or functionaries at the Area Contest, Sept 25th.  Judges training will be Sat from 9:30-11:30.

A question was raised by Rob VanWinkle as to who would be eligible to serve as a judge as he had been turned down in the past.  President Reichardt said that he would Email the Area Governor and get back to us.  _________________________________________________________

Correspondence & Announcements:

In an Email from Darlene Suitor, Her club is looking for people to fill roles in a contest in Cape Girardeau____________________________________________________________________________________

The evening’s word was “Inception and Conception”________________________________________________

Guests: Ava Archambault, 3 yrs, Alyssa Archambault, 6 months
Attendance

Joe Archambault

Howard Brandt

Chris Brown

Don Clair

Kathy Denton

Sue Dickemper

Diane Fawcett

Erin Gissel

Carl Hendrickson

Joanne Korba

Adam Kutell

Mike Marion

Brenda McNaughton

Petrina Monti

Kevin Reichardt

Eric Rechtin

Barb Sapienza

Nilsa Scott

Judy Sowers

Tom Terrific

Mark Vance

Rob Van Winkle

Gina Willard

Kevin Wilson

Steve Winheim

Speakers and Evaluators

Speaker 1:         Mark Vance____________                 Evaluator 1: Carl Hendrickson_____________
Speaker 2:         Mike Marion______________             Evaluator 2: Kathy Denton____________
Speaker 3:         Brenda McNaughton_________           Evaluator 3: Petrina Monti____________
Speaker 4:         Tom Terrific ________                        Evaluator 4: Diane Fawcett_______
Speaker 5:         __________________________       Evaluator 5: _________________________
Most Improved:    Diane Fawcett ____________          Best Table Topics: Rob VanWinkle________
Best Evaluator:     Diane Fawcett ______                     Best Speaker:  Mark Vance________

The General Evaluator rated the meeting a 9.0_              Meeting adjourned at 9:03_______________

Closing Remarks:  Steve Winheim asks that everyone sign their name to Emails, because we don’t always recognize you by your Email address.

Minutes submitted by, Petrina Monti, Secretary.

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