Meeting Minutes February 16, 2011

Record of Meeting of South County Toastmasters – # 1957

Meeting Date: 2/16/11
Called to order at: 7:00pm
Location: Met Life Bldg
Presiding officer: Kevin Wilson
Toastmaster: George Kiser
Time Keeper: Gary Rickert
Camera Op: (lectern locked)
Ah Counter: Carl Hendrickson
Table Topics: Alan Kirby
Vote Counter: Jim Ruzicka
Joke Master: Dick Shields
Grammarian: Diane Fawcett
General Eval: Petrina Monti
Invocator: Mike Marian

Officers’ Reports (VP Ed, VP Membership, VP PR, Treasurer, Sgt-at-Arms, Officer at Large)
Petrina Monti – Treasurer: Toastmaster renewal of dues are scheduled for March

Committee Reports:
NA

Old Business:
Kevin Wilson – President: March 9th is our club level International Speech & Evaluation Contest
Kevin Wilson – President: St Patrick’s Day Parade, Sat. March 12th, 2011.  Come march the streets of St. Louis with other District 8 members!

New Business:
Kevin Wilson – President: “Canned” speeches have been removed from the South County Toastmasters’ website since he was notified by Toastmasters, Int. that it was in violation of copyright laws.  Tom Terrific, Webmaster, removed the speeches immediately.
Kevin Wilson – President: Area Governor – Becca Clark will attend our March 2nd meeting.

Correspondence & Announcements:
Kevin Wilson – President: Toastmasters will have a booth at the Working Women’s Survival Show at the St. Charles Convention Center February 26th, 2011.

The evening’s word was    “bollix”

Attendance
Guests:
Pam Lane
Aidan Griffin
Leroy Ettling
Fran Ettling
Beck, Karl

Members:
Bateman, David
Benn, Charles
Denton, Kathy
Ettling, Brian
Fawcett, Diane
Flick, Steve
Gissel, Erin C.
Hendrickson, Carl
Kaiser Jr, Max
Kirby, Alan
Kiser, George
Korba, Joanne
Kutell, Adam
Marian, Mike
McAliney, Dee
McNaughton, Brenda
Mestdagh, Laurie
Monti, Petrina
Rickert, Gary
Ruzicka, Jim
Scott, Nilsa
Shields, Dick
Sowers, Judy
Wilson, Kevin
Zemann, Laura
Guests:  5
Members:  25
Total:  30

Speakers and Evaluators

Speaker 1:  Brian Ettling    Evaluator 1: Brenda McNaughton
Speaker 2:  Laurie Mestdagh    Evaluator 2: Joanne Korba
Speaker 3:  Erin Gissel        Evaluator 3: Adam Kutell
Most Improved:     Erin Gissel    Best Table Topics: Carl Hendrickson
Best Evaluator:    Adam Kutell    Best Speaker: Erin Gissel
The General Evaluator rated the meeting a 9.2
Meeting adjourned at:  8:53pm
Minutes submitted by:  Laura Zemann,  Secretary.