Meeting Minutes February 15, 2012

Record of Meeting of South County Toastmasters – # 1957
Meeting Date:    02/15/2012  Called to order at:  7:00 pm
Location: Met Life Building
Presiding officer:  Petrina Monti
Greeter: Thad James
Invocator: Kelly Bottini
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Officers’ Reports:
None
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Committee Reports:
None
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Old Business:
Sheria Goypal was inducted as a new member her mentor will be Judy Sowers.

Adam Kutell proposed to amend our club’s Constitution to add a paragraph to the Club’s location portion of Article l.  Propose that Article I be amended to state:
“The name of this club shall be as set forth in the title of this Constitution.  In order to provide an economical, convenient, and useful venue, the meeting location may vary by not more than five miles from that described in the name of this club.”

Club voted on the amendment and failed to reach the two-thirds vote to pass.

It was voted that the club will again vote on this proposal at the next weeks meeting.
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New Business:
None
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Correspondence & Announcements:
None

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Toastmaster:  Rich Ullrich          Theme: Hats
Grammarian:  Stephanie Payne        Word:
Time Keeper:  Traci Cahill
Vote Counter: Bill McNabb
Ah Counter:  Shreya Gopal
Camera Op:  Adam Calloway
Table Topics:  Erin Gissel
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Speakers and Evaluators:
Speaker 1: Steve Bettag        Evaluator 1: Gina Willard
Speaker 2: Jerry Paul        Evaluator 2: Kevin Wilson
Speaker 3: Jim Ruzicka        Evaluator 3: Craig Gissy
Speaker 4: Don Clair        Evaluator 4: Joanne Korba
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General Evaluator:  Carl Hendrickson
Joke Master:  Adam Kutell

VOTING
Most Improved: Jerry Paul
Best Table Topics: Laurie Mestdagh
Best Evaluator: Kevin Wilson
Best Speaker: Don Clair
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Meeting Rating:      9.0      Meeting adjourned at:  9:05 p.m.
Minutes submitted by:  Joanne Korba
Guests:  Nigel Pendngh, Boey Cai Wei, Jane King and Peter Eschbacher
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Attendance: 24 members

Bettag, Steve
Cahill, Traci
Calloway, Adam
Clair, Don
Denton, Kathy
Gissel, Erin
Gissy, Craig
Gopal, Shreya
Hendrickson, Carl
James, Thad
Kiser, George
Korba, Joanne
Kutell, Adam
McNabb, Bill
McNaughton, Brenda
Mestdagh, Laurie
Monti, Petrina
Paul, Jerry
Payne, Stephanie
Sapienza, Barb
Ullrich, Rich
VanWinkle, Rob
Willard, Gina
Wilson, Kevin