Meeting Minutes May 16, 2012

Record of Meeting of South County Toastmasters – # 1957

Meeting Date:    05/16/2012
Called to order at:  7:00 pm
Location: Met Life Building
Presiding Officer:  Petrina Monti
Greeter: Dee McAliney
Invocator: Kevin Wilson
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Officers’ Reports:
Minutes of the previous meeting emailed and accepted
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Committee Reports:
None
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Old Business:
At the District 8 Conference Max Kaiser Jr. will give a presentation at 4:00 pm on Evaluations.  Friday at 8:30 pm Erin Gissel will be competing in the Evaluation Contest and on Saturday at 8:00 pm Alan Kirby will be competing in the International Contest.
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New Business:
None
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Correspondence & Announcements:

Steve Bettag reminded us that the Tall Tales Contest sponsored by our club will be at the end of the month of May; please see  Steve  or Joanne to sign up. Also we will be having an open house and  members can bring their wares or information about their businesses.

Our club will be donating a photography basket at the Dist 8 Conference please see Petrina if you would like to contribute.

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Toastmaster:   Alita Quires     Theme: Office Humor
Grammarian:  George Kiser       Word: Facetious
Time Keeper:  Traci Cahill
Vote Counter: Adam Calloway
Ah Counter:     Matt Ramshaw
Camera Op:      Adam Phillips
Table Topics:   Brent Stewart
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Speakers and Evaluators:

Speaker 1:  Shreya Gopal        Evaluator 1: Judy Sowers
Speaker 2:  Jerry Paul          Evaluator 2: Alan Kirby
Speaker 3:  Violet Tatum        Evaluator 3: Sudi Gopinath
Speaker 4:  None                Evaluator 4: None
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General Evaluator:  Joanne Korba
Joke Master:   Jack Bettag

VOTING
Most Improved: Shreya Gopal
Best Table Topics: Steve Bettag
Best Evaluator: Sudi Gopinath
Best Speaker:  Shreya Gopal
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Meeting Rating:  9.0   Meeting adjourned at:  8:47 p.m.
Minutes submitted by:  Joanne Korba
Guests:   Rick Bartell
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Attendance: 22 members

Bettag, Jack
Bettag, Steve
Brandt, Howard
Cahill, Traci
Calloway, Adam
Flick, Steve
Gopal, Shreya
Gopinath, Sudi
Kaiser, Max Jr.
Kirby, Alan
Korba, Joanne
McAliney, Dee
Monti, Petrina
Paul, Jerry
Phillips, Adam
Quires, Alita
Ramshaw, Matt
Sowers, Judy
Stewart, Brent
Tatum, Violet
VanWinkle, Rob
Wilson, Kevin