Meeting Date and Time 1 May 2013, 7:00pm
Meeting Title / Theme: N/A
Meeting Called to Order: 701PM
Word of the Evening: Nascent (adj.) – Coming or having recently come into existence
Guests: Vanessa Ostler, Carol Lindwedel, Teri Stiebel, Maximillianah Sales (sp?)
Start of Business Meeting: 703PM
Minutes of the last meeting: Approved w/ no changes
Officer Reports: None
Committee Reports: None
Old Business: None
New Business:
• New Member, Vanessa Ostler voted in unanimously (1st Matt Ramshaw; 2nd Sudi Gopinath)
• Adam Kutell – request to purchase 10 new recording disks; motion approved (1st George Kiser; 2nd Matt Ramshaw)
Correspondence and Announcements:
Item 1: District 8 Contest
• The District 8 Contest will be held on May 17 and 18 at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel
Item 2: District 8 – Business Meeting
• President Jerry Paul and VP Education Adam Kutell will be participating and voting on District 8 business at the District 8 Toastmasters meeting on Saturday, May 18th at 10AM
Business Meeting End: 714PM
Roles of the Evening:
Toastmaster: Diane Fawcett
Table Topics Master: Carmen Wilkerson
General Evaluator: Carrie Driscoll
Grammarian: Patrick Hunter Report: 8 uses of word
Timer: Steve Winheim
Camera: Richard Hiers
Invocator/Pledge of Allegiance: Sudi Gopinath
Vote Counter: Erin Gissel
“AH” Counter: Vamsi Jammalamadaka Report: 16
Joke Master: Petrina Monti
Hot Seat:
Greeter: Sean Page
Table Topics Start: 718PM
Contestants: Jerry Paul, Brent Stewart, Kelly Bottini, Carol Lindwedel (guest), Shreya Gopal, Don Clair, Carl Hendrickson, Alan Kirby, and Matt Ramshaw
Table Topics End: 742PM
Speaking/Evaluation Portion Start: 752PM
Speaker 1: Rob Van Winkle (6’) Evaluator 1: Traci Cahill
Speaker 2: Adam Kutell (3’) Evaluator 2: Susan Carillo
Speaker 3: Howard Brandt (7’ 30”) Evaluator 3: Brent Stewart
Speaker 4: George Kiser (13‘) Evaluator 4: Sudi Gopinath
Speaking/Evaluation Portion End: 850PM
Best Speaker: George Kiser
Best Evaluator: Sudi Gopinath
Best Table Topic Speaker: Shreya Gopal
Most Improved: Susan Carillo
Meeting Rating: 9 out of 10
Meeting Concluded: 900PM
In attendance: 26 members (inducted tonight), 4 guests
Bottini, Kelly
Brandt, Howard
Bubash, James
Cahill, Traci
Carillo, Susan
Clair, Don
Driscoll, Carrie
Fawcett, Diane
Gissel, Erin
Gopal, Shreya
Gopinath, Sudi
Hendrickson, Carl
Hiers, Richard
Hunter, Patrick
Jammalamadaka, Vamsi
Kirby, Alan
Kutell, Adam
Monti, Petrina
*Ostler, Vanessa
Page, Sean
Paul, Jerry
Ramshaw, Matt
Stewart, Brent
Van Winkle, Rob
Wilkerson, Carmen
Winheim, Steve
*New Member inducted at this meeting
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