Meeting Minutes – June 26, 2013

MEETING DATE: 26 June 2013              MEETING TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm
VENUE: MetLife Building                 CALLED TO ORDER: 7 pm
PRESIDING OFFICER: Jerry Paul           MEETING THEME: Open Mic. Night
MINUTES OF LAST MEETING: Accepted as emailed by Rob Van Winkle.

EXECUTIVE SECTION

OFFICERS REPORT: None.               COMMITTEE REPORT: None.

OLD BUSINESS: The incoming President will address the issue of change in location at the next meeting. Please do not update the guards about the moving of the building and details as such, keep it to toastmasters.

NEW BUSINESS:  Jerry Paul thanked everyone for the help with his term over the past 6 months. Suzanne Lee our new Area 4 Governor was invited to induct the new committee members for the term July-December 2013. She inducted the new committee as follows: President – Gina Willard,

VPEd – Erin Gissel,

VPMem – Carrie Driscoll,

VPPR – Carmen Wilkerson,

Secretary – Shreya Gopal,

Treasurer – Matt Ramshaw,

James Bubash as our Sergeant at Arms

Officer at Large – Carl Hendrickson.

Gina accepted the new term.

July 3rd Meeting: Adam asked if we should have that meeting. Petrina made a motion that the 3rd July meeting be declared a holiday in lieu of the long weekend. Carl suggested that we oppose the motion and attend it. Kathy said it would be a better idea to take a head count, Jeff concurred. Voted: Aye = 14, Nay = 7. July 3rd meeting stands cancelled.

Tall Tales Contest: Adam made a request to have the tall tales contest. Matt Ramshaw made a motion to host the contest on July 24th instead of the last week of July. Steve Bettag seconded. The motion was passed by a majority of Aye.

CORRESPONDENCE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: Incoming officers are requested to come to TLI to get club credit, it is free, and breakfast will be provided. All incoming officers and TM s are encouraged to come to TLI. David Wilkins is moving to Salt Lake City, Utah coming August and will have to move so last meeting will be around the 1st week of August.
BUSINESS MEETING END TIME: 7:27 pm

MEETING ROLES AND REPORTS FOR THE EVENING

MEETING ROLE            NAME            COMMENTS / REPORTS
GREETER                 Jack Bettag
INVOCATOR               James Bubash
TOASTMASTER             Diane Fawcett
GRAMMARIAN              Judy Sowers     13 – Consistent
TIME KEEPER             Jeff Hall               VOTE COUNTER                    Steve Winheim
TT MASTER               James Bubash
“AH” COUNTER            Sudi Gopinath   2 – other, 18 – Ahs
CAMERA OPERATOR         Vamsi Jamalamaddaka
GENERAL EVALUATOR       Adam Kutell     Keep intro of TT short
JOKE MASTER             Patrick Hunter

TABLE TOPICS SECTION
TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS
Steve Bettag    Jack Bettag             Jerry Paul      Bob Heaton
Petrina Monti   Richard Hiers

TABLE TOPICS START TIME: 7:32pm                 END TIME: 7:45 pm
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END OF BREAK

PREPARED SPEECHES SECTION
SPEAKER NAME    SPEECH TITLE       MANUAL / PROJECT #       TIME
Rob VanWinkle   Give me liberty  Interpretive Reading /5   10 mins
Traci Cahill    Avoid the News   Competent Comm / 7        13 mins
Erin Gissel     Keep it REAL     Advance CC / 5            9 mins
Carol Lindwedel Ice Breaker      Competent Comm. / 1       6 mins

PREPARED SPEECHES START TIME: 7:55 pm           END TIME: 7:45 pm

EVALUATION SECTION
EVALUATORS           TIME
Shreya Gopal        Qualified
Kathy Denton        Qualified
Brent Stewart       Qualified
Carl Hendrickson    Qualified

EVALUATION SECTION START TIME: 8:40 pm          END TIME: 9:00 pm
GENERAL EVALUATORS COMMENTS / MEETING RATING:  9.5 out of 10

AWARDS
BEST SPEAKER            Traci Cahill
BEST EVALUATOR          Carl Hendrickson
BEST TABLE TOPICS       Bob Heaton
MOST IMPROVED           Traci Cahill

MEETING ATTENDANCE
Jerry Paul
Traci Cahill
Diane Fawcett
Sudi Gopinath
Vamsi J.
Carol Lindwedel
Kathy Denton
Brent Stewart
Rob Van Winkle
David Wilkins
Steve Bettag
Richard Hiers
Matt Ramshaw
Steve Winheim
James Bubash
Patrick Hunter
Carmen Wilkerson
Carl Hendrickson
Bob Heaton
Suzanne Lee
Shreya Gopal
Judy Sowers
Gina Willard
Adam Kutell
Erin Gissel
Petrina Monti

GUESTS:
Mike Roci, Dan Caline, Dan Ziskin, Joan Ziskin

MEETING CONCLUDED AND ADJOURNED: 9:11 pm

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