Meeting Minutes June 26, 2013 – updated

Fellow Toastmasters,

Some edits to the meeting minutes.
1. Please find included James Bubash as Sergeant at Arms as inducted to the new leadership.
2. Carrie Driscoll VP Membership was not present on 26 June for the inducted. Hence, she will be inducted by Gina Willard at the meeting tonight.
3. The names of attendees is placed in alphabetical order.

For your reference:

MEETING DATE: 26 June 2013 MEETING TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm
VENUE: MetLife Building CALLED TO ORDER: 7 pm
PRESIDING OFFICER: Jerry Paul / Gina Willard
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, VPPR – Carmen Wilkerson, Secretary – Shreya Gopal, Sergeant at Arms – James Bubash, Treasurer – Matt Ramshaw, and Officer at Large – Carl Hendrickson. Gina accepted the new term. Carrie Driscoll – VPE will be inducted by Gina Willard at the July 10th meeting.

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 ———————————–
TABLE TOPICS 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 5 – Oratorical 10 mins
Traci Cahill Avoid the News Competent Comm. 7 – Research 13 mins
Erin Gissel Keep it REAL Advance CC 5 9 mins
Carol Lindwedel Ice Breaker Competent Comm. 1 – Ice Breaker 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

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

GUESTS:
Mike Roci, Dan Caline, Dan Ziskin, Joan Ziskin, Bob Heaton, Suzanne Lee

MEETING CONCLUDED AND ADJOURNED: 9:11 pm

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