Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: August 23, 2017
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: “Once in a lifetime experiences”
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Kathy Denton, President
Officers’ Reports: NONE
Committee Reports: NONE
Unfinished Business:
- Youth leaderships coming up in a couple of weeks at Phil’s gym achieve wellness – if you know anyone interested in joining please email Jim Salih
New Business:
- Toastmaster dues are coming up, need to get in by the end of September – they are due to toastmaster international by October 1 – please pay Rich Puskarich ($51)
Announcements:
- Note to Tim Sullivan – please send out the agenda / roles for next meeting prior to the contest, thank you!
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | Geoff King |
| Greeter: | Phil Gawlak |
| Invocator / CLE: | Sean Sheehan |
| Grammarian: | Victor Mattison (“Alleviate” – used 9 times) |
| Time Keeper: | Kate Schafroth |
| Vote Counter: | Jerry Paul |
| Ah Counter: | Mark Esswein |
| Camera Operator: | Jim Salih |
| Table Topics: | Mary K Spencer |
| General Evaluator: | Carl Hendrickson |
| Joke Master: | Howard Brandt |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | James Graves | Susan McConnell |
| 2 | Victor Mattison | Brent Stewart |
| 3 | Stacy Duncan | Sarah Pitkin |
| 4 | Debbie Young | George Kiser |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Stacy Duncan |
| Best Table Topics: | George Kiser |
| Best Evaluator: | Sarah Pitkin |
| Best Speaker: | Stacy Duncan |
Meeting Rating: 9
Meeting Adjourned: 9:08 PM
Members Present:
| Bettag, Jack | ☒ |
| Bone, Dean | ☐ |
| Brandt, Howard | ☒ |
| Brown, Gary | ☐ |
| Bubash, James | ☐ |
| Carrillo, Susan | ☐ |
| Clark, Eric | ☐ |
| Coco, Nicholas | ☐ |
| Collier, Bill | ☐ |
| Cripps, Grace | ☐ |
| Denton, Kathy | ☒ |
| Domian, Dave | ☐ |
| Duncan, Stacy | ☒ |
| Esswein, Mark | ☒ |
| Foster, Ginny | ☐ |
| Gawlak, Phil | ☒ |
| Graves, James | ☒ |
| Haparimwi, Nancy | ☒ |
| Hatten, Kyle | ☐ |
| Hendrickson, Carl | ☒ |
| Jennings, Sera | ☐ |
| Kaiser Jr, Max | ☐ |
| King, Geoff | ☒ |
| Kirby, Alan | ☐ |
| Kiser, George | ☐ |
| Kutell, Adam | ☒ |
| Mattison, Victor | ☒ |
| McConnell, Susan | ☒ |
| Mestdagh, Laurie | ☐ |
| Palusci, Joumana | ☐ |
| Paul, Jerry | ☒ |
| Pitkin, Sarah | ☒ |
| Puskarich, Rich | ☒ |
| Salih, Jim | ☒ |
| Schafroth, Kate | ☒ |
| Sheehan, Sean | ☒ |
| Schaper, Jim | ☐ |
| Shields, Dick | ☐ |
| Sowers, Judy | ☐ |
| Spencer, Mary K | ☒ |
| Stewart, Brent | ☒ |
| Sullivan, Tim | ☐ |
| Terrific, Tom | ☐ |
| VanWinkle, Robert | ☐ |
| Willard, Gina | ☐ |
| Winheim, Steve | ☐ |
| Young, Debbie | ☒ |
Attendance: 21 / 47 members present – 44.68% attendance
Visitors:
- Scott Lewis – visiting from Pittsburg and is in town for business and wanted to come see how our meeting was
- Isaac Prior – Jerry’s nephew coming to learn about toastmasters and potentially join the youth program
Submitted by Sarah Pitkin, Secretary
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