Meeting Date: October 25, 2017
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: “Halloween”
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Sarah Pitkin, Secretary
Officers’ Reports:
- We will have an officer’s meeting the first Wednesday of November (November 1st) at 6:30 at the Metlife building before the regular meeting. If you are an officer please plan on attending.
Committee Reports:
- Jim Bubash sent out an email asking for thoughts around dates and suggestions of venues. Please reach out to Jim with any suggestions you may have.
- First Wednesday of December looks like the best of as of now
Unfinished Business:
- We will have a tall tales contest on November 29, please reach out to contest chair, Sarah Pitkin, if you’d like to participate
- We are also in need of the following roles:
- Chief judge, 5 voting judges, tie breaking judge, 3 counters, 2 timers
- So far our only contestant is Carl Hendrickson
- We are also in need of the following roles:
New Business:
- Motion for a secret Santa for the holiday party by Kate Schafroth
- Jim Bubash explained that we do have a white elephant gift exchange
- Motion passed that we will have a participatory secret Santa, coordinated by Kate Schafroth. If you’d like to participate, please reach out to Kate.
Announcements:
- Tim Sullivan announced that he got in touch with Jim Schaper who is going inactive for now, hoping to return in the spring
- One last meeting for youth leadership on November 7 at Achieve Wellness
- Youth Leadership graduation at the meeting on November 15 – we will have 5-6 youth leadership speakers and 2 active toastmasters speak that night
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | Tim Sullivan |
| Greeter: | James Graves |
| Invocator / CLE: | Brent Stewart |
| Grammarian: | Sarah Pitkin (“Aghast” – used 13 times) |
| Time Keeper: | Jim Salih |
| Vote Counter: | Gary Brown |
| Ah Counter: | Susan Carillo (12 crutch words used – counting um and like) |
| Camera Operator: | Debbie Young |
| Table Topics: | Nancy Haparimwi |
| General Evaluator: | Kate Schafroth |
| Joke Master: | Susan McConnell |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Adam Kutell | Tom Terrific |
| 2 | Howard Brandt | Rob Van Winkle |
| 3 | Stacy Duncan | Rich Puskarich |
| 4 | Jim Bubash | Phil Gawlak |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Phil Gawlak |
| Best Table Topics: | Debbie Young |
| Best Evaluator: | Tom Terrific |
| Best Speaker: | Adam Kutell |
Meeting Rating: 9.5
Meeting Adjourned: 9:04 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: 19 / 47 members present – 40.4% attendance
Visitors:
- Erin Gissel – visiting with Adam Kutell
- Lalage Katunga, was in a youth program in HS and decided to check out the club
Submitted by Sarah Pitkin, Secretary
