Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: January 31, 2018
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: None
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Rob Van Winkle, President
Officer Reports:
- President – Rob Van Winkle – No corrections to meeting minutes from last week. Approved as submitted
- President – Rob Van Winkle – Club has met 6 of 10 required goals toward the Distinguished Club award. Deadline is June 30, 2018. Achieving 7 goals earns the club the Select Distinguished Club award and achieving 9 goals garners the President’s Distinguished Club award
Committee Reports:
- Mary K. Spencer will chair the Youth Leadership Program committee. The club will offer this program soon
- Jim Salih, Speechcrafters Program will start next week prior to our normal meeting
- Kate Schafroth – Debbie Young and Kate are running the International Speech and Evaluation contest. Volunteers still needed in many roles
Unfinished Business:
- None
New Business:
- None
Correspondence and Announcements:
- Sara Pitkin – South County Toastmasters will hold an Open House on Wednesday February 21, 2018 at our regular meeting location. Mary K. Spencer is also organizing this event
- Adam Kutell – Distributed a brochure about an event being held by his other Toastmasters club, Competitive Speakers – STL. It will hold an Open House on Tuesday February 20, 2018 at Sports Café, 3579 Pennridge Drive, Bridgeton, MO 63044. This club evaluates on a round robin basis by all members present, not just 1 on 1. Membership in this club provides an excellent opportunity to hone competitive speaking skills. All are welcome to come.
- Max Kaiser, Jean Broida, and Mary K Spencer were judges at the “Gorlok Gala” College Forensics Tournament held on January 26, 2018 at Webster University. It was the 20th anniversary of the Gorlok Gala, which draws college contestants from all over the USA
- Max Kaiser – Tenor Jeffery Gonder, Met Life front desk greeter, will be joining St. Louis pianist Gary Scott for an ecumenical musical performance at St. Ambrose church at 5130 Wilson Avenue, on “The Hill”, on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 7 pm. The event will be an hour of music in the sanctuary. Admission is free with a good will offering taken. Casual dress. Parking is available on the Church lot and on the streets next to the Church.
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | None |
| Greeter: | Carl Hendrickson |
| Invocator / CLE: | Tom Terrific |
| Grammarian: | None |
| Time Keeper: | None |
| Vote Counter: | None |
| Ah Counter: | None |
| Camera Operator: | None |
| Table Topics: | None |
| General Evaluator: | None |
| Joke Master: | None |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Terry O’Brien | None |
| 2 | Joe McChesney | None |
| 3 | ||
| 4 |
Terry O’Brien and Joe McChesney gave a presentation about the Pathways program. Toastmasters International is transitioning to this new communication and leadership education system. We are not the first nor the last region to introduce this program. Pathways uses different manuals and evaluation criteria for its projects. Details of all programs and projects and their manuals are available on line. Printed materials can be ordered separately at an additional charge. Members can use the current manuals to continue on Toastmaster’s traditional program for 2 years from the date Pathways is rolled out, in order to complete the track they are on. February 13, 2018 is the target date for roll out to the clubs. This date may change. Toastmasters International will only initiate this program after 70 percent of clubs in each District have received the introduction being given to our club tonight. Pathways offers 10 different educational paths. Levels must be done in the order they are laid out in the Program. However, projects within each level can be done in any order, with a couple exceptions. The Vice-President of Education, President and Secretary can log into Pathways Basecamp website. Pathways doesn’t change the club meeting format. Rob Van Winkle’s summary of the presentation: education is important for communication and leadership. Pathways offers a new plan to teach these things. It’s just a different way to learn than we have used heretofore.
Voting:
| Most Improved: | None |
| Best Table Topics: | None |
| Best Evaluator: | None |
| Best Speaker: | None |
Meeting Rating: None
Schedule for Next Week’s Meeting – Read by Tom Terrific
Meeting Adjourned: 9:02
Members Present:
| Bettag, Jack | ☒ |
| Bone, Dean | ☐ |
| Brandt, Howard | ☐ |
| Broida, Jean | ☐ |
| 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 | ☒ |
| Zafer, Adila | ☒ |
Attendance: 19 / 39 members present – 48.72 % attendance
Visitors: Terry O’Brien, Pathways Ambassador, Joe McChesney, Pathways Guide, Janet Bold, John Fetter
Submitted by Sean Sheehan, Secretary
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