Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: April 18, 2018
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: No theme. This was a themeless meeting
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 the meeting minutes from last week. Approved as submitted
- President – Rob Van Winkle – On behalf of the executive committee, the club has attained 8 of the 10 goals needed to achieve the distinguished club award. We should attain all 10 by the end of June
Committee Reports:
- None
Unfinished Business:
- Debbie Young – Last week we opened a discussion about how to conduct the 5th meeting in May. Jim Bubash moved to discuss the available options. Kath Schafroth seconded. Jim offered the suggestion of a speech marathon with a round robin evaluation opened to all members if the speaker would like this. A discussion was held with points made by Kate Schafroth, Carl Hendrickson, Kathy Denton, and Debbie Young. Jim withdrew his original motion and made a substitute one; that the club conduct a speech marathon during this meeting. Sandy Dickson seconded. This motion was approved by a majority of the vote. Jim Bubash moved that the speech marathon have a round robin evaluation if speakers want to do this. This issue was tabled in the interest of time.
New Business:
- Mary K. Spencer – Next week is the graduation for the Youth Leadership Program. There will be 5 student speakers and no evaluations. Alan Kirby will do a commencement speech and be evaluated by Tom Terrific. Table Topics will be done at end of meeting
Correspondence and Announcements:
- The Division A speech and evaluation contests will be held this Saturday at the Jefferson County Library located at 1701 Missouri State Road, Arnold, Missouri 63010. Doors open at 12:30, briefings take place at 12:45, and the contest begins at 1:00. All are welcome. Good luck to our members Susan McConnell and Adam Kutell as they participate in this level of the contests.
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | Jerry Paul |
| Greeter: | Carl Hendrickson |
| Invocator / CLE: | Mark K. Spencer |
| Grammarian: | Janet Bold – Aspiration – used 20 times tonight |
| Time Keeper: | Anne Hartupee |
| Vote Counter: | Jim Bubash |
| Ah Counter: | Kathy Denton – 28 filler words used tonight |
| Camera Operator: | John Fetter |
| Table Topics: | Max Kaiser – Tom Boyland, Mary K. Spencer, Jim Bubash, Geoff King, Susan McConnell, Carl Hendrickson, Kate Schafroth |
| General Evaluator: | Kate Schafroth |
| Joke Master: | Susan McConnell |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Victor Mattison | Sarah Pitkin |
| 2 | Bill Collier | Brent Stewart |
| 3 | Adila Zafer | Rob Van Winkle |
| 4 | Debbie Young | George Kiser |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Adila Zafer |
| Best Table Topics: | Carl Hendrickson |
| Best Evaluator: | Rob Van Winkle |
| Best Speaker: | Debbie Young |
Meeting Rating: No rating
Schedule for Next Week’s Meeting – Mary K. Spencer read the schedule
Meeting Adjourned: 9:05 pm
Members Present:
| Bettag, Jack | ☐ | |
| Bold, Janet | ☒ | |
| Boyland, Tom | ☒ | |
| Brandt, Howard | ☒ | |
| Broida, Jean | ☐ | |
| Bubash, James | ☒ | |
| Collier, Bill | ☒ | |
| Denton, Kathy | ☒ | |
| Dickson, Sandy | ☒ | |
| Duncan, Stacy | ☐ | |
| Fetter, John | ☒ | |
| Gawlak, Phil | ☐ | |
| Hartupee, Anne | ☒ | |
| Hendrickson, Carl | ☒ | |
| Hurston, Bill | ☒ | |
| Kaiser Jr, Max | ☒ | |
| King, Geoff | ☒ | |
| Kirby, Alan | ☐ | |
| Kiser, George | ☒ | |
| Kutell, Adam | ☐ | |
| Mattison, Victor | ☒ | |
| McConnell, Susan | ☒ | |
| Mestdagh, Laurie | ☐ | |
| Paul, Jerry | ☒ | |
| Pitkin, Sarah | ☒ | |
| Puskarich, Rich | ☐ | |
| Roll, Sandy | ☐ | |
| Salih, Jim | ☐ | |
| Schafroth, Kate | ☒ | |
| Sheehan, Sean | ☒ | |
| Shields, Dick | ☐ | |
| Sowers, Judy | ☐ | |
| Spencer, Mary K | ☒ | |
| Stewart, Brent | ☒ | |
| Terrific, Tom | ☐ | |
| VanWinkle, Robert | ☒ | |
| Winheim, Steve | ☒ | |
| Young, Debbie | ☒ | |
| Zafer, Adila | ☒ | |
Attendance: 26 / 39 members present – 66.67 % attendance
Visitors: Carol Mchown, Jenn Reckert
Submitted by Sean Sheehan, Secretary
