Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: August 8, 2018
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: Games
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Brent Stewart, President
Officer Reports:
- President – Brent Stewart – No corrections to the meeting minutes from last week. Approved as submitted
- President – Brent Stewart – Open House flyer distributed by email today. Please hand out
Committee Reports:
- None
Unfinished Business:
- None
New Business:
- Jim Bubash – Giving a gift to past president is a tradition of the club. He bought a gift for Adam and Kathy. Is that something we want to continue to do or we shouldn’t do further. Howard Brandt – we’ve done this for the past 50 years or so and he thinks it’s a reasonable thing to do for all of the work the past president did during her or his term. Jim – gifts have been under $15 each time. Discussion held. Consensus reached to continue this tradition. Howard – It has been the new president’s responsibility to get the gift for the past president
Correspondence and Announcements:
- Jim Bubash – Division A makeup training has been scheduled for Saturday, August 11, 2018 at the Jefferson County Library in Arnold, Missouri. Doors open at 2:45 and training is from 3-4
- Jerry Paul – The presentation last week where he was an interviewer was from a manual. The manual has another project where one is the interviewee. He plans to do that project and he’d like to work together with someone who is giving the interviewer speech so they both could get credit at the same time
- Mary K. Spencer – Club is organizing the Youth Leadership Classes to begin 9/25. The program is mainly for those ages 10-17, but younger participants have been accepted in the past. She will discuss with Phil Gawlak about holding the classes at his new, larger location in the same plaza as before, but in a different unit
- Jim Bubash – He would like to take pictures of tonight’s meeting to put on the Meet Up web site. There were no objections.
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | John Fetter |
| Greeter: | Bill Hurston |
| Invocator / CLE: | Jerry Paul |
| Grammarian: | Tom Boyland – the word of the evening is rigorous. It was used 9 times tonight |
| Time Keeper: | Debbie Young |
| Vote Counter: | Janet Bold |
| Ah Counter: | Rich Puskarich – Crutch words were used 32 times tonight |
| Camera Operator: | Debbie Young |
| Table Topics: | Brent Stewart – Howard Brandt, Jim Bubash, Bill Hurston, Rich Puskarich, Jerry Paul, Janet Bold, Tom Boyland, Bob Heaton, Debbie Young |
| General Evaluator: | Mary K. Spencer |
| Joke Master: | Rich Puskarich |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Tom Teriffic | Susan McConnell |
| 2 | Carl Hendrickson | Jerry Paul |
| 3 | Steve Winheim | Bill Hurston |
| 4 | Melissa Baldwin | Sean Sheehan |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | John Fetter |
| Best Table Topics: | Jerry Paul |
| Best Evaluator: | Sean Sheehan |
| Best Speaker: | Carl Hendrickson |
Meeting Rating: 9.8
Schedule for Next Week’s Meeting – Not read
Meeting Adjourned: 9:00 pm
Members Present:
| Baldwin, Melissa | ☒ | |
| 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 | ☒ | |
| Perper, JD | ☐ | |
| 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: 17 / 41 members present – 41.46 % attendance
Visitors: Bob Heaton, Donna Jordan
Transcribed by Sean Sheehan; Submitted by Sandy Roll, Secretary
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