Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: February 13, 2019
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: Valentine’s Day
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:02 PM
Presiding Officer: Debbie Young, President
Officer Reports:
- None
Committee Reports:
- None
Unfinished Business:
- None
New Business:
- Eli Hoxha (Mentor: Sarah Pitkin) and Samira Mudjzic (Mentor: Anne Hartupee) voted in as new members tonight.
Correspondence and Announcements:
- Speech Craft Graduation tonight! 3 member of the group will give speeches tonight.
- Jim Bubash reported the Christmas party expenses
as:
- Cost: $234.23
- Donations: $37.00
- Total Club Cost from Treasury: $197.23
- Jim Bubash, Area 4 Director, is looking for assistance for multiple roles at the Area 4 contest he is in charge of on Saturday, March 9. Please email Jim at onejimb@yahoo.com or ask him at the next SCTM meeting. Contest details are below:
Location:
Grant’s View Library
Address: 9700 Musick Ave, St. Louis, MO 63123
Time: Briefings: 12:00 pm; Contests: 12:30 pm
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: | Jim Bubash |
| Greeter: | Rob Van Winkle, DTM |
| Invocator / CLE: | Steve Winheim |
| Grammarian: | Jim Salih |
| Time Keeper: | Debbie Young |
| Vote Counter: | Sarah Xu |
| Ah Counter: | Michael McCarty |
| Camera Operator: | Alex Wegmann |
| Table Topics: | Bill Hurston |
| Competent Leader Evaluator: | Steve Winheim |
| General Evaluator: | Adam Kutell |
| Joke Master: | Jerry Paul |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Samira Mujdzic | Kathy Denton |
| 2 | Eli Hoxha | George Kiser |
| 3 | Jonathan Starr | Tom Terrific |
| 4 | Jim Bubash | Sarah Pitkin |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | None Selected |
| Best Table Topics: | George Kiser |
| Best Evaluator: | George Kiser |
| Best Speaker: | Tie: Samira Mujdzic, Jonathan Starr |
Meeting Rating: 7.25 (using new rating scale)
Meeting Adjourned: 9:03 pm
Members Present (New Members denoted with an asterisk):
| Brandt, Howard | ☒ | |
| Bubash, James | ☒ | |
| Collier, Bill | ☐ | |
| Denton, Kathy | ☒ | |
| Dickson, Sandy | ☐ | |
| Fetter, John | ☐ | |
| Hartupee, Anne | ☐ | |
| Hendrickson, Carl | ☐ | |
| Hoffman, Casey | ☐ | |
| Hoxha, Eli* | ☒ | |
| Hurston, Bill | ☒ | |
| Jordan, Donna | ☒ | |
| Kaiser Jr, Max | ☐ | |
| King, Geoff | ☐ | |
| Keith, John | ☐ | |
| Kirby, Alan | ☐ | |
| Kiser, George | ☒ | |
| Kutell, Adam | ☒ | |
| Mattison, Victor | ☐ | |
| McConnell, Susan | ☐ | |
| McCarty, Michael | ☒ | |
| Mestdagh, Laurie | ☐ | |
| Paul, Jerry | ☒ | |
| Mujdzic, Samira* | ☒ | |
| Perper, J.D. | ☒ | |
| Pitkin, Sarah | ☒ | |
| Puskarich, Rich | ☐ | |
| Roll, Sandy | ☐ | |
| Salih, Jim | ☒ | |
| Schafroth, Kate | ☐ | |
| Sheehan, Sean | ☐ | |
| Shields, Dick | ☐ | |
| Spencer, Mary K | ☐ | |
| Stewart, Brent | ☐ | |
| Terrific, Tom | ☒ | |
| VanWinkle, Robert | ☒ | |
| Wegmann, Alex | ☒ | |
| Winheim, Steve | ☒ | |
| Xu, Sarah | ☒ | |
| Young, Debbie | ☒ | |
Attendance: 20 /41 members
present – 49% attendance
Visitors: Jonathan Starr (Speech Craft graduate)
Submitted by Rob Van Winkle, DTM, Officer at Large
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