Meeting Minutes
South County Toastmasters (#1957)
Meeting Date: 7/10/19
Meeting Type/Theme: Regular Meeting – Theme: Sure is Hot Outside!
Meeting Location: Metropolitan Life Building
Called to Order: 7:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Debbie Young, Outgoing President – Vic Mattison, Incoming President
Officer Reports:
- Outgoing President –Debbie Young- No corrections to the meeting minutes from last week. Approved as submitted.
- Outgoing President – DebbieYoung – Officer Training – July 23rd 6:30-7:30 at St. Louis County Library – Grand Glaize Branch
Committee Reports:
- None
Unfinished Business:
- None
New Business:
- Angela Breinin Program Quality Director conducted Officer Installations for this term.
The Clubs new officers are:
Victor Mattison – President
Vice President of Education – Rich Puskarich
Vice President of Membership – Sarah Xu
Vice President of Public Relations – Donna Jordan
Secretary – Eli Hoxha
Treasurer – Mike McCarty
Sargent in Arms – Zach Smelcer
- The Club reviewed Beth Bridwell’s membership application, Vic Mattison made a motion for the Club members to vote to accept Beth as a new member and Sean Sheehan 2nded the motion. After the Club voted and approved Beth, Victor Mattison, President, inducted Beth Bridwell in as a new member with Sarah Xu as her mentor.
Correspondence and Announcements:
- Sean Sheehan – George Kiser’s mother passed away June 27th and the members will send him a sympathy card.
- Kathy Denton – Completed 2 outside presentations. The Cyber meeting on July 2nd and one at Rejis today. She has received Thank You letters that will be posted to the Club’s website.
- Angela Breinin – Announced her goals as Program Quality Director are to focus on training and to increase the Pathway adoption rates. She reminded the Club that everyone will be on Pathways starting July 1, 2020 because the old program will cease to exist at that point.
Meeting Roles:
| Toastmaster: Jerry Paul |
| Greeter: Rich Puskarich |
| Invocator/CLE: Eli Hoxha |
| Grammarian: Sarah Xu – Word of the evening “Awesome” was used 5 times during the meeting |
| Time Keeper: Mike McCarty |
| Vote Counter: Samira Mujdzic |
| Ah Counter: Sean Sheehan – 43 crutch words and phrases noted during the meeting |
| Camera Operator: Krista Butler |
| Table Topics: Alan Kirby |
| General Evaluator: Debbie Young |
| Joke Master: Sean Sheehan |
Speakers and Evaluators:
| Speakers | Evaluators | |
| 1 | Howard Brandt | Sandy Roll |
| 2 | Jim Salih | Steve Winheim |
| 3 | Donna Jordan | Zach Smelcer |
| 4 |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Zach Smelcer |
| Best Table Topics: | Krista Butler |
| Best Evaluator: | Bill Collier |
| Best Speaker: | Donna Jordan |
Members Present:
| Aden, Abdul | ☐ | ||
| Brandt, Howard | ☒ | ||
| Bridwell, Beth | ☒ | ||
| Bubash, James | ☐ | ||
| Butler, Krista | ☒ | ||
| Collier, Bill | ☒ | ||
| Coupe, Donald | ☒ | ||
| Denton, Kathy | ☒ | ||
| Harr, Jackie | ☐ | ||
| Hartupee, Anne | ☐ | ||
| Hendrickson, Carl | ☐ | ||
| Hoffman, Casey | ☐ | ||
| Hoxha, Eli | ☒ | ||
| Jordan, Donna | ☒ | ||
| King, Geoff | ☐ | ||
| Kirby, Alan | ☒ | ||
| Kiser, George | ☐ | ||
| Mattison, Victor | ☒ | ||
| McCarty, Mike | ☒ | ||
| McConnell, Susan | ☐ | ||
| Mestdagh, Laurie | ☐ | ||
| Monteiro, Stanley | ☒ | ||
| Mudjzic, Samira | ☒ | ||
| Paul, Jerry | ☒ | ||
| Perper, JD | ☐ | ||
| Pitkin, Sarah | ☐ | ||
| Puskarich, Rich | ☒ | ||
| Roll, Sandy | ☒ | ||
| Salih, Jim | ☒ | ||
| Sheehan, Sean | ☒ | ||
| Shields, Dick | ☐ | ||
| Smelcer, Zach | ☒ | ||
| Spencer, Mary K | ☐ | ||
| Stewart, Brent | ☐ | ||
| Terrific, Tom | ☐ | ||
| VanWinkle, Robert | ☐ | ||
| Winheim, Steve | ☒ | ||
| Xu, Sarah | ☒ | ||
| Young, Debbie | ☒ | ||
Meeting Rating: 9.0
Meeting Adjourned: 9:00 pm
Attendance: 20/ 39 members in attendance. – 52% attendance
Visitors: Audhan LaCroix, Maddie Penter, Fellan Ferguson and Angela Breinin
Submitted by Eli Hoxha, Secretary
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