South County Toastmasters
Meeting Type/Theme: Theme: Cars
Meeting Location: Sunset Hills Community Center/Zoom
Call to Order: 6:00 PM
Presiding Officer: Patrick Hunt
Word of the Night: Myriad
President Patrick Hunt asked if there were any corrections or additions to be made to the meeting minutes of Sep 29, 2021, hearing none, the minutes stand as posted.
Officers Reports:
- President Patrick Hunt: none
- VPE Bill Collier: Bill asked the members to check out the schedule for the October 13 meeting now posted on Turbobase. He also reminded us that the Founder’s day meeting will be held on October 20 and the Ghost Story meeting will be on October 27. Both meetings will be held at Sunset Hills CC. Victor will be the Toastmaster on Founder’s Day and Sandy will be the Ghostmaster on Ghost Story night.
- VPPR Liz DeCamp:
- Liz is making contacts with the RiverFront Times in hopes that she can promote Toastmasters through them.
- Liz will try to get us on both the Sunset Hills CC calendar and directory for the January 1 term.
- Liz has been promoting through our social media accounts but she needs to figure out the Facebook login before she can accomplish this.
- She has set up a Lastpass account to record our login information.
- VPM Sandy Roll:
- Founder’s Day will be celebrated on Oct. 20 at Sunset Hills; bring a visitor. Sandy is getting many responses from past members.
- Oct. 27 is Ghost Story night; bring a ghost story and dress the part. Check with Sandy about your participation. Also, bring a visitor. The story does not need to pertain to goblins and ghosts but at least to Halloween in some way.
- Treasurer. Brent Stewart: Brent has done a thorough audit of the club’s finances for the past two years. We have over $2,500.00 in our account and Sunset Hills will be paid through January 1. Sunset Hills will change our contract to run quarterly. We have 28 dues paying members, but we need 33.5 members to break even. Our reserves should carry us for quite a while if we stay below the minimum amount of members needed to break even.
- Secretary Jim Salih: none
- Sgt-at-Arms JD Perper: none
Committee reports – none
Correspondence or Announcements –
- Steve Burchett announced a fun night out of flexing brains, on Friday, November 5th. Steve is emceeing a Trivia Night fundraiser for Rebuilding Together STL at the Electricians Union Hall on the Hill. For details contact Cheryl Reale at creale@rebuildingtogether-stl.org or contact SCTM member Steve Burchett.
- Jim Salih announced that the Transcription (Subtitle) feature has been enabled on Zoom so those on Zoom will automatically see a transcript of all that is said at the meeting. It can be turned off on an individual computer if the member wishes. The text can also be resized. In order to do that, the individual member needs to turn it off or resize it under the Transcript (CC) button at the bottom of the Zoom window.
Unfinished business – none
New business – none
Business Meeting Adjourned 7:15 pm
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| Toastmaster | Denton, Kathy |
| Table Topics Master | DeCamp, Liz |
| General Evaluator | Hunt, Patrick |
| Grammarian | Roll, Sandy |
| Timer | Stewart, Brent |
| Speaker 1 | Salih, Jim |
| Speaker 2 | Mattison, Victor |
| Speaker 3 | |
| Evaluator 1 | Perper, James D |
| Evaluator 2 | Young, Debbie |
| Evaluator 3 | |
| Invocator & Jokemaster | Sheehan, Sean |
| Vote Counter | Winheim, Steve |
| AH Counter | Steve Burchett |
Voting:
| Most Improved: | Liz DeCamp |
| Best Table Topics: | Rob Van Winkel |
| Best Evaluator: | Debbie Young |
| Best Speaker | Jim Salih |
Ah Counter’s Report: about 30 AHs (lots of repeated words as fillers instead of ahs)
Grammarian’s Report: 8 uses of the word myriad
Meeting Rating: 9.2
Meeting Adjourned: 7:40 pm
Attendance:
- Sunset:
- Present in the room: Brent Stewart, JD Perper, Keith Page, Patrick Hunt, Bill Collier, Steve Winheim, Rob Van Winkle, Debbie Young, Howard Brandt, Steve Burchett, Kathy Denton, and Victor Mattison
- Zoom: Liz DeCamp, Sandy Roll, Sean Sheehan, and Jim Salih
- Guest: Mark Miller
Attendance Streaks for 2021 (with 4 or more):
| Streak | Attendance: |
| 30 | JD Perper |
| 18 | Debbie Young |
| 13 | Jim Salih |
| 12 | Steve Winheim |
| 12 | Liz DeCamp |
| 10 | Patrick Hunt |
| 4 | Sandy Roll |
Submitted by Jim Salih, Secretary
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