Meeting Minutes January 21, 2026

South County Toastmasters Club 1957 

Meeting Location: Sunset Hills Community Center

Call to Order:  6:30 p.m.

Guests: Matthew Jethro, Wa King He, Herb Villaflores, Fernando Parisotto, Colleen Flynn, Matt Reinholz

Minutes: Posted

Officer Reports:

President: Brent Stewart-No Report

VPE: Jim Salih-

  • The International Humorous Speech Contest (organized by Vicki Kolaks and Amy Kelemen) on Jan 28th.  We have (4) Members for each contest. Members are encouraged to attend.  We will finish with Table Topics if time permits.
  • TableTopics Masters: Remember the order for calling participants.  Paid members with no meeting roles are first, members with support roles are second. Non-members are third(if they have previously been asked or invited.
  • The February schedule was mailed today.  Please let me know if you have not received the schedule.
  • Distinguished Club Report:  With the members that are joining tonight, we’ve reached 9 of our 10 goals for January. We’re doing quite well. All Education goals are achieved. All membership goal are achieved as of tonight. All training goals will be achieved by the end of the month. All Administration goals are achieved.
  • Meeting Support Role Mentors: Our club is introducing a new system of training to shadow meeting support roles (recommended by Brendan Flynn), such as Ah Counter, vote counter, etc). If you are an established member, please invite a new member to shadow your support role position. This will encourage attendance by new members and inspire support role experience. When the new member assumes a new support role, the mentor can sit beside them and assist with the task if needed.

VPM: Sylvia Awondatu -No Report

VPPR: Debbie Young-No Report

Treasurer: Brian Scarpace-No Report

Sergeant-at-Arms: Amy Kelemen-No Report

Secretary: Tom Braun-No Report

Unfinished Business: None.

Committee Reports: None.

New Business: Four Guests are voted in as New Members tonight.  Herb Villaflores (No Mentor Required), Wai He (George Kiser Mentor), Matt Reinholz (Victor Mattison Mentor), and Colleen Flynn (Vicky Kolaks Mentor).

Correspondence and Announcements: No Report

Business Meeting Adjourned:  6:47 pm.

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Meeting Theme: What’s Your Hobby?

Toastmaster:  Bill Collier

Table Topics: Nicolas Murphy

General Evaluator: Sylvia

Grammarian: Camila Parisotto

Timer: Jim Salih

Wizard of Ahs: Amy Kelemen

Vote Counter: Bill Collier

Invocator: Andrew Held

Jokemaster: Jim Bubash

Speaker 1: Ashley Spraggs

Speaker 2:  Cristian Boas (Ice Breaker)

Speaker 3:  JD Perper

Speaker 4: Adam Fox

Evaluator 1: George Kiser

Evaluator 2: Victor Mattison

Evaluator 3: Debbie Young

Evaluator 4: Brent Stewart

Word of the Day: Passionate (7)

Ah Counter Report: 20

Voting Awards: 

Best Table Topics: Joseph Parks

Best Speaker: Cristian Boas

Best Evaluator: Debbie Young

Most Improved: Cristian Boas

GE Meeting Rating: 10 of 12

Attendance: (Members=21, Guests=6, Total=27)

Awondatu, Sylvia

Bubash, Jim

Braun, Tom

Collier, Bill

Fox, Adam

Held, Andy

Kelemen, Amy

Kiser, George

Kolaks, Vicky

Mattison, Victor

Murphy, Nicholas

Camila Parisotto

Perper, James D

Romano, Lara

Salih, Jim

Spraggs, Ashley

Stewart, Brent

VanWinkle, Robert

Villas Boas, Cristian

Young, Debbie

Joe Parks

Meeting Adjourned:  8:30

Attendance Streaks > 10 Meetings

Debbie Young35
Vicky Kolaks22

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