December 28, 2010 - TM Meeting Notes

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters
Meeting Notes
for
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Toastmaster for the evening: Manual Glaze

OPENING
Sergeant at Arms, Manuel Glaze, opened the meeting and lead the club in the Pledge of Allegiance.

President, Suzanne Harrison welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced the Toastmaster for the Evening, Manual Glaze.

WORD OF THE DAY

Brian Clinch introduced the word of the day, Garrulous, and challenged fellow Toastmasters to use the word throughout the evening.

Garrulous - rambling, chatter, babble

HUMOR

Mike Costa shared a humorous anecdote about how quickly and surprisingly children can tune into, learn, and use colorful language.

TABLE TOPICS

Suzanne Harrison lead the club in Table Topics as Tables Topics Master for the evening challenging each Table Topics speaker to share a story about food:

If you opened a restaurant what kind of food would you serve? - Yolonda

If you were to work in the food industry what job would you want to do? - Alan Daniels

If you had $1000 to spend on a meal, where would you go? - Geoff Lewie

SPEECHES
Speech #1) "Working the Room: How to Network Like a Pro" ~ John Richardson

Speech #2) "Melting Snowmen" ~ Dasie Schulz

Speech #3) "Cat Tales" ~ Cindy Kubica

EVALUATIONS

General Evaluator - Donna Brown

Evaluator #1) Rachel Sumner evaluating John Richardson

Evaluator #2) Manuel Glaze evaluating Dasie Schulz

Evaluator #3) Michael Moryc evaluating Cindy Kubica

Ah Counter / Grammarian: Tim Stowell

AWARDS
Best Table Topic Speaker - Yolonda

Best Evaluator - Rachel Sumner

Best Speaker - Cindy Kubica

The following members used the Word Of the Day, Garrulous, at least one time during the meeting.

Manual Glaze
Mike Costa
Suzanne Harrison
Yolonda
John Richardson
Cindy Kubica
Donna Brown