Brentwood Evening Toastmasters (BET)

Meetings are from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Tuesdays of each month.


@

Forest Hills United Methodist Church at 1250 Old Hickory Blvd in Brentwood, TN.

(BET is not affiliated with the church and is open to any and all individuals interested in self-improvement and effective communication. Through the open generosity of the church BET is able to hold meetings in one of its classrooms.)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

B.E.T. Spring Contest

This past Tuesday, February 22nd, B.E.T. held its club level International Speech Contest and Table Topics Contests.

Contest Master: Dasie Schulz

Toastmaster: Rachel Sumner

Chief Judge: Keith McLusky

Judges:

Susan Martin
Allan Daniels
Michael Moryc
Don Kovach

Timers:

Janet Schreibman
Suzanne Harrison

Sergeant at Arms:

Mike Costa
Emily

International Speech Contestants:

Mike Costa
Donna Brown
Yolanda Poppell

Table Topics Contestants:

Yolanda Poppell
Muhammad Sabir
Srimanth Brindavanam
Manuel Glaze

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the contest a success, either by participating or filling one of the roles necessary to conduct a well organized contest!

Congratulations to our contest winners:

International Contest Winner

Mike Costa

Table Topics Contest Winner

Manuel Glaze

The winners will go on to the Area Contest which will be held March 19th @ 10:00 a.m.

Thank you Rachel for helping to organize the contest and for arranging for members and guests to meet at Chili's to celebrate after the big event. A good time was had by all.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

B.E.T. Member's Humor Spot on You Tube


Muhammad had is role as Humorist at B.E.T.'s February 8th, 2011 meeting recorded, and posted it on YouTube.

View his presentation at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7xnKNLG5OU

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters
Meeting Notes
for
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Toastmaster for the evening: Skip Malone


OPENING
Sergeant at Arms, Manuel Glaze, opened the meeting and lead the club in the Pledge of Allegiance. He then introduced Suzanne Harris, President, who read the Toastmasters Mission Statement.


Suzanne then introduced Skip Malone as Toastmaster for the evening.

WORD OF THE DAY

Tim Stowell introduced the word of the day, Elocution, and challenged fellow Toastmasters to use the word throughout the evening.

Elocution - a person's manner of reading or speaking allowed

HUMOR

Muhammad Sabir shared several humorous observations with the club, and got several hearty laughs.

TABLE TOPICS

John Richardson lead the club in Table Topics as Tables Topics Master for the evening, selecting three table topics speakers and challenging them as follows:

Thinking back to gameshows on TV during your childhood, which one would you pick to host and why? - Manuel Glaze

Tell us about your favorite childhood gameshow memory. -
Dasie Schulz

Tell us which gameshow you would like have been a contestant on, and why. -
Tim Stowell

SPEECHES

Speech #1)
"The Icebreaker Speech" (Competent Communicator #1) ~ Autumn Kerrigan

Speech #2) "Imani's Trick" (Interpretive Reading #1) ~ Rachel Sumner

Speech #3) Interpretive Reading #2 ~ Allan Daniels

Speech #4) "Abes Posthomous Travels" (Compentent Communicator #4) - Don Kovach


EVALUATIONS

General Evaluator - Brian Clinch

Evaluator #1) Michael Moryc evaluating Autumn Kerrigan

Evaluator #2) Jeff Lewie evaluating Rachel Sumner

Evaluator #3) Srimanth Brindivanam evaluating Allan Daniels

Evaluator #4) Suzanne Harrison evaluating Don Kovach

Ah Counter/Grammarian ~ Janet Schreibman

AWARDS

Best Table Topic Speaker - Tim Stowell

Best Evaluator - Michael Moryc

Best Speaker - Autumn Kerrigan


The following members used the WORD OFTHE DAY (Elocution):

Skip Malone
Don Kovach
Jeff Lewie
Janet Schriebman