BET Meeting Minutes

December 08, 2020

Presiding Officer:

Skip Malone

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Skip Malone

Toastmaster: Mike Costa

 Word of the Day: Emily Thompson

benevolence n. - the quality of being well meaning; kindness

Humorist:  Shyam Nagarajan

 

Table Topics: Janet Schreibman

Table Topic Speakers:

1)  Becky Lamb  - 1:55

2) Shyam Nagarajan - 1:58

3) Emily Thompson - 2:12

4) Susan Martin - 1:33

 

Speaker(s):

1) Leslie Grissim (requested 5-7) - 7:36

 General Evaluator: LouAnn Clark

Evaluator(s):

1) Skip Malone - 3:24

 

Timer: Susan Martin

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Emily Thompson

Word Users: Susan, Janet, LouAnn, Mike, Becky, Shyam

 

Club Business:

• Meeting 11/24/20 minutes approved

• Members can go to TI website before Dec. 31 and select "choose a path" for free access to an additional pathway

• TLI training will be on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9am - 1p

• Club will not meet on Dec. 22 due to Christmas holiday but will resume on Dec. 29 with a table topics focus

 

BET Meeting Minutes

November 24, 2020

Presiding Officer:

Susan Martin

 Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Susan Martin

Toastmaster:   Susan Martin

 

Word of the Day: Shyam Nagarajan

slapdash adj. - to do something hurriedly or carelessly; haphazard

 

Humorist:  Becky Lamb

 

Table Topics: Emily Thompson

Table Topic Speakers:

1) Janet Schreibman - 2:10

2) Susan Martin - 1:18

3) Becky Lamb  - 1:36

4) LouAnn Clark - 1:53

5) Shyam Nagarajan - 1:13

6) Mike Costa - 1:15

  

Speaker(s):

1) Darryl Pace (requested  8-10) - 10:05

 

General Evaluator: Janet Schreibman

Evaluator(s):

1) Mike Costa - 3:04

 

Timer: Leslie Grissim

Ah Counter/Grammarian: LouAnn Clark

Word Users: Susan, Janet, Emily

 

Club Business:

*  Meeting 11/10/20 minutes approved

*  Members can go to TI website before Dec. 31 and select "choose a path" for free access to an additional pathway

 

*  Guests:  Lavanya Nalluri, Dan Kalau

 

BET Meeting Minutes

November 10, 2020

Presiding Officer:

Skip Malone

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Skip Malone

Toastmaster:   LouAnn Clark -- theme:  A Bountiful Harvest

 

Word of the Day: Becky Lamb

delve -- v. to search thoroughly, to dig

 

Humorist:  Darryl Pace

Table Topics: Skip Malone

 

Table Topic Speakers:

1) Janet Schreibman - 2:07

2) Leslie Grissim - 1:37

3) Bill Martin  - 1:46

4) Lavanya (guest) - 1:33

 

Speakers:

1) Emily Thompson - (request 5-7) - 7:21

2) Jeff McCue (request 5-7) - 7:34

 

General Evaluator: Leslie Grissim

Evaluators:

1) Susan Martin - 3:06

2) Darryl Pace - 3:17

 

Timer: Janet Schreibman

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Becky Lamb

Word Users: Becky, Janet, LouAnn, Emily, Leslie, Katie

 

Club Business:

*  Meeting minutes approved 10/27/20

*  Will discuss possible "live" event for social gathering in the future

*  Members can go to TI website before Dec. 31 and select "choose a path" for free access to an additional pathway

*  Guests:  Lavanya Nalluri, Katie Wallace, Nicole Taylor, Bill Martin

 

BET Meeting Minutes

October 27, 2020

Presiding Officer:

Skip Malone

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Skip Malone

Toastmaster:   Jeff McCue

 

Word of the Day: Mike Costa

onomatopoeia - noun; a sound/expression or vocal imitation of a sound associated with it

 

Humorist:  Leslie Grissim

Table Topics: Susan Martin

 

Table Topic Speakers:

1) Skip Malone - 2:09

2) Mike Costa - 1:20

3) Leslie Grissim - 1:07

4) Darryl Pace - 2:27

5) Leslie Grissim  - 1:23

 

Speakers:

1) Shyam Nagarajan - 6:53

2) LouAnn Clark - 7:01

 

General Evaluator: Mike Costa

Evaluators:

1) Emily Thompson - 3:17

2) Janet Schreibman - 3:30

 

Timer: Darryl Pace

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Skip Malone

Word Users: Janet, Jeff 3x, Susan

 

Club Business:

*  Meeting minutes approved 10/13/20

*  Will discuss possible "live" event for social gathering at next meeting

*  Members can go to TI website before Dec. 31 and select "choose a path" for free access to an    additional pathway

*  Guest attendee:  Lavanya Nalluri