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.

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

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

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters
Meeting Notes
for
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Toastmaster for the evening: Susan Martin

OPENING
Sergeant at Arms, Manuel Glaze, opened the meeting and introduced Rachel Sumner, VP Education, who was filling in for the President for the evening's meeting.

Rachel welcomed everyone to the meeting and shared a message from the District 63 Governor congratulating the Brentwood Evening Toastmasters members for having achieved the 5 Star Award. The five star award requires clubs attain five of the first eight goals required for attaining President's Distinguished Club in 2011.

Rachel distributed Competent Communicator badges to Dasie Schulz and Donna Brown for completing the Competent Communicator manual. She then introduced the Toastmaster for the Evening, Susan Martin.

WORD OF THE DAY

Rachel Sumner introduced the word of the day, Captious, and challenged fellow Toastmasters to use the word throughout the evening.

Captious - intention to entrap or confuse; having an inclination to find fault, especially of a trivial nature; someone who is difficult to please.

HUMOR

Mike Costa shared a humorous anecdote (fictitious as may have been) about Allan getting arrested after running from a bear he encountered in the woods. Apparently it's illegal to run through the woods with a bear behind. ;-)

TABLE TOPICS

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

If you could ride a hot air balloon over any city in the world, what city wuld you choose and why? - Pam Hoffner

If your hot air balloon needed to make an emergency landing requiring you to live for two years where you landed, and you had a choice between Hawaii and Alaska, where would you land? Autumn Karrigan

You are hiking in the woods in the Smokey mountains when you encounter a family from Germany. They ask about the area. What would you tell them? Allan Daniels

SPEECHES

Speech #1) "The Story of My Repressed Desire" ~ Janet Schreibman

Speech #2) "Four Principles to Enhance Spontaneity" ~ John Richardson

Speech #3) "What do I want to Become" ~ Muhammad Sabir

Speech #4) "One Year as a Toastmaster" - Sri Brindavanam

EVALUATIONS

General Evaluator - Keith McLusky

Evaluator #1) Allan Daniels evaluating Jane Schreibman

Evaluator #2) Manual Glaze evaluating John Richardson

Evaluator #3) Yolanda Poppell evaluating Muhammad Sabir

Evaluator #4) Dasie Schulz evaluating Sri Brindavanam

AWARDS

Best Table Topic Speaker - Pam Hoffman

Best Evaluator - Manuel Glaze

Best Speaker - Tie between Janet Schreibman & Muhammad Sabir

B.E.T. Publications and Press Releases

To view the Press Release written and released by the B.E.T. VP of Public Relations, Michael Moryc, please click here.

To view the latest release of the club newsletter, The B.E.T. Buzz, also written and published by the B.E.T. VP of Public Relations, please click here.