August 10, 2010 - TM Meeting Notes

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters

Meeting Notes

for

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Toastmaster for the evening: Matthew Job

OPENING

President Suzanne Harrison called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m., welcoming two new guests and all members. She then lead the club in the Pledge of Allegiance before turning the meeting over to the Toastmaster, Matthew Job.

Matthew extended a warm welcome before giving a brief overview of his duties as Toastmaster.

WORD OF THE DAY

Cynthia Brown provided the word of the day:

Oblivious - unaware of; not paying attention to

HUMORIST

Manuel Glaze injected a bit of humor with a well delivered joke about a doctor, a minister, a lawyer and a professionally courteous shark.

TABLE TOPICS

Mike Costa expressed his creative side, and encouraged the evening's Table Topics speakers to do the same. He provided each speaker with a quote and a challenge. Each Table Topics speaker was given 1-2 minutes to present their impromptu speech. This exercise allows members to practice impromptu speaking.

Susan Martin was challenged with telling the club who she would send the following quote to and why: "A diplomat is a man who always remembers his wife's birthday but never remembers her age." ~ Robert Frost
Susan dedicated the quote to her husband who always remembers her birthday and NEVER reminds her that she's just a little bit older than he is.

Suzanne Harrison was challenged with telling the club who in the room she would send her assigned quote to, and why: "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." ~ Mark Twain
Suzanne Harrison dedicated her quote to our own Mike Costa, who she proclaims can spin a story with expert creativity.

Jackie Houtz was challenged with telling the club what celebrity she would share the following quote with: "You are only young once but you can be immature all of your life." (sorry I did not catch the source)
Jackie dedicated her quote to her brother. She admitted that is, technically, no celebrety although he may never admit it, himself.

James Justus was challenged with telling the club who he could NOT dedicate his assigned quote to. James announced he could not dedicated his Tennessee Williams quote, "You can be young without Money but you cannot be old without it.", to any of his cash-strapped clients, but that he might be able to get away with sharing the quote with colleagues in the financial planning industry.

Manuel Glaz was challenged with telling the club with whom he would share his assigned quote, "At age 50 everyone has the face he deserves."
Manuel decided he would share his quote with any president, making the point that no matter what we do or who we are, we know it better than anyone else the moment we see our own face looking back at us in the mirror.

SPEECHES

Speaker #1: Skip Malone - "Up the Creek"
Speaker #2: Dasie Schulz - "The Underrepresentation of Women in Executive Leadership"
Speaker #3: Allan Daniels - Coach Allan

EVALUATOR

General Evaluator: Michael Moryc
Evaluator #1: Jane Gaither, evaluating Skip Malone
Evaluator #2: Susan Martin, evaluating Dasie Schulz
Evaluator #3: Donna Brown, evaluating Allan Daniels

Grammarian/Ah Counter: Jackie Houtz

AWARDS

Best Table Topics: Suzanne Harrison
Best Evaluator: Susan Smith
Best Speaker: Dasie Schulz

USED WORD OF THE DAY

Club members made excellent use of the Word of the Day. Those who interjected it throughout the meeting included:

Matthew Job
Mike Costa
Susan Martin
Allan Daniels
Jackie Houtz
Michael Moryc

GOOD JOB!! :-)

BUSINESS

Suzanne reminded everyone of the upcoming Toastmasters Leadership Training course.

TLI will be conducted again on August 19th from 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. and the club will pay the fee for any member interested in attending. (If interested in attending please contact Suzanne Harrison)

Humorous Speech and Evaluator contests are scheduled as follows:

Club Contest: August 31, 2010
Area Contest: September 11, 2010
District Contest: September 25, 2010
Fall conference: October 15, 2010

Area Governor, James Justus announced that the location for the area contest had been chosen: 404 BNA Drive

Don't forget to check out the latest edition of The B.E.T. Buzz, our official club newsletter.

If you are reading these minutes you have the link to our new blog which can always be found @ BrentwoodEveningToastmasters.blogpost.com.

Watch your e-mail for a Twitter invite to begin following B.E.T. tweets. Be sure to sign up! And remember - if you need help setting up your twitter account Dasie is available to help you get started. Once we have a few followers we plan to begin announcing last minute changes to the schedule and opening speaking slots so that individuals can let Rachel know immediately, via e-mail or phone, if they are interested and available to step up and fill last minute openings!

Michael encourages everyone to go to the B.E.T. website and sign up for roles at upcoming meetings.

CLOSING

Before closing the meeting, President Susanne Harrison requested feedback from the two guests in attendance.

President Suzanne Harrison adjourned the meeting at approximately 8:15 p.m.