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