Brentwood
Evening Toastmasters
Meeting
Notes
Tuesday,
January 28, 2014
Toastmaster
for the evening – Richard Naslund
Opening:
Richard Naslund opened
the meeting and led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance, then
turned the gavel over to BET President Mark Bayless.
Club News:
Toastmasters Leadership
Institute (TLI) has a make-up meeting in Nashville on Tuesday,
February 4 at the Caterpillar Financial. The training is scheduled
for 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm.
The BET club-level
contest (preliminaries for the International Speech and Table Topics
Contest) will be held on February 11. Contact Richard Naslund or
Pankaj Soni to participate as a contestant or judge. The area-level
contest will be held the following week.
Toastmaster:
Richard Naslund introduced the theme of the meeting, National
Compliment Day.
Wordmaster: Ani
Osborne
Word of the Day:
diaspora |dīˈaspərə| noun
(often the Diaspora) the dispersion of any people from their original
homeland
Humorist: Pankaj
Soni told a joke about a rural volunteer fire department.
Table Topic Master:
Rachel Sumner hosted a
sports-themed Table Topics!
TT
Speaker #1: Janet Schreibman
told us how she became a sports fan.
(1:36)
TT
Speaker #2: Chris Meador
spoke about marching band and drum & bugle corps.
(2:08)
TT
Speaker #3: Susan Martin
explained what a “Soup-er Bowl Party” is.
(1:23)
TT
Speaker #4: Richard Naslund encouraged us to root for Peyton Manning.
(1:22)
Prepared Speeches:
Speaker #1: Don Kovach,
“Work the Plan” (11:25)
Speaker #2: Ravi
Aradhyula gave his ice-breaker! (6:16)
Speaker #3: Mark
Bayless, “TV Detectives and Toastmasters” (10:29)
Speech Evaluations:
General Evaluator:
Chris Meador
Evaluator #1: Mike
Costa (3:37)
Evaluator #2: Janet
Schreibman (3:23)
Evaluator #3: Russ
Vantrease (4:53)
Timer / Vote Counter:
Ryan Osborne
Grammarian / Ah
Counter: Susan Martin
Awards:
Best Table Topic:
Richard Naslund
Best Evaluator: Janet
Schreibman
Best Speaker: Mark
Bayless
Word of the day users:
Ravi, Janet
