Brentwood
Evening Toastmasters
Meeting
Notes
Tuesday,
February 25, 2014
Toastmaster
for the evening – Pankaj Soni
Opening:
Chris Meador opened the
meeting and led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance, then turned
the gavel over to BET President Mark Bayless.
Club News:
The District 63 Spring
Conference will be held April 4-6 in Nashville. Please visit
http://d63toastmasters.com/
for the agenda and information about tickets.
Dues are coming due!
Membership dues are posted semiannually in March and September, and
the spring deadline is March 31. BET members who renew for 12 months
instead of 6 months will have a portion of their dues waived.
Next meeting we will
have a guest speaker, Elizabeth Lindsay, who will be explaining the
upcoming changes to the Toastmasters Educational Program. For more
details, please visit http://www.toastmasters.org/eduprogram.
Toastmaster:
Pankaj Soni introduced the theme of the meeting, procrastination.
Wordmaster: Susan
Martin
Word of the Day:
brevity |ˈbrevitē| noun
concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
Humorist:
Krishna Rao told a joke about the Husband Store.
Table Topic Master:
Janet Schreibman
TT
Speaker #1: Lysa Rigo
described her methods of procrastination.
(1:36)
TT
Speaker #2: Jaylyn Bergner
shared a story about a procrastinator she knows.
(1:38)
TT
Speaker #3: Bill Martin
speculated on the nature vs. nurture of procrastination.
(1:03)
Prepared Speeches:
Speaker #1: Ravi
Aradhyula, “Informal Sports” (7:03)
Speaker #2: Krishna
Rao, “An Introduction to Business Strategy” (9:38)
Speaker #3: Ani
Osborne, “Bigotry and Facebook” (10:24)
Speech Evaluations:
General Evaluator:
Dasie Schulz
Evaluator #1: Mike
Costa (2:55)
Evaluator #2: Rajiv
Gupta (3:32)
Evaluator #3: Rachel
Sumner (3:23)
Timer: Ryan Osborne
Vote Counter: Jaylyn
Bergner
Grammarian / Ah
Counter: Janet Schreibman
Awards:
Best Table Topic: Lysa
Rigo
Best Evaluator: Rachel
Sumner
Best Speaker: Ani
Osborne
Word of the day users:
Janet, Lysa, Ryan, Ravi, Rajiv
