Brentwood Evening Toastmasters

Meeting Notes

for

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Toastmaster for the evening: John Richmond

Sergeant at Arms: Manuel Glaze

Word of the Day: Suzanne Harrison with “Auspicious”

Joke of the Day: Rachel Sumner

Table Topics and vote Counter: Don Kovach

Table Topics Speakers:

Speaker #1: Dan (first time Table Topic Speaker!)

Sepaker #2: John Lensgraf (visitor & first time Table Topics Speaker)

Speaker #3: Allan Daniels

Prepared Speeches:

Speaker #1: Keith McLusky

Final speech for achievement of Keith’s 2nd Advanced Communicator Silver award.

Congratulations Keith!

Speaker #2: Janet Schreibman

Speech #3 from the Competent Communicator Manual

Speaker #3: Brian Clinch

Speech # 3 from the Competent Communicator Manual

General Evaluator: Dasie Schulz

Evaluator #1: Tim Stowell evaluating Keith McLusky

Evaluator #2: Geoff Lewie evaluating Janet Schreibman

Evaluator #3: Sri Brindavanam evaluating Brian Clinch

Timer: Manuel Glaze

Gramarrian / Ah Counter: Allan Daniels

Awards:

Best Table Topic Speaker: John Lensgraf
Best Evaluator: Tim Stowell
Best Speaker: Janet Schreibman

Used the Word of the Day:

John Richmond
Allan Daniels
Tim Stowell
Janet Schreibman
Geoff Lewie
Dasie Schulz

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters
Meeting Notes
for
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Toastmaster for the evening: Brian Clinch

Opening:
Sergeant at Arms, Manuel Glaze, opened the meeting and lead the club in the Pledge of Allegiance.

President, Suzanne Harrison, read the club mission and welcomed all in attendance. She also made the following annoucement before introducing Brian Clinch as Toastmaster for the evening:

"Thank you Mike Costa, who placed 3^rd in International Speech, and Manuel Glaze, who placed 2^nd in Table Topics for Area 40! Brentwood Evening Toastmasters was well represented at the contest."

Word of the Day: Michael Moryc

Ebullient - bubbling over with joy, bubbling or boiling liquid

Humorist: Allan Daniels

Table Topics Master: Dasie Schulz

Table Topics Speaker #1: Skip Malone
Table Topics Speaker #2: John Richardson
Table Topics Speaker #3: Suzanne Harrison
Table Topics Speaker #4: Guest, Pam

Prepared Speeches:

Speaker #1: Emily delivered her "Ice Breaker"

Speaker #2: Manuel Glaze delivered speech #9 from the Competent Communicator manual - "Four Steps"

Speaker #3: Don Kovach delivered speech #8 from the Competent Communicator manual - "Baseball 101"

Evaluations:

General Evaluator - Susan Martin

Evaluator #1: Yolanda Poppell
Evaluator #2: Donna Brown

Evaluator #3: Geoff Lewie

Ah Counter/Grammarian ~ Jane Schreibman

Timer ~ Rachel Sumner

AWARDS

Best Table Topic Speaker - John Richardson

Best Evaluator - Yolanda Poppell

Best Speaker - Emily


The following members used the WORD OF THE DAY (Ebulliant):

Allan Daniels
Rachel Sumner
Yolanda Poppell
Janet Schreibman
Susan Martin
Emily

I hope I didn't miss anyone. Good job!

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters
Meeting Notes
for
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Toastmaster for the evening: Michael Moryc

Opening:
Sergeant at Arms, Manuel Glaze, opened the meeting and lead the club in the Pledge of Allegiance.

VP Education, Rachel Sumner, stood in for President, Suzanne Harrison.

Word of the Day: Susan Martin

Kudos - honor, glory, or acclaim

Humorist: Yolanda Poppell

Table Topics Master: Donna Brown

Prepared Speeches:

Speaker #1: Muhammad Sabir
Speaker #2: Yolanda Poppell

Evaluations:

General Evaluator - John Richardson

Evaluator #1: Manuel Glaze
Evaluator #2: Rachel Sumner

Ah Counter/Grammarian ~ Dasie Schulz

AWARDS

Best Table Topic Speaker - Don Kovach

Best Evaluator - Manuel Glaze

Best Speaker - Muhammad Sabir


The following members used the WORD OF THE DAY (Kudos):

Michael Moryc
John Richardson

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