BET Meeting Minutes

January 11, 2022

Presiding Officer:

Susan Martin

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Susan Martin

Toastmaster: Susan Martin

Theme:  "Snow"

 

Word of the Day: Chaka Jackson

Paradigm, noun - way of looking at something; set of ideas

Humorist:  Emily Thompson

 

Table Topics: Mike Costa

Table Topic Speakers:

1) Emily Thompson - 2:15

2) Jason Cook - 1:43

3) Dan Kalau - 1:26

4) LouAnn Clark - 1:21

5) Slip Malone - 2:51

6) Greg Taylor - 1:29

 

Speaker(s):

1) Darryl Pace - "Do Something" (requested 5-7 min)  6:48

 

General Evaluator: Susan Martin

Evaluator(s):

1) LouAnn Clark - 3:12

Timer: Bill Martin

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Emily Thompson

 

Club Business:

• Minutes from Dec. 14 meeting approved

 

Members Present: Janet, LouAnn, Susan, Chaka

Virtual Attendees: Emily, Mike, Skip, Dan, Jason

Guests:  Bill Martin, Greg Taylor, Jason Cook

Word Users: Susan, Skip, Emily, LouAnn, Bill, Mike, Janet, Dan

 

BET Meeting Minutes

December 14, 2021

Presiding Officer:

Susan Martin

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Janet Schreibman

Toastmaster: Darryl Pace

Theme: End of Year Activities/Traditions

 

Word of the Day: LouAnn Clark

Bustle: noun or verb -- move with a great deal of energy; to abound or teem with activity

Humorist:  LouAnn Clark

 

Table Topics: Emily Thompson

Table Topic Speakers:

1) LouAnn Clark - 1:21

2) Mike Costa - 1:28

3) Susan Martin - 1:37

4) Janet Schreibman - 2:16

5) Chaka Jackson - 1:10

Speaker(s):

1) Skip Malone - "It Happened Saturday Morning" (requested 6-8 min)  8:23

 

General Evaluator: Susan Martin

Evaluator(s):

1) Mike Costa - 3:18

Timer: Bill Martin

Ah Counter/Grammarian: LouAnn Clark

 

Club Business:

• Minutes from Nov. 30 meeting approved

 

Members Present: Janet, Emily, LouAnn, Susan, Mike, Skip, Marc

Virtual Attendees:  Darryl

Guests:  Bill Martin, Chaka Jackson, Joe

Word Users: Susan, Skip, Emily, LouAnn, Bill, Janet

 

BET Meeting Minutes

November 30, 2021

Presiding Officer:

Susan Martin

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Opener:  Susan Martin

Toastmaster: Susan Martin

Word of the Day: Emily Thompson

Perspective - point of view

Humorist:  Emily Thompson

Table Topics: none due to short notice/short speech challenge

 

Table Topic Speakers: see below #2 below

Speaker(s):

1) Jason Cook - (requested 5-7 min) 6:46

2) Susan Martin - provided guidelines & challenged attendees to present a 3-5 min. speech using theme "Celebrate" in lieu of Table Topics

Emily Thompson - 5:19

LouAnn Clark - 5:42

Janet Schreibman - 5:02

Darryl Pace - 3:46

Chaka (guest) - 2:55

 

General Evaluator: Janet Schreibman

Evaluator(s):

1) LouAnn Clark - 3:00

2) no evaluators needed for impromptu short speech challenge

 

Timer: Bill Martin

Ah Counter/Grammarian: Emily Thompson

 

Club Business:

• TLI to be held Saturday, Dec. 11 at 9am. Need 4 officers to attend.
• Minutes from Nov. 9 meeting approved with addition of adding LouAnn as Table Topics Master

Members Present: Janet, Emily, LouAnn, Susan, Darryl

Virtual Attendees:  Skip, Marc

Guests:  Bill Martin, Chaka Jackson, Ilka Chavez, Ally (virtual), Julia (virtual)

Word Users: Susan