The last meeting of the calendar year was well attended and lots of fun with a variety of speeches, table topics, and evaluation reports! Our Toastmaster, Bill, kept the meeting moving and on track while bringing lots of energy and enthusiasm to the meeting.
Members Present: Tom Alvord. Phil Mason, Cheryl Mason, William Sullivan, Charlie Hubert, Heather Turner, Brian Conte, Murugan Pachaiyappan, Ethel Peltz, Joe Lenart
Members Present: Tom Alvord. Phil Mason, Cheryl Mason, William Sullivan, Charlie Hubert, Heather Turner, Brian Conte, Murugan Pachaiyappan, Ethel Peltz, Joe Lenart
Guests Present: Joe, John Lecornec, Akshay Dhote
John & Akshay completed membership applications and joined as new members! Welcome!
Meeting Roles
Toastmaster: Bill Sullivan
Invocation: Heather Turner
Word Master: Murugan Pachaiyappan
Timer: Phillip Mason
Grammarian: Brian Conte
Ah Counter: Brian Conte
Table Topics Master: Heather Turner
Speaker 1: Heather Turner
Speaker 2: Ethel Peltz
Speaker 3: Tom Alvord
General Evaluator: Cheryl Mason
Evaluator 1: Charlie Hubert
Evaluator 2: Cheryl Mason
Evaluator 3: Round Robin led by Bill Sullivan
Business Portion
Our VPM Bill Sullivan welcomed club members and guests. Upcoming events:
Ø January 20th, 2011 Cromwell Community Toastmasters & Middlesex Toastmasters are joining together for a Speech-a-thon at the Cromwell Town Hall (7pm to 9pm). All members are encouraged to sign up for available roles and make use of this opportunity to get closer to completing their TM goals. Bill will be the Toastmaster and is helping to organize the agenda.
Table Topics
We had a unique table topics session which was guided Heather Turner. She enthusiastically volunteered to fill in when help was needed! Topics included clever play-by-play narration of baseball game highlights with role-play by Bill & Phil, and other topics which included our guests as willing participants!
Education Portion
Speaker #1 Heather Turner
Speech Number: 2
Speech Length: 5 – 7 minutes
Manual: Competent Communicator
Objective: Organize Your Speech
Title: The Elephant in the closet, or dyslexia and should one wear a big red D?
Heather shared stories and experiences about dealing with dyslexia, and inspired the audience with this speech!
Speaker #2 Ethel Peltz
Speech Number: 4
Speech Length: 5 – 7 minutes
Manual: Competent Communicator
Objective: Get to The Point
Title: Trip to Stowe, VT
Ethel shared many interesting facts about the early endeavors of Ben & Jerry, the founders of the famous ice cream company, She left everyone wanting to hear more!
Speaker #3 Tom Alvord
Speech Number: 1
Speech Length: 4 – 6 minutes
Manual: Competent Communicator
Objective: The Ice Breaker
Title: Paint
Tom shared a story from his childhood about painting, and left us with a very inspirational message about exploring our potential talents and not giving up!
Evaluation Portion
Cheryl led the Evaluation portion of the meeting as General Evaluator.
Speech Evaluators provided feedback to each of the speakers:
Evaluator 1: Charlie Hubert
Evaluator 2: Cheryl Mason
Evaluator 3: Bill Sullivan led a timed round-robin evaluation segment for Tom, where each member of the audience provided feedback about Tom’s speech. Members and guests all participated!
Each of the technicians provided their reports:
Word Master: Murugan Pachaiyappan
Timer: Phillip Mason
Grammarian: Brian Conte
Ah Counter: Brian Conte
Closing
Bill asked each of the guests for their feedback of the meeting. Feedback was very positive feedback; John Lecornec and Akshay Dhote completed membership applications and joined as a new members!
Meeting was adjourned approximately 6:40 p.m.
