Meeting Minutes
Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Club 5908 ~ District 53
June 18, 2013
Attendees: Twelve members attended: Tom Alvord, Bo
Bogart Linda Campbell, Rob Dalo, Asha Gangina, Charlie
Hubert, Elizabeth Landeen, Phil Mason, Hollie Rose, Crystal
Storo, Brian Terry, Carolyn Warner
Business
Meeting:
The meeting was called to order by Charlie
Hubert. Rob announced that this would be his last meeting serving as
president and how great the experience has been for him. Crystal
conducted the business meeting offering handouts delineating the following
key points: 1) Rachel Mele ACB of the Wallingford Eagle Toastmasters will be
speaking at the Wallingford Public Access Association this Friday 6/21 at 7 pm.
Rachel will be giving a speech on Toastmasters followed by a Q & A session.
Crystal Storo CC, CL will be conducting the interview. The show will be video
captured and broadcast on Comcast Xfinity 18, AT&T Uverse 99 and on the
public internet. We will be going to dinner afterwards at the Old Dublin in
Wallingford. All are invited to come, show support and join us for dinner; 2).
TLI - Toastmasters Leadership Institute - Education for all to attend, need 4 of
the new officers to attend. Crystal, Elizabeth, Hollie, Sheetal, and Bo have all
registered for Aug 10th. Register at: http://d53tli2013.eventbrite.com/#
Dates are: June22 - Schenectady, NY, July 13 - Hamden, CT, August 3 - Division A
- TBA, August 10 - Manchester, CT; 3). Cromwell Toastmasters is now part of the
new Area 32. Starting July 1st our new Area Governor will be Nathan Jaycox from
the Energy Club. Area 32 includes Farmington Toastmasters, SBD Power
Speakers in New Britain, Energy Toastmasters, CCAT, Middlesex County
Toastmasters and Cromwell Community Toastmasters. The attendance is free
and there will also be free food
provided.
Rob presented Linda with a 'Half
CC Educational Achievement Certificate' and Hollie took a pictures.
Rob further offered a shout out to Hollie
for her help with the pictures on our
website.
Meeting
Roles:
Toastmaster: Crystal Storo
CC, CL
Crystal thanked us for coming and encouraged
us all to bring guests to the meetings. She thanked Phil for challenging us with
the humorous pictures in tonight's Table
Topics.
Invocation: Elizabeth
Landeen
Elizabeth seconded Rob's theme for this
year, " be a player; don't just sit in the stands" citing " go big or go
home" as her personal theme and advised each of us to think of a
personal theme for the year both for Toastmasters and life in
general.
Word Master: Tom Alvord
ACB, ALB
Word - of -
the - Day: Rhetoric - noun - meaning the art of effective or
persuasive speech or writing especially figures of speech and composition
techniques; more recent usage as language designed to have an impressive effect
on the audience but lacking in sincerity or meaningful content. Example: "
All we hear..... is empty rhetoric."
Table Topics Master: Phil
Mason CC
Theme: Elaborating on humorous
pictures
1. Charlie Hubert: Charlie said his
picture reminded him of a 'gear head', a farmer of mechanical things, a cool guy
and wondered how the truck got up in the tree and how they would get it
out.
2. Brian Terry: Brian related how a friend
of his was looking for a parking spot near a building and noted the car in the
picture was positioned so the person could get out of the driver's side and that
a motorcycle driver in the background is trying to figure out what to do. He
further said it's interesting what people will do to get a close parking
spot.
3. Linda Campbell: Linda recalled a recent
incident where a deer standing on the road suddenly charged her after she
clapped her hands in an effort to save the deer from being hit by a car and
further related that the man on the motorcycle may have stopped quickly and the
goat chasing him just hopped onboard or he might just have an interesting
friendship with a goat.
4. Rob Dalo: Seeing a dog dressed in an
airplane, Rob mentioned that people are always dressing their pets up in crazy
costumes and how his daughters used to dress up their two cats. He said the
cats are being tortured as they tortured him with their antics especially
in the middle of the night and tonight he will pull out those
costumes.
5. Asha Gangina: Seeing a young boy looking
at an empty wine bottle that he thought he would enjoy, Asha said it
reminded her of her daughter putting everything in the trash
can.
6. Carolyn Warner: Carolyn related how she
and her boyfriend go on hikes to get into shape and take their dog Joy
along with them to Sleeping Giant and Ragged Mountain. She mentioned the
way the woman in the picture was carrying her dog is giving her motivation to
take her dog on a walk to the beach.
Prepared Speeches:
Speaker # 1: Bo
Bogart
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator/ #
1.- Icebreaker
Title: Thank Goodness for Our
Friends
Speaker # 2: Tom
Alvord
Manual/Project: Competent
Communicator
Title: Aristotle and
Toastmasters
Speaker # 3: Hollie
Rose
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator/ #6.
- Vocal Variety
Title: Diaries and
Journals
Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Incoming Officers (beginning July
2013):
President: Crystal Storo CC,
CL
Sergeant at Arms: Charlie
Hubert
Treasurer: Brian
Fleming
Secretary: Bo
Bogart
VP Public Relations: Hollie
Rose
VP Education: Elizabeth
Landeen
VP Membership: Sheetal
Patel
General Evaluator:
Elizabeth Landeen
Elizabeth thanked Charlie for getting
everything ready for the meeting, and said, " even in the pouring rain, the
signs were out", mentioned how creative the Table Topics pictures were and
thanked Phil for such a great idea, said that the interruption during the
meeting didn't bother us, explained how much we all learn via the speeches,
thanked Hollie for pushing through and giving an alternate speech, noted with
specific examples how
effective tonight's evaluators were and proposed that
we use the round robin technique for evaluation again as it proved very
helpful to us all. Elizabeth advised that the round robin evaluation
idea could be suggested to the new
officers.
Evaluator # 1: Charlie
Hubert
Evaluator # 2: All
participated using Round Robin technique/ Asha Gangina ( written
evaluation)
Evaluator # 3: Rob
Dalo
Functionary
Reports:
Ah Counter: Brian
Terry
Grammarian: Linda
Campbell
Timer: Carolyn
Warner
Closing: Rob Dalo and
Crystal Storo
Asha Gangina informed us that she won't be
able to attend meetings for the next six months as she will
be moving to Fort Worth, TX for a new job. She thanked everyone for
supporting and helping her and for the friendly environment provided by the
Cromwell Community Toastmasters club. We wish her all the best and hope she'll
keep in touch with us.
Rob congratulated Bo on her Icebreaker
speech and presented her with Icebreaker mints and
a ribbon. Crystal and Rob further
presented each outgoing officer with a certificate and Toastmaster key chain with his or her office engraved on one
side and the Toastmaster International logo on the other. Crystal
presented Rob with a beautiful club president award and said " ...you
stepped up to the plate...have grown tremendously...providing outstanding
dedication and leadership..." Hollie took a photo of Crystal and Rob holding the
club president award. Crystal further gave each incoming officer
a Club Leadership Handbook, and Elizabeth (VPE) several additional manuals
and our new DCP chart and introduced a chart to track
everybody's progress ( CC, Advanced Communicator Awards and CL). She recommended that we think about our goals for the next year
Rob reiterated what a successful year
it had been and how much he enjoyed being our president. He also noted that the
VPE "really runs the club" and that Crystal has lead
it "with vigor and passion". He told Crystal that " you made me look
good" and thanked her for her "effort, hard work, and dedication". Rob presented
Crystal with a 'pair of shoes in a box' for Designer Shoe Warehouse, thanking
her for " the passion you bring to the club". Rob ended the meeting with his
comment that we could either " sit in the stands or be out on the court....all
the fun happens on the court."
Reminder: Crystal asked us to please
use the box at the bottom of the agenda page on our website
if unable to attend the next meeting.
Next
meeting: July 2, 2013
Respectfully submitted
by
Linda Campbell,
Secretary
Uploaded by Hollie Rose.
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