Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Club 5908 ~ District 53
November 5, 2013
“Go Big or Go Home”
Attendees: members
attended: Bo Bogart, Micheal Brillas,
Robert Dalo, Miroslav Grajewski, Cheryl Mason DTM, Phil Mason CC, Donald
Ostertag, Sheetal Patel, Hollie Rose
CC, Crystal Storo CC, CL, Heather Turner ACS,
Andrew Watt and Carmen Jenkins.
Guest: John
Hart
Business
Meeting:
The meeting was called to
order by Donald Ostertag. New name tags
were distributed to all members. President Crystal Storo CC, CL had all the club
members introduce themselves and tell how long they’ve been members of Cromwell
Community Toastmasters. Crystal went over the Distinguished Club
Program goals. Cheryl Mason DTM was presented with her 7th (WOW) CC
award. Congratulations Cheryl! John Hart told the club his reason for coming
to Toastmasters and shared with us that he is joining tonight
.
Meeting Roles:
Toastmaster: Hollie Rose CC
Invocation: John Hart - Toastmaster Mission Statement.
Word Master: Micheal Brillas
Word - of - the - Day: Ubiquitous – to be found
everywhere
Table Topics Master: Cheryl
Mason DTM
Theme: Cheryl‘s
questions came from a special deck of cards designed for asking Table Topics
questions. Phil told us of his dream
house. He builds houses and has seen all
sizes and styles but his ideal would be on the Connecticut
River. It would have a boat
house underneath filled with high powered boats. When asked where, out of any place in the
world he would like to spend New Year’s Eve Miroslav told us about last New
Year’s Eve in Quebec City. He described the big blizzard and all the
snow and thought maybe this year warm sunny Florida would be a good choice. The holiday that Micheal would like to
celebrate every six months is the 4th of July. Simply put, he likes to blow things up. An
exciting new ride at Disney that Rob would like to create had the rider getting
a sensational manicure while riding past ubiquitous displays of shoes and
having ghost shoes appear on their feet. When asked how he cheers himself up
when having a bad day, John told us he is fortunate to have an office door, he
closes that door and plays music and/or games.
Don shared that his ideal high temperature would be 75 degrees but
thinks his wife would prefer 45 to 50 degrees.
Speaker # 1: Crystal Storo CC
Manual/Project: Educational Leadership Series/Project 6 Building
a Team
Title:
Team Spirit!
Crystal defined team and differentiated between leaders and
managers; leaders motivate and managers coordinate. She told us why teams are
important and described some factors in building a team - being genuine,
including everyone, and open communication.
Team building is important for moral, “Nothing great was ever achieved
without motivation.” Crystal hung up three foot wide sticky note
showing the composition of TEAM –Together Everyone Achieves More.
Speaker
# 2: Andrew Watt
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator/Project 4 How to Say It
Title: Why I
Love Sewing
Teaching at a school where
children can design and construct things to learn how the world works, Andrew
noticed that mostly boys signed up for certain courses. Wanting to know how to get more of the girls
involved he paid attention to what interested them and he decided to learn to
sew. After taking some lessons he constructed a lunch bag and pencil case. He now has a 3:1 ratio of girls to boys in
his sewing group. As satisfying as that
is he has also made his own Hallowe’en and Renaissance Fair Costumes and finds,
to his surprise, that he loves sewing.
Speaker
# 3: Sheetal
Patel
Manual/Project: Competent
Communicator/Project 7 Research Your
Topic
Title: Corporate Social Responsibility
Outsourcing and globalization
started growing in the 1970’s; factories are ubiquitous in China and the United States. Sheetal spoke of problems caused by
outsourcing including slavery, transit and pollution. She spoke of social, health
and environmental auditing. After
listing four reasons for Corporate Social Responsibility she stated there are now
7.125 billion people on this planet and everyone has a stake in Corporate
Social Responsibility.
General
Evaluator: Heather
Turner ACS
Evaluator # 1: Rob Dalo
Evaluator # 2: Phil Mason
Evaluator # 3: Bo Bogart
Functionary Reports:
Ah Counter: Miroslav Grajewski
Grammarian: Andrew Watt
Timer: Don Ostertag
In
closing Crystal
thanked everyone for coming. John said
he enjoyed the meeting and filled out a member application. It was another great meeting! Now is the perfect time to sign up for roles
for our next meeting.
Next meeting: December 3, 2013.
Respectfully
submitted by
Bo Bogart, Secretary
[Posted by Hollie Rose CC - VPPR]
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