Cromwell Community
Toastmasters
3/4/2014
Theme: No Supplies
Opening: Charlie Hubert promptly opened the meeting at
5:30. For an invocation Charlie read the
Toastmasters mission and announced that we were going to run the meeting
without supplies. As Toastmasters we are
put in positions where we have to improvise with what we have. Charlie then introduced the Immediate Past
President Rob Dalo to run the Business part of the meeting.
Business Items: Rob welcomed the group and announced that the
next meeting will be the Toastmasters Spring contest. Rob introduced Tom to review for the group
the speech contest and give his personal contest experience. The speech contest will contain two
segments the International Contest as well as Tall Tales. Rob then challenged the group to “get out of
the stands” and “get into the game”.
Currently 5 individuals volunteered to speak at the contest, more
volunteers are needed.
During the meeting Rob introduced the 2 guests in attendance
Gaurav and Gloria, this was Gloria’s first meeting and Gaurav expressed
interest in joining.
Rob then promptly introduced Brian Terry as Toastmaster of
the Evening.
General Meeting: Brian introduced the functionaries who gave a
brief review of their roles. John –
Timer, Donald – ah counter, Charlie – Grammarian and the word of the day
ebullience – extreme enthusiasm – was introduced by Carmen.
Table Topics: Brian
introduced Andrew as Table Topics Master who used thought challenging questions
from Brian Eno, English musician and composer.
Andrew had the audience pull questions from a pile of index cards.
1. Do something boring? Mirslov (43 sec)
2. Is
something missing? John (40 sec)
3. Move
toward the unimportant? Heather (40
sec)
4. Humanize
something free of error? Gaurav (38
sec)
5. Your
mistake was a hidden intention? Carmen
(20 sec)
6. Only
one element of each kind? Rob (1:13)
7. Revaluation
a warm feeling? Robino (42 sec)
Speeches: Brain Terry
introduced the 4 speakers.
1.
Elizabeth Landeen: Your Body Speaks, All In or Fold - 6:30
2.
Sheetal Patel:
Persuade With Power, Skip the Bottled Water - 7:00
3.
Heather Turner:
The Persuasive Approach, The Importance of Networking for Business- 7:38
4.
Andrew Watt:
Vocal Variety, How I learned to Cook…Really Cook - 7:30
Evaluations: Brian
Terry introduced Heather Turner as General Evaluator who introduced the night’s
evaluators.
1.
Carmen
Jenkins - 1:00
2.
Bill Sullivan – 3:45
3.
Andrew Watt – 3:45
4.
Robin Thompson – 2:15
After the evaluations Heather asked for reports from the
meeting functionaries. She recapped the
meeting and offered feedback to the group.
The meeting was handed over to Rob Dalo who asked for feedback from the
guests in attendance, Gaurav said I’m want to join! and Gloria said It was
great learning about Networking in the speech given by Heather.
The meeting adjourned at 7:15
Respectfully Submitted by William Sullivan
[posted by Hollie Rose CC, VPPR]
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