Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Club 5908 ~ District 53
Tues, June 2 2015
Attendees: Don Ostertag, Jen Bourne, Phil Mason, Bill
Sullivan, Danielle Payne, Micheal Brillas, Hollie Rose, Jeevan Kale
Guests: Peter, Mirabel, Bill
Business
Meeting
Don Ostertag called the meeting to
order and thanked President Phil Mason for his assistance is setting up
tonight. There have been some changes
in the next Toastmasters year, putting us in area D in the coming year. Officer trainings coming up starting in
July: July 11 Hamden, August 8
Manchester. Elections will be put off
until next week since Crystal is not in attendance this week. VPE Bill discussed DCP progress, we already
have 7 of 10 and will have 8 of 10 next week.
One new member needed.
Toastmaster Phil Mason
Invocation Don Ostertag I’ve learned that
“fair” blinds your vision. Believe in
your value and self-worth. Transform
“fair” into “freedom”.
Table Topics Bill Sullivan
- [Don] What
can you do today that you weren’t capable of a year ago? One
of these is being up here talking off the cuff. Also I was in charge of conducting
detachment meeting for Marine Corp League.
- [Danielle] What
gets you excited about life? Teaching Math. Nothing is more exciting that taking a
kid from bombing their last quiz or test and tutoring them until they
don’t have to repeat the grade. I
love helping people.
- [Hollie] Would you ever give up your life to
save someone else? I’m going
to completely ignore the questions and go with what excites me about
life. I had a conversation with
someone who thought I dislike CT.
It’s not that I hate CT; it’s that what excites me in life is
seeing new vistas, doing new things.
What excites me is the newness of every day – if you can find it.
- [Jeevan]
What makes you lose track of time? At work struggling to come up with some
solution to a problem. Many times
I’ve missed some meetings getting the solution to the problem. Also, when I’m diving, I just want to
drive and not stop – so I also lose track of the time driving without a
destination to go to. Sometimes
an hour or more will go by.
- [Mirabel] What gets you excited about life? I have 3 children. Also every Saturday. I also read, write, and enjoy
poetry. I have a grandson who just
turned 5 and I hope he learns to
speak another language.
Speaker # 1: Jen Bourne 8:01
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator, #8 Visual Aids
Title:
Get Real!
Jen shared some local places to
camp and hike that look a bit exotic and handed out some Middletown outdoor
options for the club members to explore.
Speaker # 2: John Ansell
6:32
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator #1, Ice Breaker
Title: The Interesting Life of John
Originally I come from Mn, from a
small town in the Southwest. It’s a
town that you can see farm fields everywhere.
I have siblings who live in other places in the Midwest . I played tuba in marching band, played
sports, and acted in various school plays.
Things became interesting after graduation from High School. I went on two different paths as the same
time. Joined the Army reserves and
accepted to U Mn. In S Carolina I did
basic training and then advance training as a Chaplin’s assistant. I came back to university and attended to
my studies for 3 years. In that 3rd
year I was offered a proposal to be deployed to the Middle East. I accepted the deployment in 2006 to
Iraq. It was a time of Civil War and
unrest in that place at that time. I
came home and got my Bachelors in 2009.
As luck would have it the recession was in full bloom. I was deployed again to the Middle
East. This tour really encouraged me to
go into Ministry. I was accepted in the
Lutheran seminary in St Paul. I am
currently in my year of assignment to Cromwell for seminary school.
Speaker # 2: Jeevan Kale 7:48
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator #2
Title: Managing Projects
Some projects go well and some are
failures, you may have a process for your projects or you may not. It’s something that you can use a
methodology – at least you know what you are going to do. There are different models. I follow the PMI module because it has
certification that is globally recognized.
Important to define a project: A
temporary endeavor which is intends to achieve a goal, result, product or
service. A unique effort. There are 5 phases: Initiation, planning,
executing, controlling and monitoring, closing.
One example for initiation: you
want to paint your living room. It
starts because of a need, want, or any other goal. In Planning you plan what
exactly you want to paint; one color or two colors, what walls. How big is the living room, how much paint do
you need, what kind of brushes do you need.
All those things are taken care of in planning. Decide paint the walls only, not the ceiling
– the ceiling is “out of scope”.
Exciting – is simply doing the painting. Controlling and Monitor: Did I get it done
in the week I wanted to or was there something that got in the way. Closing: clean the room, put the paint away,
put the furniture back.
Evaluator # 1: Michael
Brillas
The speech was well done but a little at first a
little metaphysical. The lack of ability
to change the slides took away from message.
Excellent ability with body language e.g. turning around at the fire and
that helped bring things together. The
pictures were well done as well. And
supported the point of people fixating on the indoors and not getting out in
the real world.
Evaluator # 2: Bill Sullivan
John’s first speech, he has a great baritone voice
with wonderful projection. Before you
move come up and get grounded – become part of the floor and then move.
You did that well but then didn’t move so much. It was interesting but not as engaging as it could have been. Tell us some stories about your interaction
with your brothers, why you decided to become a Chaplin.
Evaluator # 3: Phil Mason
A lot of kudos for getting up here and doing it even
through you weren’t felling fully
prepared. I was great to hear
about you and your PMI certification and it was clear from how well structured
your topics was. You seemed comfortable
but not too comfortable. Sometime you
are hard to understand because you are a little quiet. For a partially prepared speech this was
great – can’t wait to hear you speak again.
Officials’ Reports:
WordMaster: Phil Mason Prodigious, marvelous or enormous. Bill 1
Timer: Hollie
Rose times
given, see above
Grammarian: Peter (Guest) Jen: end
a lot of sentences with prepositions.
John: repeated phrases, keep an eye on that, use more variety of
words Jeevan: used same words, look for more variety
Ah Counter: Danielle Payne TT Don 1 Jen
3 John 1 Jeevan 1
General
Evaluator: Phil Mason
Officers
pay attention to training meetings. All - never apologize for anything when you’re on the speaking stage. Bill: First and lasts. First speech John, First evaluation
Micheal, 10th speech Jen
Congratulations on getting your CC Jen Bourne!
Congratulations on getting your CC Jen Bourne!
In closing:
Next meeting: June 2, 2014
Respectfully
submitted by
Jennifer Bourne, Secretary
[Posted by Hollie Rose CC, CL]
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