Friday, January 22, 2016

Meeting Minutes - January 21

Our club officers met prior to the regular meeting to discuss Cedar Hill Toastmasters open house event scheduled for February 17 at Lucy Robbins Welles Library in Newington. Joyce will be sending an email to the members with a blurb on how to advertise this event on the social media. 

Larry was the Toastmaster of the evening making sure that the meeting ran smoothly. Anna brought some humor with the Joke of the Day. Then, Joyce presented the Word - "kvell". Members seem to like this word and they came up with ideas on how to use the word throughout the meeting. 

We had three speakers last night. First, Joel shared his stories from the latest trip to Cuba and provided some helpful traveling tip. John, as a second speaker, presented an impromptu speech on accepting his role as a President of Cedar Hill Toastmasters. Finally, Elizabeth delivered a folk tale "The Ugly Duckling", a project from the Storytelling advanced manual. 

Elizabeth was also the Table Topics Master. Table Topics participants were asked to select an item from the box full of items and tell everyone a story associated with this item. Among the items picked were - TV remote control, teddy bear, paint samples etc. 

Kevin served as a General Evaluator. Eliot evaluated Joel's speech, Joyce evaluated John and Paul evaluated Elizabeth's speech. Veronika served a Timer for the first time and did a great job tracking time requirements for the speaking assignments. As a Grammarian, Anna provided members with some feedback and suggestions. 

John addressed the club' s business on a couple of issues. Also, he reminded all members about the mentoring program available at our club. Then, Paul took the roles for the next meeting on February 4.

Respectfully submitted, 

Martha Danielewicz 
Secretary 
Cedar Hill Toastmasters

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