Meeting Minutes - February 18

What a great meeting we had last night! It is important to mention the great attendance and the fact that two guests came to the meeting. The cold weather did not scare anyone away from participating in a fun and educational meeting at Cedar Hill Toastmasters. 

Paul, Sergeant of Arms was also the Toastmaster of the evening. Lyn made everyone laugh with her trivia humor questions. Next, Paul introduced the word "frangible". 

In the speaking portion of the meeting, two Icebreaker speeches were presented by the new members. First, Katie spoke about her life experiences and how they had helped her realize that she wanted to live a life of no regrets. Then, Nikki presented the evidence that humans have a tendency to assign meaning to events in life thus often creating negative events in their minds that actually never happen. In addition, Paula presented a speech on her High Performance Leadership project. We learned about Paula's efforts to help Cedar Hill Toastmasters earn the Distinguished club recognition during the time when she was the club President. Paula shared the experiences and challenges she had encountered while working on this goal. 

Eliot put together the Table Topics questions by selecting a Toastmaster theme. The topics ranged in the level of difficulty, but all participants managed very well in their impromptu speaking roles. 

Evaluators, Timer and Grammarian provided some helpful feedback to all speakers. Larry evaluated Katie's speech, John evaluated Nikki's speech and Anna evaluated Paula's speech. Kevin presented the Timer's report and Joyce provided a thorough Grammarian report. Martha, as a General Evaluator wrapped up the evaluation portion of the meeting. 

John addressed a couple of club business topics. First, he announced that the Spring Speech contest at Cedar Hill will take place on March 17. The contestants will compete in two categories - Tale Tales and International speech. Next, John reminded of the mentor program offered by the club to all members. 

Paula took roles for the next meeting, which will take place on March 3.

Respectfully submitted, 

Martha Danielewicz

Cedar Hill Toastmasters

Secretary