Cedar Hill Toastmasters rock! We had 21 people in attendance at this meeting, including several guests.
Our Sergeant at Arms, Paul, began the meeting with a short introduction and gave the floor to Larry, the Toastmaster of the evening. Since there was a considerable number of guests, Larry explained all the roles throughout the meeting. Mohamed gave the word of the day "cajole." Several speakers met the challenge by using the word. Joanna delivered not only one but three jokes and she got everyone laughing.
We had three speakers - Elizabeth, Joyce and Joel. Elizabeth gave a speech entitled "Family Ties" from the Entertaining Speaker manual as she spoke about her life situations, often funny but true, which helped her to strengthen the bond with her son. Next, Joyce delivered a speech from Communicating on Television manual. Her speech "To Toastmasters Clubs of America" was an invitation to use filming of Toastmasters meetings to help members improve their presentation skills. The final speech was Joel's travelogue of his latest trip to two notable tourists spots - Milan, Italy and Barcelona, Spain.
Eliot as a Table Topics Master announced a summer theme for the table topics session. The participants were given a subtopic and their challenge was to create a question within this subcategory and then answer it.
Lyn as General Evaluator led the Evaluation portion of the meeting. Martha evaluated Elizabeth's speech and John evaluated Joyce's speech. Ramon delivered the Timer's report and Kevin was the Grammarian.
Larry concluded the meeting by getting some feedback from the guests and then turned the meeting to John, our club President. John reminded about the mentoring program available to all the members. Also, he expressed his gratitude to the club for serving the role of Cedar Hill club President during this Toastmaster year.
Paula took the roles for the next meeting to be held on Thursday, July 7.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha Danielewicz
Secretary
Cedar Hill Toastmasters
Friday, June 17, 2016
Friday, June 3, 2016
Meeting Minutes - June 2
Another great night at Cedar Hill filled with learning and laughter! There was one guest in attendance that evening.
The meeting was started by Paul, Sergeant at Arms, who commented on the weather and asked the audience for some gardening tips to grow the zebra grass.
Elizabeth served the role of Toastmaster of the evening. Throughout the evening, she shared the tips she had learned from the featured speakers at the recent Toastmaster District 53 Spring Conference.
Ramon presented the word of the day - "diction". Then, Paul, as a Joke Master entertained the audience with a couple of jokes.
The prepared speeches were presented by Mohamed and Martha. Mohamed gave the Icebreaker speech about his childhood adventures in Sudan and later moved on to talk about his career choices that had challenged his communication skills. Martha presented a roast speech from the Special Occasions Speeches manual, a roast of our club member Joyce, filled with some good natured humor.
Lyn led a creative and challenging Table Topic session. Each participant was tasked with creating a weather report to the undisclosed audience (only known to the Table Topic Master and the speaker). This task triggered a lot of laughs and the participants did their best to deliver an interesting weather forecast reports.
Eliot was the General Evaluator, who was assisted by Kevin as Grammarian, Larry as Timer and two speech evaluators. Joyce evaluated Mohamed's speech and John evaluated Martha's speech.
Elizabeth concluded with the thought from the Toastmaster conference about the importance of having a mentor in any undertaking and especially in Toastmasters. Next, John reinforced this thought by mentioning the mentoring program at the Cedar Hill Toastmasters.
With the upcoming new Toastmaster year, the idea of voting in on the slate of new officers was brought up to John's attention. He called on Secretary to read the proposed slate of new officers. Since there were no other nominations from the floor, the voting took place and as a result the nominated officers were unanimously voted in for the new year starting July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.
Before concluding the meeting, John took roles for the next meeting scheduled for June 16.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha Danielewicz
Secretary
Cedar Hill Toastmasters
The meeting was started by Paul, Sergeant at Arms, who commented on the weather and asked the audience for some gardening tips to grow the zebra grass.
Elizabeth served the role of Toastmaster of the evening. Throughout the evening, she shared the tips she had learned from the featured speakers at the recent Toastmaster District 53 Spring Conference.
Ramon presented the word of the day - "diction". Then, Paul, as a Joke Master entertained the audience with a couple of jokes.
The prepared speeches were presented by Mohamed and Martha. Mohamed gave the Icebreaker speech about his childhood adventures in Sudan and later moved on to talk about his career choices that had challenged his communication skills. Martha presented a roast speech from the Special Occasions Speeches manual, a roast of our club member Joyce, filled with some good natured humor.
Lyn led a creative and challenging Table Topic session. Each participant was tasked with creating a weather report to the undisclosed audience (only known to the Table Topic Master and the speaker). This task triggered a lot of laughs and the participants did their best to deliver an interesting weather forecast reports.
Eliot was the General Evaluator, who was assisted by Kevin as Grammarian, Larry as Timer and two speech evaluators. Joyce evaluated Mohamed's speech and John evaluated Martha's speech.
Elizabeth concluded with the thought from the Toastmaster conference about the importance of having a mentor in any undertaking and especially in Toastmasters. Next, John reinforced this thought by mentioning the mentoring program at the Cedar Hill Toastmasters.
With the upcoming new Toastmaster year, the idea of voting in on the slate of new officers was brought up to John's attention. He called on Secretary to read the proposed slate of new officers. Since there were no other nominations from the floor, the voting took place and as a result the nominated officers were unanimously voted in for the new year starting July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.
Before concluding the meeting, John took roles for the next meeting scheduled for June 16.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha Danielewicz
Secretary
Cedar Hill Toastmasters
Meeting Minutes - May 19
Before the meeting begun, Joyce introduced some housekeeping items related to filming of our club'sToastmasters meeting. Paul, Sargent of Arms began the meeting with a moment of silence to honor those who lost their lives in the Egyptian plane crash. Paul served the role of Toastmaster of the evening and explained clearly the sections throughout the meeting since we had three honored guests in attendance.
The word of the day " gaucherie" was presented by Joyce. Eliot put his humorous hat on and delivered some entreating jokes. We had two speakers - Larry and Lyn. Larry delivered a speech "Trains" from the Entertaining Speaker series, revealing his passion for watching trains. He gave some insight on this hobby and provided additional entertainment with the use of visual aids. Lyn presented a speech entitled "Inspiring Sustainability" from CC manual, Project 8 - Using Visual Aids. She introduced the inspiring sustainability ideas such as composting, permaculture, roof top gardens and vertical gardening just to name a few.
Table Topic session was shared by Elizabeth and Mohamed. Their questions challenged the imagination of the participants. It's not everyday question on what you would do if you were invisible or had the super powers.
Martha was the General Evaluator. Kevin evaluated Larry's speech and Paul evaluated Lyn's speech. Joel delivered the Timer's report along with some helpful tips. John was the Grammarian who presented a thorough report and some helpful suggestions.
Before closing the meeting, Paul inspired members to look into the mentoring program available at the club. Then, John, our President took the roles for the next meeting scheduled for June 2.
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