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