July 8, 2013 Club Meeting

The following is a summary of the minutes from our July 8th meeting.

Meeting Location:   The Hillsdale Mall, San Mateo, CA     6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Attendees:

Present at the meeting were: Samya Boxberger-Oberoi, Suzanne Mulcahy, Sharon Pappos, Venkat Senapati, Jim Spath, Eric Yan, and Tom Zucchelli.  There was one guest; Wendell. 

Jim was the Toastmaster; Eric was the General Evaluator; Suzanne was the Grammarian; Eric was the Ah Counter; Tom was the Vote Counter; and Sharon was the Timer.

Speaker #1:  Samya:  “Timeless Wisdom”

Advanced Speaker Manuel:  “Story Telling”  Project # 3

Samya talked about stories that were morally based, had a lesson, and were timeless.  She gave three examples that had a specific moral and lesson to impart; The Farmer and the Donkey; The Hare and the Turtle; and The Mice and the Council.

Samya told the stories and gave us the specific lessons involved.  Her presentation was very powerful and effective. 

Evaluation:  Venkat gave the evaluation for Samya’s speech.  He stated that Samya stayed on purpose and followed the objectives of “story telling”.  She used simple fables with valuable lessons, and were easy stories to follow.  Samya used good techniques of story telling, used a feeling of live action, where we could experience the events, and had good vocal variety.  Her stories captured our attention. 

Venkat suggested that Samya could perhaps use new stories that would be unfamiliar to us.  Overall her approach to story telling was excellent.  Samya stood up at times and sat down at other times, giving us the sense of the story telling experience. 

The theme of the meeting was: “Flight”; The word of the day was: “miracle”.  Sharon won the ribbon for the best table topics speaker.

    

Samya asked for the guest remarks and then closed the meeting. 

Meeting was adjourned at 7:15