February 10, 2014 Club Meeting

The following is a summary of the minutes from our February 10th meeting.

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

Attendees:

Present at the meeting were: Samya Boxberger Oberoi, Suzanne Mulcahy, David Nazzaro, Sharon Pappas, Martin Quan, Xin Tang, Ruth Wadsworth, and Trey Zhou.  There were two guests:  Aditi M., and Glenn.

Samya as our president opened the meeting congratulating Martin for finding us a new place to hold our weekly meetings at the City Hall.  She read the rules of engagement for using the room and everyone agreed to these rules. 

Samya was the Toastmaster; Ruth was the General Evaluator; David was the Timer, Sharon was the Grammarian, and Martin was the Ah Counter.

Speaker #1:  Trey:  “Me, Myself, and I”

Manuel:  #1   “Ice Breaker”

Trey began his speech by stating that he was born in China.  His grandfather gave him his name, which meant “virtuous, wise, governor, Imperial family”.  Trey explained that not all names have a deep meaning.  He gave an example of a friend being named, “bring little brothers”.  It was implied that this would bring males to her family. 

When Trey came to the United States, people had difficulty pronouncing his name so he changed his name to Tom.  He soon discovered that it was not that satisfying having a common name, so he replaced it with Trey when he went to college. 

Trey ended his speech by stating that our names do not define us, it is instead, what we make of ourselves.     

Evaluation:  Suzanne evaluated Trey.  She began by saying that Trey was well organized.  His speech was in chronological order and easy to follow.  Suzanne liked the way Trey weaved stories into his name changes and examples of how names are created. 

Suzanne gave the suggestion that Trey had a very powerful concluding comment, and it would serve his speech to go into more elaboration about this theme.  He met the goals of an “Ice Breaker” speech.  Trey was able to get up in front of an audience, and express himself.  He did not use any notes until the last comment.  Trey was able to reveal his life through the stories about his different names very effectively. 

The theme of the meeting was: “The Bay Area” and the Word of the Day was “Community”.  David was the Table Topics Master.  Everyone participated in answering the questions. 

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

Meeting was adjourned at 7:15