June 2, 2014 Club Meeting;

The following is a summary of the minutes from our June 2nd meeting.

Meeting Location:   San Mateo City Hall, San Mateo, CA     6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Attendees:

Present at the meeting were: Randy, David, Lara, Fernando, Eric, Samya, Brenda, Martin, Suzanne and Glenn.
There were five guests: Chris, Leif, Vishal, Alyn, and Shushi.

Samya started the meeting with a warm welcome to all of the guests.  Samya also spoke with the club about the upcoming meeting on 6/9 where the members will be giving a speech on a meeting role as they get credit for one of their speeches. Roles (as speech topics) will be presented next week and evaluations of the Role speeches will take place on 6/16.

Lara was the Toastmaster; Eric was the General Evaluator; Samya was the Grammarian; Glenn was the Ah Counter; Randy was the Vote Counter; and Fernando was the Timer.

The theme of the meeting was: “Test Preparation”; The word of the day was: “Success”.

Speaker #1:  David:  “Napallo and His Pogo Stick”

Advanced Manuel:  “The Entertainment Speakers Series”

David gave a very entertaining speech, which ended up as a “Tall Tale”.  He started by describing a member of his Toastmaster Club that was “going to go over the Toastmaster meeting members” at the next meeting.  David kept us on the edge of our seats as he described in detail this man’s process of using a pogo stick to going home to another planet.  He gave a vivid and startling ending to his story which was well received by the audience.

Evaluation:    Brenda evaluated David’s speech.   She enjoyed the change in David’s speaking style.  In the past, he gave more formal speeches and this one was very humorous.  He was energetic and his voice changed a lot. 

Brenda gave the suggestion that David could describe what a pogo stick was for those people in the audience that were unfamiliar with this term.  She also wasn’t clear how the song fit into the story.  Overall, Brenda loved David’s speech and said that he truly reached his goal to entertain his audience.

Speaker #2:  Suzanne:  “Bullying Behavior Among Our Youth # 4”

Competent Communication Project 10:  “Inspire”

Suzanne gave the final speech in her series on bullying behavior.  She opened with a reminder of what bullying was and a description of the four aspects of the human being.  Suzanne then went into the thinking and reasoning process and how judgments are formed.  This led to the conclusion that the most powerful way to avoid bullying behavior is to always listen to your heart.  “When the heart speaks, bullying cannot exist.”

Evaluation:  Eric conducted a group evaluation on Suzanne’s speech.  The comments were that she looked very natural and relaxed during the speech.  Suzanne had a good closing quote, the context was good, and used good examples and pictures.  She had excellent eye contact and good use of the power point.

The suggestion was made to include a call to action in the conclusion of her speech.  Many enjoyed the personal interaction with the audience and it was a very inspirational speech.  

Table Topics:  Chris, one of our guests won the table topics ribbon for the evening. 

Samya asked the guests for comments on the meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:30