Thursday, January 29, 2004
Hi All Century Toastmasters and soon to be Club members.
Here are the highlights for the meeting....
The SMALL CONFERENCE ROOM was filled with 17 members and 3 NEW Guests -- Harold Sherrill, Ozucuir Csorum, Alicia Valle. You are always welcome to our weekly meeting. Thanks for making time for our meeting.
We hope you benefit from the experience.
Alan Colton, our club President, started the meeting on time and introduced Joe Stewart as the Toastmaster.
Educational Moment, Don Wiggins explained the "Case to giving a Powerful Message" 3 steps: 1) State the claim, 2) Use Evidence to support the claim, 3) Explain how important the claim is to you and get the audience to understand. The audience should get a vision of what you are talking about in your speech.
Prepared Speakers:
1st Speaker: Ferdonya Henderson did her 2nd speech towards her ATM. She did a TV interview with Evonne on the status of the CHILDREN USING THE INTERNET. Parents need to know what their children are finding.
2nd Speaker: Evonne Spineto did her 8th speech towards on "Take Care" of yourself. The word to remember is RELAX., Rest, Enjoy, Lazy, Aspirin and X -- marks the spot.
3rd Speaker: Allison Conversedid her 2nd speech towards her CTM on how to prepare to a public speech, First know your audience and always know what you are saying.
Table Topics Master was Maury Tasem, he proposed the Table Topics to another meeting.
Matt Greenbergs was the General Evaluator, his team: Doug Goodman was Evaluator #1, Erica Johnson was Evaluator #2, Dick Larkin was Evaluator #3, and Michelle Segal was the Grammarian/ AH counter and Michelle Hoyt was the Timer. All did a great job of Evaluation.
The ballots were counted and the awards were all close calls:
Best Speaker: Evonne Spineto
Best Evaluator: Michelle Segal, Set a new Standard as Grammarian/ Ah counter
Congratulations keep up the Great work.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 pm
Friday, January 23, 2004
Our most successful event from last season is back and bigger than ever. Make sure you check out the Road to the Toastmasters International Speech Competition presented by Jim Tucker.
Very Special Session - Century Toastmasters
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The attached link is information provided by Toastmasters International on tips for starting off this new year. You are welcome to browse the information and see if you find any helpful information.
We had a good brainstorming meeting this morning, and I am excited for the prospects of this new year. We will see you at the meeting on Thursday (1/15/04).
Click Here and you will be directed to the page where you can access the January-February 2004 TIPS.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Next Meeting
WEDNESDAY . . . January 14, 2004 . . . 12 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric 8306 Century Park Court
Building 4 Room 4120F
MEETING THEME: . . . My Best Money Tip
Word Of the Week: . . . Providence: divine guidance or care
12:05 . . . OPEN MEETING, PLEDGE . . . Julio Sanchez
CALL TO ORDER . . . Alan Colton
12:10 . . . TOASTMASTER . . . Ferdonya Henderson
12:15 . . . EDUCATIONAL MOMENT . . . Maury Tasem
12:18 . . . SPEAKER #1 . . . Jenni Holloway – 1 CTM
12:25 . . . SPEAKER #2 . . . Evonne Spineto – 6 CTM
12:33 . . . SPEAKER #3 . . . Erica Johnson – 2 CTM
12:40 . . . TABLE TOPICS . . . Gail DaSilva
12:48 . . . GENERAL EVALUATOR . . . Jim Tucker
EVALUATOR #1 . . . Julio Sanchez
EVALUATOR #2 . . . Tony Gutierrez
EVALUATOR #3 . . . Matt Greenbergs
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER . . . Joe Stewart
TIMER . . . Bryon Shovlain
12:55 . . . TOASTMASTER – PRESENT AWARDS . . . Alan Colton
12:58 . . . BUSINESS WRAP UP . . . Alan Colton
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE – January 21, 2004
THEME: . . . What Drives Me
WOW: . . . Motivators: impel into action
TOASTMASTER: . . . Gail DaSilva
GENERAL EVALUATOR: . . . Maury Tasem
EDUCATIONAL MOMENT: . . . Ferdonya
TABLE TOPICS: . . . Dick Larkin
SPEAKER 1: . . . Matt Greenbergs – 10 CTM
SPEAKER 2: . . . Evonne Spineto – 8 CTM
SPEAKER 3: . . . - CTM
EVALUATOR 1: . . . Jenni Holloway
EVALUATOR 2: . . . Joe Stewart
EVALUATOR 3:
GRAMMARIAN/AH COUNTER: . . . Bryon Sholvain
TIMER: . . . Julio Sanchez
Hi All Century Toastmasters and soon to be Club members.
Here are the highlights for the meeting....
The SMALL CONFERENCE ROOM was filled with 12 members and 3 New Guests from D&R International.
They were Kate McGinnis, Emily English, and Dustin Rosa.
All of you are always welcome to our weekly meeting. Thanks for making time for our meeting. We hope you benefit from the experience.
Alan Colton, our club President, started the meeting on time and introduced himself as the Toastmaster
For the Educational Moment, Alan Colton explained the various functionaries for the meetings, and the club members volunteered for positions for the next two weeks
Prepared Speakers:
1st Speaker: Alan Colton did his 2nd speech towards his ATM-B. He spoke from the Story Telling manual and told a personal story of his experience with the Boy Scouts on a 50 mile canoe trip.
2nd Speaker: Evonne Spineto did her 6th speech towards her CTM on being a Home-aholic - one who is addicted to constant home decor improvements, and one who knows that the best sheets in the world come from Milan, Italy. As evidenced by the Pope using those sheets.
Table Topics Master was Ferdonya Henderson, she picked Tony Gutierrez and Maury Tasem to speak on providing positive evaluations. They all did a wonderful job of talking spontaneously.
Joe Stewart was the General Evaluator, Gail DaSilva was Evaluator #1, and Dick Larkin was Evaluator #2, Maury Tasem was the Grammarian/ AH counter and Julio Sanchez was the Timer. All did a great job of Evaluation.
The ballots were counted and the awards were all close calls:
Best Speaker: Evonne Spineto
Best Table Topics: Maury Tasem, Congratulations keep up the Great work.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 pm. <
Attached is the AGENDA/ FLYER for the next meeting on 1/14/04.
MY BEST MONEY TIP is the THEME, PROVIDENCE is the Word of the WEEK (WOW).
Matt Greenbergs
Century Toastmasters, Secretary
