Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Meeting Notes from Wednesday, May 26 2004
"Today, the torch has been passed to a new generation"
- Alan Colton, soon to be immediate past President
This is what you call "last minute cramming" Joe and Amir were today's speakers, and they're reviewing their notes. Donna was the timer, and she did an excellent job.
Joe Stewart was the first speaker and discussed several useful ways to get better miles per gallon. (He and I car pool to the Toastmasters meeting, so we're doing our part).
The meeting room was completely filled, and Don Wiggins even went next door to grab chairs for the late attendees.
Joe, Amir, Donna and Don
Cher Vargas (a guest), Ferdonya, Gabe and Dick
Alan Colton, Club President ran the election. No hanging chads, absentee ballots or cries of tampering.
Dick Larkin, President-Elect as today's Toastmaster
Joe Stewart getting physical over gas prices.
This is the softer side of Joe.
Amir Sherif demonstrating how to dribble a soccer ball, or something like that.
Amir was born in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia which is kind of like Jamul.
Amir has one more speech to receive his CTM
Dick Larkin presenting the ATM-Bronze award to Alan Colton
The ATM-B is a 10 speech series after you have completed your CTM.
Alan also won the award for "Best Evaluator"
Ken Fonda, Area Governor explained that we should have large pizzas if we expect him to return. Just kidding about that . . . he said he'd come back even if we had small pizzas.
Jude was elected Sergeant-at-arms.
Ken Fonda, Area Governor announced that Maury Tasem (our club member) was going to be the next Area Governor. It's good to know people in high places.
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Meeting Notes by Matt Greenbergs
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Hi All Century Toastmasters and soon to be Club members. Here are the highlights for the meeting....
The small CONFERENCE ROOM was filled with 19 members including a first timer Guest: Cher Vargas and our newest member Donna Johnson, Jude Awiylika, and Stephen Jaworski as well as a repeat Guest- Claire Ramos-Saldivar and Area 5 Governor Ken Fonda.
You are always welcome to our weekly meeting. Thanks for making time for our meeting. We hope you benefit from the experience.
See the website www.centurytoastmasters.com
Our President, Alan Colton, opened the meeting on time and announced the OFFICER ELECTIONS FOR 2004-05.
It is Official the OFFICERS WERE VOTED IN FOR ALL POSITIONS.
Sgt at Arms: Jude Awiylika
Treasurer: Joe Stewart
Secretary: Byron Shovlain
VP Pub. Rel.: Tony Gutierrez
VP Mem.: Ferdonya Henderson
VP Educ.: Steven Jaworski
President: Dick Larkin
Congratulations, your duty starts on July 1st. Please contact the outgoing Officer for details. Take time to read the manuals Alan gave you.
Our Toastmaster, Dick Larkin was introduced. The Theme was Humor for the meeting and the Word of the Week (WOW): LAUGHTER.
Prepared Speakers:
1st Speaker: Joe Stewart did his 4th speech, from the CTM book. He talked about the High price of Gas in San Diego and what we can do about it.
2nd Speaker: Amir Sherif presented 9th CTM speech about SOCCER and explained why he loves it so much
NO Table Topics, No Education moment
Matt Greenbergs was the General Evaluator, his team:
Alan Colton was Evaluator #1,
Stephen Jaworski was Evaluator #2,
Allison Converse was Grammarian/ AH counter, and
Donna Johnson gave the Timer Report.
All did a great job of Evaluating us.
Dick Larkin gave Alan Colton his Certificate from TI for the ATM-B (Advanced ToastMaster- Bronze), well done!!! What is next???
The ballots were counted.
Best Speaker: Joe Stewart
Best Evaluator: Alan Colton
The meeting was adjourned at 1:02 pm. Next week's meeting is scheduled for 6/2/04, hope to see you there.
THEME: I Remember When....
WOW: Changes: to make or become different
Allison Converse is the Toastmaster
Speakers are Frida Vissuet - 2 CTM, and Jim Tucker - Regional Speech
Matt Greenbergs Century Toastmasters, Secretary
Visit our website at
http://www.centurytoastmasters.com
for more information.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Meeting notes for Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I took quite a few photos this week. Enjoy!
Our meeting was held in the large conference room and we had 14 people and one dog in attendance.
Two guests,
Donna Johnson
Cory Petkovsek who recently moved to the San Diego area from Eugene, Oregon. Once again, our club website attracted a new visitor to this outstanding club.
The meeting theme was “Improving our Club” and the Word of the week was “Brainstorming”
Julio Sanchez, our Sergeant-at-arms
opened the meeting at 12:05 with the pledge of allegiance. He turned the meeting over to
Alan Colton, our club president.
Alan held nominations for club officers. The nominations are open until next Wednesday.
Sgt at Arms: Allison Converse, Jude Awiylika
Treasurer: Joe Stewart
Secretary: Byron Shovlan
VP Public Relations: Tony Gutierez
VP Membership: Ferdonya Henderson
VP Education: Stephen Jaworski, Bonnie Collins
President: Dick Larkin
Our dynamic toastmaster was Stephen Jaworski
First Speaker was Julio Sanchez doing his 4th Speech toward his CTM. Julio spoke of the wonders of surfing in Peru.
The second speaker was Byron Shovlain who delivered his second CTM speech. Byron spoke about his world travels and the importance of preparation on a successful trip.
Ferdonya Henderson was the general evaluator.
She introduced Bonnie Collins who evaluated Julio’s speech.
Next, Doug Goodman evaluated Byron’s speech.
Adam slept on my foot for most of the meeting except for when Doug got up to speak. He’ll be moving into service training in a few weeks. (Adam, that is, Doug will still be around).
Allison Converse delivered the Ah count and grammarian report.
Dick Larkin was the timer.
Because of his judicious use of time, Steven was able to have an impromptu Table Topics where Jude Awiylika delivered an impromptu talk about school in his native Cameroon.
With the votes counted,
Julio Sanchez was awarded Best Speaker
Doug Goodman was awarded Best Evaluator
Alan Colton held up a ribbon our club earned for having all officers attend training.
Cory provided his insight into the positive atmosphere and spirit of the club.
And all attendees were rewarded for their time with an outstanding session.
Next week is officer elections.
Theme: Humor
Wow: Laughter
Toastmaster: Dick Larkin
Speaker 1: Joe Stewart 4-CTM
Speaker 2: Amir Sherif 9-CTM
Table Topics:
General Evaluator:
Evaluator 1: Julio Sanchez
Evaluator 2:
Grammarian: Allison Converse
Timer:
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http://www.centurytoastmasters.com
for more information.
