7 October 2008 Meeting

Back to ordinary existence after contests and anniversary celebrations. Well, not really! Today we were videotaped for the District 4 television program that promotes Toastmasters on cable television. Wow. Stan the Cameraman filmed almost the whole meeting, but told us he would be editing the footage down to three minutes, including interviews at the end. We, thus, ended the meeting slightly early today to accommodate the time. 

Bud opened our meeting at 6:30 AM.

Attending: Connie (Toastmaster for the day), Daohua, Kelly, Lee W., Donna, Arash, Bud, Lee D., Jane, Stephanie, Theo, and Josie. Returning member: Tryphine (who'd been at our pancake breakfast last week); and return guest: Mark (who decided to join today. Welcome, Mark!).

The theme was "new environments" and how to adjust to them.

Word of the day: paradigm

Awards at this Meeting:

Best Speaker: Jane

Best Table Topics: Tryphine

Best Evaluation: Lee W.

Speeches at this Meeting:

1. Josie. "On Rising Early"; speech #5 in the Competent Communication manual; 5-7 minutes. Evaluated by Donna (evaluation time: 0:02:42). Actual time of speech: 0:07:00

2. Jane. "Public Speaking 101"; speech #1 in the Public Relations manual; 5-7 minutes. Evaluated by Lee W. (evaluation time: 0:03:21) Actual time of speech: 0:06:57

Other roles at this meeting:

Table Topics Master: Lee D.

General Evaluator: Theo

Joke and inspiration: Daohua

Grammarian: Stephanie

Ah-counter: Kelly

Meeting announcements: Stephanie went over next week's schedule. Arash will be taking notes for Josie who will be out of town. Jane will be Toastmaster.

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 AM