Meeting Overview

Meeting Of:

January 15, 2009

Start Time:

19:00

End Time:

21:08

Members Attending:

18

Total Membership:

26

Guests Attending:

8

Theme:

Let’s be Optimistic

Word of Day:

Optimize

Club Officials

President:

Chris Drumgoole

VP Education:

Yann

VP Membership:

Kevin Lee

VP Public Relations:

Joanne Wen

Secretary:

Selina Shi

Sergeant-at-Arms:

Ben Wu

Treasurer:

Jessica Luo

Scheduler

Connie Gao

Webmaster:

Hubert Lin

Librarian:

Sally Li

Meeting Officials

Toastmaster:

Charly

General Evaluator:

Caesar

Table Topics Mstr:

Kevin

Table Topics Eval:

Yachan

Grammarian:

Sunny

Greeter:

Selina

Timer:

Connie

Ah Counter:

Michael

Educational Instr.:

N/A

Table Topics

Contents (include topic and participant):

Topic: Pretend a role, and make a speech to change something.

1. Michael(Guest)-Football player to change wife

2. Ben-Construction worker to change enviroment

3. Hubert-Computer game editor to change yourself

4. Caesar-Restaurant waiter to change China

5. Jo(Guest)-Policewoman to change diet

6. Jessica-Toastmaster to change bad habits

7. Sally-Beggar to change your looks

Prepared Speech #1

Speaker:

Joanne

Evaluator:

Luke

Speech No. & Type:

4 – How to Say It

Speech Title:

Right toy in life

Prepared Speech #2

Speaker:

Yann

Evaluator:

Hubert

Speech No. & Type:

10 – Inspirational Speech

Speech Title:

Innovate in Education

Prepared Speech #3

Speaker:

Louis

Evaluator:

Sally

Speech No. & Type:

Adv. 15.1– Warm Up Your Audience

Speech Title:

How to Conquer Public Speaking Fear

Prepared Speech #4

Speaker:

Thomas

Evaluator:

Jessica

Speech No. & Type:

3 – Get to the Point

Speech Title:

Moment of Truth

Awards

Best Table Topics:

Sally

Best Speaker:

Yann

Best Evaluator:

Hubert

Announcements

1. The first excom meeting by new club committee would be hold after the meeting

2. All members need to bring the leadership manual to the meeting.

3.Jan 29^th is club holiday.

Conclusion

Dear toastmasters, we all have a good night yesterday, right? With your paticipation, our meeting will be more and more interesting and our club will be more and more powerful!

Charly, good job as the toastmaster of the meeting. He bring us a very good theme “Let’s be Optimistic”. At the beginning of 2009, let us remember that be optimistic in the life. Charly, thanks your good preparation and you made the meeting quite relax and interesting.

Yachan, table topic evaluation. Although she is the ahs queen last night, please don’t doubt the charm of her speech and also herself. Accurate analysis for each table topic speech, vivid example and comparison between someone’s speech teach us how to make a good performance in this challenge part.

At the end, I want to say thank you for reading this minutes. If you have time, please come to join our club. We are still growing and improving step by step. We are waiting you to come and share the fun with us.