Meeting Overview

Meeting Of:

February 25, 2008

Start Time:

19:02

End Time:

21:02

Members Attending:

21

Total Membership:

47

Quorum Met?

No

Guests Attending:

4

Topic:

“Friendships”

Word of Day:

“Have something down to a fine art”

Club Officials

President:

Addy Ho

VP Education:

Robin Adams

VP Membership:

Ben Wu

VP Public Relations:

Lily Wang

Secretary:

Chris Drumgoole

Sergeant-at-Arms:

Connie Gao

Treasurer:

YaChan Dong

Meeting Officials

Toastmaster:

Dinah Lin

General Evaluator:

Malina Ma

Table Topics Mstr:

Connie Gao

Table Topics Eval:

Max Quillen

Grammarian:

Ben Wu

Greeter:

Mary Tang

Timer:

Charles Cao

Ah Counter:

Echo Jian

Educational Instr.:

Table Topics

Contents (include topic and participant):

1. Addy Ho: Can you tell us who your favorite singer or band is and why?
2. Dinah Lin: You have strongly recommended Ben buy a stock.  The price of the stock has been going don sharply after Ben purchased it.  Now Ben is calling you.  What are you going to say to him?
3. Diana Shi: You have agreed with your manager to relocate to HK for 2 years.  You are the only child in your family.  How are you going to convince your parents to support your decision?
4. YaChan Dong: You found your roommate often gets drunk and comes home late.  You want to talk to him/her about it tonight…
5. Ben Wu: You fly business class on a business trip.  The person sitting next to you is a very charming lady / handsome guy.  Continue the story…
6. Chris Drumgoole: Assume you are a film star and lately you were sued by a group of consumers for representing a bad quality product.  You are now at a press conference.  What are you going to say to the public?
7. Sally Li: You are being interviewed by CCTV 9 introducing Toastmasters to the public.  What will you say?

Prepared Speech #1

Speaker:

Kay Chen

Evaluator:

Lily Wang

Speech No. & Type:

1 – Icebreaker

Speech Title:

“My First Job”

Speech Evaluation:

-          You didn’t seem too nervous! You have a very warm smile.

-          Your opening was strong – you included questions for the audience which was a nice touch.

-          You did move a bit on stage, but it seemed unstable – you were shaking a bit sometimes.  This showed the audience you were a bit nervous at times.

-          Your eye contact was decent but needs work – you often looked above the audience members’ heads at the back of the room.  This gives the audience the impression you’re not talking to us.

-          Great job for your first speech!

Prepared Speech #2

Speaker:

Moon Mu

Evaluator:

Chris Drumgoole

Speech No. & Type:

2 – Organize Your Speech

Speech Title:

“Who Is Your Idol?”

Speech Evaluation:

-          You had a nice introduction with a story introducing your family and the history of who you’ve idolized.

-          Your introduction, however, lacked a clear statement of the point of your speech.  You’ll want to give the audience a clear reason what you are going to accomplish in your speech.

-          You had two good stories – giving two extremes of situations, however, I was left wondering whether it was good or bad to have idols, or in what ways admiring an idol were good or bad…

-          You suddenly shifted to the conclusion, and it was weak. You could develop it more by restating the points you made and then give your firm conclusion.

Prepared Speech #3

Speaker:

Candy Chu

Evaluator:

Yann

Speech No. & Type:

2 – Organize Your Speech

Speech Title:

“How to use less money to buy satisfied clothes”

Speech Evaluation:

-          You had great eye contact

-          I have noticed a great improvement in your word pronunciation; however, it seemed it declined during your speech – perhaps you got tired?

-          You had a very good use of pauses

-          Your structure was very good – great introduction.

-          Your 3 main points could have been developed a bit more – seemed you went through them a bit quickly

-          Your ending was great!

Awards

Best Table Topics:

Diana Shi

Best Speaker:

Candy Chu

Best Evaluator:

Yann

Announcements

1. March Activity: KTV

We’re going to Party World (an email will be sent in the next days with directions).

Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008

Time: 6pm – 10pm

Deadline for “registering” is next meeting – Thursday, March 8

1. YaChan presented the latest purchasing list – items the club will buy for the general operations of the club.  There were no objections from the membership.

1. March is renewal month!!

Members will need to pay their renewal dues by the end of March – the last meeting in March is Thursday, 27^th!

Members who renew on time will be able to join a membership renewal incentive activity.  Details to follow!