Meeting Overview

Meeting Of:

March 6, 2008

Start Time:

19:02

End Time:

21:05

Members Attending:

22

Total Membership:

Quorum Met?

Guests Attending:

13

Topic:

An Informative Story

Word of Day:

Preparation

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:

Chris Drumgoole

General Evaluator:

Lily Wang

Table Topics Mstr:

Candy Chu

Table Topics Eval:

Sunny Lin

Grammarian:

Frank Feng

Greeter:

Selina Shi

Timer:

Kay Chen

Ah Counter:

Yann

Educational Instr.:

N/A

Table Topics

Contents (include topic and participant):

Overview:  Story relay – CCTMC is hiking in a forest – no mobile phone batteries, the group lost their way.

1. Addy: There’s only 1 bottle of water but eventually the group finds a waterfall
2. Diana: Everyone takes off their clothes and goes swimming in the lake/river
3. Robin: Robin finds a few of the group members passed out – a Vodka bottle is empty!
4. Joanne: We need food, only the women do their job – the men aren’t able to find any
5. Aish finds berries instead of hunts animals.  The berries are poisonous though, people get sick.
6. William (Guest): Gives medicine to those who are sick.  Robin climbs a hill and finds a way out!
7. Malina: The way is still difficult, but the group made it!

Prepared Speech #1

Speaker:

Ines Brunn

Evaluator:

Addy Ho

Speech No. & Type:

4 – How to Say It

Speech Title:

A Story From The Alps

Speech Evaluation:

Persistence can make things happen!

Evaluation:

-          Good that the topic was changed from bicycles to Alps

-          Voice was trembling at points during the speech

-          Missing the great body movement

-          Speech felt very short, but wasn’t

-          Simple sentences, short sentences

Prepared Speech #2

Speaker:

Mary Tang

Evaluator:

David Oliver

Speech No. & Type:

4 – How to Say It

Speech Title:

Your Blog Sells

Speech Evaluation:

Blog Marketing, cheaper than advertisement, solid content creates trust, keywords for search engines, frequent Posting

Evaluation:

-          Good speech

-          Good start with asking a question to the audience

-          Good use of hands and body

-          Introduction was a bit long but got to where it should

-          Good use of show and effective sentences

-          Generally, you spoke a bit too fast. Try to slow down a bit.

-          Conclusion was a bit weak – next time, have a stronger conclusion

-          You stand still too much – use the stage! Feel free to move around a bit

-          Need to improve your eye contact with people – make it personal!

Prepared Speech #3

Speaker:

Echo Jian

Evaluator:

Robin Adams

Speech No. & Type:

2 – Organize Your Speech

Speech Title:

Inspiration from NGO’s Activities

Speech Evaluation:

People work for good reasons

Evaluation:

-          You seemed very prepared

-          You are vary passionate about this topic

-          Be careful what you do with your feet – some times you stand with your legs crossed, looks a bit like a ballerina

-          The organization was good – clear beginning, body, and ending

-          Brought in a story of Mr. Zhou, made the speech a bit personal – nice!

-          Next time, you could improve the use of your visual aids.  It was hard for everyone to see the posters you were showing.

-          Your speech was very inspirational!

Prepared Speech #4

Speaker:

Max Quillen

Evaluator:

Aish Kasturia

Speech No. & Type:

4 – How to Say It

Speech Title:

Not Politics, Political Theory: Importance of Innovation

Speech Evaluation:

The political system of the United States has not evolved enough in the last 200 years.

Evaluation:

-          Very good speech, you explained the difficult terms quite well.

-          You stood very still (could move a little bit more), but your posture was good

-          Your right arm seemed like a dead limb.  Try to liven up a bit.

-          You looked a lot at Malina’s shoes!

Awards

Best Table Topics:

Robin Adams

Best Speaker:

Max Quillen

Best Evaluator:

Aish Kasturia

Announcements

1. Our KTV even is being held on Saturday – Talk to Lily for signing up!
2. Addy finished his CC (Competent Communicator) manual.  Addy reminds everyone to work hard towards finishing their current manuals quickly
3. YaChan, club treasurer, reminded everyone that this month, March, is membership renewal month.  Members need to remit RMB 480 by the end of the month in order to participate in the Membership Renewal party at the end of the month.
4. Candy is organizing the April Fools party (which is also the Membership Renewal Party).  If you have suggestions of locations, please discuss with Candy
5. Robin: We will be holding a Speech Contest, tentatively, on March 27^th.  Ines is organizing this event.  We will be holding an Evaluation Contest, tentatively, on March 20^th.  David will be organizing this event.

Both event Chairpersons will need helpers to provide assistance in organization.  Please speak to either Ines or David if you’d like to help out!  You can get credit towards the Competent Leader award!