Joe, served as Sergeant at Arms for the meeting, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm. Total 14 members attended the meeting.
Jie, as the Spark master for the meeting, described the observational humor, which is a type of humor based on making funny remarks about daily life. Practicing observational humor often can help us hone our humor skills.
Sam, as the Toastmaster for the meeting, introduced our functionaries for the meeting, each of which describes his/her duty. Mike, as the Grammarian, picked the word of the day: soiree, which Sam quipped that this is a CEO-kind of word.
Todd, as the Table Topic master for the meeting, introduced his topic: given 1-3 choices, which person would you like to be? 12 members participated in this section. Some member wanted to be Genghis Kahn. Some wanted to be Mayor Newson. Some wanted to be the Billy the kid. It was fun. Kristin won the Most Improved Table Topic Speaker for the night.
In our club business meeting, Louise reported on our club budge, and Joe asked for a motion to approve our updated club event schedule for 2007-2008, which can be downloaded from our club website www.scbtoastmasters.com (members only). This schedule was approved by all attending club members.
Following this is our snack break -- thanks to Kerry.
After the break is the prepared speech section. Kritin gave her first speech -- the "Ice-Breaker" speech in the Communication and Leadership manual, telling us about herself.
Louise gave her speech on "the Firing of the City Manager", explaining why firing the manager, and the procedure about the firing. This is her 5th speech in the Communication and Leadership PR manual.
Salina talked about her shopping experiences in Beijing, and gave us very good shopping tips. This is her 5th speech in the Communication and Leadership manual.
Shay explained to us "Why are prescription drugs so expensive". This is her first speech in Advanced Communicator manual.
Kristin won the Most Improved Speaker for the night.
Next is the Evaluation section. Kerry, as the Master Evaluator, introduced each evaluator to evaluate the speaker. Ken evaluated Kristin. Cindy evaluated Louise. Joe evaluated Salina. Stephanie evaluated Shay. Joe won the Most Improved Evaluator for the meeting.
Sam gave out the awards, and the meeting adjourned.
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