2007/08/23 Club Meeting Minutes

We held our club-level humorous speech contest in this meeting. Total 14 members attended the meeting: Lisa, Sarah, Joe, Stephanie, Shay, Jane, Todd, Jie, Jennifer, Louise, Mike, Ken, Salina, Kristin. The agenda for the meeting is as follows.

Sergeant At Arms	Lisa -- called meeting to order at 7:30pm.
Spark Master	Sarah -- pitched in and read us a funny story.
President	Joe -- welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Toastmaster	Stephanie -- introduced functionaries for the meeting: Lisa: Grammarian. The word of the day: vacuous Shay: Ah Counter Jane: Timer
Humorous Speech Contest
Todd, as the Toastmaster for the contest, explained contest format and rules.
Contestant 1	Jie: "Wonderful Discoveries"
Contestant 2	Louise: "Thanks Stephanie"
Contestant 3	Joe: "The Big Scream"
Contestant 4	Jennifer: "My Brag Stories"
Joe won our club-level contest, and he will be representing us to compete in the H3 area contest on September 8th. Louise won the second place. If Joe can't make it to the contest, Louise will take over.
Snack Master	Sarah
Business meeting	Louise reported our club budget. She proposed a motion to increase our next 6-month membership dues from $44 to $45, as a result of the increased room rental fee. This motion was approved by the attending members. Ken suggested that we may hold auction table topic speeches to raise some funding in the future. All officers were trained. (Yah!)
Evaluation
Evaluator 1	Mike evaluated Joe's speech
Evaluator 2	Ken evaluated Jennifer's speech
Ken won the Most Improved Evaluator speech.
Table Topics Jane, as the Table Topic Master, asked us to express opinions about laying off. 7 members participated in the table topics: Salina, Ken, Shay, Louise, Kristin, Todd, Sarah. Salina won the Most Improved Table Topic speech.
Awards	Stephanie and Todd gave out awards.
Meeting Adjourned.