2009/02/26 Club Meeting Minutes

We had a good turn out, total 15 members attended the meeting: Jie, Louise, Mike, Shyam, Wei, Lisa, Joe, Kerry, Nina, Sam, Jennifer, Sarah, Jane, Stephanie, Naoki. Total 5 guests attended the meeting. The agenda for the meeting is as follows.

Sergeant At Arms	Joe -- called meeting to order at 7:30pm.
Spark Master	Sarah
President	Joy -- welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Toastmaster	Stephanie -- introduced functionaries for the meeting: Wei: Master Evaluator Shyam: Grammarian/Ah Counter Mike: Timer
Table Topics
Louise, as the Table Topic Master, asked each speaker to explain his/her duties if club officier and to presuade club members to assume his/her position in the next officier election. At the end, the speaker will pick the next speaker. The next speaker if not club officier will need to explain why he/she does/doesn't fit the position. Lisa won the Best Table Topic Speaker award.
Business meeting	Stephanie asked us to nominate Area Member of the Year.
Snack Master	Sarah
Speeches
Speaker 1	Nina: "The Bar Method", Speech #2 from the Competent Communication Manual.
Speaker 2	Joy: "Autism and Vaccination", Speech #4 from the Speaking to Inform Manual
Speaker 3	Lisa: "Disractions", Speech #5 from the Competent Communication Manual
Nina won the Best Speaker award
Evaluations
Evaluator 1	Joe evaluated Nina
Evaluator 2	Jennifer evaluated Joy
Evaluator 3	Sam evaluated Lisa
Sam won the Best Evaluator award.
Meeting Adjourned.