Minutes of Club Meeting # 966 - August 7, 2015

 BANGALORE TOASTMASTERS CLUB (BTMC)

Club #9206 (District-92 - Karnataka and Kerala)

 

 Minutes of Club Meeting # 966

 August 7, 2015

Conquerors of Stage

 

 ** Please check out the announcement section for some important announcements.

Venue/Time:  Ashirwad - Loyola Hall, St Marks Road.

From 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.

Theme of the Day:  Aim Above the Mark to Hit the Mark!

Word of the Day:   Skive off – Avoid responsibility.

CLUB OFFICERS:

 PRESENT:

1.  TM Cherian Thomas      -     President

2.  TM Joseph Dass             -     VP Education

3.  TM Mahaveer Jain          -    VP Public Relations

4.  TM Sahil Jain                 -    VP Membership

5.  TM Nisha Balakrishnan  -   Secretary

6.  TM Varun Dev                -   Treasurer

7.  TM Karunakar Dev         -   Sergeant@Arms

                                     

ROLE TAKERS:

1. TM Smitha Roshy             - Toastmaster of Day
2.  TM Ganesh Iyer               -  General Evaluator
3.  TM Abhinav Bhargav       -  Table Topics Master

TAG TEAM:
 

1.  TM Dhawan Mohan      -  Timer
2.  TM Bhavana Jha           -  Ah Counter
3.  TM Varun Dev             -  Grammarian

MEETING OPENED:  At 6:34 p.m. by Sergeant@Arms and called to order by President.

MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING:  Read out by Secretary, formally approved by club members.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:  At 6:40 opening remarks by the President with the introduction of Toastmaster of Day (TOD).

AGENDA 1:  Introductory remarks by TOD, introduction of General Evaluator, introduction of TAG team.

AGENDA 2:  TABLE TOPICS

1.   TM Lalith Dhanush

2.  TM Jose James

3.   TM Payal Bhulani

4.   TM Alan Aranha

5.   TM Nandan Damle

6.   TM Richard D'Souza

7.   TM Raveendra Babu

8.  TM Mahaveer Jain

AGENDA 3:  PREPARED SPEECH

SPEAKERS:

1.  TM Vijay Kalkundri attempted his project #1 from Competent Communicator Manual - ICE BREAKER.

2.  TM Dora Jain attempted her project #3 from Competent Communicator Manual titled "WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN GONE."

3.  TM Prakash Francis attempted his project #4 from Advanced Communicator Bronze Manual -  The Entertaining Speaker  - titled "THE HILL."

AGENDA 4:  SWEARING-IN CEREMONY

A total of 7 new members were sworn-in by Vice President - Membership, TM Sahil Jain.  The other club members pledged their support to help the new members at every stage of their self-development journey at BTMC.  A warm welcome to the new members to the Bangalore Toastmasters Club Family.

1.  TM Rejith Ramachandran

2.  TM Dhawan Mohan

3.  TM Raveendra Babu Mandava

4.  TM Lalith Dhanush

5.  TM Aman Mahajan

6.  TM Hemant Narang

7.  TM Rahul Ranjan

AGENDA 5:  EVALUATION SESSION

1.  TM Vijay Kalkundri's project was evaluated by TM Payal Bhulani

2.  TM Dora Jain's project was evaluated by TM Prakash Tamhankar

3.  TM Prakash Francis' project was evaluated by  TM Sanjay Hassa

AGENDA 6:  AWARDS

1.  Best Speaker – TM Prakash Francis

2.  Best Table Topics Speaker – TM Lalith Dhanush

3.  Ice Breaker Certificate  -  TM Vijay Kalkundri

AGENDA 7:  ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

1.  Club Level Humourous and Evaluation contest - September 25, 2015.

Contact Person - Vice President - Education - TM Joseph Dass

2.  Speechcraft  - Starting on August 23, 2015.

ADJOURNMENT:  At 8:30 by the President.

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QUOTE FOR THE WEEK:  "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great" - Zig Ziglar

SCRIBE:  TM Nisha Balakrishnan, Secretary