Minutes of Club Meeting # 967 - August 14, 2015

BANGALORE TOASTMASTERS CLUB (BTMC)

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

Minutes of Club Meeting # 967

August 14, 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:  Why, Why not? Why not you? Why not now?

Word of the Day:   Gormless – Clueless.

CLUB OFFICERS:

 PRESENT:

1.  TM Cherian Thomas      -     President

2.  TM Joseph Dass            -     VP Education

3.  TM Mahaveer Jain         -    VP Public Relations

4.  TM Nisha Balakrishnan -   Secretary

5.  TM Varun Dev                -   Treasurer

6.  TM Karunakar Dev        -   Sergeant@Arms

APOLOGIES:

1.  TM Sahil Jain               - VP Membership

                                    

ROLE TAKERS:

1.  TM Nandan Damle - Toastmaster of the Day
2.  TM Kaustubh Rajendran     -  General Evaluator
3.   TM Lalith Dhanush     -  Table Topics Master

TAG TEAM:
 
1.  TM Vijay Kalkundri      -  Timer
2.  TM Abhinav Bhargav  -  Ah Counter
3.  TM Raveendra Babu.       -  Grammarian

MEETING OPENED:  At 6:30 p.m. by Sergeant@Arms (TM Varun Dev was the stand-in for TM Karunakar Dev) and called to order by President.

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

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:  At 6:37 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 Sanjana

2.  TM Karunakar Dev

3.  TM Alan Aranha

4.  TM Vinay Venkatramana

AGENDA 3:  PREPARED SPEECH

SPEAKERS:

1.  TM Smitha Roshy attempted her project #1 from Competent Communicator Manual - ICE BREAKER.

2.  TM Payal Bhulani attempted her project #5 from Advanced Communicator Bronze Manual -  The Storytelling Manual  - titled "THE GREATEST EDUCATOR."

AGENDA 4:  EDUCATIONAL SESSION  -   INSIGHTS INTO EVALUATION

Speaker   -   TM Vijayanand   

AGENDA 5:  EVALUATION SESSION

1.  TM Smitha Roshy's project was evaluated by TM Mahaveer Jain.

2.  TM Payal Bhulani's project was evaluated by TM Godfrey Soans.

AGENDA 6:  AWARDS

1.  Best Speaker – TM Payal Bhulani

2.  Best Table Topics Speaker – TM Karunakar Dev

3.  Ice Breaker Certificate  -  TM Smitha Roshy

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 8:55 by the President.

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QUOTE FOR THE WEEK:  "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence - Vince Lombardi."

SCRIBE:  TM Nisha Balakrishnan, Secretary