Minutes of Club Meeting # 969 - August 28, 2015

BANGALORE TOASTMASTERS CLUB (BTMC)

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

Minutes of Club Meeting # 969

August 28, 2015

Conquer the Stage

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

From 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.

Theme of the Day:  The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Word of the Day:  Barmy (slang) -  crazy, foolish, eccentric.

Usage -  The kids went barmy when we told them they will be going to Disneyland.
 
CLUB OFFICERS:

PRESENT:

1.   TM Cherian Thomas       -   President

2.   TM Joseph Dass              -   VP Education

3.   TM Sahil Jain                  -  VP Membership

4.  TM Mahaveer Jain            -   VP Public Relations

5.  TM Varun Dev                  -   VP Finance

6.  TM Nisha Balakrishnan    -   Secretary

7.  TM Karunakar Dev          -    Sergeant@Arms

                                    

ROLE TAKERS:

1.  TM Prakash Tamhankar -    Toastmaster of Day
2.  TM John Bosco Abraham - General Evaluator 
3.  TM Varun Dev     -            Table Topics Master

TAG TEAM:

1.  TM Jose James       -  Timer
2.  TM Lalith Dhanush  -  Ah Counter
3.  TM Sanjana             -  Grammarian

MEETING OPENED:  At 6:34 p.m. by Sergeant@Arms, 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:  PREPARED SPEECHES

SPEAKERS:

1.  TM Raveendra Mandava attempted his project #1 from Competent Communicator Manual titled -  "ICE BREAKER."

2.  TM Rahul Bhuyan attempted his project #3 from Competent Communicator Manual titled - "IMPORTANCE OF TEAMWORK."

3.  TM Nisha Balakrishnan attempted her project #5 from Competent Communicator Manual titled - "SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE." 

AGENDA 3:  UNVEILING OF THE BTMC WEBSITE  - TM Mahaveer Jain (VP Education) and TM Prakash Tamhankar  (Click here)

Request all members to log into the website and update their profile. 

 BREAK - 7:20 - 7.35 

AGENDA 4:  EDUCATIONAL SESSION

TITLE - APPLICATION OF TOASTMASTERS IN THE REAL WORLD

SPEAKER -  DTM Mala Mary Martin

 
AGENDA 5:   TABLE TOPICS   

1.  TM Nandan Damle

2.  TM Payal Bhulani

3.  TM Aswathy Sreekumar

4.   TM Jose Paul

5.  TM Richard D'Souza

AGENDA 6:  EVALUATION SESSION

1.  TM Raveendra Mandava's project #1 was evaluated by TM Sapna C.
 
2.  TM Rahul Bhuyan's project #3 was evaluated by TM Sudipto Ghosh.
 
3.  TM Nisha Balakrishnan's project #4 was evaluated by TM Ratan Shetty.

 

AGENDA 7:  AWARDS

1.  Best Speaker – TM Nisha Balakrishnan

2.  Best Table Topics Speaker – TM Nandan and TM Aswathy

3.  Well Done Certificate -  TM Raveendra Mandava

ADJOURNMENT:  At 8:50 by the President.

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QUOTE FOR THE WEEK:  "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

SCRIBE:  TM Nisha Balakrishnan, Secretary