Minutes of Club Meeting #989 - January 15, 2016

MINUTES OF CLUB MEETING #989

January 15^th, 2016

Ashirvad - Loyola Hall, St. Marks Road

6:30 - 8:45 pm

Theme: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

Word of the day: Candid
Meaning: Frank, sincere
Usage: A candid evaluation helps more than a well intended whitewash

ATTENDEES

CLUB OFFICERS

Cherian Thomas PRESIDENT

Joseph Dass VP MEMBERSHIP

Prakash Tamhankar VP EDUCATION

Varun Dev VP PUBLIC RELATIONS

Mahaveer Jain TREASURER

Raghunandan Damle SECRETARY

Esther Roshini Chandy SERGEANT AT ARMS

MEMBERS

Abhinav K.B
Ashish Varghese
Godfrey Soans
Hemant Narang
John-Bosco Abraham
Karunakar Dev
Lalith Dhanush
Mahesh Rao
Payal Bhulani
Praveen Kumar
Rahul Bhuyan
Ratan Shetty
Rajdeep Manwani
Robinson D’Souza
Richard D’Souza
Samuel Wankhade
Sapna Chandiramani
Siraj Rehman

GUESTS

18 Guests

(Guests are requested to sign the guest register on the table at the entrance of the hall to help in tracking attendance)

ROLE TAKERS

TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY Robinson D’Souza

TABLE TOPICS MASTER Hemant Narang

GENERAL EVALUATOR Varun Dev

TIMER Prakash Tamhankar

AH COUNTER Ashish Varghese

GRAMMARIAN Mahaveer Jain

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OPENING

The meeting opened on the dot at 6:30pm with a crisp address by the Sergeant at Arms, Esther Chandy. She introduced the theme and linked it to the most popular word of 2012 - truthiness, which is something that feels right though it is not supported by fact.

INSTALLATION OF CLUB OFFICERS FOR THE NEW TERM JAN-JUNE 2016

The club officers for the new term were formally installed into their new roles by the installation officer, Toastmaster John-Bosco Abraham. He explained the philosophy behind the short term of six months, which is long enough to learn leadership and short enough to allow other members an opportunity to learn it.

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS

The secretary, Raghunandan Damle, read the minutes of the previous meeting and these were passed.

As the outgoing President, Cherian Thomas summarized the tangible achievements of the previous term as follows:

Processes established for booking speech slots, etc through the revamped website.

Website revamped: this is the first impression that a person searching online gets.

Finance – transparency introduced by publishing accounts on the website. Relations with the bank regularised.

Minutes of Meetings upgraded in quality and timeliness.

Speechcraft – 30 speechcraft students graduated in the previous term.

TAG record books printed, which can be used to record the meetings for the next five years.

Membership of the club grew from 56 members to 71 members, making us the largest club in Bangalore.

As the incoming President, Cherian Thomas continued his address to outline the goals for the new term, as follows:

More improvements to the website

Record and publicize the achievements of members of the club

Stabilize finances

Have a gala 1000^th meeting

In conclusion he introduced the theme for the new term - EXPERIENCE THE CHANGE.

TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY

Founder member, Toastmaster Robinson D’Souza, wished the audience on the occasion of Makara Sankranti and took the audience on a trip down memory lane to the first meeting of the club held in the same hall. He read out a testimonial from a Toastmaster and later introduced the General Evaluator, who introduced the TAG team.

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TABLE TOPICS

Table topics was conducted by the intense Hemant Narang, who had a balanced mix of light and heavy topics.

TABLE TOPIC SPEAKERS

Siraj Rehman: A stitch in time saves nine

Ratan Shetty: Execution is more important than planning

Godfrey Soans: What if humans had no hair?

Samuel Wankhade: What if the earth was a cube?

Richard D’Souza: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

Rajdeep Manwani: Processes are more important or people?

Rahul Bhuyan: A world without alcohol

Shreyans Gandhi: What if India was an island country?

PREPARED SPEECHES

Mahesh Rao delivered project 2 – Organise your Speech - from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘First Time’. He described his strange experience on his first visit to Sydney.

Payal Bhulani delivered an advanced project, a special occasion speech – Speaking in Praise – titled ‘A True Leader’. She spoke in praise of Toastmaster Robinson D’Souza on the occasion of his birthday, and so convincing was she, that she had the audience singing Happy Birthday to Mr. D’Souza at the end of her speech. Mr. D’Souza later clarified that it was not actually his birthday!

EVALUATIONS