Minutes of Club Meeting #990 - January 22, 2016

MINUTES OF CLUB MEETING #990

January 22^nd, 2016

Ashirvad - Loyola Hall, St. Marks Road

6:30 - 8:40 pm

Theme: Practice makes man perfect

Word of the day: Dangle
Meaning: Hang, swing 
Usage: To dangle a carrot in front of someone is to offer an incentive

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

Abhishek Karnwal

Ashish Varghese

Bhavna Jha

Godfrey Soans

Hemant Narang

Inder Kumar
Kamal Kumar Garg

Karunakar Dev

Mahesh Rao

Rahul Bhuyan

Raveendra Babu Mandava

Ratan Shetty

Richard D’Souza

Santhosh Kumar

Sapna Chandiramani

Shilpa Samuel

Siraj-ur-Rehman

Sreejith Kizhakkilot

Srija Jampana

Sudipto Ghosh

Vaidyanathan Duraisamy

Vijay Anand

Vijay Kalkundri

16 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         Raveendra Babu Mandava

TABLE TOPICS MASTER                Sudipto Ghosh

GENERAL EVALUATOR                  Sapna Chandiramani

TIMER                                            Ashish Varghese

AH COUNTER                                 Srija Jampana

GRAMMARIAN                                Mahesh Rao

Note: To view meeting videos click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXaR1ERGeM&list=PLvldYcmG1bV5c9Sav1Rosf9pLhOIWkrQG

OPENING

The meeting opened at 6:30pm and the Sergeant at Arms, Esther Chandy, immediately caught the attention of the audience with a quote - “Amateurs practise until they get it right. Professionals practise until they can’t get it wrong.”

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS

The President, Cherian Thomas, reiterated the message of the theme by narrating a touching story of a downtrodden lad whose practice at football, helped him win a crucial match for his college team.

TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY

As Toastmaster of the Day, Raveendra Babu Mandava, stressed the importance of practice until it becomes a subconscious task, no longer requiring conscious effort, such as brushing teeth or buttoning a shirt. He mentioned that it was with this aim in mind that Toastmasters was started by Dr. Smedley.

TABLE TOPICS

Table topics was conducted by the sprightly Sudipto Ghosh, who kept the speakers and audience engaged and entertained with imaginative topics and role plays.

TABLE TOPIC SPEAKERS

Santhosh Kumar: How do you plan to commemorate our 67^th Republic day?

Vijay Kalkundri: What celebrity do you want on your 2016 calendar?

Karunakar Dev, Sreejith Kizhakkilot: Karunakar has a habit of plucking flowers from his neighbour Sreejith’s garden. One day he is caught red handed…(continue the story)

Siraj-ur-Rehman: Surprising everyone the dead man picked himself up off the floor, looked around and said…

Mahaveer Jain: On your morning walk you spot a banana peel on the path, but a little too late…

Vijay Anand: Men always want to be a woman’s first love and women like to be a man’s last romance

Kamal Garg: God has created a key for every lock he has made

Vaidyanathan Duraisamy (as the motorist), Varun Dev (as the police officer): While you are driving back from a late night party you are stopped for a breath test, which you are not at all keen on.

Bhavna Jha, Rahul Bhuyan: There is this fabulous republic day sale offer from Kalyan Jewels of 5 grams of gold free with every purchase. Bhavna would really like to go but Rahul is not so keen…

Mahesh Rao: Your most memorable achievement of 2015

Shilpa Samuel: You wake up in the morning to find a tiger peacefully sleeping by the side of your bed. You then…

Inder Kumar: If you could hold one athletic record in any sport, what would it be and why?

Joseph Dass: You loaned a friend Rs. 20,000 for a plastic surgery and now you don’t know what he looks like.

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PREPARED SPEECHES

Abhishek Karnwal delivered project 1 – The Ice Breaker - from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘If you want you can’.

Hemant Narang delivered project 2 – Organize your Speech – from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘You are what you are surrounded by.’

Ratan Shetty delivered an advanced project, ACB4 – A Dramatic Talk – from the Advanced Communication manual.

EVALUATIONS

The General Evaluator, Sapna Chandiramani, gave candid feedback and urged the club and speakers to avoid gender bias in the choice of words and themes.

Abhishek’s speech was evaluated by Prakash Tamhankar.

Hemant’s speech was evaluated by Richard D’Souza.

Ratan’s speech was evaluated by Godfrey Soans.

AWARDS

Best Speaker – Hemant Narang

Best Table Topic Speaker: Karunakar Dev

Best Role Taker: Sudipto Ghosh

Certificate of Appreciation: Abhishek Karnwal

ADJOURNMENT

The President, Cherian Thomas, adjourned the meeting at 8:40 pm.