Minutes of Club Meeting #995 - February 26, 2016

Ashirvad - Loyola Hall, St. Marks Road

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Theme: The squeaky wheel gets the grease

Word of the day: Ignite
Meaning: Arouse
Usage: An inspiring speech can ignite the audience

ATTENDEES

CLUB OFFICERS

Esther Roshini Chandy       SERGEANT AT ARMS

Mahaveer Jain                    TREASURER

Raghunandan Damle          SECRETARY

Varun Dev                          VP PUBLIC RELATIONS

Joseph Dass                      VP MEMBERSHIP

Prakash Tamhankar            VP EDUCATION

Cherian Thomas                 PRESIDENT

MEMBERS (30)

Abubakar Khan

Ankit Kumar

Ashish Varghese

Aswathy Sreekumar

Bhavana Jha

Inder Kumar

Jay Agrawal

Johnson Bruno D’Souza

Lalith Dhanush Tallam

Mahesh Vittal Rao

Mohiddin Shaik

Payal Pankaj Bhulani

Prashanth Nair

Praveen Kumar

Rahul Bhuyan

Rajdeep Manwani

Ratan Shetty

Richard L D’Souza

Robinson D’Souza

Sanjana OJ

Sanjay Yugal Kishore Hassa

Sathvik Shetty

Shilpa Samuel

Sreejith Kizhakkilot

Srija Jampana

Sudipto Ghosh

Vaidyanathan Duraisamy

Vichur Umakanth

Vijay Vasudev Kalkundri

Vinay Venkataramana

18 Guests

ROLE TAKERS

TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY   Johnson Bruno D’Souza

TABLE TOPICS MASTER          Praveen Kumar

GENERAL EVALUATOR            Bhavana Jha

TIMER                                      Srija Jampana

AH COUNTER                           Melvin

GRAMMARIAN                          Ashish Varghese

Note: To view meeting videos click on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntq7T5Rpj-c&list=PLvldYcmG1bV7uJIJ1ujCzFA1aSrW0qFYS

TABLE TOPICS

Jay Agrawal: If you will be selected as head of your school what you will do?

Sreejith Kizhakkilot: Is this true – child is the father of man?

Shilpa Samuel: How was your day before board exam?

Rahul Bhuyan: Emotional abuse is worse than physical abuse

Ankit Kumar: If your girlfriend dumps you what will be your reaction?

Payal Bhulani: How to remove poverty from India?

Rajdeep Manwani: Caste or income based reservation – which is better?

Abubakar Khan: Should management quota for admission in school be scrapped or not?

Richard D’Souza: Indian expenditure on defence is justified

Umakanth Vichur: Which is better, private or government school?

PREPARED SPEECHES

Aswathy Sreekumar delivered project 4 – How to Say It – from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘Who is your Valentine?’

Vinay Venkataramana delivered project 2 – Organize your Speech – from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘Noise’.

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Jaishankar (guest from Daffodils Toastmasters Club) delivered project 6 – Vocal Variety – from the Competent Communicator manual, titled ‘The Day I Gave Up’.

Ratan Shetty delivered ACB- P5: project 1 – The Folk Tale – from the Storytelling manual, titled ‘Varya’s Mother’.

EVALUATIONS

Aswathy’s speech was evaluated by Robinson D’Souza.

Vinay’s speech was evaluated by Sudipto Ghosh.

Jaishankar’s speech was evaluated by Joseph Dass.

Ratan’s speech was evaluated by Sanjay Hassa.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The President announced the next speechcraft session will start on March 13^th. A few seats are available and those interested to join should contact Joseph Dass.

Club level prepared speech and table topics contests will be held on March 18^th.

The 1000^th meeting of the club will be a gala event on the 1^st of April, held in the Grand Magrath hotel, with Anand Pillai as the keynote speaker. Mr. Pillai will speak for one hour on Personal Branding. All members and guests, except for invitees need to purchase tickets. Tickets are subsidised at Rs. 550 for members, however those who can afford it were encouraged to purchase tickets for Rs. 1099 or Rs. 2499, the two price options available for non-members. A ticket of Rs. 2499 provides cluster seating at the front of the hall. All tickets include dinner. Valet parking is available. The capacity of the hall is 250 and members were encouraged to purchase tickets at the earliest as they are selling fast.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

The secretary, Raghunandan Damle, read out the minutes of the previous meeting, which were passed.

AWARDS

Best Table Topics Speaker: Rajdeep Manwani

Best Speaker: Aswathy Sreekumar

ADJOURNMENT

The President concluded the meeting at 8:30 pm and announced the start of the business meeting at 8:35 pm.

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