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
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:
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 13th. 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 18th.
The 1000th meeting of the club
will be a gala event on the 1st
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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