Minutes of Club Meeting #998 - March 18, 2016



Ashirvad - Loyola Hall, St. Marks Road
6:40 - 9:20 pm

CLUB LEVEL INTERNATIONAL SPEECH CONTEST AND TABLE TOPICS CONTEST

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 (33)
Abhinav K.B
Abubakar Khan
Ankit Kumar
Ashish Varghese
Aswathy Sreekumar
Ayyasamy Chinnaiyan
Bhavana Jha
Ganesh Pai
Godfrey Soans
Jay Agrawal
John-Bosco Abraham
Jose Paul
Karunakar Dev
Lalith Dhanush Tallam
Lokesh Murthy V
Melvyn Smith
Payal Pankaj Bhulani
Praveen Kumar
Rahul Bhuyan
Rajdeep Manwani
Ratan Shetty
Samuel Wankhade
Sanjana OJ
Santhosh Kumar M.
Sapna Chandiramani
Sathvik Shetty
Shilpa Samuel
Smitha Roshy
Sneha
Srinivasa V Kumar
Vaidyanathan Duraisamy
Vijay Vasudev Kalkundri
Yogesha Yarahally Chowdegowda

24 Guests

ROLE TAKERS
CONTEST CHAIR – INTERNATIONAL SPEECH   Bhavana Jha
CONTEST CHAIR - TABLE TOPICS                    Varun Dev
TIMER                                                              Srinivasa Kumar and Sanjay
COUNTERS                                                      Smitha Roshy, Yogesha Chowdegowda, Ganesh Pai
SERGEANT AT ARMS                                       Sanjana OJ, Shilpa Samuel
CO-ORDINATOR                                                Abhinav K.B, Prakash Tamhankar, Esther Chandy 

OPENING
The meeting was opened by the Sergeant at Arms, Esther Chandy.

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
As the Presiding Officer for the day, the Vice President – Education, Prakash Tamhankar, informed members and guests about the 1000th meeting on April 1st and then introduced the contest chair for the international speech contest.

INTERNATIONAL SPEECH CONTEST
The contest chair, Bhavana Jha, read out the contest rules and introduced the Chief Judge, Toastmaster Geetha Prasanna.

The contestants and their speech titles in sequence were:
Samuel Wankhade  - Being Yourself
Lalith Dhanush – The Perfect Day
Mahaveer Jain – Let Go
Payal Bhulani – My Second Chance
Cherian Thomas – Fly
Ratan Shetty – The Berry Tree

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TABLE TOPICS CONTEST
The Table Topics contest was chaired by Varun Dev. Chief Judge, Geetha Prasanna, picked the common table topic for all contestants – ‘Is it better to be loved or feared?

The contestants in sequence were:
Ashish Varghese
Rahul Bhuyan
Mahaveer Jain
Vijay Vasudev Kalkundri
Sathvik Shetty
Santhosh Kumar
Praveen Kumar
Payal Bhulani
Ratan Shetty
Lalith Dhanush
Karunakar Dev
Joseph Dass
Aswathy Sreekumar
Vaidyanathan Duraisamy

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
While the judges were tallying results the secretary, Raghunandan Damle, read out the minutes of the previous meeting, which were passed.

AWARDS
Certificates of appreciation were presented to all the speech contest participants by Toastmaster John Bosco Abraham.

 Lalith Dhanush


Payal Bhulani

Ratan Shetty 
  
Certificates of appreciation were presented to all the table topics contest participants by Distinguished Toastmaster Rajdeep Manwani.

Ashish Varghese

Rahul Bhuyan

Vijay Kalkundri

Santhosh Kumar
Praveen Kumar
Ratan Shetty

Lalith Dhanush

Karunakar Dev

Joseph Dass

The winners of the club level international speech contest were:

Second runner up – Mahaveer Jain

First runner up – Samuel Wankhade

Winner – Cherian Thomas

The winners of the table topics contest were:

Second runner up – Aswathy Sreekumar

First runner up – Payal Bhulani

Winner – Vaidyanathan Duraisamy

ADJOURNMENT
The Vice President-Education, Prakash Tamhankar, adjourned the meeting at 9:20 pm.
Bangalore Toastmasters Club Website: http://btmc.toastmastersclubs.org
Bangalore Toastmasters Club Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreToastmastersClub/
Toastmasters International Website:  http://www.toastmasters.org/

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