Minutes of Club Meeting #1009 - June 10, 2016



Ashirvad - Loyola Hall
6:35 - 8:45 pm

Theme: Speech is silver; Silence is golden
Word of the day: Wean
Meaning: Detach
Usage: I am still trying to wean myself off from my crutch words

ATTENDEES

CLUB OFFICERS (7)
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 (40)
Ankit Kumar
Ashish Varghese
Ashresh Nanisetty
Ayyasamy Chinnaiyan
Bhavana Jha
Chandrashekhar
Ganesh Pai
Godfrey Soans
Guruprasad
Inder Kumar
Jagan
Jay Agrawal
Johnson Bruno Dsouza
Jose James Nellikunnam
Karunakar Dev
Lalith Dhanush Tallam
Lokesh Murthy V
Mahesh Vittal Rao
Melvyn Smith
Muralidhar Govindarao Adamane
Nithin
Prasanna Kumar Bhat
Rajdeep Manwani
Ratan Shetty
Robinson D'Souza
Samuel Wankhade
Sanjana OJ
Sathvik Shetty
Shilpa Samuel
Smitha Roshy
Sneha
Sreejith Kizhakkilot
Srija Jampana
Sujay Simha
Swati Panda
Vaidyanathan Duraisamy
Vichur Umakanth
Vijay Anand
Vijay Vasudev Kalkundri
Vinay Venkataramana

22 Guests

ROLE TAKERS
TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY               Shilpa Samuel
GENERAL EVALUATOR                        Rajdeep Manwani
TIMER                                                  Sneha
AH COUNTER                                      Jay Agrawal
GRAMMARIAN                                     Ankit Kumar
VOLUNTEER FOR ELECTIONS             Bhavana Jha, Sujay Simha, Smitha Roshy                     

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PREPARED SPEECHES

Sanjana OJ delivered project 2 – Organize your Speech – from the Competent Communicator manual. She persuaded people not to sacrifice happiness for the sake of money. Her speech was evaluated by Ashish Varghese.

Smitha Roshy delivered project 6 – Vocal Variety – from the Competent Communicator manual. Her speech was about miracles and it was evaluated by Godfrey Soans.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sriram, a guest from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Toastmasters Club, who attended the meeting with his classmates, invited us to their Toastmasters conference, which is to be held in Vellore in November this year.

AWARDS


 Best Speaker – Tie between Sanjana OJ & Smitha Roshy!

ELECTIONS FOR CLUB OFFICERS OF THE NEXT TERM JULY-DEC 2016

The Nomination committee chair, Vijay Anand, presided over the elections for the next term. He was assisted by Bhavana Jha, Sujay Simha and Smitha Roshy. He asked the VP Membership, Joseph Dass, to state the current membership strength of the club. Joseph Dass said it was 75. Vijay Anand stated that the minimum attendance required for elections to be held based on the current strength of the club was 38 members. As there were 47 members present, elections could be held.

The nominations for each role were as follows:

President: Joseph Dass, Prakash Tamhankar
Vice President Education: Ashish Varghese
Vice President Membership: Vijay Kalkundri
Vice President Public Relations: Lalith Dhanush, Karunakar Dev
Secretary: Mahesh Vittal Rao
Treasurer: Lalith Dhanush, Srija Jampana
Sergeant at Arms: Melvyn Smith

Where there was only one nominee for a position, the Secretary, Raghunandan Damle, cast his vote in favour of the single candidate.

The elected officers for the new term were as follows:

President: Prakash Tamhankar
Vice President Education: Ashish Varghese
Vice President Membership: Vijay Kalkundri
Vice President Public Relations: Karunakar Dev
Secretary: Mahesh Vittal Rao
Treasurer: Srija Jampana
Sergeant at Arms: Melvyn Smith

The newly elected President, Prakash Tamhankar, addressed the audience and the new committee posed for a photograph.


Left to Right: Melvyn (SAA), Srija (Treasurer), Mahesh (Secretary), Karunakar Dev (VP-PR), Ashish Varghese (VP-ED), Vijay Kalkundri (VP-Membership), Prakash Tamhankar (President)

ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 pm.
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