The Middlesex County Toastmasters Club held a special meeting, a “Speech-A-Thon”, on Thursday, September 30th.
Members Present: Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Anne-Marie Cannata, Jennifer Cimilluca, Siva Digavalli, Charnaie Gordon, Erik Jarboe, John Keppler, Jackie Kirwan, Michael Nicastre, Sally Nicastre, Murugan Pachaiyappan, Ramesh Padavala, Murali Pemmaraju, Rob Schaff.
We were joined by a guest, Krisha Kumar, invited by Murali.
Business Meeting: Charnaie updated us on the club’s progress in the Distinguished Club Program. We have five points so far, and are now a Distinguished Club! Yolanda Lowe joined the club (giving us a point for adding four new members), and we gained another point by turning in our club renewals and officer lists on time.
The Area C5 Humorous and Evaluation Contests will be held on Thursday, October 7th, at the Cromwell Community Toastmasters (7pm). We will be represented in the Humorous Contest by Rob and Michael Nicastre, and in the Evaluation Contest by Rob and Michael O’Brien.
Tom spoke about a hike to be held on Sunday, October 10th at the Hublein Tower on Talcott Mountain in Simsbury at 2pm. All area Toastmasters will be invited. Members will soon be able to get information for upcoming hikes, and sign up, at the website http://www.meetup.com/.
Speechathon:
Our Toastmaster was Tom Alvord.
Jackie led us off with the Word of the Day, “mendacity”: the quality of being mendacious, untruthfulness, tendency to lie, an instance of lying, falsehood. She gave an original quote using the word, then gave a dramatic reading from the play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in which mendacity is a recurring theme.
We had seven prepared speeches:
Siva – “A Walk in the Woods – What I Found by Getting Lost” (evaluated by John). This was Siva’s second speech from the CC manual, “Organize Your Speech.”
Charnaie – “Mega Memory” (evaluated by the group in a round robin evaluation).
Anne-Marie – “Go With Your Gut” (evaluated by the group in a round robin evaluation)
Charnaie and Anne-Marie each spoke from Toastmasters’ advanced manuals.
Erik – “Composting Basics” (evaluated by Rob)
Murugan – “ICD-10” (evaluated by Charnaie)
These were Erik and Murugan’s first speeches since rejoining Middlesex County Toastmasters, and we are so glad to see them both return!
Michael – “Upsides and Downsides” (evaluated by Anne-Marie)
This was Michael’s second speech from the CC manual, “Organize Your Speech”, and the third he has presented to the club overall (the other was his speech in last week’s Humorous Contest).
Jen – “Lessons from the Mouse” (evaluated by the group in a round robin evaluation)
This was Jen’s 10th speech – she has now completed the CC manual!
Our General Evaluator was Murali, who did a great job in his first time in the role.
Our technicians were Jackie (Ah Counter), Anne-Marie (Grammarian), and Jay (Timer).
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Cimilluca, Secretary
Middlesex County Toastmasters Club
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