The Middlesex County Toastmasters Club had a fun and educational night “at the movies” on Thursday, December 2nd, thanks to the video “Magic Moments”.
Members Present: Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Brian Burness, Anne-Marie Cannata, Jennifer Cimilluca, Charnaie Gordon, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Jackie Kirwan, Yolanda Lowe, Cheryl Mason, Michael Nicastre, Sally Nicastre, Michael O’Brien, Ramesh Padavala, Murali Pemmaraju, Kim Price, Rob Schaff.
Guests Present: Ashley Mason, Paul Randolph (from the Air Line Trail Toastmasters Club in Colchester).
Business Meeting: Charnaie presented Brian with his new member pin and officially welcomed him to the club.
Rob competed in the Humorous Contest at the District 53 Conference on Saturday, November 21st, in East Fishkill, New York. That was just one of the conference highlights, which included educational workshops and the keynote speech from Dana LaMon, the 1992 World Champion of Public Speaking.
Upcoming District 53 events include the Jan Jam, a kick off to the new year, which will be held January 29, 2011. This free event will be held in Hartford – more details to come. The Spring Conference will be held on May 21, 2011, at the Clarion Conference Center in East Windsor, CT. There will be a club officer training session on 12/4 in Manchester, with other sessions to follow for those officers unable to make the 12/4 session.
Our club’s final meeting of 2010 will be at Middlesex Community College on Thursday, December 9th.
Two club members were mentioned in the current issue of the Middlesex/Cromwell monthly newspaper, The Chronicle. Anne-Marie was pictured on the front page of the paper, as Executive Director of The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown. An article on the Middlesex County Toastmasters mentioned Rob’s success in the club, area, and division Fall Humorous Contests.
There will be a meeting for club officers on Tuesday, January 11th, at the Russell Library.
Meeting:
Our Toastmaster for the evening was Michael O’Brien.
Jay presented our Word of the Day, assiduous (meaning “constant; unremitting: assiduous reading; constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.
Charnaie presented our invocation, reminding us that life is not a race, and giving us inspiring words to help unleash the greatness within each of us.
For Table Topics, in honor of our movie, “Magic Moments”, Jen gave the choice of either a movie related or a Harry Potter related Table Topics question. Answering questions were Brian, Yolanda, Michael Nicastre, our guest Paul, and Murali.
There were two prepared speeches:
Jackie gave her third speech from the Competent Communicator Manual with the objective, “Get to the Point.” Her speech, “The Transformative Power of Toastmasters: Reflections from My First Toastmasters Conference”, was evaluated by Tom.
Cheryl gave a speech from the Competent Communicator manual (Project #5, Your Body Speaks), “The Good Wife.” Her speech was evaluated by Kim.
Kay was our General Evaluator, and our technicians were Rob (Timer), and Charnaie (Grammarian).
In her evaluation of the meeting, Kay commented how effective the comments were by our two evaluators. The meeting went smoothly, starting on time and running on time up to that point. She brought Rob up to present him with a certificate marking his accomplishments in the District Humorous Contest.
The last hour of the evening was devoted to the DVD, “Magic Moments”, provided by our Toastmaster, Michael O’Brien. The narrator David Brooks, the 1990 World Champion of Public Speaking, introduced 29 video clips from Toastmasters speech contests held over 11 years. We saw examples of gestures, body language, timing, humor, excellent writing, and the use of personal stories from some of the best Toastmasters speakers in the world.
For more information, see the attached transcript from the “Magic Moments” video, and see David Brooks’ website, http://www.DavidBrooksTexas.com
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Cimilluca, Secretary
Middlesex County Toastmasters Club
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