The Middlesex County Toastmasters Club had an exciting “speech-a-thon” meeting on Thursday, November 18th.
Members Present: Tom Alvord, Jennifer Cimilluca, Charnaie Gordon, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Jackie Kirwan, Cheryl Mason, Michael Nicastre, Murugan Pachaiyappan, Ramesh Padavala, Rob Schaff, Jeannette White.
Guests Present: Brian Burness, Deb Flynn.
Business Meeting: Charnaie welcomed our guests, Brian and Deb, and announced that Brian would be joining the club.
Our next meeting will be held on December 2nd. It will be a special meeting in the “Show Room” at the Village of South Farms (645 Saybrook Road), a “movie night” with two speeches followed by an hour-long DVD with a series of speaking skills. Charnaie and Kay will be bringing popcorn.
Charnaie reminded us that members with any concerns about their mentoring partnership should see Pam Mulready, our mentoring program coordinator.
Prepared Speeches: John Keppler was our Toastmaster, and we had five prepared speeches:
Michael Nicastre gave his fourth speech from the Competent Communicator Manual, “Everything I learned in Life, I learned from vacations.” His speech was evaluated by Tom.
Charnaie gave a speech from the Special Occasions Manual, “Born to Lead”, and gave well deserved kudos to our Immediate Past President, Cheryl, a Distinguished Toastmaster and a club role model. The members present gave Charnaie a “round robin” evaluation.
Jackie gave her second speech from the Competent Communicator Manual, “Find the Joy in Your Life; Live a Life with No Regrets.” Jen evaluated her speech.
Kay’s speech was called “The Three P’s of Power Introductions” and used examples from her own introduction of Isaak Gelbinovich during last week’s meeting to illustrate her points. Murugan evaluated her speech.
Rob gave a practice run of the speech “Good Evening, Sir”, that he would be presenting at Saturday’s District Humorous Contest, followed by a “round robin” evaluation.
Kay was our General Evaluator, assisted by technicians Charnaie (Ah Counter), Ramesh (Timer), and Jeanette (Grammarian).
Kay mentioned that she liked Charnaie’s speech and how she used someone from the club as a speech subject. The meeting’s logistics went well. John added that as usual, people stepped up to the plate with Ramesh volunteering to time the meeting and Murugan volunteering to evaluate Kay’s speech.
The meeting concluded on time. Please advise any errors or omissions. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Cimilluca, Secretary
Middlesex County Toastmasters Club
Monday, November 29, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Meeting Notes November 11
The Middlesex County Toastmasters Club had a terrific meeting with a dynamic guest speaker, Isaak Gelbinovich, on Thursday, November 11th (Veterans’ Day).
Members Present: Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Anne-Marie Cannata, Jennifer Cimilluca, Siva Digavalli, Charnaie Gordon, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Jackie Kirwan, Yolanda Lowe, Pamela Mulready, Michael Nicastre, Sally Nicastre, Michael O’Brien, Ramesh Padavala, Murali Pemmaraju, Kim Price, Rob Schaff, Jeannette White.
Guests Present: Brian Burness, Christopher Cargnel, Doug Compton, Dorothy Goertz, Krishna Kumar, Jenn Maynard, Abhijit Mhetre, Sowmya Ramasamy
Business Meeting: After welcoming our guests, Charnaie reminded us that our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 18th, at the Village of South Farms. It’s an extra (speech-a-thon) meeting with no meeting on November 25th (Thanksgiving Day).
The District 53 Fall Conference will be held on Saturday, November 20th, at the Holiday Inn in East Fishkill, NY.
In her “Mentoring Minute”, Pam reminded any members looking for a mentor to let her know, also anyone in a mentoring partnership with any questions or concerns should seek her out.
Meeting:
Our Toastmaster was Kay, who took a moment before starting the meeting to remind us that December 2nd is a special meeting at the Village of South Farms, a “movie night” with just two speeches followed by an hour-long DVD with a series of speaking skills (thanks to Michael O’Brien for providing that to us). December 9th will be our last meeting of the year. On January 20th, we will be having a joint “speech-a-thon” with the Cromwell Community Toastmasters.
Kay read an excerpt from the book, Tips to Becoming an Effective Presenter, by Frank S. Adamo.
Our invocator was Anne-Marie, who on this Veterans Day gave us some very moving and appropriate thoughts on the meaning of freedom.
Tom offered us the Word of the Day—actually, in honor of Veterans’ Day he gave us two—“Armistice”, and “truce.” Using “armistice” would give a speaker two points, and using “truce” would give a speaker one point.
Our Humorist, Michael Nicastre, brought a golf club and ball so he didn’t just tell his joke, but acted it out for us.
Charnaie was our Table Topics Master. She set up teams of speakers for an “improv” session by giving an opening line and letting the speakers take it away. And taking it away were Pam and Jay; Ramesh, Murali, and our guest Abhijit; Anne-Marie and our guest, Doug; our guest speaker Isaak, and Kim; and Sally, Jeannette, and John.
We had two prepared speeches:
Siva’s speech, “How to Read a Brain” was his third, #3 in the CC manual, “Get to the Point.” His speech was evaluated by Jackie.
Tom’s speech “On the Battlefield: On Flanders Field” was from the Interpretive Reading manual, and was evaluated by Michael O’Brien.
We were then treated to a guest speaker, Isaak Gelbinovich, who presented “Storytelling Secrets of the Masters.” He told a wonderful story about his first experiences on the ski slope, and walked us through the elements of the story (structure, dialog, conflict, and message) one by one, to help us learn how to craft our own stories.
Rob was our General Evaluator.
Our technicians were Yolanda (Ah Counter), Jackie, (Grammarian), and Jen (Timer).
Rob’s evaluation of the meeting recognized Jackie and Michael O’Brien for their excellent evaluations and suggestions for Siva and Tom. He also noted how a speaking slot or role on the agenda could be used to introduce a theme to the meeting (as Tom did with Veterans’ Day).
The meeting concluded on time. Please advise any errors or omissions. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Cimilluca, Secretary
Middlesex County Toastmasters Club
Members Present: Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Anne-Marie Cannata, Jennifer Cimilluca, Siva Digavalli, Charnaie Gordon, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Jackie Kirwan, Yolanda Lowe, Pamela Mulready, Michael Nicastre, Sally Nicastre, Michael O’Brien, Ramesh Padavala, Murali Pemmaraju, Kim Price, Rob Schaff, Jeannette White.
Guests Present: Brian Burness, Christopher Cargnel, Doug Compton, Dorothy Goertz, Krishna Kumar, Jenn Maynard, Abhijit Mhetre, Sowmya Ramasamy
Business Meeting: After welcoming our guests, Charnaie reminded us that our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 18th, at the Village of South Farms. It’s an extra (speech-a-thon) meeting with no meeting on November 25th (Thanksgiving Day).
The District 53 Fall Conference will be held on Saturday, November 20th, at the Holiday Inn in East Fishkill, NY.
In her “Mentoring Minute”, Pam reminded any members looking for a mentor to let her know, also anyone in a mentoring partnership with any questions or concerns should seek her out.
Meeting:
Our Toastmaster was Kay, who took a moment before starting the meeting to remind us that December 2nd is a special meeting at the Village of South Farms, a “movie night” with just two speeches followed by an hour-long DVD with a series of speaking skills (thanks to Michael O’Brien for providing that to us). December 9th will be our last meeting of the year. On January 20th, we will be having a joint “speech-a-thon” with the Cromwell Community Toastmasters.
Kay read an excerpt from the book, Tips to Becoming an Effective Presenter, by Frank S. Adamo.
Our invocator was Anne-Marie, who on this Veterans Day gave us some very moving and appropriate thoughts on the meaning of freedom.
Tom offered us the Word of the Day—actually, in honor of Veterans’ Day he gave us two—“Armistice”, and “truce.” Using “armistice” would give a speaker two points, and using “truce” would give a speaker one point.
Our Humorist, Michael Nicastre, brought a golf club and ball so he didn’t just tell his joke, but acted it out for us.
Charnaie was our Table Topics Master. She set up teams of speakers for an “improv” session by giving an opening line and letting the speakers take it away. And taking it away were Pam and Jay; Ramesh, Murali, and our guest Abhijit; Anne-Marie and our guest, Doug; our guest speaker Isaak, and Kim; and Sally, Jeannette, and John.
We had two prepared speeches:
Siva’s speech, “How to Read a Brain” was his third, #3 in the CC manual, “Get to the Point.” His speech was evaluated by Jackie.
Tom’s speech “On the Battlefield: On Flanders Field” was from the Interpretive Reading manual, and was evaluated by Michael O’Brien.
We were then treated to a guest speaker, Isaak Gelbinovich, who presented “Storytelling Secrets of the Masters.” He told a wonderful story about his first experiences on the ski slope, and walked us through the elements of the story (structure, dialog, conflict, and message) one by one, to help us learn how to craft our own stories.
Rob was our General Evaluator.
Our technicians were Yolanda (Ah Counter), Jackie, (Grammarian), and Jen (Timer).
Rob’s evaluation of the meeting recognized Jackie and Michael O’Brien for their excellent evaluations and suggestions for Siva and Tom. He also noted how a speaking slot or role on the agenda could be used to introduce a theme to the meeting (as Tom did with Veterans’ Day).
The meeting concluded on time. Please advise any errors or omissions. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Cimilluca, Secretary
Middlesex County Toastmasters Club
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