Meeting Notes - November 17

The Middlesex County Toastmasters met on Thursday, November 17, at Middlesex Community College. Fifteen members were in attendence.

Jennifer Cimilluca was our Toastmaster. Murali Pemmaraju provided the invocation and a humorous joke. Tom Alvord was the General Evaluator, and was supported by Rob Schaff (Ah-counter), Emily O'Brien (Grammarian), and Chris Sullivan (Timer). Chris also read the Word of the Day ("burgeon", to grow or develop quickly).

Ramesh Padavala was the Table-Topics Master. Ramesh got many members involved with questions around the theme of Thanksgiving.

Prepared speeches:

• Jonathon Herron presented his speech, "Children at Risk, How One Couple Decided to Help," and won favor with the audience by distributing Hershey Kisses before his speech. The speech was evaluated by Judy Thompson.

• Helena Grey presented "To Crush a Crash", a research-based speech on the proper way to handle many dangerous driving situations. Her speech was evaluated by Kay Jeyapalan.

• Jay Broderick presented speech #3 from the Competent Communcator manual, "Introduction to Occupational Fraud for Small Businesses". His speech was evaluated by Michael O'Brien.

Our next meeting will be on December 8, and this will be a special "Movie Night" meeting. Hope to see you all there!

Members Present:

Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Jennifer Cimilluca, Helena Grey, Jonathan Herron, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Monica Lozano, Emily O'Brien, Michael O'Brien, Ramesh Padavala, Murali Pemmaraju, Rob Schaff, Chris Sullivan, and Judy Thompson.