Meeting Notes - May 10, 2012

The Middlesex County Toastmasters met on Thursday, May 10, at Middlesex Community College, for a meeting featuring a special guest speaker. We had 25 attendees, including 19 members and 6 guests.

Members Present:

Tom Alvord, Jay Broderick, Jennifer Cimilluca, Sonia Dean, Ryan Dolan, Charnaie Gordon, Jonathan Herron, Kay Jeyapalan, John Keppler, Jacqueline Kirwan, Monica Lozano, Daniel Moran, Michael O'Brien, Ramesh Padavala, Rob Schaff, Arun Sodani, Kirti Sodani, Chris Sullivan, and Judy Thompson.

Special guest: Carmine Coco De Young

Meeting

Jacqueline Kirwan was our Toastmaster for the evening. Charnaie Gordon provided the invocation with a Mother's Day theme, and Kirti Sodani was the Humorist. John Keppler was the General Evaluator, and was supported by Chris Sullivan (Ah-counter), Charnaie (Grammarian), and Jonathan Herron (Timer). Sonia Dean provided the Word of the Day ("quixotic", exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical). Ramesh Padavala was the Table-Topics Master.

Prepared speeches:

• Judy Thompson gave speech #5 from the Competent Communicator Manual, Your Body Speaks, with a speech called, "Fore! Run For Your Life". Her speech was evaluated by Michael O'Brien.

• Carmine Coco De Young was our guest speaker. Her speech was entitled, "The Total Effect". Carmine's speech had an inspirational message about the power of words, and she augmented her speech with a Q&A session.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, May 24.

Respectfully submitted,

Rob