Meeting Minutes Oct 26, 2005
CENTURY TOASTMASTERS MEETINGCLUB #9273Wednesday, October 26, 2005MINUTES
Century Toastmasters had a great meeting with 18 members and guests in attendance!
ATTENDEES:Joe Stewart, Jose de la Torre, Darcy Konold, Hannah Zhao, Stephen Jaworski, Martin Olmeda, Paul Pitt, Matt Greenbergs, Arnold Ahyuen, Dee Williams, Rhonda Walthall, and guests – Alan Landers, Heather, Dakota Hills, Cindy, Kathy, Jennifer Morgan, and Kelly Straffield.12:09 Sergeant-At-Arms, Hannah Zhao, welcomed everyone and lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
12:10 Joe Stewart came to the lectern, welcomed everyone, and introduced Jose de la Torre as the Toastmaster. This was Jose’s first time as Toastmaster and he did a great job!
12:11 Jose welcomed our 1st time special guests (Heather, Dakota, Cindy, Kathy, Jennifer, and Kelly). Our guests participate in a local home school program whose curriculum includes a Toastmasters program. Jose introduced the theme: Guess Who I Am and the WOW: Incognito. Jose, who grew up in Mexico, talked about Halloween and how Mexico did not celebrate “The Day of the Dead” until about 25 years ago. He started celebrating Halloween when he moved to the US. While he does not enjoy wearing costumes, he enjoys seeing others in costumes and is looking forward to seeing his daughters in their Halloween costumes this year. A round of self-introductions followed in which everyone described a time when they were incognito or wished they had been incognito.
12:24 Jose introduced the Secretary, Rhonda Walthall, who presented the Educational Moment on “The Role of Secretary”. Rhonda described the functions that the Secretary in a Toastmasters club needs to perform during club meetings and outside club meetings and she handed out a description of each of these tasks. She also gave out M&Ms plain (for Minutes and Mailings) and M&Ms with Nuts (because you gotta be nuts to be the Secretary!)
12:28 Jose introduced the first speaker Dee Williams. The title of Dee’s CTM-7 speech was “Cold or Allergy”. Dee gave an excellent speech on the differences between colds and allergies. She listed a variety of common allergens, such as pollen, mold, dust, insects, venom, and various animals. Dee is an allergy sufferer herself and has particular trouble with chemical irritants, including perfume. Dee described the similarities and differences between cold and allergy symptoms. She stated that over 35,000 people in the US suffer annually from Upper Respiratory symptoms. She also stated that about 11M people in the US suffer from asthma and 40 –50M suffer from Hay Fever, which is an allergy to pollen. Dee provided some remedies for allergy sufferers.
12:36 Jose introduced the 2nd Speaker, Treasurer and Sergeant-At-Arms, Hannah Zhao. The title of Hannah’s speech was “Financial Behavior”. Hannah did an excellent job in highlighting how most people’s financial behavior is emotion driven. She enlisted Stephen Jaworski and VP of Education, Darcy Konold, to participate in a financial game. When Stephen was given $1000 and offered the chance to receive an additional $500 or take a 50/50 chance that he would win an additional $1000 or $0, Stephen chose to take the 50/50 chance. Hannah pointed out that 90% of people would make the same choice. When Darcy was given $2000 and offered the chance to lose $500 or take a 50/50 chance that she would lose an additional $1000 or $0, Darcy chose to lose the $500 and not take the 50/50 chance. Hannah pointed out that 80% of people would have taken the 50/50 chance. Hannah explained that people are emotional about losing money, which is why they would take the chance of losing more ($1000) since there was a 50% chance that they would not lose anything. Hannah explained that people hate to lose money more than they like to gain money and that they would chose more risk in order to “avoid” more loss. She pointed out that people are also more comfortable about selling stock when they have a gain rather than selling when they have a loss. Hannah closed by saying that we should look at our entire financial picture as a whole rather than make a decision based on emotions.
12:48 Jose came back to the lectern and reminded everyone to vote for the best speaker. He then invited the General Evaluator, Alan Landers, to lead the Evaluation portion of the meeting. Alan introduced VP of Public Relations, Matt Greenbergs, to evaluate Dee’s speech and Joe Stewart to evaluate Hannah’s speech. Both did an excellent job. Arnold Ahyuen gave the Timer’s report. Paul Pitt was the Grammarian/Ah Counter, but did not get called upon to give his report. Sorry Paul!
1:00 Jose asked everyone to vote for the Best Evaluator. He then announced that Hannah had won the Best Speaker award and Joe received the Best Evaluator award.
Joe announced the Century Toastmasters had received a Founder’s Award for starting a new club. Thank you Jim Tucker and Martin Olmeda for starting the club in Rancho Bernardo for Sony employees! The ribbon will be displayed with the banner at each meeting. The Fall District Conference is this coming weekend.
Nomination will be held on November 2 and Elections will be held on November 9.
1:05 The meeting was adjourned.
Sincerely submitted,
Rhonda Walthall, SecretaryCentury Toastmasters Club #9273
Visit our website at
http://www.centurytoastmasters.com
for more information.
Century Toastmasters had a great meeting with 18 members and guests in attendance!
ATTENDEES:Joe Stewart, Jose de la Torre, Darcy Konold, Hannah Zhao, Stephen Jaworski, Martin Olmeda, Paul Pitt, Matt Greenbergs, Arnold Ahyuen, Dee Williams, Rhonda Walthall, and guests – Alan Landers, Heather, Dakota Hills, Cindy, Kathy, Jennifer Morgan, and Kelly Straffield.12:09 Sergeant-At-Arms, Hannah Zhao, welcomed everyone and lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
12:10 Joe Stewart came to the lectern, welcomed everyone, and introduced Jose de la Torre as the Toastmaster. This was Jose’s first time as Toastmaster and he did a great job!
12:11 Jose welcomed our 1st time special guests (Heather, Dakota, Cindy, Kathy, Jennifer, and Kelly). Our guests participate in a local home school program whose curriculum includes a Toastmasters program. Jose introduced the theme: Guess Who I Am and the WOW: Incognito. Jose, who grew up in Mexico, talked about Halloween and how Mexico did not celebrate “The Day of the Dead” until about 25 years ago. He started celebrating Halloween when he moved to the US. While he does not enjoy wearing costumes, he enjoys seeing others in costumes and is looking forward to seeing his daughters in their Halloween costumes this year. A round of self-introductions followed in which everyone described a time when they were incognito or wished they had been incognito.
12:24 Jose introduced the Secretary, Rhonda Walthall, who presented the Educational Moment on “The Role of Secretary”. Rhonda described the functions that the Secretary in a Toastmasters club needs to perform during club meetings and outside club meetings and she handed out a description of each of these tasks. She also gave out M&Ms plain (for Minutes and Mailings) and M&Ms with Nuts (because you gotta be nuts to be the Secretary!)
12:28 Jose introduced the first speaker Dee Williams. The title of Dee’s CTM-7 speech was “Cold or Allergy”. Dee gave an excellent speech on the differences between colds and allergies. She listed a variety of common allergens, such as pollen, mold, dust, insects, venom, and various animals. Dee is an allergy sufferer herself and has particular trouble with chemical irritants, including perfume. Dee described the similarities and differences between cold and allergy symptoms. She stated that over 35,000 people in the US suffer annually from Upper Respiratory symptoms. She also stated that about 11M people in the US suffer from asthma and 40 –50M suffer from Hay Fever, which is an allergy to pollen. Dee provided some remedies for allergy sufferers.
12:36 Jose introduced the 2nd Speaker, Treasurer and Sergeant-At-Arms, Hannah Zhao. The title of Hannah’s speech was “Financial Behavior”. Hannah did an excellent job in highlighting how most people’s financial behavior is emotion driven. She enlisted Stephen Jaworski and VP of Education, Darcy Konold, to participate in a financial game. When Stephen was given $1000 and offered the chance to receive an additional $500 or take a 50/50 chance that he would win an additional $1000 or $0, Stephen chose to take the 50/50 chance. Hannah pointed out that 90% of people would make the same choice. When Darcy was given $2000 and offered the chance to lose $500 or take a 50/50 chance that she would lose an additional $1000 or $0, Darcy chose to lose the $500 and not take the 50/50 chance. Hannah pointed out that 80% of people would have taken the 50/50 chance. Hannah explained that people are emotional about losing money, which is why they would take the chance of losing more ($1000) since there was a 50% chance that they would not lose anything. Hannah explained that people hate to lose money more than they like to gain money and that they would chose more risk in order to “avoid” more loss. She pointed out that people are also more comfortable about selling stock when they have a gain rather than selling when they have a loss. Hannah closed by saying that we should look at our entire financial picture as a whole rather than make a decision based on emotions.
12:48 Jose came back to the lectern and reminded everyone to vote for the best speaker. He then invited the General Evaluator, Alan Landers, to lead the Evaluation portion of the meeting. Alan introduced VP of Public Relations, Matt Greenbergs, to evaluate Dee’s speech and Joe Stewart to evaluate Hannah’s speech. Both did an excellent job. Arnold Ahyuen gave the Timer’s report. Paul Pitt was the Grammarian/Ah Counter, but did not get called upon to give his report. Sorry Paul!
1:00 Jose asked everyone to vote for the Best Evaluator. He then announced that Hannah had won the Best Speaker award and Joe received the Best Evaluator award.
Joe announced the Century Toastmasters had received a Founder’s Award for starting a new club. Thank you Jim Tucker and Martin Olmeda for starting the club in Rancho Bernardo for Sony employees! The ribbon will be displayed with the banner at each meeting. The Fall District Conference is this coming weekend.
Nomination will be held on November 2 and Elections will be held on November 9.
1:05 The meeting was adjourned.
Sincerely submitted,
Rhonda Walthall, SecretaryCentury Toastmasters Club #9273
Visit our website at
http://www.centurytoastmasters.com
for more information.
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