Meeting Agenda 11/28/07

CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, I WILL“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, November 28, 2007 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court, Building 4, 4120C

Theme: What Drives Me
WOW: copse (KOPS), noun; A thicket or grove of small trees.
12:05 Sergeant-at-Arms leads pledge and introduces President......... Ferdonya Henderson
12:07 President calls mtg. to order and introduces Toastmaster......... Matt Greenbergs
12:09 Toastmaster leads the meeting......................................................... Brenda Gettig
12:11 Self-introductions................................................................................ All
12:17 New Member Induction...................................................................... Barbara Nedd
12:25 Educational Moment: Club Officer Roles...................................... Club Officers
12:35 Table Topics........................................................................................ Byron Shovlain
12:48 General Evaluator............................................................................... Open
Grammarian/Ah Counter................................................................... Open
Timer’s Report.................................................................................... Open
12:55 Toastmaster presents awards, asks for guests’ comments, makes announcements and welcomes back the President
1:00 President adjourns the meeting

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NEXT MEETING – Wednesday December 5, 2007
Nominations for Club Officers
Theme: It’s a Wonderful Life
WOW: Extant (ek-STANT), adjective: Still existing; not destroyed, lost, or extinct.

Toastmaster: Matt Greenbergs General Evaluator: Open
Ed. Moment: Open Evaluator #1: Open
Speaker #1: Jennifer Ebner Evaluator #2: Open
Speaker #2: Rhonda Walthall ALB-1 Timer: Lee Moran
Table Topics: Open Grammarian: Open

Meeting Minutes - November 14, 2007

The meeting was called to order at 12:05pm and was attended by 8 members: Matt Greenbergs, Jennifer Ebner, Brenda Gettig, Byron Shovlain, Jackie Lyons, Elizabeth Lee, Rob Cross, Jose de la Torre and 1 guest: Tony Sabgga.

• VP of Education Brenda Gettig led the Pledge of Allegiance and introduced President Matt Greenbergs.

• Matt called the meeting to order and introduced Treasurer Jose de la Torre as Toastmaster.

• Jose welcomed members and guests and ensured all the meeting roles were filled. He led introduction by using the word of the week (W.O.W) and theme. Everyone gave different money saving tips ranging from investing in a 401K or IRA to paying down mortgages, avoiding credit cards, marrying rich, and raising kids to support them.
O Theme: My Best Money Tip
O W.O.W.: lucrative, adj: producing wealth; profitable

• Jose welcomed Jackie Lyons for an educational moment on being a GPS Financial Navigator. She spoke about the ten commandments for living well, some of which can be applied to Toastmasters. Some examples include creating a written plan, having an emergency cash fund, saving for big ticket items and education evaluate insurance coverage, plan for retirement, and ask yourself the right questions.

• Jose started the speaker portion of the meeting and introduced the scheduled speaker:
O Speaker #1, Byron Shovlain gave his first speech for the ATM –Bronze track titled "The Effective Salesperson." The purpose was persuasive speaking. Byron spoke about focusing on the buyer, creating value, listening to the customer, and obtaining a commitment to purchase. Byron clearly demonstrated these skills with an impromptu interaction with Liz. He set up a scenario where he was the salesperson at Nordstrom and Elizabeth was the customer. He then asked for feedback from the audience.

• VP of Education Brenda Gettig led a unique and fun round of Table Topics with a color theme. She had each person choose a piece of paper from a bag. The paper had a name of a color written on it. She asked that the color be incorporated into the response.
O Rob Cross: Imagine that your house is painted this color, what would your neighbors think? Hot Magenta
O Jackie Lyons: Your entire wardrobe is in this color, what does that say about you? Electric Lime
O Jennifer Ebner: Your cubicle is covered in this color, how does it affect your co-workers? Neon Carrot
O Matt Greenbergs: You have a product line that is all in this color, what product would it be? Shocking Pink
O Tony Sabgga: Why would someone want to buy a car in this color? Wild Watermelon
O Jose de la Torre: You invite people over for Thanksgiving dinner and ask them to bring food in this color, what would they bring? Atomic Tangerine

• Jose introduced Matt Greenbergs as the General Evaluator. Matt led his team of evaluators:
O Rob Cross evaluated Byron’s speech
O Jennifer Ebner provided the Grammarian/Ah counter’s report
O Elizabeth Lee provided the Timer’s report

• The "Best of" awards were presented by Rhonda:
O Best Speaker: Byron Shovlain
O Best Table Topics: Jackie Lyons
O Best Evaluator: Rob Cross
O 1st Time Guest Ribbon: Tony Sabgga

• Matt adjourned the meeting at 1:05pm.

Submitted by Club Secretary, Jennifer Ebner, Century Toastmasters #9273

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Meeting Minutes - November 7, 2007

The meeting was called to order at 12:05pm and was attended by 10 members: Matt Greenbergs, Jennifer Ebner, Brenda Gettig, Jim Tucker, Byron Shovlain, Jackie Lyons, Doug Goodman, Rhonda Walthall, Lee Moran, Barbara Nedd, and 3 guests: Jeff, Kelsey, and Julie.

• VP of Education Brenda Gettig led the Pledge of Allegiance and introduced President Matt Greenbergs.

• Matt called the meeting to order, read the mission and vision statement, and introduced VP of Public Relations Rhonda Walthall as Toastmaster.

• Rhonda welcomed members and guests and introduced the word of the week (W.O.W) and theme by asking the audience to identify where the quotes about dreams originated from. Everyone was asked to introduce themselves and use the theme or W.O.W.
O Theme: Dreams
O W.O.W.: yen, noun: a strong desire or inclination; a longing

• Rhonda welcomed VP of Membership Barbara Nedd for an educational moment on the use of podiums/lecterns. Barbara provided a very well prepared and humorous speech on how she has a love/hate relationship with the lectern. It gives a sense of importance, but also restricts movement. She showed ways to work around the lectern or to eliminate it all together.

• Rhonda started the speaker portion of the meeting and introduced the scheduled speaker:
O Speaker #1, Jackie Lyons gave her CC-1 Icebreaker speech appropriately titled "Just Jackie." Jackie bravely gave her speech without the use of notes or the lectern. In no particular order, the top three things Jackie is passionate about are food, family, and career. She explained her love of cooking, the importance of family, and her new career as a financial advisor.

• Doug Goodman led a full round of Table Topics and gave a great introduction on ways to respond to table topics.
O Lee Moran spoke about what he would compete in as a world champion
O Brenda Gettig spoke about what famous person she would spend a day with
O Barbara Nedd talked about where she would dream about going on an exotic trip
O Jeff told us what role he would star in for a movie remake
O Byron Shovlain talked about striving for his personal best at surfing
O Rhonda Walthall told us about dreaming to be a world champion dog handler
O Matt Greenbergs spoke about spending a day with Ronald Reagan

• Secretary Jennifer Ebner was introduced as the General Evaluator. Jennifer introduced her team of evaluators:
O Byron Shovlain evaluated Jackie’s speech
O Brenda Gettig provided the Grammarian/Ah counter’s report
O Jim Tucker provided the Timer’s report
O Jennifer provided an overview of the meeting

• The "Best of" awards were presented by Rhonda:
O Best Speaker: Jackie Lyons
O Best Table Topics: Barbara Nedd
O Best Evaluator: Byron Shovlain
O 1st Time Guest Ribbons: Jeff, Julie, Kelsey

• Matt adjourned the meeting at 1:05pm.

Submitted by Club Secretary, Jennifer Ebner, Century Toastmasters #9273

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Meeting Minutes - October 31, 2007

The ghostly meeting was called to order at 12:10pm and was attended by 12 mad hatters and spooky members: Zorro Matt Greenbergs, Jennifer Ebner, Ferdonya Henderson, Brenda Gettig, Wicked Witch of the West Darcy Konold, Jim Tucker, Byron Shovlain, Jackie Lyons, Jose de la Torre, Devil Rhonda Walthall, Rastafarian Rob Cross, Doug Goodman, Witch Barbara Nedd, and 1 guest, Geisha Rebecca Dohren.

• Sergeant-at-Arms Ferdonya Henderson led the Pledge of Allegiance and introduced President Zorro Matt Greenbergs.

• Matt called the meeting to order and introduced Doug Goodman as Toastmaster.

• Doug welcomed members and brought extra hats for those without costumes. He introduced the word of the week (W.O.W) and theme and asked everyone to introduce themselves saying what their hat represents.
O Theme: Halloween Party (wear a hat or come in costume)
O W.O.W.: fungible, adjective: 1) freely exchangeable for or replaced by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation; 2) interchangeable.

• Educational Moment was skipped

• Doug started the speaker portion of the meeting and introduced the scheduled speakers:
O Speaker #1, VP of Public Relations, Rhonda Walthall gave an advanced manual speech titled "Evading the Witch" with the purpose of sharing a personal story and entertaining the audience. Rhonda and her husband were forced to evacuate from their home due to the recent San Diego Witch fire. They packed up their pets, photographs, and took pictures of their recent home remodel. She even had to wear ski goggles due to the smoke. Fortunately, the fire did not impact their home and they successfully evaded the witch.

O Speaker #2, VP of Membership, Barbara Nedd gave her CC-4 speech titled "In Search of Delectable Treats." She spoke about her pursuit of baking a fabulous apple pie for her son’s school party. Barbara was apprehensive about baking since her strength is in cooking. By modifying the secret ingredient of extra sugar, her apple pie was a hit with the family and the kids at school.

• General Evaluator Byron Shovlain introduced the speech evaluators:
O Evaluator #1, VP of Education Brenda Gettig evaluated Rhonda’s speech. Brenda noted that Rhonda tied the introduction and conclusion together very well and commented that the prop may have limited her gestures.
O Evaluator #2, Treasurer Jose de la Torre evaluated Barbara’s speech. He noted the good word usage throughout the speech and recommended changing the title of the speech to reflect the content.

• Darcy Konold was the Table Topics Master and incorporated the Halloween theme into her questions:
O Ferdonya Henderson was called on who cleverly deferred her question to Jim Tucker about the origin of Halloween.
O Byron Shovlain was called on to speak about his corniest costume
O Jennifer Ebner was asked to talk about who she would be Halloween
O Rob Cross was called on to speak about the superstition of blacks cats. He led everyone on a deep breathing exercise.
O Rebecca Dohren spoke about what she would have her fungible clone do.
O Matt Greenbergs talked about giving tricks or treats

• Remaining evaluations presented:
O Ferdonya provided the Grammarian/Ah counter report and noted good word usage.
O Jackie Lyons provided the Timer’s Report, giving great details for each portion of the meeting.

• Announcements:
O November 2nd and 3rd is District conference. Friday evening Table Topics and Dinner. Sat morning Business meeting, Educational seminars, and Tall Tales.

• The "Best of" awards were presented by Doug:
O Best Speaker: Rhonda Walthall
O Best Table Topics: Rob Cross
O Best Evaluator: Jackie Lyons

• Matt adjourned the meeting at 1:05pm.

Submitted by Club Secretary, Jennifer Ebner, Century Toastmasters #9273

Visit our website at http://www.centurytoastmasters.com for more information.

Meeting Minutes - October 17, 2007

Sergeant-at-Arms Ferdonya Henderson opened up the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and then introduced President Matt Greenbergs who brought his children on break from school. Next Brenda Gettig did a good job as last minute Toastmaster fill in. Brenda introduced the Theme of Living on the Edge and the WOW of Gauche. Always good to learn about members and how they live on the edge. Brenda also gave the educational moment about being nervous is not such a bad thing, just be in the moment.

World famous speaker Jim Tucker gave all of us relevant speech topics in his speech about topics that will "blow your audience’s mind". Good sources of speech starters are such things as wrist bands with words or symbolism that you can pontificate upon. Another great source is carrying a note pad for writing down the occurrences of everyday life. For example, Jim saw a young girl who reminded her dad that he couldn’t buy clothes without mommy. Writing down such occurrences doesn’t let you forget. Jim then broke out his high school yearbook and re-visited memories and read from Longfellow a quote that was his school motto. He finally showed a photo from a scrapbook memory of an astronaut he shared the stage with.

Today was Rhonda Walthall’s birthday and as Table Topics Master she used her bag of goodies to ask participants to use the object to start a speech. Ferdonya had the luck of picking an indecipherable object that she made into an all purpose remote control. Doug Goodman pulled out a propeller/letter opener and pitched like a snake oil salesman. Stephanie Love-Payne did an excellent demonstration of a back massager on yours truly. Rob Cross pulled a book about painted cats and segued into Andrew Carnegie’s relaxation techniques. Young Jonathan Greenbergs grabbed a jar opener and proceeded to spin a winner of a tale.

Ferdonya further took on the job of General Evaluator. Doug did an excellent job of evaluating Jim’s speech using the COD (content, organization, and delivery) method. Doug hit on elements such as getting audience response, affirmation, rhetorical questions, stories, quotes, and examples. Rob Cross was Ah counter, and Barbara Nedd was timer. Doug won best evaluator and Jim best speaker. Elizabeth Lee, Byron Shovlain (Meeting minutes), and Angela Bonner were also in attendance.

Submitted by Byron Shovlain, Century Toastmasters #9273

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Meeting Agenda 11/14/07

CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, I WILL“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, November 14, 2007 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court, Building 4, 4120C

Theme: My Best Money Tip
WOW: lucrative: l kr -t v, adj: Producing wealth; profitable: a lucrative income; a lucrative marketing strategy.
12:05 Sergeant-at-Arms leads pledge and introduces President......... Ferdonya Henderson
12:07 President calls mtg. to order and introduces Toastmaster......... Matt Greenbergs
12:09 Toastmaster leads the meeting......................................................... Jose de la Torre
12:11 Self-introductions................................................................................ All
12:14 Educational Moment............................................................................ Jackie Lyons
12:16 Speaker #1........................................................................................... Byron Shovlain
12:24 Speaker #2.......................................................................................... Open
12:40 Table Topics........................................................................................ Jim Tucker
12:48 General Evaluator............................................................................... Open
Evaluator #1........................................................................................ Darcy Konold
Evaluator #2....................................................................................... Open
Grammarian/Ah Counter................................................................... Jackie Lyons
Timer’s Report.................................................................................... Elizabeth Lee
12:58 Toastmaster presents awards, asks for guests’ comments, makes announcements and welcomes back the President
1:00 President adjourns the meeting

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No Meeting Next Week (Nov. 21) Due to Thanksgiving HolidayNEXT MEETING – Wednesday November 28, 2007
Theme: What Drives Me
WOW: copse (KOPS), noun; A thicket or grove of small trees.
Toastmaster: Brenda Gettig General Evaluator: Open
Ed. Moment: Barbara Nedd (New Member Induction) Evaluator #1: Open
Speaker #1: Open Evaluator #2: Open
Speaker #2: Open Timer: Ferdonya Henderson
Table Topics: Byron Shovlain Grammarian: Open

Meeting Agenda 11/07/07

CENTURY TOASTMASTERS
CLUB 9273 – Vision statement “YES, I WILL“
Club website: www.centurytoastmasters.com
WEDNESDAY, November 7, 2007 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
San Diego Gas & Electric, 8306 Century Park Court, Building 4, 4120C

Theme: Dreams
WOW: yen: noun: a strong desire or inclination; a longing.

12:05 Sergeant-at-Arms leads pledge and introduces President......... Ferdonya Henderson
12:07 President calls mtg. to order and introduces Toastmaster......... Matt Greenbergs
12:09 Toastmaster leads the meeting......................................................... Rhonda Walthall
12:11 Self-introductions................................................................................ All
12:14 Educational Moment............................................................................ Barbara Nedd
12:16 Speaker #1........................................................................................... Don Wiggins
12:24 Speaker #2.......................................................................................... Jackie Lyons CC1
12:40 Table Topics........................................................................................ Doug Goodman
12:48 General Evaluator............................................................................... Darcy Konold
Evaluator #1........................................................................................ Byron Shovlain
Evaluator #2....................................................................................... Jennifer Ebner
Grammarian/Ah Counter................................................................... Brenda Gettig
Timer’s Report.................................................................................... Ferdonya Henderson
12:58 Toastmaster presents awards, asks for guests’ comments, makes announcements and welcomes back the President
1:00 President adjourns the meeting
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NEXT WEEK’s MEETING – Wednesday November 14, 2007
Theme: My Best Money Tip
WOW: lucrative: l kr -t v, adj: Producing wealth; profitable: a lucrative income; a lucrative marketing strategy.
Toastmaster: Jose de la Torre General Evaluator: Open
Ed. Moment: Ferdonya Henderson Evaluator #1: Rhonda Walthall
Speaker #1: Byron Shovlain Evaluator #2: Darcy Konold
Speaker #2: Open Evaluator #3: Open
Speaker #3: Open Timer: Elizabeth Lee
Table Topics: Open Grammarian: Jackie Lyons