Meeting Notes-April 23, 2024

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April 23, 2024

 

Announcements: Speak-a-Thon on May 21st

 

Our President Pro Tem Nancy called our meeting to order.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb articulated the Club’s Mission and led the Flag Salute

 

Our VPE Nancy’s Education Minute:

Bring Your Speech to Life with a Story
https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2024/apr/bring-speech-to-life
How to create engaging stories.
How to tell an engaging story.

 

Our Toastmaster was Lynne with the theme “Conversations with Shakespeare”.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Nancy

Word of the day was Renaissance.

Ah Counter – Amy

Timer - Georgina

General Evaluator – Kelly

 

Our Speakers and Evaluators were:

Speakers	Speech Titles	Evaluators
Dustin	“Are Weddings Hazardous to Your Health? ”	Sonal
Sophia	“Meet Minty”	Bill

 

Our Table Topics Master was Justin.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Lakita, Georgina, Robert, and Bill.

 

Our Humorist was None.

 

Members in Attendance were Barb, Justin, Kelly, Robert, Nancy, Lynne, Amy, Georgina, Bill, Sophia, Natalia, Dustin, Lakita, Deanna and Sonal

 

Guests in Attendance were Amy Wood and Kavita.

 

Motion to Adjourn: Bill      Second: Dustin

Meeting Notes-April 16, 2024

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April 16, 2024

 

Announcements: Speak-a-Thon on May 21st

 

Our President Victor called our meeting to order.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb articulated the Club’s Mission and led the Flag Salute

 

Our VPE Nancy’s Education Minute:

Untie The Knots 

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2024/apr/untie-the-knots
14 tricks to calm your nerves.

 

Our Toastmaster was Nancy with the theme “Puns”.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Amy

Word of the day was Synonymous.

Ah Counter – Georgina

Timer - Lynne

General Evaluator – Maria

 

Our Speakers and Evaluators were:

Speakers	Speech Titles	Evaluators
Kelly	“Confidence: My Passport to Magic”	Barb
Sonal	“Mentorship Journey: Guiding Growth”	Victor

 

Our Table Topics Master was Nitin.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Dustin, Natalia, Sophia, and Bill.

 

Our Humorist was None.

 

Members in Attendance were Barb, Justin, Kelly, Robert, Nancy, Lynne, Victor, Amy, Nitin, Maria, Georgina, Bill, Sophia, Marcus, Dustin, and Sonal

 

Guests in Attendance was Natalia.

 

Motion to Adjourn: Robert      Second: Nancy

Officer Meeting Minutes 04/09/2024

Officers Meeting Reports:

Previous meeting minutes from 03/12/2024 approved.

 April 09, 2024

• Webmaster:
• Our issue with receiving Not a Member Confirmation emails seems to be vanquished after deleting the option from our future emails and asking folks to not use the old email threads.
• Robert was suspected of being a bot, but he is now on the White List and that seems to have fixed the problem.
• Vice President of Education (VPE):
• I offered folks the opportunity to do an After Meeting speech, as we discussed. No takers yet. (We also discussed another option, the Speakathon on May 21, which was unanimously approved by all)
• Kelly will be presenting at the district conference!  Woohoo!
• We are still one level 3 or two level 2s away from being President's Distinguished for the 2023/24 TM year. It is confusing to receive our President's Distinguished ribbon for last TM year 9 months after we achieved it..
• Kelly came in second in the area speech competition. Maria competed, but did not place.
• We will need a new President, Sergeant at Arms, and Membership VP (?) by election time at the end of June.
• Treasurer:
• TI membership renewal for April-Sept 2024 is completed.
• New joining member fees (pro-rated) will be processed as new members join.
• The PSNW Concur is account is has processed two payments from
• D2 dollar awards ($100 & $75). There is one new $50 (Pathways
• Incentive) award that I will submit a receipt for in April.
• Upcoming payment for meeting room (May – Aug) will be made in
• late April.
• The PSNW bank account balance is $1349.38 as of 4/9/24.
• Vice President of Public Relations (VPPR):
• Since I am a speaker at the district conference, people are checking out our website. I am hearing all good things.
• We currently have 203 videos posted on YouTube with 34 subscribers.
• Facebook  followers jumped to 374 followers…WOW!!!
• Thank you, Nancy for all the work you do tracking our education. How exciting we are President’s Distinguished Club for 2022-2023.
• Website is updated and Oksana, the President of Leading Edge, Advanced Toastmasters, gave us a testimonial.
• New Business. The Easter Party was my treat. Would you all consider having the club sponsor a ‘summer party’ in June or July? We had 20 people at our in person meeting this week.
• Vice President of Membership (VPM):
• As of April 3rd we have 23 paid members.  We reached out to the nine members who had not paid by March 22nd.  Six confirmed they have dropped: Jim Tracy, Julie Hutton, Rahul Bagai, Sharon Gottula,  and Tian Ouyang.   Two have not responded: Lynn Connell and S. Jutta. l will reach again out in the next week.
• President:
•  None

.Officers in Attendance were Victor, Kelly, Deanna, Lynne, Barb, and Sonal

Meeting Notes-April 09, 2024

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April 09, 2024

 

Announcements: None

 

Our President Victor called our meeting to order.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb articulated the Club’s Mission and led the Flag Salute

 

Our VPE Nancy’s Education Minute:

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine

 

Our Toastmaster was Victor with the theme “Turning Points: Moments That Shaped Our World and Ourselves”.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Deanna

Word of the day was Bravery.

Ah Counter – Sonal

Timer - Amy

General Evaluator – Deanna

 

Our Speakers and Evaluators were:

Speakers	Speech Titles	Evaluators
Kelly	“From Vision to Transformation”	Nancy
Lynne	“Imperfect Perfection”	Barb

 

Our Table Topics Master was Kerry.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Deanna, Nancy, Robert, and Amy.

 

Our Humorist was None.

 

Members in Attendance were Barb, Deanna, Justin, Kelly, Robert, Nancy, Kerry, Lynne, Victor, Amy, and Sonal

 

Guests in Attendance were Jonathan, Kendra, Mercedes, Natalia, and Magda

 

Motion to Adjourn: Lynne      Second: Robert

Meeting Notes - April 02, 2024

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April 02, 2024

 

Announcements: None

 

Our President Pro Tem Mara called our meeting to order.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb articulated the Club’s Mission and led the Flag Salute

 

Education Minute by Barb: Reviewed in-person meeting protocols.

 

Our Toastmaster was Kelly with the theme “Easter Party”.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Deanna

Word of the day was Peter Cottontail.

Ah Counter – Dustin

Timer - Nitin

General Evaluator – Bill

 

Our Speakers and Evaluators were:

Speakers	Speech Titles	Evaluators
Katie	“Why Bother with Men?”	Mara
Brian	“Citizen of the World”	Oksana

 

Our Table Topics Master was Sonal

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Oksana, Kerry, Cheryl, and Justin.

 

Our Humorist was None.

 

Members in Attendance were Katie, Mara, Barb, Deanna, Bill, Nitin, Justin, Kelly, Robert, Dustin, Brian, Kerry, and Sonal

 

Guests in Attendance were Laurie, Laurie, Cheryl, Oksana, Natalia, and Nadine

 

Motion to Adjourn: Kelly      Second: Nitin

Meeting Notes-March 26, 2024

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March 26, 2024

 

Announcements: Pay your dues

 

Our President pro tem Nancy called our meeting to order.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb articulated the Club’s Mission and led the Flag Salute

 

Our VPE Nancy’s Education Minute:

 

Quit Talking Quickly
https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2021/sept/quit-talking-quickly
1. Raise your volume.
2. Over-Articulate
3. Embrace Pauses
4. Ask Questions
5. Add breaks in your notes
6. Cut insignificant content if you are running out of time.

 

Our Toastmaster was Lynne with the theme “National Goof Off Day”.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Katie

Word of the day was ludicrous.

Ah Counter – Justin

Timer - Nitin

General Evaluator – Sonal

 

Our Speakers and Evaluators were:

Speakers	Speech Titles	Evaluators
Maria	“From Here to Timbuktu”	Barb
Amy	“Remembering Frank: A Life of Scales, Smiles, and Serenity”	Kelly

 

Our Table Topics Master was Georgina.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Nadine, Dustin, and Nancy.

 

Our Humorist was Dustin.

 

Members in Attendance were Barb, Georgina, Justin, Kelly, Dustin, Lynne, Katie, Maria, Nancy, Victor, Nitin, and Sonal

 

Guests in Attendance were Matthew, and Nadine

 

Motion to Adjourn: Lynne     Second: Dustin

Meeting Notes-March 19, 2024

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March 19, 2024

 

Announcements:  Pay your dues.

 

Our Toastmaster was Victor with the theme. Future Forward: Crafting Our Tomorrow

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Barb called our meeting to order.

 

Our President Victor opened our meeting.

 

Our Education Minute:

Speaking to a Distracted Audience March TM Magazine

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2024/mar/distracted-audience

 

Keep them engaged.

1.    Ask a challenging question.

2.    Tell a great story.

3.    Change something (sit, stand, walk, surprise them)

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Lynne

Word of the day was Cogitate.

Ah Counter – Nitin

Timer - Dustin

General Evaluator – Barb

 

Our Speakers were Kelly with Me, Myself, and I: PR Strategies for Beginners and Bill with Call of the Wild.

 

Our Evaluators were Katie and Nancy

 

Our Table Topics Master was Maria with Goals as the theme.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Sophia, Nakaba,,Kerry, and Robert

 

Members in Attendance were Nancy, Victor, Barb, Lynne, Nitin, Dustin, Kelly, Bill, Maria, Katie, Justin, Sophia, Brian, Kerry, Robert

 

Guests in Attendance: Nakaba

 

Motion to Adjourn: Robert  Second: Bill