Fellow toastmasters and most welcome guests,

We had a wonderful meeting on May 30th, 2008! Thirty five people came including five new guests. Welcome and thank you all for coming!

The meeting was started on time by the president of our club Al with a brief opening remark. He then gave a presentation of the upcoming club election. Next week, we won’t have a regular meeting, but a club election. We will select 7 roles: President, Vice President, VP of Education, VP of Membership, VP of Public Relations, Treasurer, Secretary and the Sergent of Arms. Each candidate will give a speech. The election is very important for our club so we urge you all to participate in the election next Friday.

After the presentation, the lectern was given to John Donato who led the whole meeting through as the Toastmaster. Michael Jackson then took the lectern as the toastmaster of the table topic session.  It was a great impromptus speech session, well done, guys, and thanks to the six participants for their wonderful speeches.

Three wonderful speakers delivered their speeches in the prepared speech session. In his first speech, Joey Perez gave a inspiring wonderful speech. The title was “Not just that guy in the wheelchair” and he emphasized that people with disability demand the same rights as others and want to make choices. It was very touching speech.

Ying then gave a speech, “Today is your last day.” Her theme was that life is once, so we should thank everyday as if today is our last day.” It was a persuasive speech by talking about the earthquake in China. The last speaker was Matt who gave his second speech. In “Adventures in social engineering,” he talked about the premises of social engineering. It was a humorous and entertaining speech as always. It was a wonderful well-prepared speech session. Good job guys!

In the evaluation session, Chet, Al and Michael Lee gave their wonderful evaluations to Joey’s, Ying’s and Matt’s speeches, respectively. The ah-counter was Sue Ann and the timer of this meeting was Jon Stribling. They all did excellent jobs (see below)!  Overall, it was a wonderful meeting! Thanks everyone and see you all next Friday in the same room on June 6th!!

Meeting Roles:
Toastmaster: John Donato

Table Topic Toastmaster: Michael Jackson
Ah Counter: Sue Ann
Timer: John Stibling

Ah Counter’s Report

Table Topics
Merlyne: 3um
Leonette: 1 so
Joe: 1uh
John F: 1ah
Matt: 0
Rosalyn: 0

Prepared speeches
Joey: 0
Ying:5 so 
Matt:4ah

Evaluations
Chet: 3so, 1um
Hans: 1so, 1ah
Michael Lee: 3 ah

Timer’s Report

Table Topics
Merlyne:48secounds
Leonette: 1:22min
Joe: 1:36 min
John F: 1:49
Matt: 1:13
Rosalyn: 1:59

Prepared speeches
Joey: 6:14
Ying:6:34
Matt:11:10

Evaluations
Chet: 2:29
Al: 3:10
Michael Lee: 3:14