Meeting Minutes - April 27, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - April 27, 2021

 

Announcements:  No announcement.  

 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement, flag salute, and reminded members and guests that the speech and evaluation part of our meeting are recorded. 

 

Our President Barb opened the meeting and introduced the Toastmaster and the VPE Nancy to review roles for the next meeting.

 

Our Toastmaster was Nancy.  Our theme was "My Hometown". 

 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Mara

Word of the day - Amiable

Ah Counter - Mara

Timer - Jim

General Evaluator - Warren

 

Our only speaker for today was Kristin.  Her speech was entitled, “Mental Wellness Booklet". She is working on her Innovative Planning Pathway; Evaluation and Feedback (5-7 mins)

Our Evaluator was Jean (evaluating Kristin)

Our Table Topic Master was Lynne D.  

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Midori, Robert, Kameh, JinXin, Hannah, and Kate shared stories relating to their hometown.

 

Members in Attendance were Jim, Lynne, Jean, Barb, Midori, Kristin, Robert, Mara, Lynn, Warren, Hannah, Nancy, Kameh, JinXin, and Kate

 

Guest(s) in Attendance: None

 

Motion to Adjourn,

 

Secretary, 

Lynn Connell

Meeting Minutes - April 13, 2021

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - April 13, 2021

 

Announcements:  No announcement.  

 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement, flag salute, and reminded members and guests that the speech and evaluation part of our meeting are recorded. 

 

Our President Barb opened the meeting and introduced the Toastmaster and the VPE Nancy to review roles for the next meeting.

 

Our Toastmaster was Robert.  Our theme was "Support Your Local Toastmaster’s Club!!". 

 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Kameh

Word of the day - Advocate

Ah Counter - Glenn

Timer - Midori

General Evaluator - Lynn C.

 

Our 1st speaker was Hannah.  This is her 1st ICE BREAKER speech entitled, "I Live in a Zoo". She is working on her Presentation Mastery Pathway; Project 1 (4-6 mins)

 

Our 2nd speaker was Giri.  His speech was entitled, "Bringing Your A-Game to Public Speaking".   He is working on his Motivational Strategies Pathway; Inspire Your Audience (8-10 mins)

 

Our Evaluators were Jean (evaluating Hannah) and Warren (evaluating Giri)

 

Our Table Topic Master was Mara.  

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Jim, shared stories relating to his role as Treasurer.

 

Members in Attendance were Jim, Lynne, Jean, Barb, Midori, Kristin, Robert, Mara, Lynn, Warren, Hannah, Nancy, Kameh, Giri, and Kate

 

Guest(s) in Attendance: Janice (returning)

 

Motion to Adjourn,

 

Secretary, 

Lynn Connell

Meeting Minutes - April 20, 2021

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - April 20, 2021

 

Announcements: President, Barb, encouraged members to think about taking on an officer's position. Open positions are:

President, VP of Education and Secretary. Elections will be held in June. All positions are for 6 month terms.

Kate is returning as VP of Membership, Mara will continue as VP of Public Relations, Jinxin is in training to take over the Treasurer's position from Jim. Lynne will continue as Sergeant of Arms and Zoom host.

If you are interested in learning more about a position, reach out to the current officers who can fill you in on what their position requires. Also, there is a document in the Member Downloads section of the website, www.publicspeakingnorthwest.com, that outlines the duties of each officer.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement, flag salute, and reminded members and guests that the speech and evaluation part of our meeting are recorded. 

 

Our President Barb opened the meeting and introduced the Toastmaster. In Nancy's absence, Lynne reviewed roles for the next meeting.

 

Our Toastmaster was Jean.  Our theme was "Sunshine". Jean taught us a helpful technique to improve our outlook, especially when we are facing difficult situations.

 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Kristin

Word of the day - Brightness

Ah Counter - Hannah

Timer - Midori who filled in for Lynn

General Evaluator - Mara

 

Our first speaker was Warren.  His speech was entitled, "Who Am I"  He is beginning a new Path, Visionary Communication, and gave his Ice Breaker today.  His speaking time was 4-6 minutes.

 

Our second speaker was Glenn.  His speech was entitled, "Alberto Giacometti".  This is speech #3 from the Presentation  Mastery path.  Glenn's speaking time was 5-7 minutes

 

Our Evaluators were Giri (evaluating Warren) and Barb (evaluating Glenn)

 

Our Table Topic Master was Jim.  

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Kameh, Kristin, Hannah and Barb who all shared experiences they have had with Sunshine!!

 

Members in Attendance were Giri, Jim, Lynne, Jean, Warren, Glenn, Barb, Midori, Kristin, Kameh, Robert, Mara, Hannah

Note: If you were at the meeting and your name is not included, please let me know!!

 

Guest(s) in Attendance: There were no guests today.

 

Motion to Adjourn,

 

 

Submitted on behalf of our Secretary, Lynn Connell, by Lynne Dauenhauer.

Officers' Minutes - April 6, 2021

 Officers’ Minutes - April 6, 2021

Attendees: Barb, Kate, Jim, Lynne, Mara, Lynn, Nancy

Barb had the minutes from March 2021 approved.

Officer Reports with Discussion:

Officer Reports:

• President: Barb

• VP Education (VPE): Nancy

• VP Membership (VPM): Kate

• VP Public Relations (VPPR): Mara

• Secretary: Lynn C

• Treasurer: Jim & Jinxin

• Sergeant at Arms (SAA): Lynne D

 

• Nancy, sent out an email with the attached DPR. If we can get 3 more members by the end of June, we will be a President’s Distinguished Club with a perfect score of 10.  Jim gave us our last needed education achievement.

• Webmaster: Nancy added the next meeting role assignment to the sample agendas in Web Member Downloads. Brilliant idea, Barb.

• Mara, updates Facebook regularly. She’s working with Kate to drive membership. We should encourage our own members to bring someone in.

• Any suggestion on giving Todd (open house guest speaker) something to thank him? An Amazon $15 gift card and chocolate bar? Mara put in motion to give the guest speaker a $20 gift. Jim in favor.

• Kate, 17 members currently, 3 did not renew. Since we’ve been online, we have had 8 new members. There’s been a steady stream of inquires

• The Roaster includes current members. Mara and Kate were thinking of sending out emails to join our club. On the Toastmasters email distribution, there are members (all current members), officers (all officer members), and All (all current and former members). 

• Mara request to clean up the Roaster emails. Nancy in favor.

• Lynn C., asked if she should include the member’s last name on the Meeting Minutes. It doesn’t seem necessary. 

• Jim, the balance as of March 31, 2021, is $1,085.18. 

• Treasurer District 2 steps are complicated.

• Yes, we can afford a $20 gift for the guest speaker

• No random charges on invoice since new credit card.

• Lynne, zoom going well with the recording of speech and evaluators. She has a system set up now that’s going well and have also received compliments. Lynne asked how her Intro is and everyone agrees it is great.

 

Old Business

Facebook online project

• Nothing new

 

Jim suggests Barb invite her other Toastmaster club Willow’s Toastmasters to cross join our club. They have 17 members as well.  Willow’s Toastmasters meets at 7 AM every Friday.

 

New Business

Needing additional zoom backup for Lynne training. She might be gone in the summer.

• Mara volunteered to be the backup. She also suggested training a group of people interested. Lynne agrees that’s a good idea.

 

Membership Campaign

• Kate, it’s been put aside to see what happens at the Open House.

 

New Officers - June is our Officers re-election. Should we start early looking for someone to take on our role?

• Barb, asked if JinXin still training to be Treasurer?

• Jim, yes. The steps are difficult and he’s working on creating documentation.

• Giri for President?

• Lynn C is willing to stay as Secretary but doesn’t know if her new job role in the future might make it difficult to attend all the meetings. 

• Kate will stay on as VPM

• Lynne is open to stepping down to open the position to new members but is also happy to continue.

• Mara suggested Kristin be Secretary and Lynn C. be President

• Nancy has no idea who would take her position.

 

Mara suggests a hybrid meeting so we won’t lose members that can’t go into a building. Maybe do 2 zoom and 2 live a month?

 

Mara mentioned that Kristin asked about Toastmasters magazine.  Jim said the magazine is history pre-COVID. It’s online now.

 

Motion to adjourn. 

Secretary,

Lynn