Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - February 2, 2021

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - February 2, 2021

Announcement: Who is interested in the speech competition at the club level? If you are interested, please contact our VOE Nancy or your mentor.  If there is a competition, it will be on 2/23.  Nancy will be moving in a couple of weeks, if any of the Officers would be willing to take on the role of organizing and hosting it, please let her know.

We would like to also wish Lynne D. a very Happy Birthday! 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute.

Our Temp President, Nancy, welcomed our guests and introduced the Toastmaster.  

Our Toastmaster was Kate with the theme “Groundhog Day”

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Lynne

Word of the day - Anticipation - Lynne, Giri, Glenn, Jim, Kate, Warren, Mara, and Midori used the word today

Ah Counter - Kameh

Timer - Midori

General Evaluator - Giri

Our 1sr Speaker was Glenn with his speech entitled “Bruce Lee: Not Enough Recognition”. He’s working on his Presentation Mastery Path, Level 1 (5-7 mins)

Our 2nd Speaker was Jean with her speech entitled “The Perfect Nun”. She’s working on her Presentation Mastery Path, Level 1 (8-10 mins)

Our Evaluators were Jim (evaluating Glenn) and Mara (evaluating Jean)

Our Table Topic Master was Warren.  

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Robert, you are a groundhog, you are about 47% accurate. There’s this dog that’s going to take you out and you need to have a conversation with the dog to not eat you. Maybe the dog can meet him on the other side of the tunnel. The reason for being 47% accurate is because of his ancestors (blame them). To make the grass grow better, what’s underneath grows on top. 

Nancy, if you were an animal, what animal and why? Mallard Duck. Growing up in PA the duck would come in and it was so cool.  Her brother gave her a duck and she raised it like she was the duck’s mama. The duck eventually grew up and flew away. She loves how they look at you.

Jim, favorite smartphone app, and why? He hates apps. They always try to sell you something or get you to do something. He just wants to talk on his phone. He would like a Mute Button App for TV to block commercials and the noise. Apple sometimes puts apps in and he just knocks it off.

Member in Attendance was Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Lynne, Kate, Midori, Mara, Kameh, Lynn, Nancy, Glenn

Guest(s) in Attendance was Carolina (new), Hannah (back)

Motion to Adjourn, Jim called first, Kate seconded it.

Secretary,

Lynn

Officers’ Minutes - January 5, 2021

 Officers’ Minutes - January 5, 2021

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

Barb had the minutes from December 2020 approved.

Officer Reports with Discussion:

Officer Reports:

• VP Education (VPE): Nancy

• VP Membership (VPM): Kate

• VP Public Relations (VPPR): Mara

• Secretary: Lynn C & Jean

• Treasurer: Jim & Jinxin

• Sergeant at Arms (SAA): Lynne D

 

• Nancy reminded all the officers about the Officer Training.  An email was sent out with all the dates.  All officers need to complete at least 1 training. So far only Jim has completed his training.

• Kate sent our zoom meeting link to 8 guests showing interest in visiting. She has sent out the application to 3 people. She normally sends the visitors our Agenda and link to our Zoom meeting when they RSVP.  Jim has not received any applications yet.  Mara asked Kate for that email she normally sends out so that she can send it to those that are interested and reached out through Facebook.

• Mara posted on Facebook a Welcome to 2021 post welcoming people to join our team. She is experienced in this role because she’s done it before. 

• Lynn is new to the Secretary role and has reached out to Nancy to understand this role better and what is expected of her.  Jean (our former Secretary) was also very helpful in providing examples of Meeting Minutes and Officer Minutes as well as explaining the role.

• Jim noticed a charge of $200 in our club account.  He will try to find out what this charge is for.  The total balance we have in our account right now is $743.38.  Barb confirmed she did not make any charges.

• Lynne, when she reached out to acknowledge ISO for the use of their room in 2020 she discovered that our contacts at ISO are no longer there.  She made contact with the office manager and we are welcome to return and use their room when things open up again.  We typically give gift cards as a thank you and will plan on doing that again next year.  

New Business

1. Holiday Celebration - Nancy has a White Elephant idea and would like to move it to the last meeting in January. Nancy will be absent on Jan 12th.

2. Membership Campaign - Mara spoke in regards to progress on FaceBook Live Team - currently, the team has not added much due to the holidays.  She was thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to record Table Topics and post on Facebook as well as post a recording of Midori’s Ice Breaker speech about not speaking English well. Midori’s speech was so well done and the topic might help attract people. Kate being VPM and Mara being VPPR has decided to get together to work on membership campaigning.

3.Toastmaster of the Year Award for our club - we normally award 1 person each year who contributes the most. Mara suggested an award party at the end of June. The last week of July was also mentioned.  Barb likes this idea and will plan something.

4.  Awards for members - brainstorming ideas for how to award people. 

• Jim, when someone completes a path, the club pays $20 for them when they apply for a new path. Nancy reminded us that it’s free until March 2021 right now.

• Mara suggests we reward people when they finish their speech and small stuff.  We can tip a hat, all wear a certain color, or snap fingers.

• Nancy currently announces and shares the certificate to the group during our meeting when someone completes their path.  She then emails the certificate to the person. 

• Kate likes the hat visual idea

• Nancy suggest secretary put the announcement at the top of the Meeting Minutes

• In the end, we concluded that when someone finishes a LEVEL, we give props by Finger Pointing and will have a clip of fireworks shared on the screen. When someone completes their Ice Breaker speech, they get a certificate and finger snaps.

 

Mara motion for the meeting to adjourn. Jim seconded it.

Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - January 26, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - January 26, 2021

Announcement: Our club will have a competition coming up. The speech can be on anything between 5 - 7 minutes long.  Evaluator competition will be competing against each other. 

There’s a competition at the Club Level, Division Level, District Level, and International Level.

There will be an Officer Meeting next week and they will find a date.

Mentor Pledge -  Kate pledges to be Kameh’s mentor and we all pledge to help. We’re all so happy Kameh is officially a member.

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute

Our President, Barb, welcomed our guests and introduced the Toastmaster.  Our guest today was John Brandy.

Our Toastmaster was Jean with the theme “Snowflakes”

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Lynne

Word of the day - Unique - Lynne, Barb, Nancy, Jim, Lynn, Mara, and Jean used the word today

Ah Counter - Lynne

Timer - Kate

General Evaluator - Mara

Our 1sr Speaker was Lynn with her speech entitled “Lynn’s Secret”. She’s working on her Presentation Mastery Path, doing her first Ice Breaker speech (4-6 mins)

Our 2nd Speaker was Nancy with her speech entitled “Jumping to Conclusions”. She’s working on her Presentation Mastery Path, Which Speech, Project 2 (5-7 mins)

Our Evaluators were Warren (evaluating Lynn) and Barb (evaluating Nancy)

Our Table Topic Master was Jim.  

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Glenn, what sport involving snow would you be willing to take up? Being Hawaiian, snow is foreign to him. He’ll be falling down and holding onto the ring on ice skates and will become a ski pretzel skiing. Snow and Glenn don’t get along.

Midori, 1” or 6” of snow or 1” or 6” of rain? She picks 6” of snow over rain if she can stay at home. Snow is fun for her son, looks beautiful, and her dog likes playing in it.

Mara, make a case for or against golfers playing in the snow if they use black golf balls. She didn’t realize how expensive golf is. The Bothell course had goose poop all over when she was there and her husband got stung. She doesn’t get golf.  She thinks snow on the golf course would be a great idea.

Member in Attendance was Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Lynne, Kate, Midori, Mara, Kameh, Lynn, Nancy, Glenn

Guest(s) in Attendance was John Brandy

Motion to Adjourn

Secretary,

Lynn

Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - January 19, 2021

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Meeting Minutes - January 19, 2021

Announcement: Kameh is officially our new member! Yay! Welcome!  

Also, we would like to say Happy Birthday to Nancy! 

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute

Our President, Barb, welcomed our guests and introduced the Toastmaster.  Our guest today was Hannah.

Our Toastmaster was Nancy with the theme “Your Gift”

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Kate

Word of the day - Presence - Jim, Warren, Mara, Jim, Jean, and Giri used the word today

Ah Counter - Kate

Timer - Warren

General Evaluator - Jean

Our only Speaker today was Giri with his speech titled “Stop Hiding Your Light - Let Your Brilliance be a Blessing”. He’s working on his Motivational Strategies Path, Inspire Your Audience (8-10 mins)

Our Evaluator was Jim (evaluating Giri)

Our Table Topic Master was Mara.  She was great at sticking to the theme and explaining how we’re going to do a virtual white elephant. Before Mara gave us gifts, she gifted Nancy with a beautiful blue hydrangea bouquet for her birthday. 

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Midori, was given 2 plane tickets to fly anywhere, where would she go and who would she take? She would go back and visit her hometown Japan and would take her son because he has shown interest and her husband needs to stay home and watch the dog.

Lynn, was given a basket of snacks with a bunch of goodies, what else is in this basket? There were crackers, cheese, guacamole, and a gallon of ice cream in this basket because she loves snacking on these snacks and eating ice cream while watching TV at the end of the day

Kameh, was given a $100 gift card to a local restaurant, where and what would she eat? She loves Chinese food and would eat dim-sum, even chicken feet dim sum. 

Kate, was given a handmade netted scarf, hat, and mittens. Kate appreciated handmade gifts more than anything. She loved her gift.

Hannah, was given a choice to pick either a yoga mat, water bottle, protein powder, and some more items, which would she pick and why? She would pick the Vegan protein powder because it’s expensive to buy.  She would get a free month out of it.

Lynne, was given a box of puzzles, how many pieces and what picture would it be? She loves a busy puzzle so her puzzle would be 2500 pieces and the picture would be colorful hot air balloons

Robert, was given a crisp $100 bill, what would he buy? He would buy a talking Rodney Dangerfield doll.

Jim, being it’s a white-elephant gift-giving table topic, Jim can steal one of the gifts given or take a new one.  What would he like to do?  Jim ended up stealing Robert’s gift of the Romedy Dangerfield doll that talks. He used to have one and he donated it a long time ago. After hearing about it from Robert, he would like to get the doll back.

Member in Attendance was Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Lynne, Kate, Midori, Robert, Giri, Mara, Kameh, Lynn, Nancy

Guest(s) in Attendance was Hannah

Motion to Adjourn, Nancy called it, Kate seconded it

Secretary,

Lynn

Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - January 12, 2021

 Public Speaking Northwest

Meeting Minutes - January 12, 2021

Announcement: Kameh, submitted her application last week and is our newest member

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute

Our President, Barb, welcomed our guests and introduced Toastmasters.  The new guest today was Hannah.

Our Toastmaster was Barb with the theme “Height and Days (Rain)”

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Lynne

Word of the day - Persistent - Barb, Kate, Jean, Jim, Warren, Midori used the word today

Ah Counter - Midori

Timer - Glenn

General Evaluator - Kate

Our only Speaker today was Jean with her speech titled “The Card Table”. She’s working on her Presentation Mastery Path, Level 1, Ice Breaker

Our Evaluator was Giri (evaluating Jean)

Our Table Topic Master was Warren.  He was great sticking to the theme and making it fun.

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Jim, the question was where is the most rainiest place he’s been, why, and would he go back?

Mara, the question was where is the driest place she’s been, why, what did she do, and would she go back?

Kate, the question was where is the tallest place she’s been, what caused her to go there?

Kameh, the question was what is her favorite island and why?

Lynne, the question was what inspires her? 

Member in Attendance was Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Lynne, Kate, Glenn, Lucelly, Midori, Robert, Giri, Mara, Kameh, Lynn, Nancy

Guest(s) in Attendance was Hannah

Motion to Adjourn

Secretary,

Lynn

Public Speaking Northwest Meeting Minutes - January 5, 2021

   Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes - January 5, 2021

Announcement: Midori, received her first Ice-Breaker speech Certificate!  Nice Job!  Also would like to welcome Kameh, who submitted her application today to join our group.

Our Sergeant at Arms, Lynne, promptly opened the meeting on time with our mission statement and flag salute

Our President, Barb, welcomed guests and introduced Toastmasters.  The new guest today was Ramya.

Our Toastmaster was Lynne with the theme While We Wait… 

Our GATE Team was:

Grammarian - Glenn

Word of the day - Contemplate

Ah Counter - Glenn

Timer - Jim

General Evaluator - Nancy

Our 1st Speaker was Lucelly with her speech titled “Making Connections Through an Online Networking Job Fair”. She’s working on her Innovative Planning Project #3 

Our 2nd Speaker was Mara with her speech titled “Humor is Contagious”.  She’s working on her Engaging Humor Path Level 3

Our Evaluators were Warren (evaluating Lucelly) and Kate (evaluating Mara)

Our Table Topic Master was Jean.  She was great as usual, sticking to the theme and making it fun.

Our Table Topic Speakers were:

Midori, question topic was Water Puddle

Nancy, question topic was Joy

Kameh, question topic was Bubble Baths

Giri, question topic was Quarantine

Ramya, question topic was Fruit Cake

Lynn, question topic was Monday

Member in Attendance was Barb, Jean, Jim, Warren, Nancy, Lynne, Kate, Glenn, Jinxin, Lucelly, Madori, Robert, Giri, Mara, Kameh, Lynn

Guest(s) in Attendance was Ramya

Motion to Adjourn

Secretary,

Lynn