November 17, 2009 Weekly Meeting

Brian led our meeting today with a theme of Tinseltown.  Our participants, Gene, barbara, Jerry and Moe each talked about their favorite holiday.  Thanksgiving won that round of questions.

David discussed the structural portions of a courthouse in Waxahachie.  Yolande discussed her love of soccer and a recent collegiate game that made the headlines.  Phillip taught us to what steps to take now (while we are still employed) to help us find that next job.

Andrew, Carol, Rey and Bill were called upon by Alexis to answer Table Topics.

Justin, Marvin, and Bill helped the speakers to improve by evaluating their speeches.  Morry let us know that next week we may try the other side of the restaurant since we are packed in tight in the back room.

Yolande was best speaker, Marvin was best evaluator.  I can’t remember who was the best TT, they must have all been good.

November 5th Officers Meeting

Chuck found out that there is a two month grace period before removing previous members from the website so we’ll wait till next month to purge our website.

Morry reminded us that the District Conference is coming up.  Morry and Paul signed proxy form for contest so that Marvin and Barb will go in their places.

Marvin mentioned that the upcoming club contest should be held on Feb 2nd.  The area contest will be on Feb 19th.  Marvin will run this contest.

Paul discussed upcoming officer election first Tuesday in December.

Bill will order CC/CL badges all at once for a quarter (of the year) in lieu of one at a time to save shipping costs.  He will also order new CC manuals.

Charles discussed the option of moving to the opposite side of the restaraunt.  He said we’d try it on November 17th.

Paul mentioned that the 25th anniversary of the Plano Talkers is in January.  Stephen’s name was mentioned as a potential leader for that event.

October 1st Officers Meeting

October 1^st Officers Meeting – Paul, Bill, Chuck, Morry, Stephen, Charles, and David

Bill reported that we had 48 current members, but estimated we’d have over 40 since some won’t renew.  Chuck stated that he would remove members from the website that didn’t renew.  We discussed what options we have if our club grows to 60 people.  One suggestion was to move to the other side of the restaurant.

Morry discussed the need to fill the VP Membership role left by the absence of Scott Kain.  Chuck, temporarily filing Scotts role, created new folders for visitors, and he mentioned that Alexis volunteered to fill the position permanently.  We agreed she would do a fine job in that position.

David mentioned that he had not blogged our meeting minutes from the last few meetings.  I agreed that should be done regularly.

Stephen reported that everyone who wants a mentor now had one.

Bill will look into pen for guest speakers (twice a year for contests).

There was a discussion about the need to update the projector screen.  No action has been agreed to concerning this item.