Plano Talkers began their meeting with the theme: “Warren Buffet, the greatest investor of all time.” Our Presiding Officer, Barb Petsel called the meeting to order with Chad Allison leading the group with the Invocation and Pledge. We had 22 members in attendance and Barb recognized guests (4 guests) and proceeded to introduce the Toastmaster of the meeting: Carol Kepner. Toastmaster discussed the theme and then followed up by calling on her assistants. Handling the duty of Grammarian was John Wakeman (word of the day: Gratitude); Ah Counter was Marvin Petsel, Timekeeper was David Williams, and Vote Counter was Kendall Helfenbein. Now on to the speeches…Margaret Johnson was giving her third speech from the Competent Communicator manual entitled “Laughter IS The Best Medicine”; Tina Drucker also gave her third speech entitled “IntraMAX” from the Competent Communicator manual; and Steve Burgess concluded our speaker line-up by sharing with us “Inquiring Minds Want To Know” from an advanced communicator manual ‘Storytelling.’ Excellent job folks!
Toastmaster called for timekeepers report on speakers, and then asked everyone please submit their votes to the vote counter. The next portion of the meeting was handled by our Table Topics Master, Rose Custodio. Rose called on Chuck Ferguson, Mike Amis, and Charles Johnson with Table Topic questions and followed by asking for timers report, Word of the Day usage, then called for the vote. Meeting was returned to Toastmaster.
Our Evaluation portion of the meeting resumed with Allen Krom as General Evaluator. Allen Krom called on his evaluators: Jerry Aris began the evaluation portion by sharing his comments to Margaret Johnson on her speech, Stephen James evaluated Tina Drucker; and evaluating Steve Burgess was Jerry Bessette. Great evaluations everyone. General Evaluator called for timers report, and for vote. Allen shared his thoughts on the meeting and returned control of the meeting to the Toastmaster. Toastmaster called for grammarian and ah counters report. The meeting concluded with Vote Counter announcing winners for Table Topics: Chuck Ferguson; Best Evaluator: Stephen James and Best Speaker was Steve Burgess. Toastmaster turned control of meeting back to Barb Petsel, the President of the club.
The meeting concluded with guest comments from the four guests who came to visit our club, a call for announcements from VP. of Education, and VP of Membership. A final word on next week’s Toastmaster and Speakers was confirmed., and that the next officers meeting is scheduled for January 5th 2012 at Corner Bakery at 7:00. Club President shared certificates of appreciation to this years officers, and club provided gift to manager of restaurant. Great job all….what a great year! Meeting was concluded and everyone was dismissed. See ya 2011. P.S. Thanks to Carol Kepner for providing the club a great “giveaway” competition….the “oracle of planotalkers.”
Charles Johnson, CC CL
Plano Talkers Secretary
