Riocopa Toastmasters Meeting Agenda

June 27, 2007; 11:30 - 12:30

Theme: New Beginnings

11:30     Presiding Officer: Call To Order - JD Austin

11:31     Pledge/Thought of Day - Patrick Fitzgerald

11:33     Introduction of Mystery Guest - Daniel Tabar

11:34     Introduction of Guests - As promised Carolin Galante returned with some of her fellow Countrywide co-workers. We are very happy they joined us! Besides Carolin, we had Amy Delapar, Patricia Rogers, Amanda Dwyer, and Kristina Acothley

11:35     Word of the day - Daniel Tabar

              Compeer - noun - A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

11:36     Reminder: Functionaries exchange competent leader manuals

11:37     Introduction of Toastmaster - JD Austin

11:38    Introduction of General Evaluator team - Patrick Fitzgerald

             Timer - Amy Llanso

             Ah Counter - Matthew Wegner

             Grammarian - Daniel Tabar

             Speech Evaluator #1 - Andrew Lenartz

             Speech Evaluator #2 - Steven Martindale

11:42    Introduction of Formal Speech - JD Austin

             Speaker #1 - Kathleen Cleveland, Basic Manual #5 - Your Body Speaks: "Your Body Language", 5-7 minutes

11:55   Table Topics - Mike Trier

            Speakers: Amanda, Carolin, Patrick, Andrew, Steven, Daniel, Matthew, Kathleen, Amy

            Today was a special table topics session, as we gave JD Austin, our outgoing President, some praise for his club dedication and enthusiasm. He has charted a strong course for Rio Copa Toastmasters and has positively influenced all of us in some way. Thanks again, JD, for everything. Mike Trier did a tremendous job of asking some great questions that guided all of us in some terrific and memorable responses. He also brought a couple of our guests into the conversation with the theme of New Beginnings and a discussion of their new club.

12:15   Call for Evaluations/Reports - Patrick Fitzgerald

            Speech Evaluation reports - Andrew and Steven (Note: Although we only had one speaker, we decided to have two evaluations so that 1) Kathleen would get more helpful feedback and 2) Steven would get credit for doing an evaluation in his CL manual.)

12:30   Adjournment