Turbobase – Email Only Meeting Participants

When you are the Toastmaster or Gen. Eval. and want to remind participants of their duties, instead of emailing EVERYONE in the club, there’s a better way to do it.  You can email only the participants. Follow this procedure.

- Meetings (in the left column)
- List Meetings
- Click on the link which says “email” for your particular meeting.
- Then up near the top of your message make sure you choose “All Members with a Role at the Meeting.”

This way only those scheduled members will get the reminder.

New Member Diane Fawcett

Diane Fawcett lives in South County, has a bachelor’s degree for St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA in Human Resource Management.  She enjoys reading, playing board games and card games, and recreational bicycling.  She has joined Toastmasters to improve her speech and delivery skills, make new friends and for gaining self awareness and improvement.

Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contest Winners

From left to right:

Table Topics
1st place : Erin Gissel, 2nd place : Don Clair

Humorous Speech
2nd place : Barb Sapienza, 1st place : Jim Ruzicka,

The Area contest will be held at the Oak Bend Library, September 12th. 9:30 – Noon.

(Thanks to Adam K for the picture.)

Google Alerts for Speech Research

Here’s a quick way to research your speech topic – use Google Alerts. While most people will use the Google Search engine when working on a speech, most of that information is old. It could be years old, months old or at least weeks old. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get the very latest, hot off the press, what’s happening now news! Well you can if you use Google Alerts. First, if you haven’t already setup an account with Google, you do have a Gmail account don’t you? Then just go the Google Alerts site and enter in the terms you want to search for on a once a day, as it happens, or once a week. Now the alerts will come to you email address automatically and your speech will almost write itself – NOT. At least now you’ll have some up to date information and stories you can use to backup your main speech topic. Give it a try. It’s FREE.

Meeting Minutes August 19 2009

Regular Meeting Minutes of South County Toastmasters Club # 1957

Theme:

Meeting Date: Wednesday August 19, 2009

Called To Order At: 7:00 pm CDT
Location: 107-C (Right-side)

Presiding Officer: Rich Ullrich, President

Toastmaster: Gina Willard
General Evaluator: Alan Kirby

Time Keeper:     Rob VanWinkle
Ah Counter:     Sherrie McNail
Vote Counter:     Max Kaiser
Grammarian:     Cyntha Grega      “Amuse”
Invocator:     Mike Dobrich
Camera Operator: Don Clair
Table Topics:     Erin Gissel
Joke Master     Steve Winheim
Hot Seat:
Greeter:         Don Clair

The minutes from last week’s August 12th meeting were accepted as sent via e-mail to all members.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS:

President:

VP of Education: Kevin Wilson announced that the September schedule was delayed until the weekend.

VP of Membership:

VP of Public Relations:

Treasurer:
Secretary:
Sergeant of Arms:
Officer at Large:

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE:
NOMINATING COMMITTEE:
MARKETING COMMITTEE:
SCHEDULING COMMITTEE:

OLD BUSINESS:

Mike Dobrich asked if anybody knew where the name-badges are stored.
Karl Beck announced the contest is on the 26th and we need more volunteers to help with contest structure roles.He announced the list of speaking contestants as:

Humorous:
Mike Dobrich
Barb Sapienza
Jim Ruzicka
Howard Brandt
Mark Roling

Table Topics:
Rob VanWinkle
Sue Dickemper
Don Clair
Erin Gissel

Karl also asked for information on where to find a trophy source, and Max Kaiser announced Bill Collier’s name as a good source.

NEW BUSINESS:  Rich Ullrich elaborated on some of the details regarding the Distinguished Club informational email he sent earlier in the day.

After meeting adjournment, Paul Cook (Area Governor) met with club officers to discuss what the area can do for the club to reach club and members’ goals. When asked for what the club can do for the area, Paul answered that he would like to see some of our members striving for district and area leadership positions.

CORRESPONDENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Max Kaiser found out from Toastmasters International that there was a tribute provided for former member Bill Middendorf (who passed away recently), and that the tribute will be noted in the upcoming Toastmaster magazine.
Howard Brandt announced that he had spoken to the local AARP about Dizzy Dean on the 11th.
Rich Ullrich announced that he was scheduled to give a speech to the Kiwanis Club on the 13th.

The area contest is scheduled for Sept 12th, 9:30am at the Oak Bend Branch library.

GUESTS:
Dave Gissel (Father of Erin Gissel)
Diane Fossett
Paul Cook (Area Governor)
Laura McCluskey

ATTENDANCE:

Matt Ament
Karl Beck
Howard Brandt
Don Clair
Mike Dobrich
Erin Gissel
Cynthia Grega
Max Kaiser
Mary Ann King
Alan Kirby
Adam Kutell
Dee McAliney
Sherrie McNail
Petrina Monti
Kevin Reichardt
Barb Sapienza
Judy Sowers
Brent Stewart
Rich Ullrich
Rob VanWinkle
Gina Willard
Kevin Wilson
Steve Winheim

(Total:  23  plus 4 guests)

SPEAKERS & EVALUATORS:

Speaker 1: Kevin Reichardt
Speaker 2: Matt Ament
Speaker 3: Kevin Wilson
Speaker 4: -

Evaluator 1: Judy Sowers
Evaluator 2: Barb Sapienza
Evaluator 3: Adam Kutell
Evaluator 4: -

AWARDS:

Most Improved: Erin Gissel
Best Evaluator: Barb Sapienza
Best Table Topics: Cynthia Grega
Best Speaker: Kevin Reichardt

OTHER:

Rating for the meeting: 16.0
Meeting adjourned at 8:59pm CDT

September 2009 Schedule

South County Toastmaster Schedule – September 2009

	2-September	9-September	16-September	23-September
Toastmaster	Dobrich, Michael	Kutell, Adam	Winheim, Steve	Flamm, Alicia
Table Topics	McAliney, Dee	Hendrickson, Carl	Beck, Karl	Shields, Dick
Speaker 1	Beck, Karl	Collier, Bill	Embree, Carole	Gissel, Erin C
Speaker 2	Bettag, Jack	Denton, Kathy	Favaloro, Rick	Grega, Cynthia
Speaker 3	Busch, Karen	Dickemper, Sue	Flamm, Alicia	Hamm, Steven
Speaker 4	Clair, Donald	Dobrich, Michael	Flick, Steve	Hendrickson, Carl
Evaluator 1	Denton, Kathy	O’Shea, Pat	Busch, Karen	Kirby, Alan
Evaluator 2	Dickemper, Sue	Roling, Mark	Clair, Donald	McNail, Sherrie
Evaluator 3	Favaloro, Rick	Shields, Dick	Collier, Bill	Monti, Petrina
Evaluator 4	Brandt, Howard	Terrific, Tom	Gissel, Erin C.	Scott, Nilsa
General Evaluator	Hendrickson, Carl	Scott, Nilsa	Wilson, Kevin	O’Shea, Pat
Grammarian	Embree, Carole	Sowers, Judy	Brandt, Howard	Flick, Steve
Camera	Collier, Bill	Monti, Petrina	Willard, Gina	Roling, Mark
Invocator	Kaiser Jr, Max	Ullrich, Rich	Timmersman, Amy	Wilson, Kevin
Timekeeper	Gissel, Erin C.	Sapienza, Barb	Denton, Kathy	Kutell, Adam
Vote Counter	Kirby, Alan	McNail, Sherrie	Dobrich, Michael	Reichardt, Kevin
“Ah” Counter	Flick, Steve	Stewart, Brent	Dickemper, Sue	McAliney, Dee
Jokemaster	King, Mary Ann	Ruzicka, Jim	VanWinkle, Robert	Terrific, Tom
Hot Seat	Hamm, Steven	Reichardt, Kevin	Bettag, Jack	Sapienza, Barb
Greeter	Grega, Cynthia	Timmersman, Amy J.	Ullrich, Rich	Ruxicka, Jim

Competent Leader Update

Here’s an updated and corrected Competent Leader chart.

Paul Cook – Area Governor – noticed a mistake on Project 10. Thank you Paul.

Distinguished Club Program Goals

Here is a summary of the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) Goals which the club works on every year. Our President Rich Ullrich is keeping track of our progress and will give monthly reports on our progress.

I’ve also posted the DCP manual on our club website if you’d like more details. (link)

Distinguish Club Program Report – 2009

Here’s how we did on the Distinguished Club Program for 2009.

Minutes – August 12 2009

Regular Meeting Minutes of South County Toastmasters Club # 1957

Theme:

Meeting Date: Wednesday August 12, 2009

Called To Order At: 6:59 pm CDT
Location: 107-C Right

Presiding Officer: Rich Ullrich, President

Toastmaster: Steve Flick
General Evaluator: Brent Stewart

Time Keeper:     Kevin Reichardt
Ah Counter:     Erin Gissel
Vote Counter:     Tom Terrific
Grammarian:     Carl Hendrickson        “Transition”
Invocator:     Alicia Flamm
Camera Operator: Kevin Wilson
Table Topics:     Sue Dickemper
Joke Master     Nilsa Scott
Hot Seat:     Howard Brandt
Greeter:         Tom Terrific

The minutes from last week’s August 5th meeting were accepted as sent via e-mail to all members.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS:

President:

VP of Education: Kevin Wilson said the schedule for September will be available next week.

VP of Membership:

VP of Public Relations:

Treasurer:  Mike Dobrich announced that the transition from the previous treasurer to him has been completed.

Secretary:
Sergeant of Arms:
Officer at Large:

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE:
NOMINATING COMMITTEE:
MARKETING COMMITTEE:  Karen Busch announced that survey data is being compiled and will be available soon
SCHEDULING COMMITTEE:  Copy of correspondence received  by the Secretary, from Tom Terrific, Chairperson of the Scheduling Committee:
Monthly Scheduling Committee

The monthly scheduling committee, met last Friday, August 7th, and came up with three ways to help the club and the VP of Education.

1. The 1st recommendation we have is that we need to increase the number of speaking opportunities in the club. We are double the size we were 25 years ago and speaking opportunities have gone down from five speakers a week, which we used to do, to four speakers a week, which we do now. When you factor in the 10 speeches that new members need to give for their CC award, club members have told me that they would like to give 300 speeches a year.

According to the two surveys the club has recently done, by a two to one margin, members don’t like the idea of splitting up the club at speaking time, but they do like the idea of speaking marathons.
A speaking marathon is a meeting with a minimal Business Meeting. – 5 to 10 minutes, 10 speakers, and written evaluations, not the standup oral evaluations we give now. We wouldn’t do any of the other regular Toastmaster duties. THE VPE will schedule people for these speaking marathons just as he does for a normal meeting.

I’d like to make a motion that the club vote on accepting one of three options
from the Scheduling Comm.

Option 1 -
Speaking Marathons
4 speeches/meeting
Last meeting of the month have a speech marathon.

12 weeks X 10 = 120 speeches
36weeks  X 4 =  144 speeches

Total for 2010 = 264 /300 = 88% of Ideal
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Option 2
Speaking Marathons
5 speeches/meeting
In months with 5 weeks, have a speech marathon in those months.

45 weeks of regular meetings 45 x 5 = 225 speeches

3 months have 5 weeks -
3 weeks of Speaking Marathons = 10 speeches x 3 = 30

Total for 2010 = 255 speeches/300 = 85% of Ideal
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Option C – Do nothing – keep the number of speeches we already have.

#2.  Carl Hendrickson will develop a list of seasoned speakers and educational topics who will able to fill-in for speakers who need a replacement. We do suggest that the speaker first trade speaking slots with another scheduled speaker, but if that isn’t possible, then call Carl to schedule these seasoned speakers for educational topics to fill-in.

I stress educational topics, because Toastmaster’s Int. suggests that we give educational speeches on a regular basis and according to the July 2009 survey, club members had a long list of topics they would like covered.

#3. We agreed on an alphabetical scheduling system, thank you Dee McAliney,  for the VPE to use to schedule speakers and all other meeting duties. It’s a three-ring binder system in which every active member in the club has a page and how often they want to speak – every month, every other month – in some cases every 6 months. The VPE schedules the members, A to Z, first in the speakers slots and then all other jobs which they haven’t done in the past. Every member should be scheduled to do every job in the club.

OLD BUSINESS:

A motion was introduced to vote on one of the changes proposed by the Scheduling Committee, as described above.  The solution containing the provision of “Four speakers per meeting and one marathon per month”, (as option A) carried by vote.
Karl Beck announced that the club contest needs two or three more table-topics contestants.  He also said we could use a few more “humorous speaking” contestants.
Rich Ullrich announced that the Area Governor, Paul Cook will be here for the August 19th meeting, and Rich will circulate the goals necessary to attain the Distinguished Club award.

NEW BUSINESS:  A motion carried to reimburse Steve Flick $25 for educational materials.  A motion carried to reimburse Rich Ullrick $20 for a gift to the past-president.

CORRESPONDENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS:

GUESTS:
Dave Gissel (Father of Erin Gissel)
Diane Fossett (Said she enjoyed the meeting and plans to come back)

ATTENDANCE:

Karl Beck
Howard Brandt
Karen Busch
Don Clair
Sue Dickemper
Mike Dobrich
Alicia Flamm
Steve Flick
Erin Gissel
Carl Hendrickson
Alan Kirby
Adam Kutell
Dee McAliney
Petrina Monti
Kevin Reichardt
Jim Ruzicka
Nilsa Scott
Brent Stewart
Tom Terrific
Amy Timmersman
Rich Ullrich
Gina Willard
Kevin Wilson

(Total:  23  plus 2 guests)

SPEAKERS & EVALUATORS:

Speaker 1: Dee McAliney
Speaker 2: Petrina Monti
Speaker 3: Karen Busch
Speaker 4: Adam Kutell

Evaluator 1: Don Clair
Evaluator 2: Karl Beck
Evaluator 3: Amy Timmersman
Evaluator 4: Jim Ruzicka

AWARDS:

Most Improved: Petrina Monti
Best Evaluator: Jim Ruzicka
Best Table Topics: Howard Brandt
Best Speaker: Dee McAliney

OTHER:

Rating for the meeting: 9.75
Meeting adjourned at 9:02 pm CDT

Respectively Submitted, Adam Kutell: Secretary