Meeting No 236 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddharth	TM Rajesh Velpandian	TM Kishore
TM Shriram	TM Barthi	Guest Pratima
TM Selvan	TM Vijay	TM Supraja

The 236^th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting kick started on 7^th Jan’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started at 10 am on a fresh note.

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.

Meeting was called to order by the Sergeant at Arms, who explained the mission and vision of Toastmaters and introduced the Area Director TM Karthikeyan Arumugam.

10.02 A.M. Excomm. OFFICER INSTALLATION.

TM Karthikeyan Arumugam conducted the Excomm Officer Installation ceremony.

10.08 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

Outgoing President TM Vijayaragavan gave his address following which the incoming President TM Siddarth addressed the gathering.

10:22 A.M. – PRECIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD.

Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the

TMOD – TM Bharathi Goel ,who announced the Theme and word of the day.

Theme of the day was – “Out with the Old,In with the new”

Word of the day was -  Surmise.

10:25 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.

TMOD introduced the General Evaluator for the meet, TM Supraja, Who explained her role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day ,as below

Grammarian – TM Suresh

Ah Counter – TM Kishore

Timer – TM Srikar

10:30 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

We had three speakers attempting their prepared speech exercise from the CC manual.

TM Shriram was the first speaker for the day, he attempted the project 2 from CC Manual , which focuses on providing an organised speech.

TM Siddarth attempted the project 4 – How to Say it? from CC Manual.

11:00 A.M. – TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD introduced the Table Topics Master TM Vijay ,who took control of the table topics session and called upon everyone who attended the meet for impromptu speaking , including the guests.

The table topics were chosen from an array of quotes by likes of Khalil Gibran , Khalid Hosineni, Dumbledore etc..

Below was the entire list of Table Topics for the day

1. We choose What we become

2. To get the BEST, you need to say no to the good, the bad and the ugly

3. Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

4. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Khalil Gibran Quotes

5. Yesterday is today's memory and tomorrow is today's dreams

6. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

7. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

8. The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you

9. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Dumbledore Quotes

1. Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light . Prisoner of Azkaban

2.   "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

3. "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

4.  "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Khalid Hosineni

1. People say that eyes are windows to the soul.Talk about the place you have visited but not captured as in a photograph but the images are in your soul.

2. There are lot of children in Syria but little childhood.

Chennai Marathon

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things once you thought you couldn't

11:25 A.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

TM Rajesh Velpandian evaluated TM Shrirams speech

TM Selvan evaluated TM Sidharth’s speech

11:40 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR’S REPORT

TM Supraja , the General Evaluator took back the control from TMOD and she and her team of evaluators presented their report.

11:45 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENT OF BEST PERFORMERS

Control was handed over to the presiding officer TM Sidharth, who acknowledged the below winners.

Best Evaluator –  TM Rajesh

Best Role Player – TM Vijay

Best Tag Role Player- TM Kishore

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

Presiding officer adjourned the meeting to 15^th of Jan’17.