Meeting No 240 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	TM Selvan	TM Rajesh
DTM Saro	TM Arna	TM Rajiv Menon	TM Srikar
TM Karthik	TM Basheer	TM Pratheema	TM Vijay
Guest Nagaraj	Guest Nandhini	TM Kishore	TM Gopal
TM Pratima	TM Abdul Wahed	TM Pravin Mani	TM Sujith Mathew

The 240^th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting kick started on 5^th Feb’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started on sharply on time at 10 am with a high energy and great vigour!

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.

Meeting was called to order by the Sergeant at Arms ,TM Supraja, who explained the mission and vision of ToastMaters and control was handed to The President.

10.05 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

President TM Siddarth delivered his address and declared the meeting open.

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

Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the TMOD – TM Sujith Mathew ,who announced the Theme and word of the day .

Theme of the day was – “Stay Determined”

Word of the day was ‘Endeavour’ meaning – A sincere attempt.

10:15 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.

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

Grammarian – TM Pratima

Ah Counter – TM Abdul Wahed Faisal

Timer – TM Gopalakrishnan

 10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

Speakers	Speech Info
Speaker: TM Kishore Kumar Evaluator: DTM Saro Velrajan	Manual: Competent Communication Project #1:The Ice Breaker (4-6 mins) Title: Explore.Dream.Discover.
Speaker: TM Basheer Ahmed Evaluator: TM Selvan,CC,ALB	Manual: Competent Communication Project #5 : Your body speaks (5-7 mins) Title: Haunted house
Speaker: TM Rajen Menon ACS,ALB Evaluator: TM Rajesh Velpandian,CC	Manual: ACG The Entertaining speaker Project #5 :After Dinner speech(8-10mins) Title: Life is a long journey

10:50 A.M. – EDUCATIONAL TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to TM Arna ,who took an educational session on Table Topics, which was followed by Mock Table Topics Contest.

11:35 A.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

The General Evaluator was called upon by the TMOD for an evaluation session. The GE and his team of evaluators presented their evaluations.

11:45 A.M. – TAG TEAM & GE REPORT

Tag role players presented their reports which was later followed by General Evaluators Report.

The GE requested that the seating arrangement of the meeting room be changed such that the meetings doesn’t get affected by late comer’s entry.

The GE handed over control to the Presiding office, who later invited TM Srikar to conduct the Test Your Listening Skills session. All members enthusiastically participated in the session and finally control was handed back to the President.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

President acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Basheer

Best Evaluator – DTM Saro

Best Role Player – TM Praveen

Best Tag Role Player- TM Prathima

11:56 A.M. – GUESTS FEEDBACK

President requested guests for their feedback on the session.

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on membership renewal before adjourned the meeting to 12^th Feb’17.