Meeting No 245 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	TM Bharthi	TM Supraja
TM Kishore	TM Selvan	DTM Saro	TM Sujith
TM Vivekanandhan	TM Manikandan	TM Rajeev Menon	TM Srikar
TM Sowmya	TM Nagaraj	TM Nandhini	TM Pravin Mani
TM Mukes	Guest Thyagarajan	Guest Anup	Guest Thanvir

The 245^th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on 19^th March’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started at 10 am, sharp.

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 ToastMasters and control was handed to The President.

10.03 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

Before declaring the meeting open, President TM Siddarth set the tone of the meeting by narrating the how a simple solution addressed the Chennai Marina oil spills issue.

10:07 A.M.- GUEST INTRODUCTIONS.

The President requested the guests to introduce themselves. The guests for the day were Thiyagarajan, Anup and Thanvir.

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

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

Theme Of The Day: “Wisdom of the ages”

Word of the day: “Perspective”.

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

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

Timer – TM Kishore        

Ah Counter - TM Supraja

Grammarian - TM Mukes

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

The Prepared Speech segment started with TMOD calling upon the below speakers to present their prepared speech

Speaker & Evaluators	Project
Speaker : TM Shriram Sridhar Evaluator: TM Bharthi Goel	Manual: Competent Communication Project #7: Research your topic (5-7 mins) Title: The Indomitable
Speaker : TM Sidharth Evaluator: DTM Saro Velrajan	Manual: Competent Communication Project #7: Research your topic (5-7 mins) Title: What the Fake?
Speaker : TM Rajen Menon ACS,ALB Evaluator: TM Selvan CC,CL	Manual: ACG Interpretive reading Project #7: Poetry reading & Interpreting Title: La belle dame sans merci
Speaker : TM Rajesh Velpandian CC,CL Evaluator: TM Pravin Mani CL	Manual: High Performance Leadership Project #1 :Sharing your vision (5-7 mins)

By the end of this segment, TMOD requested the gathering to vote for the best speaker and proceeded to the next segment.

10:50 A.M. – TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to TM Nandhini, who essayed the role of Table Topics Master.

Some of the interesting Table topics were as follows,

• What hopes do the youth of today have in the world of near future?
• To handle yourselves, use your hand, to handle others, use your hearth.
• A sense of humour is essential.
• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every mans greed.
• If you would change one event in your life, what would that be?

  

11:20 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 for all the prepared speeches.

Best part about the evaluations was that we had many veterans evaluating the speeches. The evaluators were not only providing their feedbacks to the speakers, they also gave tips and tricks for everyone to take away.

After the evaluations of the speech segment, the control was handed back to GE.

11:40 A.M. – TAG TEAM & GE REPORT

GE requested the Tag role players to present their reports, which was later followed by the GE Report for the day.

The GE requested the SAA to display the clubs ribbons in a better way. He also noticed last minutes dropouts and late coming by few members , so he requested these to be corrected.

The GE handed the control back to the President, who called upon the Secretory for the M.O.M. Recap Session.

11:50 A.M. – GUESTS FEEDBACK

President requested guests for their feedback on the session. Every Guest was heard and all of them had good feedbacks for the club.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

President acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Siddarth

Best Evaluator – TM Pravin Mani

Best TT Speaker -  Guest Tanvir

Best Role Player – TM Gopal

Best Tag Role Player- TM Supraja

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on membership renewal due dates of March 31st and requested those who haven't renewed to try make a payment either through NEFT or by cash.

The meeting was adjourned to 26^th March’17.