Saturday, 15 April 2017

Meeting No 247 - Minutes


Attendees
TM Siddarth
TM Shriram
TM Rajesh Natrajan
TM Rajesh Vel
TM Kishore
TM Selvan
TM Vivekanandhan
TM Sujith
TM Pratima
TM Gopal
TM Rajeev Menon
TM Srikar
TM Sowmya
TM Nagaraj
TM Thyagarajan
TM Satish
Guest TM Prasanna
Guest Narayan
Guest Srivatsan N.R


The 247th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on 9th April’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.
Meeting started at around 10 am.

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.                                                             
Meeting was called to order by the Acting Sergeant at Arms ,TM Shriram, who explained the mission and vision of ToastMasters and control was handed to The President.

10.03 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.
President TM Siddarth set the tone for the meet and declared the meet open.

10:07 A.M.- GUEST INTRODUCTIONS.
The President requested the guests to introduce themselves. The guests for the day were Narayan Kalamadi and Srivatsan N.R.

10:10 A.M. – PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD.
Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the TMOD – TM Nagaraj, who announced the Theme and word of the day.
Theme Of The Day: Master Blaster
Word of the day: “Tour de force”.

10:15 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.
TMOD introduced the General Evaluator for the meet, TM Gopalakrishnan, who explained his role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day, as below
Timer – TM Shriram
Ah Counter - TM Kishore
Grammarian - TM Vijay

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 Pratima
Evaluator: TM Rajesh Natarajan
Manual: Competent Communication
Project #1 : Icebreaker

Speaker : TM Sujith
Evaluator: TM Siddharth

Manual: Competent Communication
Project #3 : Get to the point
Title: Known Roads

Speaker : TM Rajesh Velpandian
Evaluator: TM Vivekanandan
Manual: ACB - Story Telling
Project #5 : Bringing history to life

Speaker : TM Rajen Menon
Evaluator: TM Selvan
Manual: ACG - Interpretive reading
Project #8 : The Monodrama
Title: My last duchess

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 Sowmya, who essayed the role of Table Topics Master.
The TT session was fun , involving everyone present , including the guests. The TT session had some innovative segments like Talking For and Against a chosen topic , many topics were simple and encouraging for the guests too.
By the end of the TT session, control was handed back to TMOD.

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 feedback 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 observed that the Word of the Day and the Theme of the Day was not displayed anywhere and advised the attendees to avoid muttering when the session is going on. He also noted that all the sessions were well organised.
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. Motivated by the energy of the CSF sessions, the guests expressed their interests in becoming a member soon.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  
President acknowledged the below winners
Best Speaker –  TM Sujith
Best Evaluator – TM Siddarth
Best TT Speaker -  TM Siddarth
Best Role Player – TM Gopal
Best Tag Role Player- TM Shriram

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on Division D Annual conference and adjourned the meeting to 16th April ’17.

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