Thursday Night Lights - Katy Toastmasters July 10, 2014

Pictured below is our new President, Debbie Gregori, DTM, inducting our newest Katy Toastmasters member, Kwang Kim.  Jeff Morrical, CC, stands to the right of Kwang as his mentor. With Katy Toastmasters each new member will be assigned a mentor to get them on the fast track for growth, answer questions and guide them along a successful path in Toastmasters.

 

New Business: "Every new member will be assigned a mentor and we will formally induct our members" This was President Gregori's edict and it was implemented this past Thursday.The Executive Committee had reached a consensus on this. The planning and process were left open to discussion. We will try to keep up with her.

"Every new member will be assigned a mentor and we will formally induct our members" This was President Gregori's edict and it was implemented this past Thursday.

The theme of this Thursdays meeting was "Strength". Michelle Perzan served as our Toastmaster. Linda Goldberg DTM, stepped in and fulfilled the role of General Evaluator. Before anything started Justine Lim, as part of Linda's team was in the foyer as our greeter. To round out the Evaluation Team Omar De La Cruz was our ballot counter, Floyd Spencer was our Grammarian, Lorena Spencer our Timer and Peter Gregori our Listen Master.

Our Speakers

Vrushali Patel - CC Manual #2 - "Fear of Public Speaking" - Ms. Patel addressed this subject, in part, because it is something she wishes to confront. And she did this remarkably well. One may rent "Rambo" and witness make believe courage or one could have been in the audience when Vrushali lost her train of thought for a moment, kept her poise, and delivered one of the most memorable moments this author has witnessed in Toastmasters.

Francisco Grados - CC Manual # 4 "Asking the Right Questions: Market Segmentation"  - Francisco augmented his presentation with visual aids, slides, that drove point home. That is when one is marketing a product or service, one should be well acquainted with the mind and behavior of the target market. One does this by asking the right questions. Of your market universe and of your data.

Shalba Gupta - CC Manual #4 "Journey of a Mother" -  Shalba caught our attention immediately. She pointed out that a child from the womb comes into the world crying. However, when taken into its mothers arms, it recognizes and is immediately soothed by the rhythm of it's mothers heartbeat. A heartbeat it had known for nine months. She took us on a journey ,from a mothers perspective, of the progress of a child into adulthood. These moments in time were encapsulated in one particulary memorable moment.

She tells her child "Look a birdie!!".

"No Mom. That a bird."

We raise them so they can fly away.

Table Topics

Jody White, DTM presided over this segment and presented the participants with some very thought provoking questions regarding the the theme of the meeting.

Cynthia Westbrook walked away with the Blue Ribbon for Best Table Topics. Again.

Cynthia Westbrook

We were able to manage our time and allow seven members to participate in Table Topics.In addition to Cynthia Westbrook, Lalit Patel, Ni Bashir, our newest member Kwang Kim, Jonathan Goodwin, Deborah Cerkovnik and Heleane Stabenau all had something to say.

Evaluations

Neha Sinha, Jeff Morrical, CC and Amy Duncan, ACB, CL all presented our speakers with valuable feed back regarding the speeches that were presented.

Our General Evaluator, Linda Goldberg, DTM reminded us that we represent Toastmasters and our meetings should have the decorum that is appropriate to these occasions.

Visitors and Guests

We had five visitors Erik Brito, Juan Artiga, Aaron Perzan, Adrien DuPont and Bryan Clark. Bryan did not remain a visitor for long. He completed the membership application and will be joining us at the meeting next week !