October 4, 2012 Meeting Notes

By Eric Dunham, President

What a great evening at Parker Toast­mas­ters. One of our newer mem­bers, Tina Soren­son took the reins and was our Toast­mas­ter for the evening. She was awe­some. The meet­ing was very well orga­nized and ran very smoothly. Her orga­ni­za­tion and fore­thought shined.

Sun­deep Gopag­oni is our newest mem­ber. He joined the club this evening. Please wel­come Sun­deep to Parker Toast­mas­ters. We all look for­ward to hear­ing his speeches.

All three speeches were excel­lent. Ash­ley Jones started the evening with a speech about her grand­fa­ther who chose life over death after bat­tling a brain tumor. Ash­ley pulled the audi­ence in as she shared her very per­sonal story about her grand­fa­ther and how he inspired her to “pay it for­ward” with ran­dom acts of kind­ness. I per­son­ally was very moved by her story and how she told it.

Nikita Kaza­kov took the stage and explained the Parkin­son Law. The law states that as the demand for a resource expands, the capac­ity for the demand will expand as well. One of the exam­ples Nikita used was how the avail­abil­ity data grows, so will the capac­ity to store the data. Long are the days of floppy disks…we now talk in giga and ter­abytes of data.

Bill Mor­gan brought his pas­sion of read­ing and enter­tained us with a read­ing from the book, “Things that are” by Amy Leach. The story; “Don­key Derby.” As always, Bill brought the story alive before the audi­ence. His pre­sen­ta­tion sparked my inter­est in pick­ing up the book and read­ing it.

The speech eval­u­a­tors also did a ter­rific job. Marcy Brack eval­u­ated Nikita, Alissa Teno­rio eval­u­ated Bill and Eric Dun­ham eval­u­ated Ash­ley. All three eval­u­a­tions were spot on.

Due to time con­straints, we did not have a table topic session.

Eric Dun­ham ended the evening with a pre­sen­ta­tion from the Excel­lence in Lead­er­ship series on goal set­ting and plan­ning. He tied in the pre­sen­ta­tion back to Parker Toast­mas­ters. As the Pres­i­dent of the club, Eric explained how he included the offi­cer team in set­ting the club goals and how the offi­cer team exe­cutes the plan in achiev­ing the club goals. Upon com­plet­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, Eric ful­filled the require­ments for the Advance Leader Bronze award.

At the con­clu­sion of the meet­ing, Tina Soren­son was inducted as new mem­ber by read­ing the Toastmaster’s Promise to the club members.

And the win­ners are….

Best speaker: Ash­ley Jones

Best Eval­u­a­tor: Eric Dun­ham

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the fol­low­ing indi­vid­u­als for their recent accomplishments.

Bill Mor­gan – Hav­ing his arti­cle, “The Gra­cious Guest” pub­lished in the Octo­ber 2012 issue of the Toast­mas­ter magazine.

Joanna Knott — Advance Com­mu­ni­ca­tor Sil­ver (ACS)

Nikita Kaza­kov – Com­pe­tent Com­mu­ni­ca­tor award (CC)

Marcy Brack – Advance Com­mu­ni­ca­tor Sil­ver (ACS)

Eric Dun­ham – Advance Leader Bronze (ALB)

Our next meet­ing is Thurs­day Octo­ber 11, 2012 at 7pm.