Meeting on May 16th, 2010

During our next meeting on May 30th, we will hold a special intensive evaluation session: five prepared speakers will be evaluated each by several evaluators. There will be high quality speeches, so don't miss it!

The Atsugi-Zama Toastmasters club held another great meeting on May 16th, 2010. 15 club members and 4 guests attended the meeting.

Word of the day

• prodigious (adj.): great, enormous, wonderful
  

Summary of the meeting

• We held a speaker coaching session, an extra educational session before the regular meeting to coach some members and help them give impromptu speeches;
• TM Katsushika was introduced as a new club member (welcome to the club!);
• TM Asano opened the meeting with the Joke Master Session;
• TM Lenglet led the Table Topics Session;
• Four members gave prepared speeches:
• TM Yoshikawa explained the current state of energy production in Japan and in the world, and gave some solutions to ecological problems, in his speech titled "Eco-friendly Energy" (Project #8, CC Manual);
• TM Wada told us the traditional Japanese story "The One-straw Millionaire" (Project #1, Storytelling Manual);
• TM Perkins explained and demonstrated with a role play how to use win-win negotiation strategies, in his speech titled "I Want my Money Back" (Project #2, Interpersonal Communication Manual);
• TM Inagaki gave a speech titled "Welcome Futenma", demonstrating how to convince an audience about a controversial subject, in this case the creation of a US Navy Base in a Japanese town in exchange for special benefits (Project #4, Persuasive Speaking Manual);
• Constructive speech evaluations were given by the General Evaluator (TM Sakuragi) and four Evaluators (resp., TM Komura, TM Maruyama, TM Ofori, and TM M. Inoue).

Awards

• Best Table Topics Speaker: TM Katsushika, for her very good first impromptu speech
• Best Prepared Speaker: TM Inagaki
  
• Best Evaluator: TM Ofori (evaluating TM Perkins)
• Best Performance (awarded by the General Evaluator): TM Tateishi, for voluntarily taking two roles during this meeting (Ah Counter and Grammarian)
  

Congratulations to the winners!

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