First of all kudos to the Sergeant-at-Arms for being able to shift the venue at such a short notice, and to TM Kumar for agreeing to host it at his house yet again. As TM Nagesh said in his introduction, winning speeches have been given for the first time at this venue, and we hope this portends well for the two speakers slated to speak today.
TM Kumar stood in for the President as TM Aji was away in India. He applauded the adaptability of the club in varying conditions like venue and role changes, which he said was one of the main characteristics of a leader. After all, Toastmaster is where leaders are made.
TMOD Rajat had set as theme for the day DREAM DESTINATIONS. All role players were introduced while sharing what his or her dream holiday destination was and, combined with small factoids about the place, the gathering went on small trips all over the world and even out of it!
Timekeeper TM Raja and Grammarian TM Ananth, playing these roles for the first time, were very adept at what they did. TM Ananth had introduced the word APLOMB, as wordmaster of the day, and it was used 4 times.
Jokemaster TM Ramalingam kept us rolling in the aisles with his narration of a real life incident in his college examination hall. We think reality is no joke, but often it is.
P1 speech "Taking a Fresh Guard" was delivered by TM Chaitanya. Being a maiden speech, it made us familiar with TM Chaitanya as a person. Evaluation was carried out by TM Venkat.
P3 speech "Six centimetres wide" was delivered by MTM Panna. It achieved the speech objectives of General and Specific Purpose and was quite powerfully delivered. Evaluation was done by TM Ramki and both his intro and review were a pleasure to listen to.
Table topics were conducted by MTM Rita Khimji. The round was unusual in that MTM Rita produced newspaper cuttings as topics. Many of the guests participated but our veteran DTM Rajendra Varma carried his bat through.
The Harkmaster TM Karthik attacked the members with a barrage of questions but was surprised by the accurate responses. They had been wide awake after all.
Grammarian TM Ananth gave his report on the usage of English in the speeches. He was perhaps the mildest grammarian we have come across and was very gentle with the members.
General evaluation was expertly conducted by DTM Rajendra Varma. His points were specific and useful and all role-players benefited from the same.
In his concluding remarks, TM Kumar mentioned the Core Committee's end of term in June'16. He invited people to put forth their nominations to VP-Edu TM Raghuram during the course of the week, in case anybody wanted to take up a club officer's role. He repeated that the SAA role was vacant and anybody could take it up right now.
The day's awards were as follows:
Best speaker: Panna
Best table topic: Rajendra Varma
Best evaluator: Ramki
See you at the next session on 14.5.16.
Wonderful briefing of the meeting. Thank you TMOD Rajat for your all round performance and minutes of the meeting.
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Session was very lively. Well scripted minutes. Thanks and superbly done. - Karthik Thangam
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