Today's theme was "Texas" and we celebrated the arrival of many new students to UT campus. The Toastmaster was Natasha Scherbakova, returned from her summer travels, and the word of the day was "Maverick".
The first prepared speech was Maryam Ali's 7th project, on "The Symbols of Texas". The second speech was by Hieu Nguyen, delivering his 2nd project speech, on his "First Impressions" of this state.
Albert Ntiri kindly stepped in as Table TopicsMaster.
The General Evaluator was Andrew Engel who also evaluated Maryam's speech. Mick Normington, the Area Governer, was visiting and evaluated the second speech. Supporting roles were filled by Eamon O'Dea (Grammarian), Tatiana Makhinova (Ah Counter), and Alex Loh (Time Keeper and Vote Counter).
Friday, 26 August 2011
Thursday, 18 August 2011
30th Meeting of 2011
The meeting theme was "Famous People" and the word of the day was "Notorious". Alex Loh served as Toastmaster of the Evening.
Hieu Nguyen gave his Icebreaker speech today, while Area Governor Mick Normington stopped by to talk about "Giving Effective Evaluations".
Andrew Engel was Table TopicsMaster and used his trademark eye-catching visuals to prompt us for answers to his questions.
The General Evaluator was Jordi Calveras. Eamon O'Dea evaluated the first speech while Jordi and Alex co-evaluated the second speech. Supporting roles were filled by Maryam Ali (Grammarian), Jag Swaminathan (Ah Counter and Vote Counter).
Hieu Nguyen gave his Icebreaker speech today, while Area Governor Mick Normington stopped by to talk about "Giving Effective Evaluations".
Andrew Engel was Table TopicsMaster and used his trademark eye-catching visuals to prompt us for answers to his questions.
The General Evaluator was Jordi Calveras. Eamon O'Dea evaluated the first speech while Jordi and Alex co-evaluated the second speech. Supporting roles were filled by Maryam Ali (Grammarian), Jag Swaminathan (Ah Counter and Vote Counter).
Friday, 5 August 2011
28th Meeting of 2011
The theme of the meeting was "Lifestyles of the Poor and Obscure", in which the impoverished members of our club described their attempts to live on an academic's budget. The Toastmaster of the Day was Justin Hall. The word of the day was "Vicarious".
We had one prepared speech today - Jordi Calveras gave his fifth and final speech from the "Professional Speaker" advanced manual.
Alex Loh did a great job as TopicsMaster, making us laugh with reminders of the lengths graduate students go to to obtain free food, clothing, and furniture.
The General Evaluator was Jag Swaminathan, while the speech was evaluated by Tatiana Makhinova.
Supporting roles were filled by Dmitri Iourovitski (debuting as Grammarian), Eamon O'Dea (Ah counter), Maryam Ali (Time Keeper), and Andrew Engel (Vote Counter).
Join us next week for the topic "It's never too late".
We had one prepared speech today - Jordi Calveras gave his fifth and final speech from the "Professional Speaker" advanced manual.
Alex Loh did a great job as TopicsMaster, making us laugh with reminders of the lengths graduate students go to to obtain free food, clothing, and furniture.
The General Evaluator was Jag Swaminathan, while the speech was evaluated by Tatiana Makhinova.
Supporting roles were filled by Dmitri Iourovitski (debuting as Grammarian), Eamon O'Dea (Ah counter), Maryam Ali (Time Keeper), and Andrew Engel (Vote Counter).
Join us next week for the topic "It's never too late".
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