Kochi Toastmasters Club 128 Regular Meeting Minutes

DATE&TIME: 15:00-17:00, Saturday, December 17, 2016, VENUE: Room A326, Education & Research Building, Eikokuji Campus, Kochi University of Technology / University of Kochi
Attendees : TM Shinomiya, TM Nagasaki, TM Kitaoka, TM S. Nagano, TM Hayashi, TM Tomonaga, TM Tsuchihashi, TM Hashimoto, TM Adachi, TM Wong, TM Kunisawa, TM Y. Nagano, TM Miyoshi and TM O’Dowd
Absentees : TM Sawada, TM Rai, TM Machida, TM Kumon, TM Cooley and TM Kamisaka
Guests : Mr. Okazaki(2) and Mr. Yamaguchi(3)

-Call to Order by President : President Sachi Nagano called the 128th regular meeting to order.
-Introduction of Guests : There were two guests who introduced themselves.
-Greeting by Toastmaster: TM Nagasaki, the TM of the meeting, greeted everyone present at the meeting.
-New Member Induction Ceremony and Mentor Nomination : TM Piper O'Dowd was inducted as a new member of Kochi Toastmasters Club, she completed the ceremony by reciting the Toastmasters Pledge. TM Wong was also nominated to be her mentor and he accepted the position.
- Word of the Day: Word Master: TM Piper : She chose the word 'absolutely'. -Introduction of Evaluation Team : -General Evaluator: TM Tomonaga
-Timer: TM Hashimoto -Vote-Counter: TM Shinomiya -Ah-Counter: TM Miyoshi -Grammarian: TM Wong
- Table Topics Session】 Table Topics Master: TM Y. Nagano :
During the session, TM Y. Nagano had the participants describe their lives if they were everyday objects. This forced the participants to think on their feet in order to make sad, interesting and even funny stories.
-Timer’s Report & Voting
-Intermission
-Formal Speech Session :
Speaker 1: TM Piper : She gave her Icebreaker Speech explaining to us how she came to find herself in Kochi and what she wishes to accomplish in Toastmasters. In her speech, she demonstrated her ability to use humor extremely effectively and as well as good speech organization skills and tone of voice. Her future as a public speaker seems bright.
Speaker 2: TM Kunisawa : She gave her 5th speech in the Competent Communicator Manual. The skill being emphasized was Vocal Variety. In her speech, she talked about her struggles to pass the eiken test and specifically to write a critical essay on a social-political complicated topic. She showed her strength as a master story teller and also showed her understanding of the speech's objectives by seamlessly mixing in a good mixture of vocal variety.
Speaker 3: TM Tsuchihashi : She gave her second speech from the Advanced Communicator Manual 'Entertaining Speaker'. The skill being emphasized was Using Resources for Entertainment. She managed to accomplish this by explaining to us the many meanings of the Japanese expression 'kometsukibatta' by using exaggeration as well as a small skit to great effect.
Speaker 4: TM Kitaoka : He gave an extremely technical speech about the effectiveness of a medical procedure to treat a foot related problem. He supported his information by using visuals and statistics to illustrate his points.

Evaluation Session】 General Evaluator Evaluator 1: TM Adachi Evaluator 2: TM Hashimoto Evaluator 3: TM Hayashi Evaluator 4: TM S. Nagano -Timer’s Report & Vote -Reports : Ah-Counter, Grammarian, Word Master General Evaluator’s Comments Sharing Address by Toastmaster -Award Presentation President: TM Nagano -Business Session -Adjourn