Wednesday, February 22, 2006  

 

Mentors of Focus Toastmasters Club   

Officers Meeting

Infocus

 

Attendees: Scott, Herb, Cathey, Michele & Ted

 

 

Agenda:                                                                                         

 (1) Membership Drive Results...when to give out prizes?       

(2) Open House

(3) Caring for “Newbie’s”

(4) Fang is leaving – need to discuss the In Focus room schedule

 

 

Team 1:

(Visitors:Dan & Charles) 

  Scott S.

   Ted E

   Nick

   Kondi

Team 2: (Visitors: Renee) 

  Michele

  Cathey

  Heather

  Taruna
  Rachael 

Team 3:

 

  Genie

   Dyanne

   Fang

   Rehka

Team 4:

(Visitors: Michele) 

   Herb
   Alexis  

   Brinda

   Dash
   Mitch(?)

 

Note: Walk-in Visitors Feb 22nd (Jake, Louis, Pat, Doug, Sean, Mike, Cheryl)

 

(1) Membership Drive Results: The Officers Voted on the winning team … Team #1 will receive the Blazer Tickets for having the most visitors & having one of the visitors – Dan Hahn - join our club. The tickets were award to Kondi for bringing Dan.  We decided to award one of our regular visitors, Louis Ornelas, who has been coming to our club meetings and bringing several visitors, with the Movie Tickets.

2) Open House: We changed the date from the 1st week of March to Wednesday April 5, 2006, to allow more time to plan. We also want to get the word out, so we will be contacting the businesses in Wilsonville to inform them of our club & see if they would put up some flyers.  We will plan on having cheese cake & coffee service.  Please make sure that the Open House flyers you are posting have a reference to RSVP - this will enable us to help plan for the event.

 

·       OFFICER ROLES

 

President – Herb Yamamoto

Action: Herb & Cathey will be contacting Nike to spread the word about Mentors of Focus Toastmasters.

 

 

VP Membership – Alexis Halmy

Action: Alexis will present the tickets from our Membership Drive to the winning team at the MOF club meeting today. She will also get in touch with InFocus on continuing support for providing their employee &/or visitors with Mentors of Focus Toastmasters Club information. Additionally, Alexis will also confirm who will be our InFocus contact once Fang leaves. Alexis also will contact the shops/businesses located at the Costco/Target outlet – and request she be allowed to put up our club flyers.

 

   

   

    VP Public Relations – Cathey Armillas

Action: Cathey & Herb will be contacting Nike to spread the word about Mentors of Focus Toastmasters. Cathey will also get together the Open House flyers & make any updates or changes to these flyers, and provide a rough draft of one in our next officers meeting. She will also get a blurb to Michele to put in their companies newsletter.

 

 

 

 

   Secretary – Michele Tedd

Action: Michele will keep spreading the word at Xerox about Toastmasters Mentors of Focus. She also will be getting a blurb from Cathey to put in the companies newsletter.

 

 

 

   Treasurer – Scott Stevenson

Action: Scott will be gathering the power point flyers on Toastmasters & Mentors of Focus, then forward them on the Cathey.

 

 

 

   Sergeant At Arms – Ed Edlin

Action: Ted will contact the College (across the street from InFocus) to see if they would be willing to put up our Mentors of Focus Flyers & see if any of their students would be interested in coming to one of our club meetings.

 

 

 

 ·       Other

 

We may have members now, but that will drop off when membership renewals happen in June 2006.  We hope that the Open House will boost some membership. Several members are in the process of looking for other employment opportunities or now find our meeting time convenient for them.  This will no doubt end as a drop in membership at our semiannual renewal for April 1st.

 

We discussed the Timer’s Role and the speech time. Normally we have let the participant go past the allotted time, but were discussing another way, such as in allowing the speaker only the allotted 30 seconds after the scheduled time (4-7 minutes speech would have 7 minutes & 30 seconds to finish). We may set up rules for a new member vs. a seasoned member.  To gesture or ring a bell … we will decide more on this at our next officers meeting.

 

Action: Next Meeting’s Agenda

 

Because of the time, we did not get to discuss much on the other proposed Agenda items, except that Alexis is working on getting us a contact at In Focus when Fang leaves our club, so we can make sure that we’ll still have a room for our club meetings.