Minutes Meeting 18 : April 4, 2012

Minutes of the 18th meeting for the year 2011/12 was held on Wednesday the 4th April 2012 with the President Mr Nalin Silva in the Chair.

The proceeding commenced at 6.00 p.m. when the President call the meeting to order, National Anthem was sung by the members of Ralph.

Welcome Address

President welcomed all members to the Ralph Toast Masters Club meeting. He handed over CC Manual to TM Arun and wishes him all the best for future prepared speeches. He mentioned about National conference which was well organized and commented about the active participation of our member TM Viranthi Cooray and handed over Token of appreciation for her all-round performance

There were two new members on 4^th April 2012

Name Employer Introduced by

Udaya Shankar Deputy Head of Mkt CIC TM Lameer

Nilantha Senaratne Nestle TM Ishani

Toastmaster of the day TM Rauff Hakeem referred some versions from a book which was helpful to all members.

General Evaluator – TM Zafraz Lameer has introduced his team.

Word of the Day – Inevitable

Round Robin Session – Theme – Change

Prepared Speeches

TM Hiran Perera CC2- Mobile Phones

TM Preneeth Rupasinghe CC7 – Economic Impact in Sri Lanka

TM R Vijayalingam CC9 – Life Insurance Salesman

Table Topics Master TM Kalhara Gamage has selected the speakers by herself for the table topic session.

The following members had taken part in the table topic session

TM Niranjen

TM Chandana Samarasinghe

TM Viranthi Cooray

TM Udaya shankar

TM Saman

TM Shantha Gunaratne

Grammarian’s Report- TM Viranthi Cooray – said that the word of the day was used 17 times during the meeting and further she has done a precise evaluation on whole meeting and presented the following factors in general in the end.

1. Welcoming and Introducing
* please join me in welcoming....... applause

* We’re pleased to welcome

* I’d like to extend a warm welcome to

* It’s a pleasure to welcome

2. I’d like to introduce

· And now, a man who has made …

· And now, I introduce a man who has …

· Before I introduce our guest of honour, I'd like to present some..............

· Before we introduce our next speaker, let me remind you that ..............

· Here is a man who is ahead of his time,....................

· I’d like to introduce one of the foremost jugglers of our time – our treasurer!

· That’s what I call a Burger King introduction One .

General Evaluators Report- TM Zafraz Lameer said that the meeting went on well. He thanked his team members for the excellent job done by them.

Whilst concluding the day’s presiding President request participation of Ralph members for the Toastmasters the New Year celebrations which will be held on Saturday 21^st April 2012 at Henry Pedris grounds Colombo 5

The meeting was successfully concluded with a vote of thanks by the President and adjourned at 8.15 pm.

Thanking you

Chandra Senaratne

Secretary