Charter Nite Celebration

At last the most awaited day for our club arrived, the 1st October 2010 the grand celebration of Charter Nite Ceremony. The event led by our dynamic president Farida Dias with her team gave jitters to the club officers from the district. Yes! the District Governor DTM Nagaraj Rao, Division Governor DTM Prasad Sovani and the Area Governor Col.Sabari Girish Kanjully were at our Venue VIVANTA by TAJ, Panjim. The CCP (Corporation of City of Panjim) Commissioner Mr.Elvis Gomes was the Chief Guest for the event and he spoke very well. His humorous speech "I wondered how many marriages will these Toastmasters will get per month to earn a living and I realised TOASTMASTERS don't mean verbally and this elite club throughout the world is engaged in training people to gauge their tongue" was well received by audience. Then, the president of YMCA Panjim Mr.P.M.Vaz released the souvenir of the club amidst huge applause.

After the applause the real Toastmasters meeting started off with TM Basil D'Cunha and TM Dan Jog gave their Project Speeches followed by a nice mix of Table Topics of Duet, Gibberish, Positive-Negative etc., which made the audience to sit erect. The most interesting thing of the event was the Ice-breaker speeches by SMS Dynamos (Sharada Mandir School Gavel Club) members Sapna Nayak and Rohan Saxena followed the Story Telling Table Topic by other members of the club. After all the speeches, the District Governor handed over the Charter Certificate to the President of the Club TM Farida D'Silva Dias. The Executive Committee of the club viz. Vice President(Education)TM Akbar Khan, Vice President(Public Relations)TM Adolph Castellino, Vice President(Membership)TM Sharmila Rao, Secretary TM Kailash Kattalay, Treasurer TM Millie Alvares, Sergent-at-arms TM Laura Alvares were inducted into office by Division Governor DTM Prasad Sovani. The newest members of the club were inducted by Area Governor TM Sabari Girish.

Once the official function is over, guests were served hot snacks followed by Dinner. The scintillating experience was the Music Program given by Dr.Varun who made people to loose their feet and be themselves for almost 2 hours. We had to wind-up the party since the next morning (2nd October) was a dry day and all our members, guests and dignitaries went home half heartened. This day of 1st October 2010 is an unforgettable day for the members of our club and can be cherished forever in life.

Minutes of the Excom meeting on 18th May

Members Present : Farida D'Dias (President), Adolph Castelino (VP-PR), Kailash Kattalay (Secretary), Dan Jog (Treasurer) and Laura Alvares (Sergent at arms)

* Secretary updated the pending chartering process of club and notified that all the members are supposed to refill the Charter Member Forms instead of normal forms which were already filled up. Agreed to fill-up on behalf of the members and get the signatures of members in the regular meeting scheduled on 1st June

* Agreed by all the members that the Secretary will receive the money from Treasurer meant for club registration to ease out the administrative convenience. Once the charter process is over, the balance money is supposed to be handed over to Treasurer.

* VP PR presented a Plan of Action for the initial publicity which is essential for the club right now. It is agreed to send out letters in accordance with YMCA president to all the business houses and the industrial bodies

* Agreed that all the excom members will meet the President and Director (Activities) of YMCA on 27th May at 7:00 PM to get their consent officially and to have YMCA name in the club's name for the patronage given in lending the space for regular meetings. Further to explore the possibility of requesting them to introduce the club to the established business houses and the industrial bodies of Goa.

* Agreed that the regular meetings will be replaced for official matters of expediting the Charter process, action plan for Charter nite etc., The club has to find out patrons, sponsors, for an effective and impressive charter nite.

* Sergent at arms suggested that charter nite can happen in a Cruise boat as a distinguished event and a memorable one. President spoke to one of the Cruise owners named Anand for sponsoring the event and in turn he asked to put in writing.

* Agreed that the executive committee (excom) will be officially elected in front of the members in the immediate meeting on 1st June.


Farida D.Dias
President

Minutes of Meeting on 4th May

Meeting started off well on time and followed the time line as per the agenda

9 members were present and unfortunately no guests were seen

Role players of the meeting :

Toastmaster of the day - TM Kailash Kattalay
Table Topics Master - TM Adolfo Castellino
General Evaluator - TM Akbar Khan
Grammarian & AH Counter - TM Ruben Quadros
Timer - TM Dilip Thally

2 projects speeches were done viz.

(a) Ice breaker speech by TM Sharmila Rao evaluated by TM Akbar Khan
(b) Project 2 speech by TM Gokuldas Mangeshkar evaluated by TM Milie Alvares

TM Gokuldas Mangeshkar was adjudged as the best speker of the day by voting

Table Topics session was conducted interestingly with a bag of coins. Speakers were supposed to pick up one coin from the bag and speak either about the person(head) or an incident took place in the year appeared on the coin.

Michael Coutinho was adjudged as the Best Table Topics Speaker of the day by voting

Meeting ended well with a business session after the general evaluation


Kailash Kattalay
Secretary
Goa YMCA TM Club

Adhoc Committee Meeting - 23rd April 2010

Agenda:

* Despatch of membership fees - Registeration of club;

* Designated/lack of roles within the Adhoc Committee - suggest changes;

* Minutes of meetings (Adhoc and TM)/Newsletters;

* Media - proposed strategy - increase in membership;

* Follow-up system (as per toastmaster rules - pre/post meeting);

* Evaluation - constructive/destructive on progress to-date; propose solutiuons (do- ble) within the TM rules and regulations;

* Adhoc Committee members' attendance at TM meetings;

* Communication between Adhoc Committee members/hers.;

* Gavels Club

* Any other/s

by order/

Farida D'Silva dias
President,
Adhoc Committee,
GOA YMCA Toastmasters