Highlights:

ICAT Toastmasters Club was proud to conduct its 150 th meeting on the 19th of Nov 2011. The meeting was conducted in the presence of past presidents of the ICAT club.

The President ACB CL Naveen Sharma announced the achievement of 9 DCP points. The club has 21 new members who joined during the current year since July 2011. He welcomed the 6 guests and the Past Presidents of the club,

Past President Ganpat KunbhatSurender JainRazack AslamArnoldLalit BhallaRamesh Mahalingam

The audience voted Shaju Perinchery as the best speaker, TM Razack Aslam as the best evaluator and TM Sunil Bhansal as the best table topic speaker.

Past President Razack Aslam:

Training is essential to communicate effectively and impressively.

Past President Lalit Bhalla

Project 1 to Project 6 is the core of a Toastmaster’s journey

Past President Arnold

Open mindedness is the main requirement for success as a Toastmaster

Past President Ramesh Mahalingam

Put into Toastmasters all you can, to get from Toastmasters all you want!

Past President Surender Jain

Surender Jain served as the TMOD and had a very interesting theme for the meeting ‘Slow and steady or fast and speedy’ . He shared several entertaining ideas and one liners which the audience enjoyed.

Project Speeches, Evaluation and Table Topics:

TM Unnikrishnan Sukumaran introduced himself through project 1 speech which was evaluated by CC CL Sunil Shenoy

TM Shaju Perinchery delivered project 2 speech ‘I have been at the top’ which was a beautiful inspirational speech. The speech was evaluated by TM Ramesh Taparia

CC Nimesh Lokhandwala delivered a project from Advanced Manual Story telling evaluated by TM Razack Aslam

CC Wilson Lewis delivered his P2 from Advanced Manual Speaking to Inform and was evaluated by TM Avinash Pangarkar

Past President TM Anand served as the Grammarian and ah counter.

Roles :

Table Topic Master:

CC CL Ganpat Kumbhat was the Table Topic master.The participants for the Table topics wereTM Ashit, TM Biji Daniel, TM Arvind Malia, TM Sunil Bhansal

Word Master:

TM Jitendra Jain introduced the word Tenacity meaning perseverance.

Timer :TM Wingo Sabestian was accurate in time keeping a time check

Evaluator of Table Topics :TM Jayant Jain effectively highlighted the manner in which table topics could be handled by evaluating the table topic speakers.

General Evaluator:

TM Ramesh Mahalingam shared his thoughts on the manner in which the meeting was conducted.