Meeting minutes of November 1st, 2011

Attendees – 11：　10 regular members & 1 guest

Meeting Theme: “Autumn”

* Opening Remarks & Welcome Guests by VPE Rieko Ichiya

(substituted for President Ann Sado-honjo）

* Business Session by VPE Rieko Ichiya

(Reconfirmation about Evaluation Contest on Nov.12 &

Fall conference on Nov.25-27)

* Thought of the Evening TM Mineko Hasegawa

“Newsletter to My customers ”

* Toastmaster of the Day: TM Yasuyo Sato

* Table Topics Session: TM Masako Kuroda

* Prepared Speech Session
No.1 “Vocal Variety” TM Kouichi Hashimoto
Title: “A Sign of the Future Robot “

No.2 “Research Your Topic” TM Mariko Misaka
Title: “Women who live ahead of the times”
No.3 “Demonstration Talk” TM Kazuko Iwatsuki
Title: ”House or Stockroom?”
* Evaluation Session

TM Akemi Maruyama for TM Hashimoto’s speech

TM Ann Sado-Honjo for TM　Misaka’s speech

TM Rieko Ichiya for TM Iwatsuki’s speech

* General Evaluation by TM Mineko Hasegawa

* Report Session
Grammarian: TM Rieko Ichiya
Timer: TM Mineko Hasegawa
Am-Uh Counter: TM Mari Kanno
Vote Counter: TM Mika Murata

Best Speaker of the day:

Best Table Speaker: TM Akemi Maruyama

Best Evaluator: TM Ann Sado -Honjo

Best Prepared Speaker: TM Mariko Misaka

* Comments by guest
* Closing Remarks by TM Rieko Ichiya

Thanks to the participation of the guest speaker, we

enjoyed very muchthe animated and varied speeches.

Although number of attendance was less than usual,

the meeting was fruitful and successful with everyone’s

positive cooperation taking double or triple roles.

Results of Area 23 Evaluation Contest

Area 23 Evaluation Contest was held at Yachiyo Engineering Company on October 15th.

We gained wonderful results as follows:

English Evaluation Contest:

1st place: TM Ann Sado Honjo (KeyForce TMC)

2nd place: TM Akemi Maruyama (KeyForce TMC)

3rd place: TM Kouichi Hashimoto (Shinjuku Bilingual TMC)

Japanese Evaluation Contest:

1st place: TM Fuki Kitagawa (Edo TMC)

2nd place: TM Norifumi Morise (Edo TMC)

3rd place: TM Taeko Hayashi (KeyForce TMC)

TM Yasuyo Sato also challenged to be a contestant at Japanese

Evaluation Contest for the first time and made an excellent

evaluation speech.

Attached photos:

No.1 Winners of English Evaluation Contest.

No.2 Contestans from KeyForce with Area Governor TM Muko

and 3rd place winner TM Hashimoto

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Meeting minutes of October 18th, 2011

Attendees – 16 regular members & 2 guests

Meeting Theme: “Autumn Leaves & Nature"

Opening Remarks & Welcome Guests by President Ann Sado Honjo

(Report of the result of the Evaluation Contest on Oct.15^th)

(Eulogy for the death of Steve Jobs reminding his words

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish")

* Business Session by VPE Rieko Ichiya ( Early Bird Registration

for the Contest by November 14th)

* Induction Ceremony for TM Ayako Hirota by VPE Rieko Ichiya

* Thought of the Evening “My Purpose and Goal ”
TM Ayako Hirota

* Toastmaster of the Day: TM Taeko Hayashi

* Table Topics Session: TM Miki Saito

* Prepared Speech Session

No.1 Project No.1- Ice breaking TM Moto Kanokogi

Title: "An Evangelist of KAIZEN (revised)"

No.2 Project No.3- Interpretive reading Monodrama

Title: "Watarase River" TM Masako Kuroda

No.3 Title: "Exploring the Future Image of Women in Korea,

China and Japan" TM Ann Sado Honjo

* Evaluation Session 

TM Kazuko Iwatsuki for TM Kanokogi’s speech

TM Yasuyo Sato for TM Kuroda's speech

TM Rieko Ichiya for TM Sado Honjo's speech

* General Evaluation by TM Akemi Maruyama

* Best Speaker of the day:
Best Table Speaker: TM Mariko Misaka
Best Evaluator: Rieko Ichiya
Best Prepared Speaker: Ann Sado Honjo

* Comments by guest
* Closing Remarks by President Ann

At the beginning of the meeting, we were so excited to hear the good news of the Evaluation Contest on Oct. 16^th. It is great honor and pleasure having 3 winners from Key Force Club! TM Sado Honjo - 1^st place winner ,TM Maruyama -2^nd place winner for English Contest and TM Hayashi - 3^rd place winner for the Japanese Contest. All of us have acknowledged the Spirit of Challenge by the four contestants, including TM Sato, who also gave tremendous effort to be the contestant in Japanese for the first time. Each and every one of us have been motivated to improve ourselves through the Toastmasters club activities.