TSUKUBA TOASTMASTERS CLUB Minutes of #472  Regular Meeting Date: November 7, 2009 Time: 14:00 - 17:00, Venue: Onogawa public hall Attendees:S. Park, H. Park, Matsushima, S. Ito, Kaneko, Y. Ito, Matsumoto, Y. Ikenobe, Honma, Kobori, Tashiro, Negi, Adachi, Tanaka, Murakami, Hashida, Hirayama, Kadono, Kikukawa, Kita, Ogawa Guests : No guest. Presiding Officer:VPE  Ogawa                                  VPPR  S. Ito           Secretary  Adachi           Treasurer  Y. Ikenobe Thought of the Day:Matsumoto Toastmaster   : S. Park Timer   : Kobori Vote Counter:Negi Grammarian: Tanaka U/A Counter:Y. Ikenobe *Word of the Day: Ogawa  "Embrace" --Table Topic session: Table topic mater : Kita TT Speaker #1  Y. Ikenobe 1'59 TT Speaker #2  Ogawa 2'05 TT Speaker #3  Murakami 1'45 TT Speaker #4 Kobori 1'54 TT Speaker #5 Tashiro 1'43 TT Speaker #6 Negi 1'16 TT Speaker #7 H. Park 2'31 --Prepared speech session: Speaker #1 Honma 5'35 Speaker #2 Kikukawa 4'18 Speaker #3    Y. Ito  6'38 Speaker #4:   Hirayama 6'25 --Evaluation session General Evaluator Hashida Evaluator #1  Adachi 3'40 Evaluator #2  S. Ito  3'36 Evaluator #3  Kaneko 3'05 Evaluator #4  Matsushima 3'14 *Award session Best TT Speaker Negi Best Evaluator Matsushima Best Prepared Speaker Hirayama *Business Reports 1. The area 13 contest hosted by Tsukuba TMC was held on Oct. 24   successfully ended.  The contest was attracted around 25 people and Zukhara won   second prize. 2. Division contest was held on Nov. 1 in Saitama.  Zukhara won third prize at the Division contest. (Wow! I'm   proud of you.) 3. Next in-house speech contest is scheduled for next March.  The member, who have finished at least project #6 of CC manual,   can entry the contest.  Please start preparation for the contest. 4. The schedule for the coming meeting is as follows; Nov. 21, Dec. 5,   Dec. 19, Jan. 9, and Jan. 23. 5. Year end party is scheduled on Dec. 19.