Membership Information Page

The Talk IT Up! club meets every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at HQ and DCTC, respectively.

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills.

Club officers and responsibilities are as follows:

ROLE	CLUB MEMBER	RESPONSIBILITIES
President	Ken Visser	Operate the club.
VP Education	Pierre Joseph	Promote the development and training of club members.
VP Public Relations	Lance Williams	Promote awareness of club activities through advertisements, press releases, letters and announcements.
VP Membership	Andra Jones (WHQ); Tampie Caroll-Robinson (DCTC)	Recruit new Toastmaster members.
Secretary	Aisha Anderson	Maintain records of operations and handle correspondence for the club.
Treasurer	Vonnya Pettigrew	Maintain records of funds collected and expended by the club.
Sergeant At Arms	Deborah Carter (WHQ); Michelle Escumbise (DCTC)	Arrange the facility for meetings and maintain club property.

Contact an officer if you have questions about the club or are interested in becoming a club officer. The standard meeting agenda is below. See the Useful Links page for more information and helpful tips on meeting roles.

Meeting Agenda

Call meeting to order [TMOD]
- Ask all attendees to “Please mute or turn off cell phones and other disruptive electronic devices”
- Circulate roster
- Recognize guests
- Note any special significance of the meeting
- Introduce Grammarian and ask her/him to:
  - Explain duties
  - Provide Word of the Day
- Introduce Timer and ask him/her to:
  - Explain duties
Review agenda briefly [TMOD]
Commence prepared speeches (following is done for each speaker)
- Introduce speaker and speech title, welcome speaker to podium with handshake and hand off podium to speaker [TMOD]
- Present speech and turn podium back over to TMOD with a handshake [SPEAKER]
Introduce Table Topics Master (TTM), welcome TTM to podium with handshake and hand off podium to TTM [TMOD]
- Select table topics speakers and do the following for each one [TTM]
  - Welcome speaker(s) to podium with handshake [TTM]
  - Explain table topic scenario and hand off podium to speaker [TTM]
  - Present table topic and when complete, turn podium back over to TTM with handshake [TABLE TOPICS SPEAKER]
- Turn podium back over to TMOD [TTM]
Introduce Master Evaluator (ME) [TMOD]
- Explain ME and speech evaluator duties [ME]
- For each evaluator:
  - Introduce the evaluator, welcome evaluator to podium with handshake and hand off podium to evaluator [ME]
  - Present evaluation and when complete, turn podium back over to the ME with handshake [EVALUATOR]
- Request timer report [ME]
  - Present timer report [TIMER]
- Request grammarian report [ME]
  - Present grammarian report [GRAMMARIAN]
- Evaluate the meeting as a whole and speech evaluations as necessary [ME]
- Turn podium back over to the TMOD [ME]
Conclude meeting [TMOD]
- Open floor for comments
- Adjourn meeting