The 160th meeting of Islamabad Toastmasters Club was held on 25th October 2011 at 06:30 pm. The meeting was attended by 13 members and 3 guests (Attendance is given under). The theme of the Meeting was “MANNERS” and the Word of the day was “POLITENESS”.
Seargeant at Arms, TM Bashir Khan started the meeting with the mission of Toastmasters International and motto of Islamabad Toastmasters Club. President TM Sajjad Ahmad welcomed the distinguished guests and fellow toastmasters in the meeting. He emphaised the importance of Manners and its special relevance with Toastmasters. The role of Master of the Ceremony was played by TM Waqas Rajab.
Toastmaster of the evening opened the meeting with quite impressive remarks on Manners by linking with life of Steve Jobs and Mahatama Gandhi. Further, Toastmaster of the Evening explained the three segments of the meeting and introduced the assistants/role players for the meeting i.e Grammarian:TM Imran pervez, Ah-Counter: TM Haleema, Timer: TM Bashir Khan, Vote Counter: TM Javed Iqbal.
TME handed over the control of the meeting to TM Umer Farooq for conducting Table Topics Session of the meeting. He briefly touched upon the significance of Table Topics and guidelines for the TT speakers. TM Umar Farooq invited TM Bashir Khan, TM Usman Gulzari, TM Nangar Soomro, DTM Akbar Jan, TM Haleema, TM Imran Pervez, TM Waqas Ahmad, Guest Mr. Ibrahim and Guest Mr. Athar. The topics were relevant to theme of the meeting and had interesting touch like one speaker spoke on HUSBAND, WIFE and MANNERS. The table topics session ended with voting for best speaker and meanwhile the announcement for light refreshment was done. At refreshments, Seargent at Arms most of the time was busy in arranging the TEA which was successfully arranged.
Toastmaster of the Evening, Waqas Rajab resumed the meeting with Prepared Speeches segment. He introduced the segment and first speaker for Ice-Breaker Speech. TM Sana Naseer delivered her Ice-breaker in very inspiring and impressive manner. TM Javed Iqbal delivered the speech on Body Language: Use of Gestures, DTM Akbar Jan Marwat presented speech from Story Telling manual having characters like Frog etc. At the end of Speech session a Video Speech from Toastmasters International Competition with title Grandma-live fully – lessons of life was arranged and enjoyed by the audience.
As a third Segment of the meeting, TM Nangar Soomro conducted General Evaluation Session. He introduced the Evaluation and its importance at Toastmasters. After that, he invited panel of Evaluators to evaluate the different speeches such as TM Saira Pervez evaluated Table Topics, TM Waqas Ahmad evaluated speech of TM Sana Naseer , TM Sajjad Ahmad evaluated DTM Akbar Jan and TM Bashir Khan evaluated the speech by TM Javed Iqbal. Having completed individual evaluations with Commend, Recommend and Comment methodology, General Evaluator asked the reports from the role players i.e Word Master, Ah-Counter and Grammarian. The general evaluation took place with positive remarks about the meeting, appreciating duties of members specially SAA in arranging the room, banners, trophies etc. General Evaluator asked the members and guests to bring more guests to the meeting in order to spread the benefits of toastmaster to maximum people.
TM Sajjad Ahmad along with Vote Counter TM Javed Iqbal conducted the moment of truth session by awarding Guest Athar for best table topics speaker, TM Sana Naseer for best prepared Speaker, TM Sajjad Ahmad for best evaluator and TM Waqas Rajab as Big-3. The meeting ended with the remarks from the guests and appreciations for the club.
Note: It was decided that Table Topics Competition would be held in Last Week of November.
