The 163rd Meeting of Islamabad Toastmasters Club (ITC) was held on Tuesday 22nd November, 2011 at 1830 hours at ITC-NICS- Lok Virsa Gate No.5 Islamabad. The meeting was called to order by reciting the mission of Toastmasters and motto of Islamabad Toastmasters Club by the TM Imran-ul-Haq.
President ITC TM Sajjad Ahmad welcomed the guests and members in meeting. He introduced the theme of the meeting “Success against Odds”. He asked the guests to briefly introduce themselves. TM Sajjad Ahmad handed over the control of lectern to TM Sahban Zafar Ali as Toastmasters of the Evening for further proceedings of the meeting.
Toastmasters of the Evening (TME), TM Sahban Zafar Ali brought the meeting on track with putting light on the theme of the “Success against Odds”. Further, He introduced the format of the meeting by explaining the objectives and importance of the three segments of the Meeting 1) Table Topics Session, 2) Prepared Speeches and 3) Evaluations. TM Sahban Zafar Ali introduced the Table Topics Master TM Usman Gulzari in a zealous way to take on the Table Topic session.
Table Topics Master (TTM) explained the purpose of Table Topics and reminded the members to use the word of the day “Doctrine” meaning set of guidelines or principle. TTM invited DTM Akbar Jan Marwat, TM Javed Iqbal, TM M Siddique, TM Waqas Ahmed, TM Tariq Mehmood, TM M I Asad, TM Mohsin Iqbal, TM Imran-ul-Haq and a honorable Guest, and gave them variety of simple and easy topics to speak. All Table Topic speakers responded very soundly to the topics given. Table Topic session ends with voting for the best table topic speaker.
After the short break of 10 minutes, the meeting was re-commenced by TME, TM Sahban Zafar Ali with the introduction of Prepared Speeches segment. First speaker TM Sajjad Ahmad delivered his speech from advance manual with the theme of Press Conference by Power consultant which was done wonderfully. TM Mohsin Iqbal was the second speaker on the board, he delivered his third project from CC manual on topic of “Information Technology”. Having completed the Prepared Speeches session, TME asked TM Waqas Ahmed to take charge of meeting as General Evaluator.
General Evaluation Segment was initiated with the concise introduction, objectives and proposed method of Evaluations at Toastmasters. TM Waqas invited the TM Tariq Mehmood to evaluate the Table Topics Speeches and TM Tariq evaluated each speaker in person according to the criterion. TM Javed Iqbal was invited to evaluate the speech of TM Sajjad Ahmad and TM Imran-ul-Haq evaluated the speech of TM Mohsin Iqbal. At the end of evaluation segment, TM Waqas Ahmed evaluated the overall meeting in general and asked the reports from Timer: TM Javed Iqbal, Grammarian: TM Akbar Jan Marwat, Word Master: TM Muhammad Siddique, Ah Counter: Guest
The meeting was ended with the awards distribution by President in coordination with Vote Counter TM Mohsin Iqbal. As per the results the awards went as Best Table Topics Speaker TM Muhammad Siddique, Best Prepared Speaker TM Sajjad Ahmad, Best Evaluator TM TM Imran-ul-Haq, and Big-3 TM Usman Gulzari.
