President Chen called No.461 meeting to order.

TM H.M. was introduced by president to explain the ”Word of Day” to start the main program. The word was “generally (adverb)”.

TMOD called for the supporters, Grammarian, Ah/Uh counter, Vote Counter and Timer to explain their roles briefly.

Joke Session
Joke master; TM T. N., He provided us four funny stories.
One of them was a Conversation between a mother and her daughter.
It went like this.
Mika was born in Osaka and moved to Tokyo when she was nine years old.
One day she was talking with her mother and asked, “Mom where did I come from?” Mother thought the time has come to talk about how a man and a woman fall in love and a baby is born. Mika was listening to her story with great interest and said,“ Wow!   How interesting!  Dad told me I came from Osaka.”
That funny story made us laugh a lot.

We moved on to Prepared Speech Session.
First Speaker, TM Y.W., delivered the speech titled “Smartphones” based on the Manual “Technical Presentations”. He delivered an effective speech which he had experienced.
His conversational style presentation by using projector made us buy a smartphone.

Second Speaker, TM A.U., delivered the speech titled “Reasons why analog games are wonderful” based on the Manual “ Competent  Communication”.
He delivered a recommendation of analog game which make us happy when we play it at family gathering places such as New Year holidays.

Third Speaker, TM A.M., delivered the speech titled “ My Golf” based on the Manual “Competent Communication”. He delivered a speech why he started playing golf.
He told us that he was fascinated by seeing the beautiful golf course alongside the ocean when he was in America.
After he returned to Japan he started practicing golf for the first time.

Fourth Speaker, TM Y.H., delivered the speech titled “Appreciation for coffee” based on the Manual “Competent Communication”.
She delivered a speech that she was fully appreciated coffee in her daily life.
She says, “I am not only a coffee lover but also a coffee cup lover. My hobby is collecting coffee cups forever.”

Fifth Speaker, TM T. I., delivered the speech titled “Thank you for presenting an award to me” based on the Manual “Special Occasion Speeches”.
He delivered a speech about his business a long time ago. He had been working hard without using computer and fax to contact foreign customers for 40 years.

Table Topics Session
Table Topics master TM S.N. introduced us eight following questions.
1.What is your most excited event in this fiscal year?
2.What do you want to achieve during this fiscal year?
3.What are your most impressive persons in this fiscal year?
4.Which color is suitable to explain your fiscal year 2016 and why?
5.What is your embarrassing event in this fiscal year?
6.What do you want to achieve or improve something through Toastmasters club’s activities?
7.Please share your unique habit without hesitation?
8.Please introduce your closest person?
Everyone enjoyed a lot of speeches.

Intermission from 15:50-16:00

We started Evaluation Session
The General Evaluator TM T.O. introduced five evaluators.
Five evaluators evaluated each prepared speaker’s speeches effectively.
Then TM T.O. did entire evaluations.

Award Presentation
The award of TMOD went to TM M.H. because she designed and made a wonderful video for our club.
The award of the best Table Topics speaker went to TM Y. H..
The award of the best evaluator went to TM A. S..
The award of the best speaker in the Prepared Speech Session went to
TM Y. W.