On September 23, 15 members and one guest from Southern Beach Club gathered at Tujido Civic Center for the #471 regular meeting presided by TM M. H.

In the Business Session, the Budget for this term was approved as announced by e-mail in advance. Next, VPPR suggested members’ consideration for preventing rather new members from quitting our Club.

After the Word of the Day “prosperous” was announced and a few jokes from “Rakugo”, all about human nature, were presented to let the audience relax, four speeches were given in the Prepared Speech Session.

Those were about: the structure and mechanism of the toilet system in which the speaker introduced how to acquire efficient discharge as well as considerable water saving; the concept of an advanced electronic fare collection system for transportation facilities which is applicable also to shops; the history of Tai Chi Chuan (Taikyokuken) referring back to the origin; and a few personal funny experiences of misunderstandings in every- day life.

In place of customary fifth speech, a Tall Tale speech was given as a rehearsal by one of our representative speakers for the Area Contest.

TM A. M won the best speaker award for his illustration of the fare collection system.

In the Table Topics Session, as we were behind the schedule a little, only four topics were presented to invite floor members to make impromptu short speeches respectively. Those were mostly about memories and plans in summer and autumn.

TM M from Southern Beach Club received the best speaker award for his tempting invitation to Holland.

In the Evaluation Session, four evaluators, gave positive and instructive comments on the prepared speeches, respectively.

TM N. N won the best evaluator award for his deliberate evaluation on TM E. M’s speech.

General Evaluator assessed the overall atmosphere and proceedings of the meeting friendly and smooth.

For the TMOD award TM Y. W was chosen in view of his multi-roles today: Joke Master, Tall Tale speaker and the projector engineer.

Awards Winners