President N. N. called the Meeting to order and welcomed two guests. TM M. I. presented “Word of the day: “Outstanding (adjective)”. The speakers used this word quite often in their speeches.

Business Session
    TM Y. W. introduced our renewed Home-page design with a lot of photos.
    TM L. C. reported the status of the preparatory works for the presidential election.  
                                                                                     
    TMOD: TM H. S.
    Grammarian: TM A. M.
    Ah/Uh Counter: TM M. I.
    Vote Counter: TM T. I.
    Timer: TM T. O.

Joke Session was skipped to spare the time for new Pathways system introduction.

Prepared Speech Session
    The number of speeches was limited to 3 due to the same reason as mentioned above.
    TMOD asked all speakers to answer to her question: “What color do you like and why?”
    First Speaker: TM K. I.
    His answer to TMOD’s question was “I like black color. Because it may have the meaning of steady, firm, rigid and unbendable”. The title of his speech was “Lady Macbeth”. It is one of four great tragedies by Shakespeare. It was not easy to perform; however, he gave his speech smoothly and naturally.
                                                                                    
 Second Speaker: TM N. S.
    Her answer was “I have never selected purple for my clothes. However, I like purple because my deceased mother loved purple very much and wore purple kimono or clothes very often”.The title of her speech was “The Great Dictator”. She interpreted and presented a famous speech in the movie with her changing wonderful voice volume.
                                                                                    
    Third Speaker: TM Y. U.
    He said “I like green color, because I feel something calm when I meet green”.The title of his speech was “The roast to a lady”. He picked up one of our members and starting with roast, ended up with his praise and respect to her.
                                                                                    
Table Topics Session
    Table Topics Master was TM A. S. She raised 4 following topics.
                   
    1. The year 2018 started with a very cold winter. Now we feel the season is moving on to spring. What are the things that make you feel “Spring has come!”?
    2. This Wednesday, we had a surprising snow fall. Did it affect your holiday plan? If so please tell us about it, and if not, tell us about your experience concerning the snow fall?
    3. March is the time of Graduation Ceremony in Japan. You’ve experienced many graduations so far. So tell us about graduation that you remember most.
    4. Now is the season of cherry blossoms. Do you have any special Ohanami plan? If so please tell us about it. If not, please tell us about the Ohanami you remember most?
    On those topics, TM M. H., TM M. K., TM T. A. and TM A. T. made wonderful prompt speeches, respectively.

After 5 minute- break, Evaluation Session 
    The General evaluator: TM J. Y.
    Three evaluators evaluated each speaker’s speech.
    TM Y. W. evaluated TM K. I.’s speech.
    TM T. K. evaluated TM N. S.’s speech.
    TM E. M. evaluated TM Y. U.’s speech.

The Award Presentation  
    The TMOD Award: TM Y. W. for introducing the new home-page design.
    The Best Table Topics Speaker: TM A. T.
    The Best Evaluator: TM E. M.
    The Best Prepared Speaker: TM N. S.
             Awards Winners     

Special Session : Introduction of the new educational system “Pathways” by T. A.
    The outline of “Pathways” was concisely explained in about 40 minutes and a few questions were replied briefly.
    The details may follow in VPE’s e-mail later.

                                                                                       By H. S.