Meeting 874 Academy Awards - Movie Night

Annette congratulated Kerry

Kerry was greeted with rousing applause last meeting for her victory in the recent State Election.

Leesa

Toastmaster Leesa kept the meeting running smoothly.

John introduced the word  "STARTLING." Later in the evening, he showed us what was startling about the word. By dropping one letter each time  can become:
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I

Harry stepped in as Round Robin Master and asked each of us to give a mini  "acceptance speech" for an Academy Award. This brought some laughs.

Del continued the  theme with her Table Topics and asked Robert, Ernie, Maureen & Terry & Steve  (guests)
to speak on topics such as "How to accept an  award," Why should you recieve an award," "How to choose a winner," and "Are Academy Awards worthwhile?"
The Table Topics were evaluated by John.

Annette

Jonathon presented an inspirational speech, "Are you on the Right Bus?"  It was competently evaluated by Harry.

Dave

Dave entertained us with a spirited recitation of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky.


             






Annette had every one's  attention as she  presented an Educational Session about "Meeting Roles."

One of our speakers was away, so a visiting Toastmaster, Terry filled in with a review of the movie "Heist."

Elizabeth

 Elizabeth presented some interesting information about "Lighting." 

Liz conducted a lively listening quiz.

Award winners for the evening were:

Leesa Marshal (Best Contribution)
Jonathon (Best Speech)
Harry (Best Evaluation AND Personal Best)
Maureen (Best Table Topic)

Metro Division Contest

Leesa, Annette and I attended the Metro Division Conference. The standard of the  contestants was very high, particularly in the International Contest.

We had a good day and came home with the Humorous Speech Contest Trophy.

Marlene receiving Trophy from Division Governor Deb Smith

Meeting 873 "Ireland - Going Green"

Welcome to our newest member Amanda, who was inducted into our club by president Sharyn. We also welcomed three guests, Marie, Ernie and a past member, David A.

With St Patrick's Day coming up, our meeting took on an Irish flavour.

Annette was Toastmaster and had plenty of Irish Jokes. Some of them were funny!
Robert introduced the Word of the Day, "Unicorn" then realised he meant "Leprechaun" so we had fun using both words during the evening.

Round Robin Master Liz We asked us to tell what we knew or imagined about Ireland.

Harry had some challenging Table Topics for Liz We, John, Marlene and Leesa. They were "The Luck of the Irish," "What's at the End of the Rainbow" "Murphy's Law" and "Holiday in the Emerald Isle."

They were evaluated by Liz Wo.

Jennine presented an interesting speech about David  Attenborough. Trish's speech was  "Taking the Fear out of Speaking."

The speeches were evaluated by John and Leesa.









A second Round Robin, conducted by Marlene, took the form of a continuing story. It began with Paddy digging in his potato field and took many amazing twists as each person added to it.

The Business Session was conducted efficiently by Nicole. It was her first time as Chairman.

Grammarian Dave congratulated members who had succeeded in avoiding the use of "Ums & Ah's" and commented on some good uses of words.

Jonathon's Listening Quiz was fast moving, with many fines collected.

June's raffle prize of a torch and green bags, was won by Leesa.

Sharyn evaluated the meeting then presented the awards for the evening, which went to Jennine (Best Speech,) John (Best Evaluation,) Nicole (Personal Best,) Marlene (Best Table Topic,) and Annette (Best Contribution.)

We almost didn't fit into the photo and the camera wasn't on the right setting - but our new banner looks good!