Jonathon in the News

Our VPPR Jennine has had an excellent article printed in this week's Bayside Star, featuring Jonathon.
Well done Jennine and Jonathon!

Meeting 893 "Love is in the Air"

Harry

Annette is still practising her joke telling skills as she opens the meeting. Does anyone have some good jokes for Annette?

We were pleased to welcome three guests, Michael, Ron and Gigi.

Harry handled the role of Toastmaster for the evening with aplomb.

As Quote Master, Inge chose one from the ancient Greek philosopher  Diogenes, "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." She explained she had chosen it as suitable for our theme of love, because love of humanity knows no ethnic or cultural boundaries. This prompted another one from Harry, (I think it was Harry) from Thomas Aquinas, "Love is willing the good of another."

Liz We filled in as Round Robin Master and asked us to tell about a valentine we had received. This evoked many humorous stories.

Table Topic Master Rhys asked John T, Amanda, Annette and Inge to talk on theme related topics such as, "Uses for the word "Love." "Types of love between people." Different loves in your life" and something about "Modern Media" (can't remember exactly what it was.) Dave and Liz Wo evaluated the Table Topics.

Jonathon

Jonathon presented a dynamic speech, "Planning is Everything."
He spoke about the advantages of planning the next 10 years, the next 12 months, 90 weeks, 1 week and 1 day. He left us with a memorable thought from Eisenhower, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

Liz Wo evaluated Jonathon's speech.

Marlene is working through the Interpretive Reading Manual and presented a Monodrama adapted from Daphne Du Maurier's book, "Rebecca."  It was evaluated by Sharyn.

Liz We

Dave's doily

Dave had brought a raffle donated by his craft loving wife, Sandy. Dave raffled it as a square doily, until someone suggested it was actually a cushion cover. (which it was.) There's always something to laugh about at our meetings.

The Raffle was won by Leesa.

John S

The Business Session was competently chaired by John S. The main  item discussed was the Metropolitan Division Conference which will be held at the Education Centre at Prince Charles Hospital on the 16th March. The club will subsidise our members to attend. Annette is competing in the Evaluation Contest, so we hope to have plenty of  our club members there to support her.

Maureen

Leesa

Maureen filled the role of Grammarian. It was her first time in that role.

Leesa had some good suggestions in her role as General Evaluator.

Mystery Toastmaster

We haven't had a Mystery Toastmaster in our programme for sometime. This segment was reintroduced. (No one knows who the mystery Toastmaster is until the end of the meeting, when their identity is revealed and they report how many people greeted them during the evening.) The Mystery Toastmaster proved to be Annette, who named a few people who hadn't spoken to her.

Thanks to the efforts of  Del, our Time Keeper, the meeting finished on time.

Awards for the evening went to Harry (Best Contribution,) Marlene (Best Speech and Personal Best,) Sharyn (Best Evaluation,) and Annette (Best Table Topic,)

Club Officer Training Day was Fun

Nicole, Liz We & Sharyn at Training Day

 Nicole, Liz We, Sharyn, Annette and I attended the Club Officer Training Day at the Education Centre at Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside. Trish was there too, as a presenter. Sharyn was also one of the presenters.

The sessions I attended were all very interesting & well presented. The Session on mentoring was very creative. It was a very large group. We formed two long rows with our chairs facing each other, then the row I was in had to keep moving down one chair at a time, "speed dating." We interviewed each person facing us for 30 seconds & asked them to tell us the advantages mentoring has for a "Mentee." after a while we switched roles & were interviewed about the advantages to the mentor. We also formed groups of 4 & discussed mentoring someone who had sent us the first draft of their speech. (We were given a copy of the speech.)

I gleaned a few new ideas from the VPE session and learned some things I didn't know from the session on Parliamentary Procedure. The final session, "Positive Thinking" was most enlightening. Sharyn was also in that session. If you get a chance, ask her how she was taught how to set a trigger to help boost her confidence!

I think we all came home with renewed enthusiasm.

Damian is an author!

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Did you see the article in this weeks Bayside Star? Damian, one of our past members has written a children's book Titled "The Day the Dragon got its Fire."  The heroine is Princess Lavinia (named after his 5 year old daughter) and doesn't need a dragon to save her!

You can find the book at Dymocks at North Lakes, Chermside, Indooroopilly and Carindale. It's also in BCC Libraries. More about it on Damian's Facebook Stanton and Abbott.