Another CL for Trish

Trish

Congratulations Trish, on completing another CL Manual. Trish is a Distinguished Toastmaster (which is the highest award in Toastmasters) and has completed many manuals since attaining her DTM status.

Humorous Speech & Table Topics Contest

Trish & Jonathon

Congratulations to Trish and Jonathon, who came first and second in the Table Topics Contest,.
The topic was "It's going to take time." All the contestants seemed to find the topic easy to speak on.

Contestants

Marlene won the Humorous speech contest and  Peter was second.

Peter & Marlene

Contest winners will compete against 5 other clubs at the Area 8 Conference on the 1st November at the Eventide Health Campus, Brighton. (Formerly known as the Eventide Auditorium.)

We were delighted to have guests at our meeting. Peter, Michael, Bruce, Sophie and Jean came for the first time and. past member Rose returned. We also had visitors from other clubs - Chris & Del from Chermside Communicators Rod from Narangba Toastmasters and Cate and Preeta from Peninsula Toastmasters.

Tim was inducted by Nicole

President Nicole inducted our new member, Tim. Tim's mentor will be John T.

Sharyn was Contest Toastmaster.

Sharyn

The contests finished a little earlier than planned, so John T presented a speech, "Math's Magic." and demonstrated how we can amaze our friends with a simple maths trick.

John T

Next meeting will be on the 9th September with the theme "Movies."

40th Anniversary Dinner

District Governor Ian Pinker & Club President Nicole

40 years is really worth celebrating and it was a wonderful evening. We were honoured to have the District Governor, Metropolitan Division Governor and Area Governor to celebrate with us.

District Governor Ian Pinker presented our club with a 40 year patch to display on our banner.

Charter member John S received 40 year badge.

Ian presented a 40 year badger to our charter member, John S. John has held continuous membership in our club since 1974. During that time he has been a District Governor ( his district attained Presidents Distinguished status that year & was the 3rd highest achieving District in the world )  Metropolitan Governor, Area Governor, District Treasurer, Speechcraft Chairman, and District Historian. He has been Club President 4 times and held just about every other club officer position at least once. He is currently our Club Parliamentarian and takes a very active part in our meetings.

Nicole & John S

John S and Nicole cut the Anniversary cake together.

 

Toastmaster Trish - club member for 20 years

Toastmaster Trish conducted the evening with her usual flair.

On behalf of all our members, Trish presented John S with a plaque in appreciation for all he has done for our club.

John S, and other long term members, Annette and Liz Wo recounted some entertaining stories about our club's history and some of their amusing experiences. Others were invited to share some memories.

John S

Annette -  club member for 37 years

Liz Wo - club member for  26 years

.As it was the last time Immediate Past President Liz We would be with us before returning to England, she was presented with a gift from the club. It was a beautiful scarf that Dave's wife Sandy had made. We will miss Liz and hope to see her back in our club sometime in the future.

Nicole & Liz

Liz and her team had organised the evening.

Liz opening gift

Liz's scarf

The floral table decorations were appreciated.  

Table Flowers

Appreciation - or is he still hungry?

Thanks to all who helped to make the evening a successful memorable occasion.  

Some more photos on this page.

Toastmasters at Einbunpin Festival

Trish with the "Mayor"

Annette, Trish, & John T

Sharyn (front) Amanda, Trish & Darryl

As usual, our club conducted an information stall at the Einbunpin Festival this year. Many people stopped to inquire about Toastmasters and were invited to our next meeting on the 26th August - contest night.

Thanks to all who helped, 'specially Trish who organised us & was there all day.