Meeting 947 "Rhyme and Reason"

Amanda

Congratulations to Amanda on completing her 10th manual speech and achieving Competent Communicator status! Amanda's speech was titled "Motivation - Advice to my Younger Self and You" which she cleverly addressed to herself at a younger age.

Lisa

Congratulations also to Lisa, on presenting her first speech, (the Ice Breaker) On the map, Lisa showed us Suva where she grew up and took us through some milestone moments in her life.


It must have been the coldest night of the year, but attendance was high for our first meeting of the Toastmaster Year. It was good to see Jean C back again.
We even had guests who braved the cold, Craig, Jeanine and Brian (first time guests) and Paul who has decided to join our club. Welcome Paul!

SAA Nick

It was a night of "firsts." The meeting was called to order by our new Sergeant at Arms Nick and controlled  handed to new president John T.

President John T

Toastmaster Dave (the Bard of Brisbane) was well prepared with poems and entertaining ryhmes.

Toastmaster Dave

New member Tim H read the Mission Statement and proposed a toast to "The French and their Many Merits."  (It was Bastille Day.)

Toast by Tim H

Our other newest member Tammy was Word Master and chose a word of french origin, "Cliche."

Tammy

 Round Robin Master Liz invited us to tell what Nursery Rhyme held special meaning for us.

Liz

 Trish drew her Table Topics from  the poem "Success" by Ralph Waldo Emerson and had some thought provoking questions for  Marlene, Maureen, Nicole, Sharyn and Steve.

Success

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded." 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maureen

Sharyn

Nicole

Steve

The third prepared speech of the evening was a roast by Annette, who roasted Trish and emphasised Trish's passion for purple and her collection of unicorns.

Annette roasted Trish

Evaluators were Roseanne (Table Topics eval) John T, Darryl and Tim G. It was Darryl's and Tim's first time as evaluators.

Rosanne

John T

Darryl

Tim G

Time keeper Terry

Steve's raffle was a combination of poetry and chocolate and was won by Dave.

Dave won the raffle

Harry 

Harry's Listening Quiz resulted in a few fines and a better under understanding of the meeting.

 Sharyn acted as Grammarian and had some good tips.

More first timers, were Rose as Chairman of the business session and Jim as General Evaluator.

Rose

Jim

The evenings awards went to John T (Best Evalluator tie,) Lisa (Persoal Best,) Dave (Best Contribution,) Darryl (Best Evalluator tie,) Sharyn (Best Table Topic,) and Annette (Best Speech.)