Meeting 951 "Sports and Sports People"

Darryl

Sports Enthusiast Darryl was in his element as Toastmaster. There were no awkward pauses between segments as Darryl had a continuous supply of  information, stories and jokes abut sporting heroes.

The jokes were appreciated.



That was a funny joke

another one

Nick

Nick chose the word "Commitment" as word of the evening.

Tammy

Harry

Tammy received a standing ovation for her Icebreaker Speech "It's a Dog's Life." She didn't need to use notes as she told us about the special dogs in her life.

It was evaluated by Harry.

Lisa

Jonathon

Lisa presented her second speech. and told us how we can use some simple steps to change our thinking.

Her speech was evaluated by Jonathon. 

John T

Marlene

John T's Impromptu Speech "My Country - Does the Rhyme live up to the Reality?" was evaluated by Marlene.

Dave

Chairman Dave kept the Business Session under control and finished on time.

Table Topics Master Reza was unable to attend, but he had sent his topics, which were presented by Nicole and Jim.  The participants were Jonathon, Lisa, Tim, Darryl, Nick and Annette

Nicole & Jim

 Jonathon - Champion Snufflepopper

Lisa - Inventor of Underwater Football

Tim -Dinner with a Sport Star

Darryl -motivational team leader

Nick - sporting hero

Annette - lessons from sport

The Table Topics were evaluated by Peter and Leesa.

Peter

Leesa

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Sharyn

Sharyn's Raffle (a bag of goodies) was won by Nicole.

Sharyn also provided supper.

JIm

Jim Conducted a Listening Quiz and collected some fines to swell the coffers.

 Grammarian Annette warned against some common grammatical errors.

Rose

Rose conducted a thorough General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

High Five

At the end of the meeting, Darryl ran around the room giving everyone a high five.

Our guests Annette and William said they had enjoyed the meeting.

 Tammy won the award for best speech, but she had to leave early and missed being in the photo.

Other winners were Nick (Personal Best,) Darrel (Best Contribution,) and Jonathon (Best Table Topic and also Best Evaluation) 

Winners 8 Sept



Meeting 950 TT and Humorous Contests

Annette, Steve, Liz and Peter

Congratulations to the winners of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests.

The Table Topic was "If you could be any age for one week, what age would you choose and why?"

The contestants, Dave, Amanda, Lisa, Steve, Annette and Darryl all had a thought provoking or amusing answer. The winner was Annette, with Steve second.

The Humorous contest was entertaining with some really funny speeches. The winner, Liz took us back into the past with her speech "Enough to Make your Hair Curl." while Peter's speech "I think Therefore I am." with a modern theme  came second. Another funny speech was Steve's "How did I get Here?"

The contest toastmasters were Jonathon and Rosanne.

Thanks to our District Director Jenny and Bunya Toastmasters Marilyn, Miles and Petra for coming to judge our contest.

Mariilyn, Miles and Petra