Meeting 955 "It's a Dog's Life"

Rose - High Performance Leader

Rose's speech last meeting was the culmination of many months of  goal setting, planning and  team leadership as she worked toward her High Performance Leadership Award. In her new role of Area 19 Director, Rose's HPL project was to coordinate the Area 19 Conference. The Conference was a resounding success and Rose's final task was to present a speech to the club outlining the scope of the project and what she had gained from the experience. Rose has now earned the the status of High Performance Leader. Congratulations Rose!

Certificate for Jonathon

Another high performer is Jonathon, who recently gave an instructive presentation to the local High School leadership candidates. President John T presented Jonathon with a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his outstanding support of Toastmasters Internationals projects.

Sorry, I didn't get very clear  photos from where I was sitting at the head table.

We had two guests, Lenore and Mary.

Toastmaster Tim had prepared snippets of information to fill in between segments, and gave encouraging comments to each speaker.

Darryl commented on the friendliness shown by all at the recent conference, and proposed a toast to "Friendship at Toastmasters."

Darryl

Word Master John T chose the word "Facetious."

Word Master John T

We had  Icebreaker speeches from our two newest members, Paul and Annette W.

Paul

Annette W

The speeches were evaluated by Jonathon, Liz and Maureen.

Jonathon

Liz

Mauren

Marlene conducted the business session, while Dave kept watch on the time.

Timekeeper Dave

Raffle Master Leesa had brought a special bottle of wine that she had bought during her trip to Rome.

Leesa

Wine from Rome

It was won by Jim.

Jim wins raffle

After supper, provided by Rosanne, Steve conducted a Table Topics session, which consisted of a continuous story with the opening, "I was walking into the dog shelter...: "

Steve

Each participant had to add to the story and include two words provided by Steve.

Harry - "blood" & "lead"

Rose - "policeman" & "phone"

Amanda -  "secret" & "terrier"

Nick - "Sheep""street lamp"

Maureen - "Revolver" & "bark"

Nicole - "clown" & "tail"

Darryl - "chocolate" & "claws"

Marlene - "red car" & "judge"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Jim and Roseanne.

Jim

Roseanne

Grammarian Harry commented on our use of words during the meeting and Amanda tested our listenibng skills with a Quiz.

Annette T had some commendations and recommendations in her General Evaluation and demonstrated how distracting it is when a speaker holds a large page of notes.

Annette T

President John T presented awards to Tim (Best Contribution,) Paul (personal Best,) Jonathon (Best Evaluation,) Annette W (Best Speech,) and Maureen (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 10th Nov 2015

Hey, did anyone else notice that some people had trouble staying upright during the meeting? And it had nothing to do with Leesa's wine. Or my photography.

Special treat next meeting - Marilyn from Bunya Club is going to come and show how to present great evaluations.  I promise it will be good! See you on the 24th November. (Last meeting before our break up.)

Area 8 Conference

Steve and Annette - winners

Congratulations to our contestants at the Area 8 Conference. Our contestants did our club proud.

Steve won the Evaluation contest and Annette won the Table Topics contest.
We also had some third place getters - Harry in the International Speech contest, Annette in Evaluation, Darryl in Table Topics and Liz in the Humorous contest.

 The theme of the conference was "Fill it with Colour." Area Director Kris had organised a well run event, coloured with exciting contests. We even had fun colouring in the programme with the colouring pencils provided.

Area Director Kris

 A special treat was a presentation by Mark Hunter, World Champion  of Public Speaking 2009, who told us how to design and put together a World Championship quality speech.

Mark - World Champion 2009

Our club was well represented in attendance, contestants and contest officials. Well done everyone!

A few more photos from Kris.

Area 8  & Area 19 Directors - Kris & Rose

Sergeant at Arms - Rose $ Amanda

Test Speaker Petra & Contestant Toastmaster John

Annette with TT Trophy

High School Awards Night

John T with Blake, Rosie & Rachel

John T had the privilege of attending the Sandgate and District High School awards night and presenting the Year 12 debating team with their certificates. The team,  Jasper, Blake, Rosie and Rachel  had been  semi-finalists in the Queensland Debating Union Competition for 2015.

Jasper had already been presented and left the stage when I took the photo. I don't know who owns the big head in the foreground!

Area 19 Conference

Area Director Rose

Although Rose is a member of our club, which is in Area 8, she has taken on the  role of Area Governor for Area 19, which encompasses Narangba Valley, Pines, Bunya, SeeChange and Western Suburbs Clubs.

One of the most challenging tasks for an Area Director is to organise the Area Conference. Thanks to Rose and her team, the Area 19 Conference was a resounding success.

John T

Our club president, John T was one of the judges.

And the test speaker for the Evaluation Contest was ......

Me!

Marlene with contestants Lindsay, Steve, Leonard, Rod.

If you ever have the opportunity to be a test speaker, go for it! I learnt so much about evaluating as well as how to be a better speaker.

A most enjoyable day.  Congratulations Rose and to all who participated.

Meeting 954 "Modes of Transport"

Happy 90th Birthday, Toastmasters International!

Sandgate Toastmasters &  guests celebrate 90 years

Toastmasters International was founded by Ralph Smedley in 1924, so we just had to be part of the year long Anniversary celebrations. Members at the meeting and our guests Norm from Narangba Valley Toastmasters and Kirsty posed for a photo before enjoying the delicious cake. Thanks to our other guest, Norm's wife Margaret for taking the photo.

The theme of the meeting was "Modes of Transport" and Toastmaster Reza had prepared some interesting information and quizzes about transport. It was Reza's first time in that role.

Toastmaster Reza

John inducted Annette W

Steve

President John T inducted our new member, Annette W.

Steve proposed the Toast, & gave a helpful mini educational on how to do it properly.

Dave

Word Master/Grammarian  Dave chose the word  "COMMUTING."

Round Robin Master Leesa invited us all to tell what our first form of transport had been. There were some interesting stories about first owned cars -  and even roller skates!

Maureen's 8th speech from the CC Manual was about "Little Known Amazing People."

John T presented  a speech from the advanced  manual "Specialty Speeches" and tried to sell us a can of  "Tassie Breezes - the freshest air anywhere."

Maureen

John T

Liz and Annette T each had a practice run of the speech they will deliver in the contests at the Area 8 Conference on the 7th November.

Liz will be competing in the Humorous Speech Contest and Annette is in the International Speech Contest.

Liz

Annette T

Table Topics Master Rose had prepared  her topics on strips of paper which were passed around in a container for club members to select the first or second half of the topic and to draw out the name of a "victim."

Rose

The topics were all transport related and were answered by Tim, Nick, Norm, Maureen, Nicole, Leesa, Annette W, and John T.

Tim

Nick

Norm

Nicole

Leesa

Annette W

Maureen

John T

 Nick was Time Keeper.
Speech Evaluators were Annette T and Sharyn.

Sharyn

The Table Topics were evaluated by Liz and Amanda.

Amanda

Paul conducted the Listening Quiz  and Darryl evaluated the entire meeting.

Pau

Darryl

Annette's raffle of wines was won by Sharyn.

Award winners of the evening were John T (Best Speech,) Reza (Personal Best,) Annette T (Best Contribution,) Leesa (Best Table Topic,) and Liz (Best Evaluation.)

Winners 27 Oct 2015

See you all at the Area 8 Conference next Saturday.