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.)