Meeting 1010 "Sports and Games"

 Some of our members were attending the Commonwealth Games and were absent from our last meeting. The rest of us celebrated with our own "Sports and Games" meeting night.

Toastmaster of the evening, John provided a vibrant atmosphere and kept the meeting moving.

John T

Blake proposed a tongue in cheek toast , "To cricket, cheating and getting away with it."  (Just joking, of course!)

Casey chose the word "Gold" as word of the evening.  It was used often during the evening.

Blake

Casey

Jonathon conducted a Round Robin with a sporting theme.

Jonathon

There were four prepared speeches. Gail presented her Pathways Icebreaker with her speech "Country Dances," and told about growing up in the country and going to dances with her family and friends.

Peter surprised us by stating that he loves paying taxes and told us how our taxes contribute to society.

Gail

Peter

Chris's speech "End to End" was about the decline of bowling clubs. Kirsty delivered an entertaining  impromptu speech about her hectic week which hadn't left her time to write a speech.

Chris

Kirsty

The speech evaluators were Annette, Leesa, Trish and Christiane.

Annette

Leesa

Trish

Christiane

After Blake's Timers report, we broke for supper which was provided by Jonathon.

During the break, Trevor (a visitor from Clayfield Toastmasters) took a photo of of everyone.

Carmy conducted the business session. She was well prepared for her first time in that role.

Carmy

The main items for discussion were subsidies for members attending the District Conference,

Our Changeover Dinner on the 26th June, and our information stall at the Einbunpin Festival in July.

Table Topics were presented by Marlene, who called on Annette, Casey, Leesa and Carmy.

Annette
Lessons learned from sport.

Casey
Greyhound racing is cruel.

Leesa
Would rather play board games

Carmy
Parents too involved in children's sport

The Table Topics were evaluated by Steve.

Steve

Grammarian Jonathon commented on word usage, and filler words. He said the most unusual string of words during the evening was Peter's statement "I love paying tax." He also commended a phrase that Chris had used, "Fuddy duddy volvo drivers."

General Evaluator Monica pointed out the high points of the evening and what could be improved.

Jonathon

Monica

Kirsty's raffle, a bag of  goodies including a jigsaw puzzle, colouring book and wine was won by Peter.

President Annette closed the meeting and presented the evening's awards.

Gail (Best Speaker,) Carmy (Most Improved,) Annette (Best Table Topic,) and Steve (Best Evaluation.)

Award Winners 10 April 2018

Our next meeting on the 24th April will be a backwards meeting, beginning with the General Evaluation and working backward to the opening of the meeting. We are expecting it to be a challenging but fun night.