Sargent At Arms Chris opened the Meeting and introduced President Annette. Guests David, Lenore, Bing, Sharyn, Trevor and Kevin were warmly welcomed.
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| Former Toastmasters Lenore and Bing, Toastmaster of the night Jonathon |
Jonathon as Toastmaster of the Evening continued with the theme of To Good Health by reminding us that this week is Men's Health Week.
A Toast to "A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body" was proposed by Marlene.
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| Marlene |
Wordmaster Eileen gave us "Wellbeing" in keeping with the theme.
We were treated to an Impromptu Speech by Leesa entitled "How Toastmasters helped my job in a Call Centre". Trish evaluated and congratulated Leesa on an excellent presentation.
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| Trish |
Gail spoke on "How Breast Cancer has invaded our lives" and this was evaluated by Blake.
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| Gail |
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| Blake |
Table Topics were presented by Stephen, covering topics about health and well being.
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| Stephen |
Participants were Christiane (how Australians can be healthier), John (keep away from addictive foods), Sharyn (what is her weakness), Darryl (sport he regrets not taking up in his youth), Trevor (what age old remedy was he given by his grandma), and Eileen (what food would describe you).
Table Topics were evaluated by Karen and John.
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| Karen |
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| John |
The Raffle was a riddle by Liz about how winning this could make you Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
Lucky one was Kirsty.
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| Liz with the health and wealth giving parsley plant |
Casey controlled the timing, providing updates
throughout the Meeting.
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| Casey |
Another Speech by Kirsty titled "Memory" was evaluated by Paul.
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| Kirsty |
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| Paul |
Then the long awaited 10th Speech by Leesa,, entitled "My Hobby". This marks the completion of her Competent Communicator Manual. The speech was evaluated by Annette.
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| Leesa and her Decorative Art |
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| Annette |
The Business Meeting was chaired by first timer Chris, who was thrown a few tricky moments which he handled well.
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| Chris |
Grammarian Liz praised those who used good phrasing, including Jonathon's "Dollops of
Well Being" and Gail's "barbaric, and strict taboo".
The overall General Evaluation was prepared by Carmy and she covered all areas extremely well offering suggestions for improvement and commending segments which were excellent.
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| Carmy |
Awards: Best Speech and Most Improved went to Leesa. Congratulations on a job well done.
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| Winners are Grinners |
Best Evaluator - Trish, Best Table Topic - John
A reminder that the next Meeting on 26 June is the Change Over Dinner.
Thank you to Trish for allowing Leesa to do the impromptu speech. Great evaluation!
ReplyDelete@Leesa: When are you going to finish the next award? You are drawing a crowd which is great!
Thank you, Liz, for writing the blog.
Lovely to see some of our old friends. I was so glad John S was able to come.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing evening to finish my CC manual...WOW !! Thank you to Trish for stepping aside in her role for the evening to allow me to present my 7th speech and then present my final 10th speech, you are indeed a great friend and member. Thank you for my support team, John S, Lenore and Bing for coming to the meeting and to all my fellow toastmasters who were there that evening, you are a wonderful bunch, that's why I keep coming back. What's next, I have chosen 2 advance manuals, looking forward to the challenge there.....Leesa :)
ReplyDeletePS Forgot to thank Sharyn for coming and being part of my support team. So missed Meriel and Monica not being there !
ReplyDeletePPS.... oops forgot to thank my husband 'David' for coming....I think I have been in Sandgate Toastmasters for 15 yrs !!
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