Meeting 1020 "Scenic Sandgate"

The meeting was well attended, and included guests Area Director David, and Shane, Vaughan and Marian.

President Christiane had returned from her trip and was inducted by Trish, since she had been away for the Changeover ceremony.

New President Christiane inducted by Trish

 Jonathon proposed the toast, which included "Scenic Sandgate" and handed control to Toastmaster of the evening, Paul.

Jonathon

Paul

Wordmaster Darryl presented the word "Picturesque," meaning visually attractive and gave examples for it's use.  It was well used during the evening.

Since it is Exhibition week in Brisbane, Trevor's Round Robin topic was "Showbags." All agreed that there is not much value for money in them nowadays. 

The first prepared speech of the night was Marlene's "Higgins Great Managerie," It was the Pathways "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Peter. 

Peter

Eileen's speech "The Joy of Volunteering" was also a "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Blake.

Eileen

Blake

Stephen's speech about Diets was from "The Communication and Leadership Programme" and was evaluated by Christiane.

Stephen

Christiane

 Speech 4 was Gail's amusing family tale, "Are We There Yet?" evaluated by Jonathon.

Gail

Jonathon.

Table Topics Master Leesa had topics for David, Darryl, Carmy Gail, Monica and Trevor, all with a Scenic Sandgate theme.

Leesa

David

Carmy

Monica

Trevor

Darryl

They were evaluated by Casey and Annette.

Casey

Annette

Annette chaired the business session. One of the items for discussion was whether to hold an extra meeting on the 5th week in October. Those who were for an extra meeting won by one vote.

Grammarian Carmy commented on good word usage and filler words during the meeting.

Time keeper Monica reported that our meeting had gone slightly overtime. (It was a very full meeting.)

Darryl's raffle - a bag of goodies including a desk light, chocolates, wine etc was won by Stephen.

Darryl's raffle.

Area Director David

After a short address by David our Area Director, Christiane closed the meeting and presented awards to Jonathon (Best Evaluation,) Darryl (Best Table Topic,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Carmy. (Most Improved.)

Award winners 8th August 2018

Thanks to Trevor for a scrumptious supper.

Next meeting 28th will be our Table Topics and Humorous Speech contest. More entries needed, especially for the Humorous Speech contest. Join in the fun! It doesn't have to be a new speech.