Meeting 1026 "Halloween" Speechfest

"Halloween" was the theme of our speechfest night. Peter's  jack-o-lantern pumpkin watched over the proceedings.

The Toastmaster was Marlene.

We were pleased to welcome back guests John A and Skye.

Wordmaster Gail chose the word "macabre" meaning gruesome, ghastly horrifying or pertaining to death. It was easy to use the word with our meeting's theme.

Peter

Round Robin Master Peter asked "What are you afraid of?" Everyone admitted to a fear of some kind or related a scary experience.

Christiane

Stephen

There were 6 prepared speeches. Christiane and Stephen repeated the speeches they will present at the Area Humorous Speech Contest and received feedback from all the members. The evaluations were led by Gail and Blake.

Gail

Blake

Trevor presented a speech from the Technical Presentations manual and told how he had successfully proceeded with a business venture in spite of  being told it wouldn't work.

John T  assumed the role of "John the Local Aussie Hero" and told a humorous fictitious tale of how he had saved Sandgate.

Trevor

John T

Trevor's and John's Speeches were evaluated by Darryl and Eileen.

Darryl

Eileen

Time for a break

After a delicious supper provided by Blake, Christiane presented her International Contest speech and received some helpful suggestions from Carmy and the rest of the club.

Carmy

Darryl gave an inspiring talk about his experiences competing in contests.

Peter announced the winner of the raffle. Stephen was the lucky winner who took home the jack-o-lantern together with bags of treats for any children who might come to his door.

Kirsty evaluated the meeting, with commendations on what had worked well and gave suggestions for improvement.

Kirsty

Thanks to time keeper Chris, the meeting finished on time.

Chris, Eileen, Blake, Carmy

President Christiane presented the evening's awards to Eileen (Best Evaluator and Most Improved,) and John T (Best Speech.)

Award winners 30th Oct 2018

We wish our competitors success in the Area Contest on the 11th November.

Please note: Next meeting will not be held on our usual night as our meeting room will not be available that night. Instead we will meet on Wednesday, 14th November.