Meeting 1041 "Christmas in July"

It was our first meeting for the  new Toastmasters year 2019 - 2020.  New President Gail welcomed all to the meeting and handed control to Toastmaster of the Evening, Christiane.

Guests were Adrian, Maria and Sanford.

Gail

Christiane

The theme was "Christmas in July," and Christiane was able to tell us of her first experience of  an Australian Christmas in July and some other interesting stories about Christmas customs.

Eileen proposed a toast to "The Spirit of Christmas." Word Master Stephen introduced the word "Atmosphere."

Eileen

Stephen

Gail presented the Round Robin segment, where each person spoke for 20 seconds. Her theme was "My Most Uncomfortable Christmas."

Speeches

Paul presented a speech about leadership styles and compared the leadership of people he had worked with, before describing his own leadership style.  His speech was evaluated by Chris.

Paul

Chris

The purpose of Trish's speech "Leaving a Legacy" was to inspire her audience, which she did by urging us to write down stories for future  generations to read. Her speech was evaluated by Peter.

Trish

Peter

Trevor's speech "Supply and Demand" was a project from "The Entertaining Speaker" Manual.

It was an amusing account of farming in Thailand. It was evaluated by Blake.

Trevor

Blake

Raffle

Leesa presented her raffle (wine and Scratchit tickets) with a flourish and  a smattering of Italian.
The lucky winner was Annette.

Leesa

After supper provided by Marlene, a short business session was chaired by Leanne. 

Leanne

John T conducted the Table Topics session - mostly with a Christmas theme.  (Sorry I didn't get a photo of John.)

Stephen
Christmas too commercialised?

Adrian
Perfect place to spend Christmas.

Gail
 Is July  Brisbane's worst month?

Carmy
Is it essential that Qld wins State of Orign  tomorrow night?

Leesa
Do we need to go back to moon again?

Eileen
Organise celebrity Christmas dinner.

Blake
Is obese Santa appropriate role model?

Darryl
Caller for State of Orign. 

Table Topics Evaluation

Annette and Monica had some good advice for Table Topics participants.

Annette

Monica

Time Keeper

Marlene reported that we were 2 minutes ahead of time. (And forgot to turn off the red light!)

Marlene (photo by Leesa) 

General Evaluation

Darryl gave a comprehensive evaluation of the entire evening.

Darryl

Awards
President Gail presented the evening's awards to Blake (Best Table Topic,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) Trish (Best Speech,) and Adrian (Most Improved).

Award winners 9 July 2019

Next meeting 23rd July