Meeting 1042 "School Days"

It was a light-hearted meeting, full of fun. Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and recited the Toastmasters Mission Statement from memory. He then set the the tone of the meeting with a short joke.

Darryl

Gail

President Gail welcomed guests Maria, Gokul, Torben and Adrian and inducted new members Jakob and Andrea.

Marlene was Toastmaster for the evening and since the theme was "School Days," she dressed for the part in a mortar board hat and gown.

Marlene

Monica presented a toast to "Old school days."

Darryl presented the word for the evening "Assiduous," meaning showing great care and attention.

Jakob was Round Robin Master and he asked each member to share their best or worst memory from their school days. This resulted in some funny stories.

Monica

Jakob

There were three prepared speeches. Peter's speech "The Cell" was accompanied by soundless moving pictures on the screen to tell the amazing story of cells.

His speech was evaluated by Christiane.

Peter

Christiane

John's speech "Routes to Peace" was a passionate call to action. It completed his Pathways Level 1.
It was evaluated by Annette.

John

Annette

Stephen spoke on "Assertiveness," and used some good body language to demonstrate how to deal with people.

Trevor evaluated Stephen's speech.

Stephen

Trevor

Paul's raffle was chocolate and wine. It was won by Eileen.

Time keeper Casey reported that we were running over time, so the supper break was shortened to 10 minutes.

Paul

Casey

The supper was provided by Marlene & Annette.

Supper break

Darryl called the meeting back to order with another short funny joke.

Trish had prepared Table Topics related to the School theme and selected Gokul, Andrea, Paul, Trevor, Monica and Annette to give a brief impromptu speech..

Trish

Gokul - "Favourite School Subject."

Andrea - "What book was hard to read at school?"

Paul - "Are co-ed schools better?

Trevor - "My teacher glows in the dark"

Monica - "School uniforms"

Annette - "Home schooling a good thing?"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Eileen and Casey.

Eileen

Casey

Gail presented an Educational Session about club contests and encouraged members to take part in the  contests which will be held in August and September.

Gail

Trish

Grammarian Trish commented on descriptive words and phrases used during the evening. She commented on the over use of  the word "really." And she suggested we avoid using the negative word "but" when giving an evaluation.

Jonathon

Jonathon had mostly commendations in his General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

The evening's awards went to Jakob and Andrea (Most Improved,) John (Best speech,) and Annette (Best Table Topic and Best Evaluation).

Award winners 23rd July 2019

As there are 5 Tuesday in July, it will be 3 weeks until next meeting on the 13th August. We will be celebrating our club's 45th birthday that night with a special supper.

Contests will be held on the 27th August.

Meanwhile, some of us will be at our information stall at the Einbunpin Festival this Sunday, 28th July. See you there!