Happy birthday to us!
We celebrated our club's 45th birthday last meeting with a special supper and birthday cake
Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and handed control to president Gail, who welcomed our guests Area Governor Daniel, first time visitor Dan, and Gokul, Maria and Adrian
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| Darryl |
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| Gail |
Gail presented Blake and Chris with their Competent Communicator badge, and congratulated them on completing all 10 projects in the CC Manual.
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| CC for Blake and Chris |
Toastmaster of the evening was Monica, who was able to relate some of the achievementsof several long term members.
Jakob proposed a toast to our club's birthday.
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| Monica |
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| Jakob |
Word Master John T chose the word for the evening "Celebrate," with its other forms, "celebration" and "celebratory."
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| John T |
Round Robin Master Andrea invited us to tell of a time in our lives when we have celebrated.
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| Andrea |
There were three prepared speeches. Jonathon posed the question "How are we Going?" He used the projector to illustrate his speech about the N.P.S. - Net Promoter Score. It was good to see that most of our members are promoters of Toastmasters and there were no detractors.
Leanne evaluated Jonathon's speech.
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| Jonathon |
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| Leanne |
Trish presented a very informative speech on how to use Power Point effectively, and gave some entertaining examples of correct and incorrect use. This was the final project to be completed in Trish's Competent Communicator manual. Another CC for Trish!
Trish's speech was evaluated by Paul.
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| Trish |
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| Paul |
In Gail's speech "When Nuts aren't Nuts" we learned all about peanuts.
It was evaluated by Blake.
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| Gail |
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| Blake |
Annette, who has been in the Sandgate Toastmasters for 42 years presented a short and entertaining history of the club.
Eileen was raffle master. Because it is Exhibition week, she made up a sample bag. And because the club is 45 years old, she included items that she thought a 45 year old would like. (All ages queued to buy tickets.) The lucky winner was Gokul, (who won't be 45 for a quite a while.)
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| Annette |
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| Eileen |
Supper time! We had an extended break so we could enjoy the sumptuous dips, fruit and cake. (Pictured here with our Area Director Daniel and the Executive Officers of the club.)
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| Stephen, Daniel, Eileen, Paul, Gail, Darryl, Casey, Annette in front. |
A short business session was held after the break, with Stephen as chairman. The main item for discussion was the purchase of new trophies.
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| Stephen |
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| Jonathon |
There were some hilarious moments during the evening.
Trevor was Table Topics Master and he had some questions for Eileen, Jakob, Chris and Andrea.
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| Trevor |
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| Eileen - "What makes you happy?" |
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| Jakob - "What are you grateful for?" |
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| Chris - "What is most valuable to you?" |
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| Adrian - "How do you feel about water?" |
The Table Topics were evaluated by Carmy and Casey.
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| Carmy |
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| Casey |
Area Director Daniel had a brief address for the club.
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| Area Director Daniel |
Christiane was Grammarian and Annette was General Evaluator. Both had some good tips.
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| Christiane |
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| Annette |
The evenings awards went to Leanne (Best Evaluator,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Jakob (Best Table Topic and Most Improved.)
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| Award winners 13 Aug 2019 |
Next meeting on the 27th August will be a contest night. More entries for the Evaluation Contest and the Humorous Speech Contest are needed.
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