Meeting 1061 "Purple"

What a meeting! We heard 2 Icebreaker Speeches, 2 CC completion speeches, and inducted a new member. Congratulations, Competent Communicators Gokul and JP, and welcome to new member Hazel!

We were also pleased to welcome a guest, Eric.

Our president Gail took on the role as Toastmaster for the evening. She shared some interesting stories about the origin of the colour purple. She also performed the induction ceremony of new member Hazel.  Hazel's mentor will be Casey.

Gail

Hazel

Darryl proposed the toast, since Vaughan (who had been scheduled) was having technical problems.

The Word Master was Hazel. She said that to her, purple is a spiritual colour, so she chose the word "Spirit." It was used frequently during the meeting.

The Round Robin topic, presented by Trish was "What is your favourite colour and Why?" Blue appeared to be the favourite of many. Can you guess Trish's favourite colour?

Trish

Annette presented her Pathways Icebreaker speech. Although Annette has been a Toastmaster for many years, this was her first speech in the Pathways programme. She took us on a journey of her years as a Toastmaster.

Another Icebreaker speech was by Jakob. It was titled "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  He explained that he is bored in jobs that don't challenge his love of learning.

Jakob

Gokul and JP each presented their 10th speech in the Competent Communicator Manual, and earned the title of "Competent Communicator."

Gokul's speech was titled "We are Project Managers" and JP's speech was "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger."

Gokul

JP

 Speech evaluators were John, Monica, Christiane, Peter and Carmy.

John

Monica

Christiane

Peter

Carmy

Time keeper was Chris H.

Chris D was Table Topics Master. He had  purple related topics for Dan, Monica, Liz Wo and Jonathon.

Chris

Dan

Jonathon

The Table topics were evaluated by Liz (UK) and Marlene.

Liz (UK)

Leanne chaired the Business session. Some of the items under discussion were the proposed amendments to Toastmasters Bylaws, Our Change Over meeting and arrangements for face to face meetings in the future.

Leanne

Grammarian Trevor commented on word usage during the meeting and Screen Master Paul commented on the positioning of participants onscreen.

Casey delivered a thorough General Evaluation on the entire meeting.

Casey

The evenings awards went to  Christiane (Best Evaluation,) Jonathon (Best Table Topic,) Jakob (Most Improved,) and JP (Best Speech.)

Award winners 9th June 2020

Our Change Over will be held next meeting, when the new club officers will be installed for the coming Toastmaster year. ( 1 July 2020 -  30 June 2021)   Visitors welcome.