Meeting 1062 Change Over. "Change of Hats"

It was time to "change hats" as our new club officers were installed for the coming Toastmasters year, which commences on the 1st July.  Out-going president Gail welcomed our new Area Director Kirsty as well as first time guests Emma and Lisa.

 Gail was pleased to announce that our club had earned President's Distinguished status. (The highest award.)
Congratulations to J.P. and Gokul on completing their Competent Communicator programme, and to Christiane  who has earned her Competent Leader and Advanced Leader Bronze awards.

Gail

Control was passed to Toastmaster Liz, who conducted the meeting from her home in the UK.  Liz had many interesting snippets about hats to share throughout the meeting.

Liz (UK)

Incoming Sergeant-at-Arms Dan read the mission statement.

Dan

As an invocation, Trish read an inspirational poem, "Believe in Yourself."

Trish

John T proposed a toast to Toastmasters International.

Christiane presented the first round of Table Topics, with some challenging topics for Annette, Hazel Paul, Peter, Trish , Leesa and Darryl.

Christiane

Hazel - "Who do you take hat off to?"

Paul -"All hat and no cattle" 

Peter - What is the feather in your cap"

Darryl - "Pull rabbit out of hat."

Jonathon had topics for Dan, Monica, John T, Marlene, and our brave guest Lisa. 

Jonathon

Monica - "Can you trust a man in a hat?"

John T - "Are cowboys sexy when they wear a hat?" 

Lisa - "Are hats more important than shoes?"

J.P. and Monica were time keepers.

J.P.

Gail presented her out-going president's address with a recap of some of the highlights of the past year.

Gail

The yearly club awards were announced. The Toastmaster of the Year award which is based points accumulated for educational progress, participation in club events, etc was awarded to Gail and the Most Improved award went to Casey, who has shown amazing progress during the year as well as excellence in her duties as club secretary.  Congratulations Gail and Casey!

Induction of club officers for the coming year was conducted by in-coming Area Director Kirsty.

Kirsty

The new club officers are:

President: Leanne
Vice President Education: Gail
Vice President Membership: Annette
Vice President Publicity: Marlene
Secretary: Christiane
Treasurer: Chris H
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dan
Parliamentarian: Trish

Our new president Leanne presented an inspiring in-coming president's address.

Leanne

Chris conducted a raffle, the prize was a Coles voucher and the lucky winner was Marlene. Yay!

Chris D

Please note it will be 3 weeks until the next meeting, because there were 5 Tuesday in June. Next meeting will be on the 14th July.