Meeting 1086 - Change-Over Dinner - Paint the Town Red

 After a warm welcome by Sergeant at Arms Dan and President Leanne, control of the evening was handed to Toastmaster Tony.

Tony

Programme

Colourful decor

The venue looked amazing with table decorations creatively themed with red flowers and paint brushes.

JP gave the invocation in the form of an Irish blessing, which had a special touch being spoken by an Irishman.

Christiane proceeding with the Round Robin and asked each person present to give the origin of their name or nickname, which involved much laughter and fun.

Christiane

An extraordinary Business Meeting was quickly held to allow the nomination of Trish to the position of President for 2021/2022 year, and also the nomination of Hazel to the position of Secretary. Both agreed to take on these roles.

A delicious dinner followed catering to all dietary requirements.

A toast to Toastmasters International by Josh was informative in the history of Toastmasters from its inception.

Toast by Josh

Table Topics were presented by Liz and Chris, and allowed Marlene, Dan, Paul, Annette, Carmy and Ted to answer with much imagination.

Liz

A highlight of the night was the speech by Darryl Willmot entitled "A Better Speaker". He wove his story around the need to be a Better Evaluator, and used the Area Evaluation Trophy to emphasize the depth of experience that Sandgate Toastmasters Club holds, and has done for many years.

Darryl

Following dessert, the induction of 2020/2021 Officers was conducted by incoming Area Director Mark.

Mark

Incoming Executive Committee

Leanne's last duty was to present the Club Trophies - Most Improved to Hazel and Toastmaster of the Year to John T (who was unfortunately absent owing to injuries). Congratulations to both Members.

 This was followed by Leanne's Outgoing President Speech in which she thanked her team and all Members for their support during the past tough year.

Hazel

Leanne

Incoming President Trish then gave her Speech and plan to have lots of fun in the coming year.

Trish

Marlene conducted the raffle which traditionally is in the form of donated books - Winners were Darryl, Kirsty and Paul. All other books were then distributed to all attendees and I am sure everyone went home a winner.

Marlene

Apologies for the quality of photos, and those omitted from this Blog, but the lighting at the venue made sharp photos very difficult.

Meeting 1085 - Winter

 President Leanne presented Ribbons to several Members for their progress in Pathways, as well as Badges to Tony and Ed.

Toastmaster Gail introduced the topic of Winter with humourous stories of a Winter she spent in Ireland.

Gail

Ted dedicated the Toast to Winter, which was also woven around a winter tale.

Ted

The Word from JP was "Journey", stating that everybody is on a journey of their own and we should try to use the word throughout the Meeting.

JP

Arun introduced the Round Robin on the topic of "One thing you most enjoy about Winter". Members related stories of their memories and also many told of what they don't like about Winter.

Arun

Speeches:

Gokul's speech entitled "Dear Evaluator" was evaluated by Leanne.

Gokul

Leanne

Christiane spoke on "My First Week on the Job" which was evaluated by Liz.

Christiane

Liz

Trish's speech was from Level 2 Project "Discover your Leadership Style" evaluated by Marlene.

Trish

Marlene

The Raffle was provided by Liz and was perfect for a winter's night at home. Leanne was the winner.

Ed gave his Timer's reports through the evening and kept the Meeting running on time.

Ed

Leanne provided her "last supper" (as President).

Table Topics presenter Tony also chose Winter themed topics for Joshua, JP, Ted, Narelle, Arun and Dana.

Tony

Narelle

These were evaluated by Trish and Hazel.

Hazel

Dana as Grammarian put her own twist on the role and educated us on the use of Passive Voice and Active Voice, suggesting Active Voice is the best option.

Dana

The Show and Tell segment was delivered by Joshua and was the revelation that he owned and operated a drone - which he had brought along. 

Joshua

Darryl gave the General Evaluation as an overall wrap up of the entire Meeting, highlighting all roles and suggestions for improvement.

Darryl

Awards:

Best Speech: Gokul, Best Evaluator: Hazel, Best Table Topic: Ted, and Most Improved was jointly shared by Gokul and JP.

Ted, Gokul, JP and Hazel

Group Photo

 

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