Meeting 1129 "The Joy of Youth"

 Sometimes when there are five Tuesdays in a month, we have an extra meeting on the fifth week.

As well as being an extra meeting, our last meeting was a "Lucky Dip" meeting. Apart from the prepared speeches - no one knew beforehand what meeting role they would be performing. VPE Gail had prepared slips with the roles printed on them and members drew one each from a container.

Liz was obviously well prepared for any role and had no trouble acting as Toastmaster for the evening. 

Gail also rose to the occasion as Word Master with the word "Nostalgia."

Liz

Gail

Chris conducted the Round Robin Warm Up session by asking "What is your earliest memory?"

Chris

Chris was also one of the prepared speakers. His speech was a beautifully expressed eulogy titled "Ode to Joy."

Other speakers were Gokul and John. Gokul's speech "The Big Day" was an account of his wedding day in India and an engrossing explanation of how a Tamil wedding is celebrated.

John completed Level 5 in the Dynamic Leadership Path with his speech "Leading a Teaching Life." This was one of many paths that John has completed. A true Dynamic Leader!

Gokul

John

Evaluators were Paul, Peter and Arun. 

Paul

Peter

Arun

The raffle (a drinks flask, kneeling pad and book) presented by Helen was very popular and was won by Dan.

Helen

Timer Narelle reported that we were running ahead of time, so we had an extra five minutes to chat during the supper, which was provided by Narelle and Arun.

Supper Time

Table Topics Master John called on Helen, Peter, Gail, Paul, Liz and Marlene to answer his questions.

1. "What is the best thing about being young?" Helen

2. "Is it harder to be a youth  today than in your time as one?" Peter.

3. "What is the best age of life and why?" Gail.

4. "Who was someone who impressed you when you were young?" Paul.

5. "What message would you give to your younger self?" Liz.

6. "What do you understand by the expression 'young at heart' ?" Marlene

They were evaluated by Dan.

Dan

A General Evaluation of the meeting was conducted by Marlene.

Votes for the evening's winners were tallied with the result that the three prepared speakers had the same number of votes and tied for the "Best Speech" award.

Gokul, Chris and John

Other place getters were Dan (Best Evaluation,) Liz (Best Table Topic) and Helen who tied with Gokul. (Most Improved.)

Award winners 30th May 2023

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, 13th June.