Meeting 1174 Debate

 Sometimes, when there are five Tuesdays in a month, we hold an extra meeting on the 5th Tuesday' This time we held a debate on the pros & cons of social media. 

First, President Helen presented Robert with his membership badge.

Robert receiving badge
Affirmative & Negative teams looking on

Trevor as Toastmaster had plenty to say as he introduced the meeting theme of "Who Controls You?" 

Eoin proposed a toast to "Healthy Debating."

Trevor

Eoin

Word Master Robert gave us the word "Preparation." 

Christiane as Round Robin Master began a "Fortunatly, Unfortunately" story which began with looking for a job to finance an overseas trip and evolved into a hilarious story about chicken farming.

Robert

Christiane

Some Round Robin participants.

Amy

Trevor

John

Maddy

Trish

   

Robert

Eoin

Trish introduced the debate.

Narelle, Eoin and Robert were on the affirmative team. Chris, Marlene & Arun on the Negative team.

Trish Debate Master

Negative Team

Adjudicators
Helen, John, Maddy, Christiane

Robert

Eoin

Chris

Arun

   

Marlene

Although the audience voted for the Affirmative team, the Adjudicators declared the Negative team the winner. Helen presented them with a prize.

Winners

Consolation

A delicious supper was provided by Amy and Maddy.

Christiane sampling supper provided by Amy and Maddy

John Delivered his speech that he will use to compete in the International Speech Contest at the District Conference.

It was evaluated by Amy, with some further comments from other members.

John

Amy

Helen presented a Mockup Motion : That we adopt a mascot "Sir Toast a Lot" that would sit on the lectern and be addressed at each meeting. Maddy spoke against the motion. The Motion was defeated.

Helen

Maddy

The meeting was running late, so we skipped to the General Evaluation by Gail, who had also been time keeper.

Gail

The meeting was closed by President Helen.

Coming up: District Conference this weekend 3rd - 5th May. 

Next meeting 13th May. Election of club Officers.

Meeting 1173 "Easter"

The Easter weekend had finished, but we continued with an Easter theme at our meeting.

Sergeant-at-Arms Narelle called the meeting to order.

President Helen proposed a toast to "The wonderful Easter weather we have had" and handed control to Toastmaster Paul, who had some humorous stories to tell during the evening.

Helen

Paul

 Word Master Arun chose the word "Cohesion" meaning "the state of sticking together or being in close agreement and working well together."

Gail presented the Round Robin and asked what Easter traditions our family had.

Arun

Gail

There were 4 prepared speeches.

In his Icebreaker speech, Robert spoke about his ambition to build a diving room.

Gail speech "What time is it?" was an interesting speech about time.

Robert

Gail

In her speech "I've got the power" Christiane spoke about the role of Vice President Education.

Special guest speaker Chris R from Pines Toastmasters delivered the speech he will use in the Humorous Speech contest at the District Conference and received some feedback from our club members.

Christiane

Chris R

Speech evaluators were Peter, Trevor, and Trish. Chris H led the group evaluation for Chris R's speech.

Peter

Trevor

Trish

Chris H

Narelle was Timekeeper.

John presented the raffle which was won by Chris H.

John

Raffle Prize

Christiane and Narelle provided a delicious supper including savoury treats, hot cross buns and chocolate Easter eggs.

Supper time

Hot Cross Buns - nearly all gone

Chris H conducted the Table Topics session, with Easter themed topics for Helen, Peter, Christiane, Trevor, Arun and Trish.

Helen

Peter

Christiane

Trevor

             

Arun

Trish

The Table Topics were evaluated by Marlene and Christiane.

Marlene

Christiane

Chris H delivered a humorous soapbox rant about Easter buns appearing in the shops too early in the year.

Marlene presented a listening quiz and found that everyone had listened very well.

John gave a General Evaluation of the meeting.

Chris H

John

 President Helen presented the evening's awards to Gail (Best Speech,) Trish (Best Evaluation,) Robert (Most Improved,) and Helen (Best Table Topic.)

Awards 22nd April 2025

We all posed for a photo for the District 69 Banner Parade. Thanks Chris R for taking the photo.

Banner Parade photo

Next meeting (Extra) 29th April will be a debate (most of us will be learning how to debate) and John will present his Humorous Contest speech for feedback.

At the following meeting we will have an election of club officers for the coming Toastmasters year (1st July 2025 - 30th June 2026.)