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. 

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.