And the winners are ...

Introducing the club executive team for 2011 - 2012

President - Sharyn
Vice President Education - Trish
Vice President Membership - Leesa
Vice Presient Public Relations - Annette
Secretary Minutes - Rhys
Secretary Correspondence - Nicole
Treasurer - Liz Wood
Sargeant at Arms - Liz Wel
Bulletin Editor - Meriel
Parliamentarian - John
Website Coordinator - Marlene
Auditor - John

Thank you to all of you for accepting these roles, essential for club viability and an opportunity to learn or hone leadership skills.

The current executive team will continue in their roles until 1 July, with the changeover dinner and celebration on Tuesday 28 June.

Meeting 853 on 12 April 2011 - Theme of Easter

With enough mentions of chocolate in one evening to send us all into a feeding frenzy, it was once again an entertaining evening at Sandgate Toastmasters.

Meriel slipped easily into the role of president while our current president Marlene gallavants the world - hello if you've not been able to resist a quick peek into the happenings in your absence, Marlene!

Two guests were welcomed, Michelle from Good Morning Toastmasters, and Carmila, trialing our meeting for the first time. Lovely to have you join us, come again soon.

Kerry and Lynda received their badges, having been inducted in previous meetings.

Tony provided a brilliant word for us to try - Effulgent, meaning bright or radiant - my first attempt was far from bright, however my blush perhaps a little radiant. John quipped that he thought it should refer to a drunk man. John's Table Topics were far from that of a drunk man, with curly statements of religion, traditions, road accidents and country differences - participants Nicole, David Y, Leesa, Rhys and June provided clever replies. Lynda's well delivered Round Robin was suitably easier, with members sharing their most vivid childhood memory of Easter.

Prepared speeches were presented by Monica, who encouraged us to give composting a go, Raider, who reminded us that "even divine love can have its challenges", and Kerry, with her icebreaker speech entitled "Where Do I Belong?. The evaluators had an easy time finding postive points for each, and had to work harder to determine points for improvement.

Sharyn as grammarian raised the bar a little higher, not limiting herself to counting "ums" and "ahs", but also "so" and "actually". These are fillers, and Sharyn suggested a pause would be more appropriate.

Jonathon with his "Three for the Price of One" book review of the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson has at least some of us sorted with our next library choice.

Dave was the lucky winner of the Easter raffle, presented with great skill by Nicole. There was talk of tackling him to the ground to relieve him of his prize - Lindt chocolates, Brumbys Hot Cross Buns and Twinings Teas. Instead we are all dropping into his place one by one over Easter.

Lastly, congratulations to June for tackling a general evaluation with Sharyn's assistance. It was detailed and informative.

Next meeting Tuesday 26 April - Anzac Day.

Don't forget to nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission) by email to Meriel for the executive roles, as voting will happen on Tuesday 10 May - you do not have to be able attend that meeing to accept a nomination.



Best Table Topic - David Y
Best Speech - Raider
Best Evaluation - Kylie
Personal Best - Kerry
Contribution - Dave H

Article in Northside Chronicle 13 April 2011

Edited.

Mark Hunter's Boot Camp

There are still places left for Mark's special presentation on Saturday 9th April at Tingalpa State School 10am- 2.30pm.

Topics covered include: what he has learnt from his journey as World Champion of Public Speaking, writing for success, understanding what the audience wants, and spot evaluations- 3 people giving speeches and Mark evaluationg them on ths spot!! 

Lick on picture to enlarge. Oops, I mean "click!"

Meeting 852 - Relaxation

David Young as acting Sargeant at Arms started the meeting as it was to progress - relaxed and enjoyable.

Welcome to our guests Rod & Cindy; and Jennine & Harry. Congratulations for participating in the round robin! We hope you come again.

Dave, June and David entertained with excellent speeches. Dave gave a dramatic interpretive reading entitled Flight of Terror; June convinced us that wherever you are in the world, the side you drive on is the right side, and the other side is the wrong side; and David shared his impressive knowledge of the legends of the Glasshouse Mountains.

Kerry was inducted to the club, with Meriel announced as her mentor for the next 6 - 12 months.




Lynda, inducted at the last meeting, presented a great raffle, won by Harry.

Tropies were voted as follows:

Table Topic - Sharyn and Kylie
Speech - David
Personal Best - June
Evaulation - Sharyn
Contribution and best jokes - Annette

Trish is a winner!

Congratulations to Trish, who won First Place in the Evaluation Contest at the Metro Division Conference, as well Third Place in the International Speech Contest.

Trish has a lot of tips and tricks to share with other members. Visit the blog which she co-authors with her friend Michele. http://trischel.blogspot.com/

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Meeting 847 9th March 2011

We are always pleased to have a visit from our Area Governor, Deb Smith.
Deb presented an inspiring speech. She also joined in the fun with our theme of "Insects."

New member Lynda was inducted. She also presented the word for the evening, "Elucidate." Trish, David, Raider, Dave, Rhys, June & Sharyn managed  to use the word during the evening.

We heard some excellent speeches by Rhys and Trish, and an Educational Session by Sharyn.

The supper break was a good time to socialise.

Award winners for the evening were
Personal Best : Lynda
Best Contribution: Raider
Best Evaluation: Dave
Beat table Topic: Trish
Best Speech: Rhys

Contests at Eventide

The standard was very high and the judges must have had a difficult task at the Interpretive Reading & Novice Speaker Contests on Sunday. We were proud of our contestants, Jonathon and David.  Their performance was even better than when they first presented in our club.

David gave a lively performance as "Wee Dave" in his speech "Welcome to my time Machine."

Jonathon had everyone enthralled with his reading of "Bad Jelly the Witch." He took first prize in the Interpretive Reading Contest.

The winner of the Novice Speech Contest was Ranjeet Cavanagh (from another club)
Alan Murray (also from another club) took second place in both contests.

We all enjoyed the afternoon.

Meeting 850 "Love"

It may have been just past Valentines Day, but it was still a good opportunity to use "Love" as our meeting theme. Jonathon set us a challenge with his Round Robin when he asked what foolish thing had we done in the name of love. It was interesting to see that  more men than women admitted to acting foolishly.

There were quite a few programme changes. Kylie and Jonathon quickly thought of some Table Topics in the absence of a Table Topics master, and Raider and Trish both had a speech ready to fill in for absent speakers. A good Toastmaster is always prepared!

Raider won both the "Best Speaker"  and the "Personal Best" awards. Damian also won 2 awards - "Best Table Topic" and "Best Evaluator" as well as one of the raffle prizes. (He had a good night.) The "Best Contribution" award went to John, who had performed admirably as Toastmaster.

Kylie will add photos later.

Meeting 850 - Photos