Meeting 922 Interpretive Reading Contest

Dave 2nd, Liz 3rd, Jonathon 1st

Congratulations to the first, second & third place winners of our Interpretive Reading Contest, Jonathon, Dave & Liz Wo. Jonathon read from a children's book, "The Three Little Bush Pigs,"  Liz read an excerpt from "The Rosie Project" and Dave read a poem, "The Lion and Albert."

Thanks to our visiting judges, Chris and Del from Chermside Communicators Club, and Jenny from Healthy Chatterers. John S & John T from our club also acted as judges.

Chris & Del

Area Gov Sharyn with Jenny

Our club president Liz We was Contest Toastmaster and Nicole was Toastmaster for the meeting.

Contestant Amanda being interviewed by Liz We

Toastmaster Nicole

Thanks to the time keepers, sergeant at arms and tally counters who helped the contest run smoothly.

Other highlights of the evening were Table Topics. Pam presented the topics that Trish had prepared. They were answered by Inge, Darryl, Jim & D'sley.

Pam

Inge

Jim

D'sley

Darryl presented a Show and Tell segment. He had prepared large pictures of the GWagon, which is used by the army.

Darryl

Nick's raffle had 3 prizes -  a bottle of wine and 2 tins of biscuits. They were won by Jim, Darryl and Amanda.

Nick

We are looking forward to hearing speeches by Liz, Jonathon and Nick next meeting.

Dave's New Baby

Sandy with Tinkerbell

Meet Tinkerbell, Dave's and Sandy's  new puppy. Tinkerbell is a Spoodle, a cross between a cocker spaniel & miniature poodle. Isn't she adorable?

Tinkerbell

Remembering Joyce

Members who were in our club before 2008 will have fond memories of Joyce Valentine. Joyce was a very active member and would always go out of her way to be helpful. She always attended Toastmasters Conferences, assisted with the Einbunpin Festival, Speechcraft, and excelled in her role of Vice President Public Relations. Some of our Executive meetings were held in Joyce's home.

Sadly, Joyce passed away on the 17th May.

Here are a few photos of Joyce.

VPPR 2002

Joyce at the Area Conference 2004

Advanced Toastmaster Bronze

Most Improved Toastmaster 2005

Joyce's Birthday - the candles set off the smoke alarm!

2nd Prize Evaluation Contest

In Appreciation 2008

Meeting 921 "Stepping out of your Comfort Zone"

D'sley & Malcolm inducted by Liz

Welcome to our two new members, D'sley and Malcolm.

It really was a night of "stepping out of you comfort zone" for some of our members.

Maureen was Toastmaster for the first time. She was well prepared with inspiring quotes and information to fill any gaps in the meeting.

Toastmaster Maureen & Chairman John S

Newly inducted Malcolm proposed the toast and read the mission statement.
Nick and Darryl presented Table Topics for the first time.
Hollie answered a Table Topic for the first time. Other Table Topic speakers were Marlene, Jonathon and Pam.

Jonathon

Pam

 They were evaluated by Nicole and Jim (another first timer.)

Nicole

Jim

Trish's speech "Laughter is the Best Medicine" had everyone laughing. It completed her Advanced Communicator Bronze. Congratulations Trish!

The speech was evaluated by Sharyn.

Trish

Sharyn

John T used some colourful phrases in his dramatic talk from The Entertaining Speaker Manual
It was evaluated by Terry.

John T

Terry

Pam brought a beautiful hand knitted rug for the raffle and sold a record number of tickets. It was won by Marlene.

The business session was handled efficiently by John S. The main items for discussion were our Changeover Dinner and 40th Anniversary.

This was followed by the Elected of Club Officers, chaired by Liz We. None of the positions were contested and the new executive team will be:

PRESIDENT: Nicole
VICE PRESIDENT EDUCATION: John T
VICE PRESIDENT MEMBERSHIP: Sharyn
VICE PRESIDENT PUBLIC RELATIONS: Marlene
SECRETARY: Liz Wo
TREASURER: Jim
SERGEANT AT ARMS: Pam
NEWS BULLETIN EDITOR: Trish
PARLIAMENTARIAN: John S
WEB SITE COORDINATOR: Marlene
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Marlene conducted a Round Robin General Evaluation and invited comments about the meeting from everyone.

Liz We presented the evenings awards to Hollie (Personal Best,) John T (Best Speech,) Sharyn (Best Evaluation,) Jonathon (Best Table Topic) and Maureen (Best Contribution.)

Volunteer Afternoon

Kerry

Liz,  Pam & Marlene attended a special Thankyou afternoon tea for volunteers, hosted by our local MP & Past Member of Sandgate Toastmasters, Kerry Millard.

Volunteers from local groups were invited to set up a display to promote their organisation. 

The afternoon tea was scrumptious! Kerry said it had come from the Town Hall Bakery in Sandgate.

Liz & Pam

Afternoon Tea

Meeting 920 "The 40's"

There were a lot of programme changes. Thanks to those who took on extra roles, especially those who saw a need and fulfilled it without being asked.

Liz inducted new member Darryl

New member Darryl was inducted by president Liz We.
Darryl presented the Toast and Mission Statement, proposing a toast to Australia's heavyweight boxer Alex Leopai,

Toastmaster John T introduced the theme of the evening with a slide presentation of Sandgate in the 40's.

Round Robin Master Dave asked what we remembered or knew about the 40's.

Hollie had brought pictures of items from the 40's, which she used in her Table Topics session and asked  Inge, Peter, Nicole and Marlene to speak about them.

Hollie

Inge

Peter

Liz We evaluated the Table Topics. 

Annette

Trish

The were two speeches. Annette's was an "After Dinner Speech," We were asked to imagine that we were at a Farewell Dinner in honour of a retiring work colleague.

Trish told us of the the benefits of belonging to an Advanced Toastmasters Club. (Trish also belongs to Chermside Communicators Advanced Toastmasters Club.)

The speeches were evaluated by Liz We and Marlene.

Robyn

Our special guest, Ambassador Robyn from Bunya Toastmasters explained how the Toastmasters Educational Programme is about to be revitalised.

Amanda

Another informative session was presented by Amanda, who spoke abut the duties of a Vice President Membership. Amanda also handed out copies of the Newsletter she has produced.

Jim

Jim brought along his 12 speed road bike for his Show and Tell segment.

The many programme changes were a challenge for Timekeeper Trish but she rose to the occasion.

Nicole

Nicole spent the meeting multi tasking, (working the projector, etc) and still managed to give a thorough General Evaluation.

Our guests Nicola, David and Malcolm were asked to comment on the evening. Malcolm will be inducted as a new member next meeting.

President Liz We presented awards to the evening's winners,  Annette and Trish (Best Speaker - tie) Peter (Best Table Topic,) Marlene (Best Evaluator,) Jim (Personal Best,) and John T (Best Contribution)

Winners 22 April 2014

Don't forget, there are 5 weeks in April, so it will be an extra week till our next meeting on the 13th May. when we will elect our Club Officers for the year commencing on the 1st July.

Meeting 919 "All Creatures Great and Small"

It was good to have our President Liz We back from her trip.

Sharyn was Toastmaster, looking great in her theme related dress. Did you notice it had creatures printed on it?

Sharyn

Creatures great & small

Our previous guests guests, Malcolm and D'sley were welcomed back, also a mystery gentleman who arrived during the meeting and sat for a few minutes before announcing he had walked into the wrong place and promptly left!

Round Robin Master Pam invited us to tell about a pet we have had. There were many amusing stories, and it seems that most of our members own a dog or cat.

Peter, who has just returned from New Zealand, had some Table Topics about New Zealand animals for for Annette, Jim, Amanda and Liz We.

Annette

Jim

Liz We

They were evaluated by Marlene and Inge. This was Inge's first attempt at evaluating.

John S

John S presented a speech titled "Hear, Hear!" about the difficulties experienced by the hearing impaired.
Some of the suggestions he made for us were,
Speak clearly, don't shout.
Speak face to face, don't turn away when speaking.
Don't keep repeating the same phrase word for word, try using alternate words.

We used the "Buddy" system of evaluating - a new evaluator was teamed with a more experienced one. Leesa and Jim made an excellent team.

John T

John T's speech was "Are We Still a Weird Mob?" an entertaining look at the quirks of Australians.

Amanda & Nick

Amanda and Nick made another great evaluation team. It was Nick's first evaluation.

Hollie

Other first timers were our Time Keepers Maureen and Hollie. Neither had performed the task before. They kept the meeting running on time.

In the absence of our third speaker, (Get well soon Trish!) Marlene presented an educational session on the duties of a Vice President Education. (Clink link for transcript.) Club Officer elections will be held in May and we are expecting to be inundated with volunteers for the job!

Annette chaired the business session and guided us skilfully through some motions and amendments. The main business items discussed were,
 Change Over Dinner on the 24th June,
 Information Stall at the Einbunpin Festival on the 27th July,
 40th Anniversary Dinner on the 12th August.

Maureen

Maureen's raffle, a bag of goodies, including  DVD's , books, cup and coasters was won by one of our guests, Malcolm.

President Liz We conducted the General Evaluation, then presented the evenings awards to Annette (Best Table Topic, John T (Best Speech,) Amanda & Nick (Best Evaluation,) Jim & Hollie -tie (Personal Best,) and Sharyn (Best Contribution.)

Winners 8th April 2014

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