Meeting 941 "The 80's"

CC Nicole with Area Gov Jenny

Congratulations to Nicole on completing the 10th speech project and achieving her Competent Communicator Award!

Marlene, Sharyn, Sharyn, Jenny

The theme of the meeting was "The 80's - fron INXS to Excess." Some members dressed in bright colours that were popular in the 80's. 

We were pleased to have a visit from our Area Governor Jenny. 

Sharyn

Sharyn was Toastmaster

Lisa

 New member Lisa read the mission statement.

Toast _ "Men at work"

Jean C proposed the Toast.

Nick

Nick gave us the word, "Chill."

Round Robin Master Pam (who was also Time Keeper with Roseanne) asked what we had an an excess of.  Chocolate was high on the list;

Reza's Table Topics were  about the 80's - and were answered by Terry, Darryl and Jim.

Reza

Terry

Darryl

Jim

They were evaluated by Steve.

We heard an inspiring speech by Nicole. 

Nicole

An entertaining speech by Peter.

Peter

And a moving speech by Jonathon.

Jonathon

The audience was rapt.

Rapt audience

Speech evaluators were Rose, Harry and John T.

Rose

John T

Harry

The business session was chaired by Dave.

Dave

The main item on the agenda was the District Convention, to be held on the May Day weekend at Maroochydore.

Jim

Jim's raffle - a cute teddy bear was popular and was won by Jean S.

Jean S won the raffle

Darryl gave his Grammarian report and Annette had some good advice in her General Evaluation.

Annette

The evening's awards went to John T (Best Evaluator,) Nicole (Personal Best,) Darryl (Best Table Topic,) Sharyn (Best Contribution,) and Jonathon (Best Speech.)

Winners, meeting 941

Meeting 940 "Trial of the Easter Bunny"

Did the Easter Bunny break the Good Food Code and do so wilfully? This was the question posed to the jury of a mock trial at our last meeting.

Easter Bunny Marlene

Judge Trish, Steve, Jean

Prosecution Lawyer Dave

Roseanne - Govt. Official

Maureen - Dietician

Tim - Dentist

Sharyn - Mother of obese child

Liz - concerned parent

John T - Defence Lawyer

Amanda - small shop owner
sworn in by Bailiff  Pam

Reza - Humpty Dumpty

Annette - Mother Bunny

Leesa - 7 year old child

Jury - John S, Darryl & Terry 

Not Guilty!

Bunnies Marlene, Annette, Rose

Trish, John T Sharyn

Awards went to Trish, (Best Contribution) John T, (Personal Best) & Sharyn, (Best witness.)

Jean and Nicole

New member Jean was inducted by Nicole.

General Evaluator Steve

Listening Quiz - Jim

Leesa's raffle - Chadonnay, Chocolates and Candy Egg was won by Sharyn, John T and Annette.

Our guests were Ajit, Jack, Mark and Gemma.  We hope to see them again next meeting.

Metro Division Contest 2015

Congratulations to Trish and Annette on their success in the Metropolitan Division contests!

Trish, representing Area 8 (our Area) won first place in the Evaluation Contest.

Trish won Evaluation Contest

Winners Evaluation

Annette (competing for Area 18) came first in Table Topics with Trish in Second Place.

Table Topics winners

Trish and Annette will go on to compete in the District Conference at Maroochydore on the first weekend in May.
More photos from conference and list of all winners on Healthy Chatterers web site.  http://1329132.toastmastersclubs.org/METRO_CONF__WINNERS_2014-2015.html

Meeting 939 "Gadgets and Gizmos"

Thanks to Leesa, Nicole and John T for photos and information about the meeting as I was unable to attend.

(I hate missing our meetings!)

Lisa, Steve, Nicole and Rosanne

President Nicole welcomed our new members Lisa, Steve and Roseanne into our Club. 

Gadget man Dave was Toastmaster, he shared his knowledge and passion for gizmo's and gadgets, including his ingenious contraption for reading heavy books.

 

Word Master Steve urged members NOT to use the word 'good', and gave suggestions of many other words that could used instead.

 

Round Robin Master Annette invited all to tell of their favourite gadget. Darrell's favourite gadget in the kitchen was his wife.

Table Topics Master was Peter D. 

Peter 

Peter Vance was Raffle Master and convinced many to take part in the raffle, recounting the tale of Paddy who learned that a thermos was used to keep things hot and to keep things cold, but not necessarily at the same time. Nicole won the raffle!

Jean buying raffle tickets from Peter V

Lisa, Rosanne Tim, and Peter D each displayed and spoke about one of their favourite gadgets. Lisa's was a Tupperware slicer, Tim's was a dental instrument for taking mouth measurements. 

Reza evaluated Trish's speech. 

Harry presented his 9th speech and was evaluated by Darryl.

Harry

Chairman John T broke the record for the shortest business session -7 mins 40 seconds.

Supper was provided by Maureen. 

Supper break

Sharyn

In her General Evaluation, Sharyn used as many words as she could instead of the word "good."

Liz conducted a Listening quiz.

Rose

 Rose collected the votes. And the winners were.....

Awards 10 March 2015         

Harry, (Best Speech) Trish, (best Evaluation) Liz, (Best Table Topic) Darryl, (Personal Best) and Dave, (Best Contribution.)

Any corrections or more details are welcome.

Meeting 938 "Speechfest"

Some of our best meetings occur when difficult circumstances have to be overcome.

On the morning of our last meeting day, our president Nicole was informed that due to an unavoidable circumstance, the room where we usually meet was not available. Thanks to  Nicole and others who made numerous phone calls and sent out emails and to the Sandgate Uniting Church for allowing us to hold the meeting in their hall, the meeting went ahead and was one of our memorable evenings.

Harry was Toastmaster

President Nicole welcomed our guests Steve (who is transferring to our club) Lisa, Jean, and Ajit. Toastmaster Harry had prepared some interesting information about words and speaking.

Instead of our usual meeting format we had a speechathon, with 7 speakers who didn't appear to suffer from "Glossophobia."

Tim

 Tim was the first speaker with his second speech from the CC manual, and told us "The Story of the Rain and Sydney University" and how he caught a train and arrived 3 days later.

Darryl

Darryl presented his third speech from the manual which he titled, "What the Hell am I doing here" His main point was the importance of reading the objectives in the manuals before preparing a speech.

Amanda

Amanda's speech "Dreams and its Health Warnings" was a fascinating account of how dreams can warn of physical complaints. Amanda had prepared a power point presentation but quickly adapted with other visual props when our projector was unavailable, due to the last minute change of  venue.

Maureen

 Maureen also rose to the occasion and coped without the projector as she convinced us of the benefits of medical research in her speech, "Why Research?"

Peter dM

Peter dM entertained us with an amusing story of a driving adventure  "Oh My God, I Think I've killed a Priest!" 

Reza

Reza presented his Ice Breaker speech, "Life's Challenges." He told us about emigrating from South Africa to Australia.

Terry

Terry continued the story he had begun in his Ice Breaker at a previous meeting, and told us about some more events in his life. 

Nicole and Pam listening

The speeches were evaluated by Dave, John S, Steve, Marlene Liz, John T and Peter V.

Steve

Liz

Dave

John T

John S

Peter V

During the meeting, time keepers Jim and Nick announced that we were ahead of time, so Harry introduced a Round Robin and asked "Why did you join Toastmasters and why have you stayed? Have you achieved your goals?" This was so popular, everyone spoke longer than the usual 20 seconds which made us a bit behind time.

Timekeepers Jim and Nick

Liz's raffle was a tea infuser, jug, coffee and chocloate. It was won by John S.

Liz

Annette

General Evaluator Annette summed up the meeting with some helpful comments.

President Nicole presented the evening's awards to Steve (Best Evaluator,) Reza (Best Speech and Peronal Best,) and Harry (Best Contribution.)

Winners - Steve, Reza Harry

Next meeting is on the 10th March with the theme "Gadgets and Gizmos"