Olympic Fever

Trish - Woman of the Year

Trish received a standing ovation as she entered the room a moment after the meeting began. The club had just been informed that Trish been awarded Gold Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Woman of the Year - Mentor or Coach of the Year AND Bronze Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Female Entrepreneur of the Year. Congratulations Trish!

Toastmaster Darryl

Toastmaster Darryl looked the part in his sporting outfit. He began by getting everyone to do warm up exercises.

Warming up

There were three guests - Susan who is a member of Federation Toastmasters in Tenterfield and is also Area 1 Director. Katy, from Caboolture Toastmasters and Thomas who came for the first time last meeting and liked us enough to come again.

New member Wendy was inducted by President John T.

John inducted Wendy

Leanne proposed a toast "To the Athletes."

Word Master Christiane chose the word "Elite." It was used often during the meeting.

Jim, Nick, Rose

Round Robin Master showed the medal she had won for Tae Kwon Do and invited everyone to tell of  a success or award they'd had.

Marlene presented an educational speech on Interpretive Reading and encouraged members to enter the Interpretive Reading Contest next Meeting.

Wendy and Trish both stepped in to fill the two vacant speaking slots on the programme.
 Wendy held us spellbound with her  tale  "Conjure Wives.".

Wendy

Trish had some helpful advice in her presentation "The Key to Structuring Your Speech."

Trish

 The speeches were evaluated by John T and Paul.

John T

Paul

 After the supper break, (provided by Carmy) Leanne treated us with a moving rendition of "Advance Australia Fair."

Kirsty W had Table Topics for Carmy, Christiane, Liz, Annette T, Leanne, Dave,
John T, Paul, Rose and Marlene.

Kirsty W

Carmy - Athletes paid enough?

Christiane- Going to Rio

Liz - Ceremony welcome speech

Annette- Olympics in Chinchilla

Leanne- Greatest Olympian

Dave - motivate team

 

 

John T - Closing Ceremony

Paul - Hopscotch team

Rose - Escort Prince Harry

Steve and Jonathon evaluated the Table Topics.

Steve & Jonathon

Kirsty O's Raffle was won by Christiane.

The Time Keeper was Annette W.

Kirsty O

Annette W

 Grammarian Dave commented on our Word usage during the meeting.

Reza conducted a Listening Quiz.

General Evaluator Annette T offered some helpful suggestions.

Reza

Annette T

President John T closed the meeting and presented awards to Wendy (Best Speech,) Jonathon (Best Evaluation,) Leanne (Best Table Topic And Personal Best,) and Darryl (Best Contribution.

Winners 24 May 2016

Kirsty W and Carmy also received ribbons for their recent Ice Breaker Speeches.

KIrsty W and Carmy

 Katy took a photo of everyone. (Click for larger size.)

Next meeting 31st May is our Interpretive Reading Contest. This is an extra 5th Tuesday of the month meeting, See you there.

Woman of the Year

Congratulations to Trish, "Woman of the Year."

Trish has been awarded Gold Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Woman of the Year - Mentor or Coach of the Year AND Bronze Winner in the 2016 Women World Awards Female Entrepreneur of the Year.

The coveted annual Women World Awards program encompasses the world’s best in leadership, innovation, organizational performance, new products and services, and milestones from every major industry in the world.
Women World Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring women in business and the professions and organizations of all types and sizes in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America. The Annual Women World Awards is part of the SVUS Awards® recognition program from Silicon Valley in the United States of America.
Winners will be honored in San Francisco on Monday, June 27, 2016 during the annual SVUS Red Carpet Awards Ceremony Dinner.

Meetng 966 "Anything Goes"

New Member Leanne was inducted by John T

Another new member for Sandgate Toastmasters! Leanne was inducte by president John T.

Rose & John T

John handed control to Toastmaster Rose, who was wearing her "Anything Goes" outfit.

Christiane proposed a toast to "The gift of today." Liz chose the word "Classic" as the word of the evening. Liz also acted as Grammarian and took note of the descriptive words and phrases throughout the meeting.

Christiane

Liz

Carmy presented her Icebreaker speech and told us about her multicultural background and her passion for teaching.

Carmy

Trish gave a humorous off the cuff speech about a boating accident while on holiday.

Trish

 Steve completed his Competent Communicator manual with an inspiring speech, "If you want to be a Toastmaster, Master the Toast."

Steve (in his "Anything Goes" hat)

The evaluators were Darryl, Annette and Tim.

Darryl

Tim

Annette T

 John T's raffle, chocolates, wine, Tina Arena CD & scratchy ticket was won by Marlene.
Yay!  

Jonathon had some imaginative Table Topics for Christiane, Darryl, Nick, John T, and AnnetteT.

Jonathon

Christiane (Advice to 15yr old self)

Darryl (What is Whafflestomper)

Nick (What's happening in picture)

John T (a favourite memory)

Annette (What did dead man say)

 Table Topics Evaluators were John T and Dave.

The Business Session was efficiently chaired by Tim, who also doubled as Secretary. 

Tim & Rose

Trish conducted the Club Officer Elections, which resulted in the following positions:

PRESIDENT: Steve

VICE PRESIDENT EDUCATION: Annette T

VICE PRESIDENT MEMBERSHIP: Darryl

VICE PRESIDENT PUBLIC RELATIONS : Marlene

SECRETARY: Tim

TREASURER: Jim

SERGEANT AT ARMS: Christiane

WEBSITE COORDINATOR: Marlene

BULLETIN EDITOR: Kirsty W (to be confirmed by Kirsty.)

Leanne

Leanne conducted a lively Listening Quiz.

The entire meeting was evaluated by Marlene. Paul was timekeeper.

Marlene

Paul

Nick posed in the background while President John T closed the meeting on time and presented the awards.

Nick & John T

Award winners 10th May 2016

Rose (Best Contribution,) Christiane (Best Table Topic,) Trish (Best Speech,) Annette (Best Evaluation,) Carmy (Personal Best.)

Next meeting 24th May. The theme will be "Olympic Fever."

District 69 Conference 2016

 We are very proud of Annette, who represented our club and Metro Division  in the Table Topics Contest. No, she didn't get a place, but she received a lot of favourable comments from other Toastmasters. Darryl, Leanne, Leesa and John T went to support her. They had a wonderful time.

The Table Topic was "It's a long way."

Thanks to Leesa for the photos. I don't know all the people in these photos, but you will recognise our members.

Winners of the Table Topics Contest

Remember our old friend Penne?

It can't be........is that Annette?

Leanne had added our banner to our group photo for the banner parade.