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Thursday, 20 April 2017

Meeting 987 "My Music"

Toastmaster Carmy had set the scene with some of her favourite CD's and kept the meeting flowing with facts and anecdotes about music. It was her first time in that role.

There were three guests, Gail, Matt and Jayne.


Car

Chris


Chris proposed a toast to "Learning."

Wordmaster Blake introduced the word "Interlude," meaning a short interval or pause. It is a term that is also used in music.
Blake
John T presented a dramatic reading of Alfred Noye's Poem, "The Highwayman," and stunned his audience when he dropped "down  like a dog on the highway"
John getting up again

John T


In her "Icebreaker" speech, Deb told how her parents and grandparents had helped her to develop "mind, body and soul" and inspired her to help others.

Deb
Tim completed his Communicator Manual projects with a presentation about the Competent Leader projects and explained  how the roles performed at meetings can fulfil CL projects.

Tim

The speeches were evaluated by Karen, Steve and Annette M.

Karen

Steve

Annette M
Jim's Easter raffle, two Lindt chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs was very popular.

Selling raffle tickets

Raffle prize

Supper was provided by Trish.
What is that on Nikki's head?

Queen Nikki

Time Keeper Nick kept the meeting running on time.


Nick

Leesa



Leesa chaired the Business Session. One of the items discussed was the meeting awards. The club voted to change the "Personal Best" award to  "Most  Improved." to avoid confusion and to drop the "Best Contribution" award.

:Liz's Table Topics took the form of "This is Your Life." Annette was called out to the front, and the TT participants were asked to tell what they knew about Annette.

Liz
Annette, This is your life!




















Nikki - met Annette at school



Darryl - Annette's pupil

Jonathon - Annette's teacher



Jim - Annette as a teenager
Zoe - school reunion

Chris - Squash champion

Robyn - Annette's neighbour

Blake- Annette as Toastmaster

The Table Topics were evaluated by Christiane and Marlene.

Christiane

Marlene
Grammarian Jonathon commented on words and phrases during the meeting and the Um's and Ah's.

Trish presented a thorough evaluation of the entire meeting.

Trish - General Evaluator

Award winners of the evening were Karen, (Best Evaluation) John and Deb, (Best Speech) Nikki,(Best Table Topic) and Carmy (Best Contribution and Personal Best)

Award winners 11th April.

Next meeting 25th April. (Anzac Day.) The theme will be "Honour, Duty, Service."

Monday, 3 April 2017

Meeting 986 "My First Car"


Three new members were added to our club last meeting. President Steve inducted Deb, Zoe and Robyn. He also welcomed guests Gail and Tracey.



"My First Car" proved to be a popular theme chosen by Toastmaster Christiane.

Christiane

 When Round Robin Master Master Chris invited everyone to tell about their first car, everyone had a story to tell and the segment went overtime.

Karen proposed a toast to the Toorabul people, who were the aboriginal owners of our area.

Karen

Wordmaster Leesa chose the word "Consolidation."  -   an action or process of making something stronger or more solid. or to bring together separate parts into a single or unified whole.

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Leesa

There were three prepared speeches.
Paul  used body language in his speech  "Easter - what does it mean?"

Paul

Jim's speech project was "Research Your Topic" and he spoke about "Value for Money."



Jim

Darryl's used visual aids in his 8th speech "Put on the Spot."

Darryl
The Evaluators were John T, Annette T and Steve.

John T
Annette T

Steve

Nikki presented the raffle. She spoke about the days of Drive In movies and offered some DVD movies and popcorn etc.
Nikki

Table Topics Master Nick had theme related topics for  Tim, Chris, Deb, Zoe Leesa and Marlene.

Nick - TT Master

Tim



Chris
Deb


Zoe
Marlene

The Table Topics were evaluated by Liz and Carmy. (Missed getting a photo of Liz.)

Carmy

For his Show and Tell segment, Blake brought along his monster cookie jar.

Blake's Cookie Jar
Blake


Jonathon presented a review of the Movie "About Time.



Nikki conducted a Listening Quiz. 

Nikki

Tim presented the General Evaluation.

Here are the winners of the evening -  Paul (Personal Best,) Christiane (Best Contribution,) John Best Evaluation, Marlene (Best Table Topic,) and Darryl (Best Speech.)

Winners 28 March 2017

And a selfie of Time Keeper Kirsty.

Kirsty

Next meeting 11th April.  See you there.