Meeting 1020 "Scenic Sandgate"

The meeting was well attended, and included guests Area Director David, and Shane, Vaughan and Marian.

President Christiane had returned from her trip and was inducted by Trish, since she had been away for the Changeover ceremony.

New President Christiane inducted by Trish

 Jonathon proposed the toast, which included "Scenic Sandgate" and handed control to Toastmaster of the evening, Paul.

Jonathon

Paul

Wordmaster Darryl presented the word "Picturesque," meaning visually attractive and gave examples for it's use.  It was well used during the evening.

Since it is Exhibition week in Brisbane, Trevor's Round Robin topic was "Showbags." All agreed that there is not much value for money in them nowadays. 

The first prepared speech of the night was Marlene's "Higgins Great Managerie," It was the Pathways "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Peter. 

Peter

Eileen's speech "The Joy of Volunteering" was also a "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Blake.

Eileen

Blake

Stephen's speech about Diets was from "The Communication and Leadership Programme" and was evaluated by Christiane.

Stephen

Christiane

 Speech 4 was Gail's amusing family tale, "Are We There Yet?" evaluated by Jonathon.

Gail

Jonathon.

Table Topics Master Leesa had topics for David, Darryl, Carmy Gail, Monica and Trevor, all with a Scenic Sandgate theme.

Leesa

David

Carmy

Monica

Trevor

Darryl

They were evaluated by Casey and Annette.

Casey

Annette

Annette chaired the business session. One of the items for discussion was whether to hold an extra meeting on the 5th week in October. Those who were for an extra meeting won by one vote.

Grammarian Carmy commented on good word usage and filler words during the meeting.

Time keeper Monica reported that our meeting had gone slightly overtime. (It was a very full meeting.)

Darryl's raffle - a bag of goodies including a desk light, chocolates, wine etc was won by Stephen.

Darryl's raffle.

Area Director David

After a short address by David our Area Director, Christiane closed the meeting and presented awards to Jonathon (Best Evaluation,) Darryl (Best Table Topic,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Carmy. (Most Improved.)

Award winners 8th August 2018

Thanks to Trevor for a scrumptious supper.

Next meeting 28th will be our Table Topics and Humorous Speech contest. More entries needed, especially for the Humorous Speech contest. Join in the fun! It doesn't have to be a new speech.

Speechfest 31st July

There were five Tuesdays this month, so we had a Speechfest on the 5th Tuesday. We welcomed guests Andrew and Gabriella, whom we had met at the Einbunpin Festival.

Carmy proposed the Toast and  Peter introduced the meeting theme, "Coffee."

Carmy

Peter

Wordmaster Eileen chose the word "Instant."

Eileen

Round Robin MasterJohn invited us to tell of a positive experience involving coffee.

 There was a wide variety of speeches. Blake told of his first love at the age of 12 - which turned out to be a red BMW car!

Trevor gave us some shocking facts about Cancer.

Blake

Trevor

 Leanne presented her Pathways Icebreaker, and shared some important parts of her life, including her love of travelling. (Sorry, didn't get a photo.)

Marlene repeated one of her previous speeches, about a trip to the vet.

Monica took us back to the past with her speech about the Gayndah Commune.

Monica

Speech Evaluators were Gail, John, Leesa and Marlene.

Gail

John

 

Leesa

Annette presented an information session about meeting roles and stressed the importance of keeping within the allotted time as it affects everyone else on the programme.

Darryl

 Darryl had some constructive suggestions in his General Evaluation.

Gail's raffle (a bag of goodies, including coffee, chocolate and puzzle book,) was won by Monica.

Annette presented the evening's awards to Peter (Most Improved,) Marlene (Best Speech,) and John (Best Evaluation.)

Award winners 31st July 2018

Next meeting Tuesday 14th August.

The following meeting on the 28th will be a Table Topics and Humorous Speech contest. Contestants needed. Give it a go!

Einbunpin Festival 2018

A great day was had at the Einpumbin Festival on Sunday with the sun shining and the Sandgate Toastmasters team out in full force to let everyone know that they too can become a better communicator.

Darryl, Leanne, Kirsty, Casey & Steve got the ball rolling first up in the morning.

Sending out a big thank you to John Topping who arrived early and had everything set up before everyone arrived. It was very much appreciated by those eager to grab a coffee. 

Darryl, Leanne & Steve were all at their stations ready to  welcome any passers-by.

Steve looking dashing out front of the stall. 

With good effect! 

The view over the lagoon... Look out for the Einbumpin! 

Paul & Stephen 

Liz & Monica 

Monica & Liz

Blake, Chris, Leesa, John & a Photo Bomber!

Blake, Chris, Leesa, John & Marlene wrapped up a lovely day by the Lagoon.

Thankfully all volunteers managed to avoid the Einbumpin and leave the Lagoon with a smile on their face, although there may have been a bit of chocolate on the edges after eating lots of chocolate brownies!

Meeting 1018 - The Great Outdoors

Immediate Past President Annette welcomed guest Rusty and handed to Toastmaster Chris, who related many tales of his outdoor experiences during the evening.

Chris

A Toast proposed by Stephen was "to be Aware of Danger in the Outback".

Wordmaster Trevor came up with possibly the longest Word our Club has know, in Pusillanimous - meaning Lack of Courage. It was used mainly used by Trish who gained the honour once again.

John provided the Round Robin topic by asking to describe your scariest outdoor experience. We heard of adventures near and far by all Members.

Speech 1 by Peter entitled "Animal Expressions" was introduced and evaluated by Leanne.

Peter and Leanne

Speech 2 by Casey describing the flu season precautions, was introduced and evaluated by Carmy.

Casey and Carmy

Timer throughout the evening was Annette, who kept us on our toes to keep the evening on time.

Table Topics presenter was Paul, and he kept with the theme asking questions on the Great Outdoors. The recipients were able to draw on personal experience and we had humourous and fun answers by Steve, Carmy, Annette, Trevor, John, Stephen, Gail and Marlene.

Paul

Steve, Carmy, Annette, Trevor, John, Stephen, Gail and Marlene - in the Great Outdoors

Evaluators of the Table Topics were Liz and Blake, who both provided helpful comments for development and improving skills.

Liz and Blake

The Raffle was sold by Marlene, and lucky winner was a very happy John.

John

Speech 3 entitled "How a curry changed my life" by Darryl, described how his journey to Toastmasters began. The Evaluator was Jonathon.

Darryl and Jonathon

We were then educated by Trish with her project entitled "Checklist for Effective Meetings" and I am sure all Members learned a great deal on how to be prepared for taking charge of Meetings.

Trish

Leesa gave a review of the movie "It's Complicated" and explained the plot and how much she had enjoyed it. (available now on DVD for those interested).

Leesa

Grammarian Gail was keeping tally throughout the meeting, and gave feedback on the good and not so good grammar and word usage.

General Evaluator Kirsty gave an excellent overview of the Meeting, with suggestions for improvement in some areas and commendation on a good effort in others. All was most helpful.

Kirsty

Awards were presented:   Best Speech Darryl, Best Evaluator Jonathon, Best Table Topic John, Most Improved Casey.

Casey, Jonathon, Darryl and John

A reminder for Einbunpin Festival this Sunday, for those rostered to assist at the Toastmasters Stand.

Meeting 1017 - Ancestors

New Sergent at Arms Carmy called the Meeting to Order. Immediate Past President Annette opened the Meeting and presented the trophy for Most Improved to Toastmaster Chris. Gail had managed to keep this a secret this past two weeks since the Change Over Dinner. Annette also welcomed back Leanne and Peter who have been absent for a while.

Most Improved 2018 Award presented to Chris

Leanne

Toastmaster for the night Monica kept the Meeting flowing and firstly introduced Gail, who proposed a Toast to All our Marvellous Ancestors.

Toastmaster Monica

Gail and Trish

 This was followed by Trish's word of the evening - Parentage. It was not used frequently during the meeting, despite being within the theme, much to Trish's disappointment.

The first of the 4 prepared speeches was presented by Carmy, entitled "Christmas Shopping in July".
It was evaluated by John.

Second speech entitled "Suicide Involves Everyone" was presented by Stephen and Evaluated by Liz.

Carmy, John and Stephen

Casey presented Table Topics, which an interesting range of topics concerning our Ancestors.

Casey

Leanne, Paul, Annette, Blake, Trish and Leesa all provided insightful responses, with Blake as usual providing a most amusing tale about red heads in his family.

Blake or is that "Red Beard"

Marlene and Peter (first time in this role) presented the Table Topics Evaluations.

Marlene and Peter

 Round Robin session was conducted by Annette, with the Topic "Where did the majority of your ancestors come from". The answers were varied and apart from claims to royal blood, provided us with increased knowledge of Members' backgrounds.

The Raffle was well thought out by Paul, and the lucky winner was Peter.

Paul and a brazil nut candle to read by

 Speech 3 by Steve was entitled "The Full Moon" and was not about the hotel where we meet, but about the different names of the full moon around the world. It was evaluated by Leesa.

Speech 4 entitled "Organisational Health" by Jonathon was based on his requirement to present a Report to the audience. He used both hand-outs and projection screen to enhance his speech. It was evaluated by Darryl.

Leesa, Steve, Jonathon and Darryl

The Business Meeting was chaired by John, and finished within time allocated. Eileen was Time Keeper and gave Timers Reports through the evening.

Eileen

Chris presented the General Evaluation, noting all areas performed throughout the evening.

Chris

 Awards: Best Speech: Jonathon, Best Evaluator: Darryl, Best Table Topic: Blake, and Most Improved: Carmy.

Blake, Jonathon, Carmy and Darryl

Annette reminded Members that there will be a third Meeting on July 31st.