Change Over Dinner 2019 "Ladies & Gentlemen"

Meeting Open

Darryl

Darryl got an early start taking over his role as Sergeant at Arms and gave a truly inspiring rendition of the Toastmasters Mission Statement.

If that's the way we're going to be starting every meeting this year we will be the most inspired and inspiring club in the world...Amazing!!!

Welcome

Christiane

With placemat

Christiane gave her final speech as President of the club and was grateful to have finally made it to her first change over dinner since joining the club. 

Guests and a couple of husbands who came along were all welcomed to the meeting. 

Then Christiane explained the beautiful placemats we had in front of us which detailed where Sandgate Toastmasters Club sat in relation to the entire organisation. It also contained details of important dates including when fees are due, as Christiane explained there are now no excuses for missing any important dates for Sandgate Toastmasters. 

Toastmaster

Chris was Toastmaster for the evening and lead by example being a pin up for the perfect gentlemen, as you can see in this picture he was well presented and demonstrated impeccable manners. 

Invocation

Trish

Trish gave a powerful invocation, uniting all members and guests to enjoy their blessed food.

Round Robin

Leanne led the Round Robin segment and asked members and guests to tell everyone why they joined Toastmasters and why they have stayed?

The most popular reason for joining was a fear of public speaking and many stayed for the community they had become apart of.

We also had the privilege to hear from some veteran Toastmasters who told tales of starting clubs in the outback many moons ago just for something to do, another who followed his fathers footsteps in becoming a Toastmaster and the most inspiring of all a determined woman who wouldn't back down when told she couldn't join Toastmasters because she was a woman. Thank you Annette for leading the way for the rest of us ladies. 

Dinner

I regret to inform my readers that anyone who was interested in seeing the blessed food that was served during the evening are out of luck, Marlene had devoured the entire plate before realising she had forgotten to take a photo. Needless to say it was a lovely meal, with the Pork being the winning dish of the evening (well on our table anyway).

Toast to Toastmasters International

John

John gave an inspiring toast. Reminding members and guests that Toastmasters empowers people to find their voices.

"To Toastmasters International that helps us all"

Table Topics

Smiling Assassin (Table Topics Master) #1

Stephen

Paul

Stephen bravely stood up and described the attributes of a lady.

He melted the hearts of the audience when he told us the reason he knew the attributes of a lady was because his mother was one.

Marlene was asked to describe the attributes of a gentlemen. She did this and rounded it off by telling us that we can tell if someone if a gentlemen by the toilet they choose to go in when out in public "if they go into the gents, then I guess that makes them a gentlemen."

Paul entered confession and admitted that he was guilty of having a hand in the deterioration of standard etiquette, however he defended his behaviour by declaring a lot of "'standard etiquette" as "old fashioned notions." From what we have seen of Paul during meetings I'm sure we'd all agree Paul does his fair share to uphold etiquette standards in our society. 

Eileen

Casey

Eileen stated that it may appear that social niceties are disappearing but with gender equality becoming the norm, old traditions that can be chauvinistic are not the proper thing to do now.   

Casey was asked how we could return to a more refined time. Casey explained that with the theme of the evening she had decided to act like a lady during the Round Robin and refrained from talking about bowel habits 

Table Topics Master#2 Blake

Our second Table Topic Master Blake had topics for Trevor, Peter, David, John and Trish.

Sorry, I can't tell you what the topics were. Can't find my notes! (But they were funny!)

Trevor

David

John

Trish

Peter

Area Director David presented the club with a "45 Years" ribbon. President Christiane received it on behalf of the club. (We will be celebrating our 45th Birthday in August.)

45 years  ribbon for our club

The new club off officers were then inducted by David.

Club Officer 2019 - 2020

President: Gail, VP Education: Stephen, VP Membership Eileen, VP Public Relations Leesa, Secretary: Casey, Treasurer: Paul, Sergeant at Arms: Darryl.

Incoming President Gail

Incoming President Gail presented an inspiring speech.

Darryl 100% Attendance, Gail TM of the Year, Eileen Most Improved

Outgoing President Christiane presented awards to Darryl (100% Attendance, Gail (Toastmaster of the Year) and Eileen (Most Improved.)

The raffle was drawn - and everyone received a prize! Everyone had donated 3 preloved books and received 3 in return.

Eileen & Casey

Our visitor Brian took a photo of all members present. Thanks Brian!

Sandgate Toastmasters group

See you all on the 9th July for the first meeting of another exciting Toastmasters year!

Bracken Ridge Charter Dinner

Congratulations to our new sister club Bracken Ridge Toastmasters, who held their charter dinner this week.

Some of our members attended the dinner. It was a wonderful evening.

Here are some photos.

Incoming District Director Alana made presentations

Music by Flloyd and Greg

Humorous speech by Claire

Charter members received a certificate

Incoming Club Officers inducted

They've Made it!

Meeting 1039 "Good Health"

Meeting called to Order

With Carmy absent, Darryl tried on his new role as Sergeant at Arms for the evening and proved with some practice giving the gavel some hard raps on the lectern that he is going to excel in his coming role. 

Meeting Open

With the meeting open, Christiane took over the reins and welcomed the many guests for the evening, including returning guests Andrea, Jakob & Adrian as well as first time guests Gokul and Don. 

Christiane also highlighted the exciting news that Casey had managed to squeeze in one last article as VPPR in the Bayside Star with a story about John. S and his achievement receiving his 45 years as a member badge. 

Toastmaster

With all that said Christiane handed over to Toastmaster of the evening, Annette who enriched everyone's knowledge on Good Health.

That is to say, she gave what most of the audience thought was reliable evidence based health tips, only to find out later in the evening that she had been telling jokes. 

It was recommended during the evening that someone please bring some joke books along to the changeover dinner in the hope that Annette will win them and have some better jokes in the kitty for next time. 

In case anyone missed out, the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades 😂😂😂

The Toast

Marlene led the Toast for the evening. Marlene explained that health is not merely the absence of disease but incorporates diet, exercise, spiritual and social health. With that in mind Marlene toasted "To good health, in all its forms." (unfortunately there is no photo of Marlene for this segment as the blogger failed in her duties at the time..sorry!)

The Word

The word for the evening was "Quibble" and was presented by Trish. With Trish out of the running to win the word usage during the evening, Annette having the majority of air time managed to come out on top followed by a mere quibble by Darryl. 

Round Robin

Round Robin was presented by Darryl who asked the audience what was more important for good health, diet or exercise?

Top responses were ditching both diet and exercise altogether and enjoying life, getting lots of sleep and doing hot yoga. 

Limbering up regularly to be prepared for a Zombie apocalypse got a lot thinking too. 

Speech 1

"Special Treasure"

Eileen's speech was about mentorship and Eileen captivated the audience with her heartfelt speech where she took us on her journey of collecting mentors who modelled behaviour she wanted to emulate. She created a beautiful word picture of the treasure box she imagines she has, where all of these experiences are kept and where she can call upon if she ever needs help throughout life. 

Eileen completed her final speech in level 2 as part of the Pathways program... Well done Eileen!!!

Eileens speech was evaluated by Gail, who was also thrilled with the word pictures Eileen produced throughout her speech.

Speech 2

"Living Forever"

Blake's speech was aimed at inspiring his audience. Blake imparted the wisdom of Google futurist Ray Kurzweil and took the audience Back to the Future with a look at what Ray believes will be the future for humans, which included the use of biotechnology, nanotechnology and ending with an upload of your brain onto a hard drive to live out your 1000 years in a virtual reality. 

For all you readers out there, I took the time to google Ray Kurzweil and according to Wikipedia the man is 71 years old and judging by his pic he looks 20 years younger, so I reckon if nothing else Blake has inspired me to start drinking more green tea and find an alkaline water stockist. 

Blake's speech was evaluated by Leanne.

Speech 3

"Utopia for Realists"

Peter presented a persuasive speech based around the book Utopia for Realists. Peter persuaded the audience to take in the research facts and see what providing good welfare to low income earners and free housing to the homeless can do to raise the living standards of entire communities. With proof that it actually works, how can you not be persuaded?

Peter's speech was evaluated by Casey.

Raffle

Chris was surprised to find himself the presenter of the raffle, lucky for him Gail had some goodies on hand to raffle off, including some good healthy reads, a fluffy hotwater bottle "companion" and chocolates. 

Trish was the lucky winner!!!

Business meeting

Leesa chaired the business meeting and even with some curve balls thrown with motion conflict managed to keep the meeting on topic, and with the help of  time keeper Monica, in the time allotted. 

Casey (filling in as secretary) was grateful to have Trish by her side to let her know when and if she needed to speak up. 

Table Topics

Steven was Table Topics Master for the evening and got his 'victims' to discuss topics such as balding remedies, dark v milk chocolate and skin remedies. 

For anyone who missed the meeting, the secret to a more youthful looking appearance is horse manure. So next time you go past a farm you should think about paying the $3 for a bag of pony poo, all you have to do is mix it with a bit of water and bath in and voila!

Leanne

Andrea

John

               

Jonathon

Trevor

Jakob

Educational

Evaluations

Jonathan imparted his wisdom, as well as a template to help Toastmasters with evaluations. Jonathan reminded Toastmasters to always keep the purpose of the speech in mind. When assessing the structure, vocal variety, body language, vitality etc you need to keep bringing it back to the purpose and evaluate if the presentation supports the purpose of the speech. 

Jonathan reiterated the importance of evaluating the speech presentation itself rather than retelling the speech that's already been told

Template 1

Template 2

Jonathan is happy to share this template. Anyone interested in accessing it can email Jonathan.

 Grammarian

Trish was Grammarian for the evening and although she stated that grammar is not her forte she gave an excellent summary of her favourite word pictures mentioned throughout the evening. Not sure if it was her favourite but "Spaghetti Blow-your-nose" did get a mention as a picture you'd rather not envision.

General Evaluation

Chris evaluated the evening, he was particularly thrilled with the presenter of the raffle.

Awards!!!

Best Speech - Eileen

Best Table Topic - Leanne

Best Evaluation - Darryl

Most Improved - Andrea (not yet a member, but a budding Toastmaster already) 

The next meeting is the change over dinner on the 25th of June. All those wishing to attend need to let Blake know and pay prior, it's $20 for members and $35 for guests. 

Can't wait to see you at the next meeting!