Table Topics & International Speech Contests

Another exciting contest night!

President Gail opened the meeting and welcomed our first time visitors Chris and Steve as well as the contest judges Alan, Rod, Lisa, Teena, Terry,  Kirsty and Jenny.

Gail

Contest Judges

Trish was Toastmaster.  Stephen proposed a toast.

  

Trish

Stephen

All participants were briefed before the contests.

Table Topics Contestants being briefed

Blake warmed up the audience with a comedy act.

Blake

John T was Contest Toastmaster for the Table Topics contests, with Leanne, Peter, Annette & Trish competing.

John T

TT Participants

 The topic was "With the going down of the sun."

And the winner was... Leanne,  with Trish in second place, and Annette in third place.

Leanne with John

Table Topics - Peter, Trish, Leanne, Annette

Jonathon was Contest Toastmaster for the International Speech Contest. Participants were Peter, Trish, Darryl, & Eileen.

Jonathon

Participants- Peter, Trish, Darryl, Eileen with Jonathon

The winner was Trish, with Darryl second & Eileen third. 

Eileen, Trish & Darryl

The winners of the contests will compete against winners from other Toastmasters Clubs at the Area Conference in November.

John's raffle (Wine, chocolates and crisps) was won by Monica.

Division Director Jenny had a special announcement....

Jenny

 Our previous Division Director Rod has been awarded Division Director of the Year 2018 - 2019.

Jenny & Rod

 Congratulations Rod! Congratulations to all who took part in the contests, and thanks to the judges and all who helped to make it a successful contest.

Back to "normal" next meeting on the 8th October when we we have our usual activities.

Meeting 1044 Evaluation & Humorous Contests

Contest nights are always exciting and bring out the best in the contestants. 

Annette acted as a fill in for president Gail who was unable to be present. She welcomed guests Sue, Maria, Adrian and Dan as well as the test speaker Lisa and contest judges Alan, Jenny Teena, Terry, Daniel, (Area Director) and Kirsty.

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Annette - Acting President

Contest judges

Eileen was Toastmaster. She warmed up the audience with some hilarious "Dad" jokes. (It's almost Father's Day.) 

Blake took on the role of Contest Chairman for the Evaluation Contest. 

Eileen - Joke Master

Blake - Eval Contest Toastmaster

The test speech was delivered by our guest Lisa.

Lisa - Test Speaker

The contestants Darryl, Leanne & Annette, each gave an evaluation of Lisa's speech. 

Contestants Darryl, Leanne and Annette

First place went to Darryl, with Leanne second and Annette third.

John was Contest Toastmaster for the Humorous Speech Contest

John - Contest Toastmaster

Contestants were Darryl, Stephen, Trish and Casey.

Humorous Speech Contestants Darryl, Stephen, Trish & Casey

All four speeches were very funny and well performed. The Winner was Casey, with Darryl second and Trish third.

Place Getters - Humorous Speech Contest

Stephen's raffle - a beautiful wooden cheese board that he had made and a waxed wrap was won by Eileen.

The Contest winners will compete against other Toastmasters Clubs at the Area Conference in November.

Next meeting Tuesday, 10th September.

Meeting 1043 Sandgate is 45

Happy birthday to us!

We celebrated our club's 45th birthday last meeting with a special supper and birthday cake

Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and handed control to president Gail, who welcomed our guests Area Governor Daniel, first time visitor Dan, and Gokul, Maria and Adrian

Darryl

Gail

Gail presented Blake and Chris with their Competent Communicator  badge, and congratulated them on completing all 10 projects in the CC Manual.

CC for Blake and Chris

Toastmaster of the evening was Monica, who was able to relate some of the achievementsof several long term members.

Jakob proposed a toast to our club's birthday.

Monica

Jakob

Word Master John T chose the word for the evening "Celebrate," with its other forms, "celebration" and "celebratory."

John T

    Round Robin Master Andrea  invited us to tell of a time in our lives when we have celebrated.

Andrea

There were three prepared speeches. Jonathon posed the question "How are we Going?" He used the projector to illustrate his speech about the N.P.S. - Net Promoter Score. It was good to see that most of our members are promoters of Toastmasters and there were no detractors.

Leanne evaluated Jonathon's speech.

Jonathon

Leanne

Trish presented a very informative speech on how to use Power Point effectively, and gave some entertaining examples of  correct and incorrect use. This was the final project to be completed in Trish's Competent Communicator manual. Another CC for Trish!

Trish's speech was evaluated by Paul.

Trish

Paul

In Gail's speech "When Nuts aren't Nuts" we learned all about peanuts.

It was evaluated by Blake.

Gail

Blake

Annette, who has been in the Sandgate Toastmasters for 42 years presented a short and entertaining history of the club.

Eileen was raffle master. Because it is Exhibition week, she made up a sample bag. And because the club is 45 years old, she included items that she thought a 45 year old would like. (All ages queued to buy tickets.)  The lucky winner was Gokul, (who won't be 45 for a  quite a while.)

Annette

Eileen

Supper time! We had an extended break so we could enjoy the sumptuous dips, fruit and cake. (Pictured here with our Area Director Daniel and the Executive Officers of the club.)

Stephen, Daniel, Eileen, Paul, Gail, Darryl, Casey, Annette in front.

A short business session was held after the break, with Stephen as chairman. The main item for discussion was the purchase of new trophies. 

Stephen

Jonathon

There were some hilarious moments during the evening.

Trevor was Table Topics Master and he had some questions for Eileen, Jakob, Chris and Andrea.

Trevor

Eileen - "What makes you happy?"

Jakob - "What are you grateful for?"

Chris - "What is most valuable to you?" 

Adrian - "How do you feel about water?"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Carmy and Casey.

Carmy

Casey

Area Director Daniel had a brief address for the club.

Area Director Daniel

Christiane was Grammarian  and Annette was General Evaluator. Both had some good tips.

Christiane

Annette

The evenings awards went to Leanne (Best Evaluator,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Jakob (Best Table Topic and Most Improved.)

Award winners 13 Aug 2019

Next meeting on the 27th August will be a contest night. More entries for the Evaluation Contest and the Humorous Speech Contest are needed.

Einbinpin Festival 2019

Every year, have an information stall at the local Einbunpin Festival. This year it was organised by Eileen.

Christiane, Leesa, Eileen

Paul, Einbunpin Bunyip, Christiane

Stephen, Leesa, Paul

Marlene, Trish, Einbunpin Bunyip

John & Trish

Peter, John & Trish (getting too shady for clear photos)

 Packing up. How do we dismantle  this?