Meeting 1063 "Vive La France"

It was our first meeting for the new Toastmasters year 2020 - 2021.  Some of our members were able to meet together in person, while the rest attended online. New President Leanne welcomed all to the meeting, with a special welcome to our guest Zakk, and handed control to Toastmaster of the Evening, John. 

President Leanne

John

John had chosen "Vive La France" as the theme and sported a mustache for Basille Day. He even entertained us with a smattering of French and song.

Word Master Dan had chosen the French expression "Faux Pas" which means "a gaffe, blunder or mistake."

Hazel proposed a toast to "Toastmasters Sandgate and their Wit, Wisdom, Commitment and Cooperation."

Round Robin Master Gail asked "What do you think of when you think of France??

Hazel

Gail

J.P. presented the 10th speech in the Competent Communicator Programme, using plenty of body language to  demonstrate "The Power of Yoga." It was evaluated by Leanne. 

J.P.

Leanne

Liz Wo  explained why she is a survivor in her account of her experience on a cruise ship during the Covid -19 outbreak. Her speech was evaluated by Jonathon.

Liz Wo

Jonathon

Trevor told an amusing tale of his "threesome relationship" with his wife and her mobile phone.

It was evaluated by Gokul.

Trevor

Gokul

Paul was Time Keeper.

Paul

Chris presented the raffle, which was chocolate and coffee sachets, and a flask to keep drinks hot or cold. It was won by Leesa.

 Leanne and Gail provided supper, with biscuits and cupcakes iced in the colours of the French flag, by Leanne's niece.

Cupcakes for supper

Marlene's Table Topics were everyday items that were invented by the French.

Calulator, Hairdrier, Pedal Bicycle, Sewing Machine, Folding Umbrella, Bikini.  Peter, Hazel, Christiane Gail, Liz We and Dan were asked to speak for 2 minutes about these items. 

Marlene

Peter

Christiane

Liz We

The Table Topics were evaluated by Monica and Carmy.

Carmy

Grammarian Chris commented on the use of words during the meeting.

Leesa gave a General evaluation of the entire evening, with some helpful suggestions.

Leesa

The evening's awards went to:  

Best Speech - Liz Wo,  

Best Table Topic - Christiane, 

Most Improved - J.P.,

Best Evaluation - Jonathon.

Jonathon has also gained a Competent Leader award.

J.P. Competent Communicator and Most Improved Award

The next meeting will be on the 28th July. Please contact us for details on how to attend. 

Meeting 1062 Change Over. "Change of Hats"

It was time to "change hats" as our new club officers were installed for the coming Toastmasters year, which commences on the 1st July.  Out-going president Gail welcomed our new Area Director Kirsty as well as first time guests Emma and Lisa.

 Gail was pleased to announce that our club had earned President's Distinguished status. (The highest award.)
Congratulations to J.P. and Gokul on completing their Competent Communicator programme, and to Christiane  who has earned her Competent Leader and Advanced Leader Bronze awards.

Gail

Control was passed to Toastmaster Liz, who conducted the meeting from her home in the UK.  Liz had many interesting snippets about hats to share throughout the meeting.

Liz (UK)

Incoming Sergeant-at-Arms Dan read the mission statement.

Dan

As an invocation, Trish read an inspirational poem, "Believe in Yourself."

Trish

John T proposed a toast to Toastmasters International.

Christiane presented the first round of Table Topics, with some challenging topics for Annette, Hazel Paul, Peter, Trish , Leesa and Darryl.

Christiane

Hazel - "Who do you take hat off to?"

Paul -"All hat and no cattle" 

Peter - What is the feather in your cap"

Darryl - "Pull rabbit out of hat."

Jonathon had topics for Dan, Monica, John T, Marlene, and our brave guest Lisa. 

Jonathon

Monica - "Can you trust a man in a hat?"

John T - "Are cowboys sexy when they wear a hat?" 

Lisa - "Are hats more important than shoes?"

J.P. and Monica were time keepers.

J.P.

Gail presented her out-going president's address with a recap of some of the highlights of the past year.

Gail

The yearly club awards were announced. The Toastmaster of the Year award which is based points accumulated for educational progress, participation in club events, etc was awarded to Gail and the Most Improved award went to Casey, who has shown amazing progress during the year as well as excellence in her duties as club secretary.  Congratulations Gail and Casey!

Induction of club officers for the coming year was conducted by in-coming Area Director Kirsty.

Kirsty

The new club officers are:

President: Leanne
Vice President Education: Gail
Vice President Membership: Annette
Vice President Publicity: Marlene
Secretary: Christiane
Treasurer: Chris H
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dan
Parliamentarian: Trish

Our new president Leanne presented an inspiring in-coming president's address.

Leanne

Chris conducted a raffle, the prize was a Coles voucher and the lucky winner was Marlene. Yay!

Chris D

Please note it will be 3 weeks until the next meeting, because there were 5 Tuesday in June. Next meeting will be on the 14th July. 

Meeting 1061 "Purple"

What a meeting! We heard 2 Icebreaker Speeches, 2 CC completion speeches, and inducted a new member. Congratulations, Competent Communicators Gokul and JP, and welcome to new member Hazel!

We were also pleased to welcome a guest, Eric.

Our president Gail took on the role as Toastmaster for the evening. She shared some interesting stories about the origin of the colour purple. She also performed the induction ceremony of new member Hazel.  Hazel's mentor will be Casey.

Gail

Hazel

Darryl proposed the toast, since Vaughan (who had been scheduled) was having technical problems.

The Word Master was Hazel. She said that to her, purple is a spiritual colour, so she chose the word "Spirit." It was used frequently during the meeting.

The Round Robin topic, presented by Trish was "What is your favourite colour and Why?" Blue appeared to be the favourite of many. Can you guess Trish's favourite colour?

Trish

Annette presented her Pathways Icebreaker speech. Although Annette has been a Toastmaster for many years, this was her first speech in the Pathways programme. She took us on a journey of her years as a Toastmaster.

Another Icebreaker speech was by Jakob. It was titled "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  He explained that he is bored in jobs that don't challenge his love of learning.

Jakob

Gokul and JP each presented their 10th speech in the Competent Communicator Manual, and earned the title of "Competent Communicator."

Gokul's speech was titled "We are Project Managers" and JP's speech was "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger."

Gokul

JP

 Speech evaluators were John, Monica, Christiane, Peter and Carmy.

John

Monica

Christiane

Peter

Carmy

Time keeper was Chris H.

Chris D was Table Topics Master. He had  purple related topics for Dan, Monica, Liz Wo and Jonathon.

Chris

Dan

Jonathon

The Table topics were evaluated by Liz (UK) and Marlene.

Liz (UK)

Leanne chaired the Business session. Some of the items under discussion were the proposed amendments to Toastmasters Bylaws, Our Change Over meeting and arrangements for face to face meetings in the future.

Leanne

Grammarian Trevor commented on word usage during the meeting and Screen Master Paul commented on the positioning of participants onscreen.

Casey delivered a thorough General Evaluation on the entire meeting.

Casey

The evenings awards went to  Christiane (Best Evaluation,) Jonathon (Best Table Topic,) Jakob (Most Improved,) and JP (Best Speech.)

Award winners 9th June 2020

Our Change Over will be held next meeting, when the new club officers will be installed for the coming Toastmaster year. ( 1 July 2020 -  30 June 2021)   Visitors welcome.