Meeting 1097 Christmas Break Up

 What a fun night our Christmas Break Up meeting was! There was so much laughter!

The Round Robin conducted by Dan "What was your worst Christmas gift?" was one of the funniest ever. 

Dan - Round Robin

Dana & Josh

Christane & Shane

We had a short speech by John which was a report on our successful District 69 50th Anniversary Dinner. 

John - Level 5 Speech

Tony - introduced speech

Trish conducted a heads or tails Christmas Trivia Quiz.  

Trish - Trivia Quiz

There was a Photo Quiz by Christiane, who had collected childhood photos of us all. 

Christiane - Photo Quiz

Who is it?

Can you guess?

And a Christmas Supper.

Lots of yummy food.

We had a Secret Santa and finished with Table Topics. 

Peter S

Arun

Hazel

Paul

Chris

Gail

Peter D & Trish

Narelle

Gokul

Three lucky people won the Christmas Hampers.

We were completely "whelmed" by it all. There, I used Gail's word for the evening!

Merry Christmas Everyone! We'll be back on the 25th January 2022.

Those present - thanks to Shane for taking photo.

District 69 50 years Anniversary

 A Celebratory Dinner was held at Komo Function Rooms, Redcliffe, in recognition of 50 years since District 69 was formed.

Golden decorations

Hazel, Leanne, John T. Josh, Marlene, Liz and Peter

President Trish warmly welcomed dignitaries from District and other Clubs and control was handed to M.C. for the evening, Leanne.

Trish

Leanne

Christiane provided the Toast to District 69, followed by a response by District Director Robert Green.

Christiane

Robert

The Invocation was presented by Marlene.

Marlene

To relax the mood a Round Robin based on the theme of "What did you win Gold for, or wish you could win Gold for". Many revealing aspects of Members and guests desires were disclosed.

Hazel

Following a delicious dinner, Liz introduced Guest Speaker John Scouller, who is a Charter Member of Sandgate Club. John had many amusing anecdotes about the history and his involvement in all things Toastmasters.

Liz

John S.

A contest was held for Best Dressed (in Gold theme). The winner was Denise from Bracken Ridge Club.

Golden Girl Denise

John T. conducted Toppo's Toastmasters' Trivia Quiz to test our listening skills.

John T.

To round off the evening, Gokul was Table Topics Master with Gold themed questions.

Gokul

Gail, Hazel and Chris

Robert, Trish and Peter

Ted

Vaughan

Liz, John T and Marlene

Leanne and John S.

Tony

Leesa

Arun

Mumta

Monica

A Group photo was taken for posterity.

Thank you to John T. for organising the event, as well as Leanne and many other Toastmasters who contributed to a successful evening.

Meeting No. 1096 - Salt

 Josh once again made an entertaining start to the Meeting with jokes about salt.

Josh

President Trish handed control to the Toastmaster of the evening, Peter. As Toastmaster Peter guided us through the program with many interesting facts about salt, it's history, uses and how it is an essential part of our everyday life.

Peter

A Toast was presented by JP to "All the salt miners around the World".

JP

Word Master Ted gave us the very simple and useful word of "Favourite". This unknowingly favoured John T. as he had the very same in a box of chocolates as part of the Raffle.

Ted

Monica gave the Round Robin segment and posed the question "Who is your Salt of the Earth Person?"

Monica

Trish gave an Educational Session on Evaluations which was very instructive and the hand-out is great as a reference for the future Meetings. 

Trish

Evaluator Hazel introduced Vaughan's Ice Breaker entitled "Full Circle". 

Vaughan

Hazel

Christiane used the Pathways "Understanding Your Leadership Style" speech which was introduced by Josh and titled "The Leader Leads but what does the Follower do?

Christiane

Timers Tony and Arun provided the Evaluators with the Speech Times, as well as keeping the Meeting on time during the entire Meeting. A good team effort.

Tony and Arun

The Raffle was sold by John T and lucky winner was Narelle.

John T.

Table Topics, all on the theme of salted foods and salt comparisons, were presented by Liz and Marlene. Speakers were Gokul, Monica, JP, Tony, Liz and Arun.

Liz

Gokul

Chris H.

Their Evaluators Chis H. and Narelle gave good feedback points. Well done Narelle for your first Table Topics Evaluator role.

The General Evaluation of the entire Meeting was very ably captured by Gail.

Gail

Both John T. and Marlene gave updates regarding the Celebration Dinner on 30th November and the end of year Break-up Meeting requirements.

Awards:

Best Speech - Christiane, Best Evaluator - Narelle, Best Table Topic - Tony, and Most Improved - Vaughan.

Christiane, Narelle, Tony and Vaughan