Change Over Meeting 25th June 2024

Change Over Programme

The Toastmaster year is from 1st July until 30th June the following year, so this was the final meeting before beginning our new Toastmaster year.    

Suresh, Kirsty
David, Suzanne

 

Special Guests were Outgoing Moreton Division Director Suresh,  

Incoming Moreton Division Director Kirsty, 

Outgoing Area Director Suzanne 

and Incoming Area Director David.

Gail

In her Outgoing Club President's speech, Gail H spoke about the main events of the past TM year, including our recent 50th Anniversary celebrations, the speech contests and Conferences, and our participation at the Einbunpin Festival. She mentioned that our club has achieved the President Distinguished level (the highest ranking) and she thanked all members for their support and hard work.

Carmy

Carmy presented a brief history of Toastmasters International and its founder Ralph Smedley in 1924 then she proposed a toast to "Toastmasters International."

Narelle presented the Round Robin warm up session, inviting us to speak for 20 seconds on personal growth - particularly through travelling. This resulted in some hilarious travel tales. 

Trish

Trish delivered an Invocation, with a beautiful Irish blessing. "May you have enough..."

Helen conducted a short business session. The main items for discussion were changing the signatories for the club's bank account and our information stall at the upcoming Einbunpin Festival.

Helen

Chris

Raffle Master Chris enticed us with a selection of items to combat the chill of winter .

It was won by Helen.

Raffle prize

Instead of our usual Changeover Dinner this year, (because we had recently had our 50th Anniversary Dinner) we had pizza for supper and an extended time for socializing. The pizza was so delicious that there were just a few pieces left when the incoming VPPR remembered to take a photo.

Yum!

With pineapple - yay!

Back in the meeting, Outgoing Area Director Suzanne dismissed and thanked the outgoing Club Officers.

Suzanne

David

Incoming Area Director David presented an inspiring speech and inducted the new Club Executive members. Helen (President) Narelle (SAA,) Will (Treas) Gail H (IPP) Marlene (VPPR) John (VPM.)

Christiane (VPE) was unable to be present.

Executive Team 1st July 24 - 30th June 25

Trophies were presented to the "Most Improved" Toastmaster" and "Toastmaster of the Year"

Trophies

"Most Improved" is decided by vote by the outgoing and incoming Executive Teams and was awarded to Carmy.

Gail with Carmy (Most Improved)

"Toastmaster of the Year" is decided by points earned during the year within the club as well as participating in other Toastmasters events. It was awarded to Gail H. 

(TM of the Year) Gail receiving trophy from Helen 

 Gail had also achieved 100% attendance.

 David presented our club with a certificate of congratulations "for 50 years of continuous service."

David and Helen

Helen

Helen presented an inspiring Incoming President speech. She is full of good ideas for the incoming year.

Jonathon had some thought-provoking Table Topics for Arun, John T, Shaun, Kirsty, Peter, Rosie, Will, and Marlene to complete the evening.

Jonathon

John T

Peter

Arun

Kirsty

Shaun

Rosie

Will

Marlene

The meeting was closed by new President Helen.

 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 9th July.

Club Officer Training will be held on Saturday 13th July.

Meeting 1153 "Changes"

"Changes" was an appropriate theme chosen by John for the meeting, because we are nearing the end of our Toastmaster year and will soon have a new Executive team. We also had some unexpected changes to our meeting programme. 

S.A.A Helen called the meeting to order and President Gail opened the meeting.

Helen

Gail

Toastmaster of the evening John had some inspiring quotes to start the meeting on a high note. 

Tracey presented the toast, "Embracing change and endless possibilities."

John

Tracey

Wordmaster Peter had a new challenge for us - to avoid the word "learnings" with a penality of 2 points if used and 1 point gained for using the words "lessons" "learned" "insights" and "wisdom."

Peter

Russell

Russell presented the Round Robin warm up session with the question, "Who would you like to change places with for one day?" Some of the answers were, Shakespeare, Helen Keller, a Tour Guide, Taylor Swift, David Attenborough, and Jonathon's cat George.

In the absence of two prepared speakers on the programme, John rose to the occasion and presented one of his humorous speeches from a past meeting, "How John Saved Brighton" and Helen gave an impromptu speech on "Changes."

John

Helen

John's speech was evaluated by Will. (Will's first time as Evaluator) and Helen's speech was evaluated by Gail H. 

Will

Gail H

Marlene presented an Educational Session on "When you are Table Topics Master."

Her main points were: 

Keep the topic questions brief. No more than one simple sentence.

Give topics to member without a meeting role or with a minor role before calling on those with a major role.

Have easy topics for new members.

Arun was the Timekeeper.

Arun

Raffle Master Will offered a generous voucher for a meal at The Full Moon Hotel and was kept busy selling tickets during the supper break. 

Thanks to Peter for the delicious supper.

Helen & John enjoying supper

Peter provided supper

This was followed by a Table Topics session run by Amy (Her first time as TT Master.) 

Amy

Her topics were :

"What childhood trend or fashion would you like to bring back?" Narelle

"What childhood superstition or belief did you have?" Marlene

"Advice to your younger self" Peter.

"What in your childhood do you wish you could make come back?" Gail H

"What is a favourite childhood memory and what makes it special?" Tracey

"What was the most embarrassing thing you did as a child?" Will

"What did you do as a kid and wish you could still do?" Jonathon

Can't remember what Arun's topic was.

Tracey

 

Arun

Will

Jonathon

Peter

The Table Topic Evaluators were Gail W and Helen.

Gail W

Helen

Jonathon gave a thorough evaluation of the entire meeting.

Jonathon

The lucky winner of Will's raffle was Arun.

Marlene conducted a quiz to see how well everyone had been listening during the meeting. 

Award winners of the evening were Helen (Best Speech,) Jonathon (Best Table Topic,) Amy (Most Improved,) and Will (Best Evaluation.)

Award Winners 11 June 2024

Next meeting on the 25th June will be our Changeover meeting when the new club officers will be inducted. Instead of a dinner this year (because we recently had one for our 50th Anniversary) we are going to have a longer supper break with pizza.
 
Club Officer Training will be held on the 13th July at the North-East Baptist Church, Nundah. 

Meeting 1152 "Laughter is the Best Medicine"

 We always  have a laugh at our meetings, but this one was especially dedicated to laughter. Our Toastmaster of the evening Chris had chosen the theme "Laughter is the Best Medicine." He was equipped with plenty of jokes and funny stories.

Chris

Marlene proposed a toast to "The gift of Humour."

In the absence of our Word Master, Rosie came up with the word "Eloquence" (not "elephants" as someone thought she had said) and it was eloquently used at least once by most members. Trish managed to use it 14 times!

There were more laughs when Marlene introduced the Round Robin, inviting everyone to share something that had made them laugh.

Rosie

Trish

George

Gail W presented an amusing speech titled "Hutcheson Street." As she described them, we could easily picture the characters who had inhabited the street where she grew up. This speech completed Level 1 of the Presentation Path that Gail is working on. It was evaluated by Peter.

Gail W

Peter

John's speech "The Perils of Long-Haul Flights" was another laugh provoking action filled speech.

It was the " Know Your Sense of Humour" project from the Motivational Strategies path.

Paul evaluated John's speech.

John

Paul

The timekeeper was Carmy. 

Carmy and Paul

John provided the raffle, consisting of  a bottle of Rosette wine, Chocolates, Scratchit Tickets and a book on Public Speaking  by Ralph Smedley. The lucky winner was Jonathon.

Supper provided by Arun and Tracey was enjoyed by all.

Supper (Gail & Trish in foreground)

A short Business session was held by President Gail H to ratify the new executive members and to elect a President for the coming Toastmaster year. (1st July 2024 - 30th June 2025)

Helen was elected as President.

Helen - Our incoming President

Other positions are: 

Vice President Education - Christiane

Vice President Membership - John T

Vice President Public Relations - Marlene

Secretary - Gail H

Treasurer - Will

Sergeant-at-Arms - Narelle

The merriment continued with Table Topics selected by Jonathon for Marlene, Tracey, Peter D, Gail W, Rosie, John T, Paul and Trish.

1. What is the funniest thing you've ever heard a child say?

2. Describe the funniest thing you have seen on social media.

3. Imagine you've just been involved in a funny incident at supper tonight. Tell us about what happened.

4. Brisbane council has decreed that all residents must laugh out loud for 5 minutes each day. Are you for or against this and why?

5. If you were a stand up comedian, what would your act be about?

6. You've been granted a comical super power. What is it and how would you use it?

7. Sometimes a catastrophe is funny after the fact. What's something that went horribly wrong for you , that hindsight has made amusing?

8. What is the most ridiculous fashion trend you've ever tried?

Peter

Gail W

Rosie

Jonathon

Trish

They were evaluated by Arun.

Arun

 Helen  presented an evaluation of the entire meeting. She reminded us to stay at the lectern to hand control to the next speaker and demonstrated this by staying to hand control back to Toastmaster Chris.

President Gail presented the awards to the winners for the evening: Tracey (Most Improved,) Arun (Best Evaluation,) Trish (not in photo - Best Table Topic,) and John (Best Speech.)

Award Winners 28th May.

Next meeting: Tuesday 11th June.