Meeting 1162 "Sports"

President Helen opened the meeting and welcomed our guest, Robert.

Helen

 Toastmaster Paul had chosen "Sports" as the theme of the meeting. 

Trish proposed a toast to "The sportsmanship of Toastmasters and 100 years of Toastmasters." (The very first official Toastmasters club was formed on the 22nd October 1924.)

Paul

Trish

Maddy's word for the evening was "Precocious" meaning "unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development" or "flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit."  

Round Robin Master Narelle invited us to share "What is your favourite sport and were you precocious in it?" The responses were varied and Trish managed to use the word "precocious" 30 times, with Helen coming close behind.

Maddy

George kept everyone enthralled with his amusing speech "The Perils of Art Union Draws." and was evaluated by Trevor.

George

Trevor

A business session was held with Gail W acting as Chairman for the first time. An unexpected business item (the purchase of a cupboard for equipment - would it fit?) involved much discussion. 

Timekeeper Chris reported that the meeting was running well overtime.

Gail W

Chris

Arun presented the raffle - 3 bottles of wine. It was won by Helen.

Arun

 Supper was provided by Chris.

Supper Time

Table Topic Master Liz had topics for Trevor, Arun, Gail H and Helen.

The topics were:

 1. "If you were an Olympian, what sport would you be in?

2. "What does the term "Good Sport" mean to you?

3. "What was your favourite sport at school?"

4. " Are you an armchair or active sports person?"

Liz

Trish and Chris each conducted a special group evaluation session for Christiane and John who will be competing in the speech contests at the Area 8 Conference.

The session was conducted as a Round Robin, with each member offering suggestions and recommendations.

Trish

Chris

Gail H presented an evaluation of the entire meeting.

Gail H

Award winners were Helen (Best Table Topic) and Trevor, Trish and Liz (Triple tie - Best Evaluation.)

Award Winners 22nd Oct 24

Coming Events: 

Tuesday 29th October, Extra meeting (because it's the 5th Tues in the month.) 

Sunday 3rd November, Area 8 Conference, North Lakes Community Centre, North Lakes

Tuesday 12th November, Backwards Meeting.

Tuesday 26th November, Regular meeting.

Tuesday, 10th December, Christmas Break Up.

A Toast to 100 Years: Celebrating Toastmasters' Centennial Journey

Meeting 1161 International Speech and Evaluation Contests

It was a dark and stormy night...

In spite of the bad weather, nearly everyone managed to attend the meeting. Special thanks to our friends from other Toastmasters clubs, Chris, Mark, Suresh, Sue, and Jenny who came to judge the contests, and to David who was Test Speaker for the Evaluation Contest.

David J, Sue, Suresh, David B

Mark

Jenny - Chief Judge

Sorry, didn't get a photo of Chris.

Helen was Contest Toastmaster for the Evaluation Contest, and Gail W was Contest Toastmaster for the International Speech Contest. It was the first time for both of them.

Helen

Gail W

Liz proposed a toast to "Our Contestants - all the best!"

Liz

Test speaker David presented a speech to be evaluated by the participants in the Evaluation Contest.

David

The place getters in the Evaluation Contest were Christiane - First Place, John -Second, and Helen - Third.

Helen, Christiane and John

Participants in the International Speech Contest were Narelle, Christiane, John and Arun.

Speech Contest Participants

Place getters were John- First Place, Christiane - Second, and Narelle- Third.

Christiane, John and Narelle

Contest winners will compete with other Toastmasters clubs at the Area 8 Conference on the 3rd November.

Gail offered a raffle prize of a voucher for The Sands Social Restuarant. She was kept busy selling raffle tickets. The lucky winner was Liz.

Gail selling tickets in raffle

Supper was supplied by John and George.

Chris and John

Gail and Jenny

It was good to have Liz back from England and Trevor from Thailand. And a first-time visitor, Brett.

Congratulations to Jonathon on 15 years membership in our club. 

Next meeting 22nd October.

Meeting 1160 "The Eagles"

 It was another great meeting. We had 5 guests, Peter, Robert, Madonna, Claire, Ray. And a new member! Maddy has joined our club.

President Helen inducted new member Maddy and presented John with a ribbon award for completing level 2 of the Motivational Strategies Path.

Helen inducted Maddy

John recieved ribbon

Toastmaster of the evening Narelle explained that she had chosen "The Eagles" as the meeting theme because she loves the group's music.

Maddy's first role was to propose a toast. She proposed it to "Those who step outside of their comfort zone."

Maddy

George

George chose the word "laughter" as the word of the evening. Although it wasn't used a lot, there was plenty of laughter during the evening.

Round Robin Master Trish invited us to tell what music reminded us of a special event in our lives.

There were 4 prepared speeches by Arun, Helen, Paul and Trish.

Arun

Helen

Paul

Trish

Speech Evaluators were Gail W, Marlene, Christiane and John.

Gail W

Marlene

Christiane

John

Timekeeper Gail reported on the timing of the speeches and evaluations.

Gail W

Tracey

Tracey had brought a raffle, consisting of a mug, coffee, tea, biscuits, cheese, and other snacks. It was won by Marlene.

Supper was provided by Russell and Marlene.

Supper

Supper Break

Russell had prepared some theme related Table Topics for his "victims" who were evaluated by Arun and Paul.

   

Russell

Helen 

Helen had everyone guessing with her "Who am I?" segment.

Marlene delivered an evaluation of the entire meeting.

The evening's awards went to Tracey (Most Improved,) Helen (Best Speech,) and John (Best Table Topic and Best Evaluation.)

Award Winners 24 Sept 2024

There is still time to enter the International Speech Contest and Evaluation Contest to be held at our next meeting on the 8th October.

Meeting 1159 Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contest

 Contest nights are always exciting. President Helen welcomed our guests David (Area Director) Jenny, Suzanne, Chris, Mary, Sue who had come from other Toastmasters clubs as well as Robert (second time visitor) and Robbie (first time visitor.)

Helen

Gail H

Gail H spoke about people who are willing to turn up to take on roles and assist where needed. She then proposed a toast to "The people who do."

Trish was the Contest Toastmaster for the Table Topics contest. There were eight participants in the contest, Russell, Arun, John, Helen, Paul, Tracey, Peter and Christiane. 

Table Topics competitors

The same topic was given to all participants, so those who were yet to take their turn were escorted outside, way out of hearing reach and brought in one by one to answer the question, "What is the best age?"

Contestants waiting their turn

The winners were: First Place, Christiane. Second Place, Helen. Third Place, Arun.

Table Topics place getters

 During the supper break, contestants in the Humorous Speech Contest were briefed by Contest Toastmaster Arun.

Briefing contestants

There were four contestants, Gail W, Peter, John and Christiane.

Humorous Speech Contestants

All four speeches were very humorous and entertaining. 

The place getters were: First Place, Christiane. Second Place, John. Third Place, Peter.

Humorous Speech place getters

Peter offered a tempting raffle prize consisting of four kinds of cheeses, Ritz Cracker biscuits and a bottle of wine. It was won by Arun.

Peter's raffle

Narelle and Trish provided Supper.

Supper Break

Here are some random photos taken before the meeting and during the break. (Click on them to enlarge.)

 

Thank you to the judges, contest participants, Contest Toastmasters, tally counters, S.A.A, time-keepers and all the other "people who do."

Next meeting will be on the 24th September with the theme "The Eagles."