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Area 8 Conference 2014

Area 8 Conference 2014

Congratulations to Trish, on winning both the Table Topics and Evaluation Contests!

Trish - winner of 2 contests

First Place

Humorous Speech Contest
photo by Kris

International Speech Contest - all great speeches.

Guest Speaker Paul Timms

Nicole & John T enjoy lunch

Yummy food

Preeta (Peninsula Club)

Thanks to Preeta & her team who prepared the food after our caterers had a fire in their kitchen.

Jan & Kris (Peninsula Club)

Lenore & Narda (past members of our club) came to support contestants.

Peter V, Marlene, Peter D
(Thanks to Kris for photo)

Area Governor, Jenny

Well done, Area Governor Jenny and all who took part. It was a wonderful day!

Meeting 932 "Witches and Wizards"

Liz, Marlene, Nicole, Amanda and Leesa.

The meeting had a Halloween theme and many members dressed accordingly. Dave was Toastmaster.

Word Master Nick

Rose had prepared Halloween themed Table Topics for her "victims, Maureen, John S, Darryl, Amanda, Annette and Leesa.

   

Maureen

John S

Darryl

Amanda

Annette

Leesa

Peter D and Nicole evaluated the Table Topics.

Peter D

John T

 John T's speech "Suffering from Foot and Mouth Disease" completed "The Entertaining Speaker" manual. He's half way to his ACB!

It was evaluated by Amanda.

John S

Rose

Raffle Master John S offered us the chance to win 21 Million Dollars. Rose won the rafle - let's hope she wins the 21 Million!

Trish

Trish presented on Educational Session on debating and called on Annette, Dave, Liz and Sharyn to demonstrate.

Annette

Sharyn

Liz

Dave

 D'sley conducted a Listening Quiz and Liz was General Evaluator.

Thanks to Time Keeper Tim, the meeting finished on time.

The evenings awards went to John T (Best Speech,) Maureen (Best Table Topic,) Nicole (Best Evaluator,) Dave (Best Contribution,) and Peter D (Personal Best.)

Winners 28 Oct.

We are Select Distinguished!

President Nicole with our new ribbon

Our club has attained Select Distinguished status in the Distinguished Clubs Programme. 

The Distinguished Club Program (DCP) is a recognition program administered by Toastmasters International. It tracks the progress of clubs in meeting educational and membership goals each year. 

President NIcole was proud to display the new ribbon for our banner.

Meeting 931 "The Sixties"

The Sixties - from Rock to Woodstock" was the theme of our meeting. Our Toastmaster of the evening Peter V was well prepared with recordings of songs from the Sixties.

Peter V

Rose proposed the Toast to "Toastmasters - strong in the Sixties, even better today."

Liz presented the word "Inexorable" meaning not able to be stopped or changed. Liz wore a flared skirt from the sixties, which she could still fit into!

Word master Liz

Round Robin Master D'sleyasked what songs did we like from the sixties. Some were too young to remember the sixties, but everyone had a favourite song, movie, TV show, or event from the sixties.

D'sley

John S

John S had cleverly anticipated the topic and prepared a story from song titles from the sixties, which he has shared a copy.

“I didn’t know what to do with myself” tonight so this meeting is “Good timin” and “I was only 24 hours from Sandgate (Tulsa)” but “Anyone who has a heart” would want to know “What’s new Pussy Cat” and while “These shoes were made for walking” some would “Walk on by” but “You’ll never get to heaven” if you “Make it easy on yourself” and “There is always something there to remind you”. 

So “It’s now or never” and “Everybody’s somebody’s fool” but here is “The twist”; “Don’t let me be

misunderstood” because I have got “Good vibrations” about this meeting. I am sure everyone will be “Happy together” at Toastmasters so no one should be “Lonesome Tonight”.

No doubt it will be a “Hard day’s night” and probably “Only the lonely” won’t be there but ‘Please don’t ask about Barbara”. 

Now everyone except “My Girl” calls me “Big Bad John” even that “Brown eyed Girl” all because “I Started a Joke”. I then said “Something stupid” to “Abraham Martin and John” and they went a “Whiter shade of Pale” and I heard the “Sounds of Silence”. I hope Doris will “Stand by me”. But that is probably not the “Worst that can happen”.

“I’m Sorry” for this Toastmasters but “Everybody loves a Clown”.

The Table Topics were conducted by Darryl and Sharyn with a sixties theme.

Darryl

Sharyn

They were answered by John S, Jonathon, Liz, Rose, Marlene & Leesa.

John S

Jonathon

Liz

Rose

Marlene

Leesa

Nicole

Terry

Nicole and Terry evaluated the Table Topics.


Joke master Dave read a humorous poem.  Leesa presented the raffle - a painting and a large jar of lollies that were popular in the sixties. It was won by Darryl.

Dave

 

Leesa

Two new members, Peter D and Tim presented their Icebreaker Speeches.

Peter D

Tim

They were evaluated by Leesa and John T.

After supper provided by Maureen, Annette conducted the business session. 

Amanda was Timekeeper.

Annette

Amanda

Marlene tested club members listening skills with a quiz, and Jonathon conducted the General Evaluation.

Jonathon

President Nicole asked our guests Reza, Nicole S, Jean and Lisa for comments about the meeting. They all said they had enjoyed it.

The evenings awards went to Jonathon (Best Table Topic,) Tim (Personal Best,) Peter D (Best Speech,) John T (Best Evaluator,) and Peter V. (Best Contribution.)

All male award winners!

Next meeting 28th October. Theme is "Witches and Wizards."

Ring Nicole by the 24th if you want to come to the Area Conference on the 1st November and haven't registered.