Meeting 949 "Show Time"

August is the month when the Brisbane Show or Ekka is held, so it was a good theme for our meeting.
August is also the month when there are a lot colds and flu going around, so some members were not able to attend the meeting because of sickness or other reasons. I was one of them, so I don't have any photos this time.

I have been told it was a good meeting. This is what the programme looked like. (I have deleted the surnames, because we only use Christian names on this blog.)

Next meeting will be our Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contest. There is still time to enter. Give it a go!

Edupreneur Award for Trish

Congratulations to Trish who has received the National Edupreneur Award in the Professional Speaking Category

The Edupreneur awards recognise those who use training and education as a medium to work with their clients.

Trish

Trish has been a member of Sandgate Tostmasters for the past 20 years and has achieved great things during that time.

To find out more about Trish, visit her website, http://www.patriciaspringsteen.com

Meeting 948 "Winter"

The weather matched the theme of the evening. It was a cold night, but there was a warm welcome for our guests Louise, Annette, Brian, Cass and Michael.

Toastmaster Jim had prepared plenty of quotes and facts about winter and kept us entertained.

Jim

Paul also chose a quote to introduce his Toast to Winter - one from Edith Sitwell.

"Winter is the time for comfort,

for good food and warmth,

for the touch of a friend's hand 

and a talk beside the fire;

it is the time for home."

~Edith Sitwell

Word Master Reza chose the word "Hibernate." The first person to use it was our guest Cass.

Reza

Reza was also Round Robin Master and asked us all to describe the winter holiday of our dreams.


John T presented an uplifting speech "Empathy - Join the Revolution" and gave us some points on how to develop empathy.

John T

Rosanne's speech "Memories of Winter" was a delightful account of some of her father's experiences and escapades in Denmark before he emigrated to Australia.

Roseanne

Jean S presented her second speech, "Not so secret weapon." Jean used the projector to illustrate her speech.

Jean S

Sharyn and Dave read some poems about winter while Jean was setting up.

Maureen had Table Topics for Darryl, Nick, Paul and Steve.
They were, "A Time when you were Caught in Bad in Weather"
"Which do you like best - Summer or Winter?"
"How does the weather affect your attitude?"
and "Do you depend on a weather report, and how do you get it?"

Darryl

Nick

Paul

Steve

Maureen also provided the raffle (as well as supper) The raffle was a bottle each of red and white wine.It was won by Steve.

Maureen

Evaluators of the speeches and table topics were Dave, Peter , Liz and John S.

Dave

Peter

Liz

John S

Tammy's Listening Quiz resulted in some fines. 

Tammy

Lisa was Time Keeper (for the first time), and Marlene was Grammarian. Sharyn conducted the General Evaluation.

Lisa

Sharyn

Award winners of the evening were John S (Best Evaluation,) Jean S (Personal Best,) Jim (Best Contribution,)  John T (Best Speech,) and Steve (Best Table Topic.)

Award Winners 28/7/15

Next meeting will be on the 11th August (the night before Exhibitiion Wednesday,) with the theme "Show Time."

Don't forget to bring your CL Manual and get someone to evaluate your role.

Einbunpin Festival 2015

Rose

 The annual Einbunpin Festival provides a good opportunity to promote our club. As usual we held an information stall and spoke to a lot of people who stopped to find out about Toastmasters.

Jim with Mr M,  JohnT & Amanda

 Jim and his dog, Mr M proved to be a good draw card. Some people stopped to admire him. (The dog, I mean.)

Annette, Nicole & Rose with Charlie Puppy

Leesa took this photo of Annette, Nicole and Rose.

Passing by

 We saw some interesting people.

Tim & Tammy

Tim & Tammy lent us their tent and were there to help set up and pack away. ( As well as other wonderful helpers.)

John T

Congratulations to John T, who coordinated our stall this year and stayed all day.

Thanks to all who helped - Jonathon, Dave, Tammy Tim, John, Steve, Sharyn, Liz, Annette, Rose (and dog), Jim (and dog) Amanda, Marlene and others who dropped by to encourage us.

We collected contact details of people who are interested in coming along to a meeting.We hope to see at least some of them next Tuesday night.

Club Officer Training

Jim, John, Marlene, Tim and Nick

Six of us attended Club Officer Training Day last Saturday. Treasurer Jim, President John T, Vice President Public Relations Marlene, Secretary Tim, Sergeant at Arms Nick, also Vice President Education Steve who had already gone in to the next session when the photo was taken.

I enjoyed the VPPR session very much, because it took the form of a discussion, with everyone taking part.

It was good to catch up with members from other clubs.

Meeting 947 "Rhyme and Reason"

Amanda

Congratulations to Amanda on completing her 10th manual speech and achieving Competent Communicator status! Amanda's speech was titled "Motivation - Advice to my Younger Self and You" which she cleverly addressed to herself at a younger age.

Lisa

Congratulations also to Lisa, on presenting her first speech, (the Ice Breaker) On the map, Lisa showed us Suva where she grew up and took us through some milestone moments in her life.


It must have been the coldest night of the year, but attendance was high for our first meeting of the Toastmaster Year. It was good to see Jean C back again.
We even had guests who braved the cold, Craig, Jeanine and Brian (first time guests) and Paul who has decided to join our club. Welcome Paul!

SAA Nick

It was a night of "firsts." The meeting was called to order by our new Sergeant at Arms Nick and controlled  handed to new president John T.

President John T

Toastmaster Dave (the Bard of Brisbane) was well prepared with poems and entertaining ryhmes.

Toastmaster Dave

New member Tim H read the Mission Statement and proposed a toast to "The French and their Many Merits."  (It was Bastille Day.)

Toast by Tim H

Our other newest member Tammy was Word Master and chose a word of french origin, "Cliche."

Tammy

 Round Robin Master Liz invited us to tell what Nursery Rhyme held special meaning for us.

Liz

 Trish drew her Table Topics from  the poem "Success" by Ralph Waldo Emerson and had some thought provoking questions for  Marlene, Maureen, Nicole, Sharyn and Steve.

Success

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded." 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maureen

Sharyn

Nicole

Steve

The third prepared speech of the evening was a roast by Annette, who roasted Trish and emphasised Trish's passion for purple and her collection of unicorns.

Annette roasted Trish

Evaluators were Roseanne (Table Topics eval) John T, Darryl and Tim G. It was Darryl's and Tim's first time as evaluators.

Rosanne

John T

Darryl

Tim G

Time keeper Terry

Steve's raffle was a combination of poetry and chocolate and was won by Dave.

Dave won the raffle

Harry 

Harry's Listening Quiz resulted in a few fines and a better under understanding of the meeting.

 Sharyn acted as Grammarian and had some good tips.

More first timers, were Rose as Chairman of the business session and Jim as General Evaluator.

Rose

Jim

The evenings awards went to John T (Best Evalluator tie,) Lisa (Persoal Best,) Dave (Best Contribution,) Darryl (Best Evalluator tie,) Sharyn (Best Table Topic,) and Annette (Best Speech.)