The Easter weekend had finished, but we continued with an Easter theme at our meeting.
Sergeant-at-Arms Narelle called the meeting to order.
President Helen proposed a toast to "The wonderful Easter weather we have had" and handed control to Toastmaster Paul, who had some humorous stories to tell during the evening.
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| Helen |
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| Paul |
Word Master Arun chose the word "Cohesion" meaning "the state of sticking together or being in close agreement and working well together."
Gail presented the Round Robin and asked what Easter traditions our family had.
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| Arun |
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| Gail |
There were 4 prepared speeches.
In his Icebreaker speech, Robert spoke about his ambition to build a diving room.
Gail speech "What time is it?" was an interesting speech about time.
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| Robert |
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| Gail |
In her speech "I've got the power" Christiane spoke about the role of Vice President Education.
Special guest speaker
Chris R from
Pines Toastmasters delivered the speech he will use in the Humorous Speech contest at the District Conference and received some feedback from our club members.
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| Christiane |
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| Chris R |
Speech evaluators were Peter, Trevor, and Trish. Chris H led the group evaluation for Chris R's speech.
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| Peter |
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| Trevor |
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| Trish |
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| Chris H |
Narelle was Timekeeper.
John presented the raffle which was won by Chris H.
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| John |
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| Raffle Prize |
Christiane and Narelle provided a delicious supper including savoury treats, hot cross buns and chocolate Easter eggs.
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| Supper time |
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| Hot Cross Buns - nearly all gone |
Chris H conducted the Table Topics session, with Easter themed topics for Helen, Peter, Christiane, Trevor, Arun and Trish.
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| Helen |
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| Peter |
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| Christiane |
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| Trevor |
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| Arun |
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| Trish |
The Table Topics were evaluated by Marlene and Christiane.
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| Marlene |
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| Christiane |
Chris H delivered a humorous soapbox rant about Easter buns appearing in the shops too early in the year.
Marlene presented a listening quiz and found that everyone had listened very well.
John gave a General Evaluation of the meeting.
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| Chris H |
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| John |
President Helen presented the evening's awards to Gail (Best Speech,) Trish (Best Evaluation,) Robert (Most Improved,) and Helen (Best Table Topic.)
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| Awards 22nd April 2025 |
We all posed for a photo for the District 69 Banner Parade. Thanks Chris R for taking the photo.
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| Banner Parade Photo |
Next meeting (Extra) 29th April will be a debate (most of us will be learning how to debate) and John will present his Humorous Contest speech for feedback.
At the following meeting we will have an election of club officers for the coming Toastmasters year (1st July 2025 - 30th June 2026.)
