Meeting 919 "All Creatures Great and Small"

It was good to have our President Liz We back from her trip.

Sharyn was Toastmaster, looking great in her theme related dress. Did you notice it had creatures printed on it?

Sharyn

Creatures great & small

Our previous guests guests, Malcolm and D'sley were welcomed back, also a mystery gentleman who arrived during the meeting and sat for a few minutes before announcing he had walked into the wrong place and promptly left!

Round Robin Master Pam invited us to tell about a pet we have had. There were many amusing stories, and it seems that most of our members own a dog or cat.

Peter, who has just returned from New Zealand, had some Table Topics about New Zealand animals for for Annette, Jim, Amanda and Liz We.

Annette

Jim

Liz We

They were evaluated by Marlene and Inge. This was Inge's first attempt at evaluating.

John S

John S presented a speech titled "Hear, Hear!" about the difficulties experienced by the hearing impaired.
Some of the suggestions he made for us were,
Speak clearly, don't shout.
Speak face to face, don't turn away when speaking.
Don't keep repeating the same phrase word for word, try using alternate words.

We used the "Buddy" system of evaluating - a new evaluator was teamed with a more experienced one. Leesa and Jim made an excellent team.

John T

John T's speech was "Are We Still a Weird Mob?" an entertaining look at the quirks of Australians.

Amanda & Nick

Amanda and Nick made another great evaluation team. It was Nick's first evaluation.

Hollie

Other first timers were our Time Keepers Maureen and Hollie. Neither had performed the task before. They kept the meeting running on time.

In the absence of our third speaker, (Get well soon Trish!) Marlene presented an educational session on the duties of a Vice President Education. (Clink link for transcript.) Club Officer elections will be held in May and we are expecting to be inundated with volunteers for the job!

Annette chaired the business session and guided us skilfully through some motions and amendments. The main business items discussed were,
 Change Over Dinner on the 24th June,
 Information Stall at the Einbunpin Festival on the 27th July,
 40th Anniversary Dinner on the 12th August.

Maureen

Maureen's raffle, a bag of goodies, including  DVD's , books, cup and coasters was won by one of our guests, Malcolm.

President Liz We conducted the General Evaluation, then presented the evenings awards to Annette (Best Table Topic, John T (Best Speech,) Amanda & Nick (Best Evaluation,) Jim & Hollie -tie (Personal Best,) and Sharyn (Best Contribution.)

Winners 8th April 2014

Don't forget to update your details on our progress chart when you have completed a project.

Progress Chart

Meeting 918 "Books"

Toastmaster Annette

We welcomed guests Darryl, Malcolm and D'sley.
Toastmaster Annette was prepared with quotes and information related to the theme "Books."
Hollie presented a toast to Anti Bullying.

Inge presented a quote from Albert Einstein, " I never think of the future, it comes soon enough."

Round Robin Master Tilly asked "What is your favourite book and which character do you relate to?"
Some of the favourite books mentioned were, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "Notes from a Small Island," "Christine," "Jane Eyre," The Rosie Project," "Tangled," Divided in Death," "The Hobbit," "Where's Wally," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Game of Thrones," "Simon Winchester" (author,) "Dick Francis," "Gone with the Wind," etc.

Jim and Liz Wo had book related Table Topics for Pam, Jonathon, Marlene, Tilly, Dave and Inge.

TT Master Jim

Tilly

Dave

Inge

Jonathon

The Table Topics were evaluated by Liz Wo and John T.

John T

Liz Wo

Pam presented her Icebreaker speech "Confidence or Bravado?" and was evaluated by Liz Wo.

Pam

  Nicole gave a Power Point presentation on " Being the Treasurer." It was evaluated by Jonathon.

Nicole

Sharyn presented an Educational Session on evaluations. 

Sharyn

Dave reviewed one of his favourite books, "The Alice behind Wonderland" by Simon Winchester. He also gave us a rendition of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky."

John T brought a selection of books for his raffle. There were several lucky winners, who chose two books each. Thanks John. I have just finished reading "Gone Girl" if anyone wants to borrow it.

Yippee, I won 2 books!

Grammarian Marlene commended members on their use of words and explained when to use "Was" and "Were" in sentences such as "If I were you" and "If I was available."  (See accu-assist.com  for explanation.)

John S

John S gave a thorough evaluation of the entire meeting and Past President Annette presented the evenings awards to Tilly (Best Table Topic,) Jonathon, (Best Evaluation) Pam, (Best Speech - tie, and Personal Best,) Nicole (Best Speech - tie) and Annette, (Best Contribution.)

Winners 25 march 2004

Thanks to Time Keepers Jim and Nick the meeting finished on time. 

President Liz We will be back next meeting.

Meeting 917 "Green"

Busy, busy week. The pictures will have to tell the story this time. Thanks to Jonathon who took most of the photos.

Toastmaster Nicole.

Wordmaster Robert
The word was "Patrick."

Ice Breaker speech by Hollie
"Taking Off."

Hollie relaxes 

Area Governor Sharyn

Speech Evaluator Tilly

Raffle Master Trish
A bag of green things

Speech by Maureen
"Fear - what is it?"

Jokemaster Jim

General Evaluator Amanda

Annette(Best Eval,) Nicole(Best Contribution,)
Hollie (Best Speech & Paersonal Best,) Sharyn (Best Table Topic.).

We are sorry that Robert is resigning due to health problems.

All the best to Annette who is competing in the Evaluation Contest at the Metro Division Contest on the 22nd March. Also to Trish who is competing in several contests on behalf of her other club, Chermside Communicators.

Please remember to bring your Semi Annual Fee next meeting if you haven't already paid it.

Meeting 916 "Summer Blues"

  John T
Competent Communicator

Congratulations to John T on completing the final project in the Competent Communicator Manual! His speech, "Living a good Life and the Happiness Trap" was an inspiration to us all.

Another successful Toastmaster was Trish, who completed the Advanced Manual, "Speeches by Management." Trish asked us to imagine we were residents of the small town, "Kickatinalong" who were concerned about the introduction of a MacDonald's restaurant  in  the area. Trish skilfully and diplomatically handled the questions and objections that were raised.

Trish

The speeches were evaluated by John S and Marlene.

Liz Wo

We are thinking of holding an Interpretive Reading Contest soon, so Liz Wo gave us a an entertaining demonstration of Interpretive Reading with a selection from  "Not Another Book about Italy."

You can find tips on Interpretive Reading in our online handbook.

 In keeping with the theme, Toastmaster Dave had prepared quotes and poems about summer.

Hollie's Round Robin was, " What will you miss most when summer is over." The answers were varied - some will miss the summer activities, while others will glad when the heat has ended.

Inge had Table Topics for Tilly, Maureen and Leesa.

"If your doctor ordered more exercise, what kind of exercise would you choose?"
"Would you prefer to get your exercise at the beach, or in a shopping centre?"
"How would you entertain children in Summer?"

Tilly's Table Topics for Nick, Nicole and  Pam were phrases:

"If I could I would...."
"I should have, but I didn't...."
"When I think blue..."

Inge

Tilly

The Table topics were evaluated by Annette and Maureen.

Annette

Maureen

Everyone enjoyed a chat during the break and sampled the biscuits supplied by Nick.

Time for a break

'Sharyn's raffle was a cold pack, full of summer treats and was won by Liz Wo.

Grammarian Jim commented on our use of words and grammar and  Leesa gave an evaluation of the entire meeting.

JIm

Leesa

Our guests Darryl, June, Lynn and  Malcolm said they had enjoyed  the meeting.

The evening's awards went to John T (Best Speech,) Nick ((Personal Best,) John S (Best Evaluator,) Dave (Best Contribution,) and Nicole (Best Table Topics.)

Award winners 25 Feb 2014