Another CL for Trish

Trish

Congratulations Trish, on completing another CL Manual. Trish is a Distinguished Toastmaster (which is the highest award in Toastmasters) and has completed many manuals since attaining her DTM status.

Humorous Speech & Table Topics Contest

Trish & Jonathon

Congratulations to Trish and Jonathon, who came first and second in the Table Topics Contest,.
The topic was "It's going to take time." All the contestants seemed to find the topic easy to speak on.

Contestants

Marlene won the Humorous speech contest and  Peter was second.

Peter & Marlene

Contest winners will compete against 5 other clubs at the Area 8 Conference on the 1st November at the Eventide Health Campus, Brighton. (Formerly known as the Eventide Auditorium.)

We were delighted to have guests at our meeting. Peter, Michael, Bruce, Sophie and Jean came for the first time and. past member Rose returned. We also had visitors from other clubs - Chris & Del from Chermside Communicators Rod from Narangba Toastmasters and Cate and Preeta from Peninsula Toastmasters.

Tim was inducted by Nicole

President Nicole inducted our new member, Tim. Tim's mentor will be John T.

Sharyn was Contest Toastmaster.

Sharyn

The contests finished a little earlier than planned, so John T presented a speech, "Math's Magic." and demonstrated how we can amaze our friends with a simple maths trick.

John T

Next meeting will be on the 9th September with the theme "Movies."

40th Anniversary Dinner

District Governor Ian Pinker & Club President Nicole

40 years is really worth celebrating and it was a wonderful evening. We were honoured to have the District Governor, Metropolitan Division Governor and Area Governor to celebrate with us.

District Governor Ian Pinker presented our club with a 40 year patch to display on our banner.

Charter member John S received 40 year badge.

Ian presented a 40 year badger to our charter member, John S. John has held continuous membership in our club since 1974. During that time he has been a District Governor ( his district attained Presidents Distinguished status that year & was the 3rd highest achieving District in the world )  Metropolitan Governor, Area Governor, District Treasurer, Speechcraft Chairman, and District Historian. He has been Club President 4 times and held just about every other club officer position at least once. He is currently our Club Parliamentarian and takes a very active part in our meetings.

Nicole & John S

John S and Nicole cut the Anniversary cake together.

 

Toastmaster Trish - club member for 20 years

Toastmaster Trish conducted the evening with her usual flair.

On behalf of all our members, Trish presented John S with a plaque in appreciation for all he has done for our club.

John S, and other long term members, Annette and Liz Wo recounted some entertaining stories about our club's history and some of their amusing experiences. Others were invited to share some memories.

John S

Annette -  club member for 37 years

Liz Wo - club member for  26 years

.As it was the last time Immediate Past President Liz We would be with us before returning to England, she was presented with a gift from the club. It was a beautiful scarf that Dave's wife Sandy had made. We will miss Liz and hope to see her back in our club sometime in the future.

Nicole & Liz

Liz and her team had organised the evening.

Liz opening gift

Liz's scarf

The floral table decorations were appreciated.  

Table Flowers

Appreciation - or is he still hungry?

Thanks to all who helped to make the evening a successful memorable occasion.  

Some more photos on this page.

Toastmasters at Einbunpin Festival

Trish with the "Mayor"

Annette, Trish, & John T

Sharyn (front) Amanda, Trish & Darryl

As usual, our club conducted an information stall at the Einbunpin Festival this year. Many people stopped to inquire about Toastmasters and were invited to our next meeting on the 26th August - contest night.

Thanks to all who helped, 'specially Trish who organised us & was there all day.

Meeting 926 "Winter"

Jonathon presenting his 10th speech

Congratulations to Jonathan on completing the Competent Communicator Manual!  Jonathon's final speech in the manual was titled "Your Last Day" If you knew this was going to be your last day on earth, what regrets would you have? What would you have done differently? Have you found joy - or have you brought joy? It was an inspiring speech with a challenge for us all. At the completion of the speech, Jonathon received a standing ovation.

Trish evaluated Jonathon's speech.

We always have good meetings - but some of our meeting seem to really sparkle. I think this was one of them.
We were delighted when one of our past members, Rose walked in. She received an enthusiastic welcome. Our other guest Tim, who had been to the previous meeting, had made a special effort & driven a considerable distance to attend.

In deference to the theme "Winter," President Nicole wore her warm scarf and beanie when she opened the meeting.

Nicole

Leesa was Toastmaster and kept things moving along.

Leesa

Word Master Dave had chosen the word "Suserration," meaning a whispering or rustling sound. Annette, Trish, Liz Wo, John T and Leesa managed to use the word during the evening.

Dave

Round Robin Master Amanda asked, "What makes you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside?" Some of the responses were,  hot curry, motivational movies, a cruise, the movie "Frozen," $135 whisky, pets, sincere compliments, grandchildren, cuddling on the couch, etc.

Maureen had Table Topics for D'sley, Amanda, Darryl, Peter, Terry and John S, all with a winter theme.

They were evaluated by Liz Wo.

Maureen

D'sley

Amanda

Darryl

Peter

John S

Liz Wo

Terry

          

Pam presented her second speech, titled "Sticky Consultations." She told us about some of her amusing experiences as a cake decorator and the unreasonable expectations and demands of some of her customers.

Pam

Pam's speech was evaluated by Marlene (that's me), after some confusion when she read out the objectives for speech 3 instead of speech 2, which made the introduction almost as long as the speech. 

Some advanced Toastmasters like to repeat the basic Competent Communicator Manual to hone their skills. This is what Annette is doing. She presented the first project in the book "The Ice Breaker"" with a speech "Growing up in Brighton." Many of us who grew up in the same era were able to identify with Annette's speech.

John T evaluated Annette's speech

Annette

John T

Inge kept everyone in suspense as she groped into a big bag, and after pulling out layers of newspaper, revealed the raffle prize - a set of Country and Western CD's and a fleecy rug. It was won by Trish, who was just as thrilled with the bag as she was with the contents.

Inge's raffle

Nick assisted  Sergeant at Arms Pam by collecting the votes.

Malcolm, Jim, Nick

Malcolm revealed himself as the Mystery Toastmaster and commented on the friendly welcome from everyone.

Grammarian John S commented on our use of language and the prevalence of "Ums."
General Evaluator Nicole had some commendations and helpful advice.

Awards went to Trish (Best Evaluator,) Peter (Best Table Topic,) Leesa (Best Contrubution) Jonathon (Best Speech,) and Pam (Personal Best.)

Winners 22nd July 2014

The next meeting will be on the 26th August, which is a contest night.

Our 40th Anniversary is on the 12th August & will be a special catered event.

Coming events

Would you like to judge Toastmasters Contests? Or if you are entering a contest,  find out what the judges will be looking for? Come along to the judges Training Day. 30th August. HACC Training Room, Hamilton Rd, Chermside.

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It's not too early to register for the Area 8 Conference on the 1st November. Eventide Health Campus, Brighton. (Formerly known as the Eventide Auditorium.)

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Catching up with old Friends

Bing, Narda, Annette, Lenore, Marlene

Remember our old frends, Bing, Narda & Lenore? Annette and I joined them recently to celebrate Bing's 30 years in Australia

Metro Club Officer Training 2014/2015

Sandgate's new Club Officers, gaining points for our DCP, we are a keen, mean and awesome team.

I attended the VPM session and enjoyed the 'speed dating' at the beginning, it built great rapport between the participants and was fun and entertaining. Thank you to Monica for her informative session. Thanks also to Kevin who was the group photographer.

Sharyn

Overcoming My Fear - Toastmasters Icebreaker Speech

This speech has been a long time coming ... in fact, it all started back in 1999 when an article about Sandgate Toastmasters in the Bayside Star newspaper inspired him to overcome his fear and become better at public speaking.
In 2008, he nearly made it once again to a meeting ... but now in 2014, there's no stopping him.

"I'm raw, I'm green, but I'm enthusiastic and energetic! And I'm ready to get up that learning curve. Just being here, I feel like I've won half the battle" 

 

Meeting 925 8th July "Vive La France."

President Nicole

Our new president Nicole handled her new role with great aplomb. She opened the meeting then proceeded to inducted club officers Sharyn and Marlene who had not been present at the Changeover Dinner.
Marlene was also presented with her 20 year badge and 100 percent attendance award.

Timekeeper keeper Terry looked very French in his beret. (Sorry, I didn't get a photo.) He was assisted by D'sley who was performing the role for the first time.

Round Robin Master Inge asked us for our favourite quote. They ranged from amusing to profound.

 Amanda had prepared pictures of popular tourist attractions in France as a theme for her Table Topics.
They were evaluated by Annette.

Darryl

Darryl presented his Ice Breaker speech and spoke about his long-time fear of public speaking. He hid his fear very well. Trish evaluated Darryl's speech.

Jim

 Jim's speech was an entertaining story about losing a bag containing all his money, keys and important documents while holidaying in France. It was evaluated by Jonathon.

John T

John T presented a speech  about  "Mythconceptions" and explained why some common held beliefs are just myths. It was evaluated by John S.

The Business Session was capably chaired by Dave.

Dave

Maureen's raffle was popular. Can't remember who won it!

General Evaluator Sharyn and Grammarian Liz We had some helpful suggestions.

Sharyn

Our guest Tim said he had enjoyed the meeting and we are looking forward to having him back next time.

Nicole presented the evenings awards to Darryl (Best speech and Personal Best) Maureen (Best Table Topic) Marlene (Best Contribution) & Jonathon (Best Evaluation.)