Sandgate Toastmasters Blog

Friday 26 September 2014

Meeting 930 Contests

Congratulations to the winners of the Evaluation and International Speech Contests, Trish and Annette. They will compete with five other clubs at the Area 8 Conference on the 1st November at the Eventide Health Campus, Brighton.

Winners Evaluation Contest

Trish came first in the Evaluation Contest, with Annette Second.

Winners International Speech Contest

And Annette came first in the International Speech Contest, with Trish second.

Contest Toastmasters were Nicole and Jonathon.

Nicole & Jonathon

We are very grateful to Area 8 Governor Jenny, Area 3 Governor Noela, and Chris and Dell who came to judge our contests, particularly Dell, who also filled in as test speaker at short notice.

Test Speaker Dell

Chief Judge Chris

Nicole & Noela

Toastmaster John S & Jenny

Toastmaster for the meeting was John S who kept the evening flowing smoothly.

It was good to see our guest Jean back again and also her friend Lisa.

Nicole presented new member Peter D with his membership badge.

Peter received badge

Nick read the mission statement and Tim proposed a toast to "Inspiring Others"

Nick

Darryl

Darryl presented an apt quote by Patricia Fripp, about speaking.

Rafflemaster Maureen was unable to attend, but she took the trouble to ring the hotel and organise a raffle prize of a bottle of wine and a voucher for a meal. Thanks, Maureen!

Rose presented Maureen's raffle. It was won by Leesa.

Rose

Leesa wins raffle

Rose also presented the Round Robin, centering around a bottle of water, and each participant finishing wih the words "and so I thought..."

Round Robin

Area 8 Governor Jenny

Area 8 Governor Jenny told us abut the highlights of the Area 8 Conference in November. We are hoping all our members will attend.

Next meeting will be on the 18th October with a "Sixties - from Rock to Woodstock" theme. Leesa, Jim, Tim & Peter D will be presenting speeches. Remember there will be an extra week before the next meeting, because there are 5 Tuesdays in September.

Thursday 18 September 2014

Tall Tales

Peter D

Toastmasters is like a large extended family and visiting another Toastmasters club is like a visiting another branch of the family.

Our newest member Peter D and I took part in the Healthy Chatterers Club's Tall Tales night recently. We heard some wild tales and it was a lot of fun. Healthy Chatterers is a small Club that would appreciate extra visitors to their meetings any time. They will make you feel part of the family.

Monday 15 September 2014

Meeting 929 "Movies"

Peter dM & Rose inducted by Nicole

Welcome to our new member Peter D & reinstated past member Rose who were inducted by President Nicole at the beginning of the meeting.

Nick filled in for Pam as Sergeant -at-Arms.

Toastmaster Amanda welcomed guests Michael, Sophie, Lisa and Jean.

In keeping of the theme of the meeting, Round Robin Master Leesa asked "What is your favourite move - and why?" The responses varied from science fiction movies to old classical favourites.

Table Topic Master Peter V played recordings of well known movie themes and asked what memories they evoked. John T's topics were also movie related.

John T

The Table Topics were answered by Leesa, Annette, Amanda, Sharyn, Maureen & Tim.

Leesa & Peter V

Annette

Maureen

Tim

Amanda

Sharyn

The Table Topics were evaluated by Jim and Trish.

Nicole

Nicole presented a review of the movie "The Selfish Giant.

Leesa

We had a feast of raffles .Inge had donated a warm scarf & cushion & a box of Malteasers. Marlene brought a DVD movie and Kerry Millard had donated 2 tickets to the Picnic Races on Sunday.

Leesa presented the raffle & the lucky winners were Marlene, Amanda, Sophie and Peter D.

Supper time

We enjoyed the biscuits provided by John T.

Terry

Terry presented his Icebreaker speech and Annette entertained us with a humorous speech, "I Told You So."

They were evaluated by Dave and Sharyn.

The Business Session, chaired by John T proved to be an exercise in moving amendments.

Timekeepers D'sley & Liz were kept busy.

Timerkeepers D'sley & Liz

Quiz time

Toastmaster Amanda conducted a lively movie trivia quiz. Sharyn ran up & down the room with bags of popcorn prizes that Amanda had provided for the winners.

Marlene conducted the General Evaluation and Nicole presented the evening's awards to Amanda (Best Contribution,) Tim (Personal Best,) Annette ( Best Speech and Best Table Topic) and Sharyn (Best Evaluation.)

Amanda, Tim, Annette, Sharyn

Don't forget Semi Annuals are due next meeting, so that Jim can send them before the first October.

Treasurer Jim

Friday 29 August 2014

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.