Meeting 953 "Super Heroes"

What a super meeting it was! Everyone made a super effort. Some even dressed up.

Super Heroes
John S, Leesa, Marlene Amanda & Sharyn

"When I say 3, jump in the air"

Harry couldn't resist taking a selfie.

The INTREPID Wordmaster John S

Super Girl Amanda 

Amanda had put a super effort and a lot of preparation into her role as Toastmaster.

Lisa's Table Topics about Super Heroes evoked some imaginative responses.

Tim

Liz

John S

 Super John T  in action

They were so entertaining, I forget to take photos of  the other four participants. New member Annette W gave an amazing response to her Table Topic.

The Table Topics were evaluated by Steve and Dave.

There were three super speeches. 

Jonathon is working through the Story Telling Manual, and he presented a story about "The Golden Rule."

Rosanne's speech was appropriate for the meeting's theme. She spoke about "Super Heroes - They're all around us."

Rose, who is working through the High Performance Leadership course, delivered a stirring speech, "It's Showtime!"

Sorry, the photographer was too engrossed to take photos of the speakers!

Evaluators were Marlene, Darryl and Steve.

Darryl

Steve

The Business session was conducted by Rose. The main topic under discussion was the cake which we have decided to purchase for next meeting, to celebrate Toastmasters International's 90th Anniversary.

Chairman Rose & Toastmaster Amanda

Grammarian Maureen was called on to "tell us if we have done our grammar okay." Maureen commented on the improvement she has seen in members because they are now using more pauses instead of fillers.

Maureen

Maureen also provided the raffle, which was won by Liz. 

After the Listening Quiz, conducted by Reza and Timers Report by Paul, Harry evaluated the entire meeting.

Paul - Time Keeper

Reza Quiz Master

Harry - General Evaluator

President John T presented the evenings awards to Steve (Best Evaluator,) Jonathon (Best Speech,) Annette W (Best Table Topic AND Personal Best,) and Amanda (Best Contribution.)

Award Winners 13 Oct 2015

Hey, its only 2 weeks to the Area 8 Conference. If you haven't registered yet, contact our Treasurer Jim. 

Don't miss it!

Meeting 952 Interational & Eval Contests



Contest nights are always exciting.

 

Preheat, Chris, Del, Sharney, Jenny

Thanks to the. Judges - Preeta, Chris, Del, Sharkey and Jenny for giving their time and skills.



Test speaker Rod

And to our test speaker Rod for telling and showing us that "Bowls is a really great game."

Trish & Jenny

Meeting Toastmaster Trish kept the evening flowing smoothly.

SAA Nick

Jim

Sergeant at Arms Nick called the meeting to order and Jim proposed a toast to "The Spirit of Competition." 



 The Contest Toastmasters were Rose and John T.

Rose



John T

The Contestants were all interviewed.

John S

Dave

Harr

Reza

Steve

Annette

and the winners announced.....

Harry & Annette

 Harry won the International Speech Contest with Annette coming second.

Reza, Annette & Steve

Place getters in the Evaluation contest were Annette in first place, Steve second and Reza third.
It was Reza's first ever evaluation. Watch out for him next year!

Congratulations to all! And thanks to the Timers, Ballot Counters and Contest Sergeant at Arms.

Jonathon

   Jonathon  presented the raffle - a sandwich maker  that Rose had donated. It was won by Marlene. (That's me - yippeee!!!)

Remember last meeting, we didn't get a photo of Tammy with the Best Speech Trophy?

Here she is! Congratulations Tammy!

Tammy

                                       

Don't forget, there were 5 Tuesdays in September, so it will be an extra week till the next meeting, on the 13th October. The theme will be Super Heroes and it would be great if you can dress for the part. This might be your only opportunity to wear your undies on the outside!

Meeting 951 "Sports and Sports People"

Darryl

Sports Enthusiast Darryl was in his element as Toastmaster. There were no awkward pauses between segments as Darryl had a continuous supply of  information, stories and jokes abut sporting heroes.

The jokes were appreciated.



That was a funny joke

another one

Nick

Nick chose the word "Commitment" as word of the evening.

Tammy

Harry

Tammy received a standing ovation for her Icebreaker Speech "It's a Dog's Life." She didn't need to use notes as she told us about the special dogs in her life.

It was evaluated by Harry.

Lisa

Jonathon

Lisa presented her second speech. and told us how we can use some simple steps to change our thinking.

Her speech was evaluated by Jonathon. 

John T

Marlene

John T's Impromptu Speech "My Country - Does the Rhyme live up to the Reality?" was evaluated by Marlene.

Dave

Chairman Dave kept the Business Session under control and finished on time.

Table Topics Master Reza was unable to attend, but he had sent his topics, which were presented by Nicole and Jim.  The participants were Jonathon, Lisa, Tim, Darryl, Nick and Annette

Nicole & Jim

 Jonathon - Champion Snufflepopper

Lisa - Inventor of Underwater Football

Tim -Dinner with a Sport Star

Darryl -motivational team leader

Nick - sporting hero

Annette - lessons from sport

The Table Topics were evaluated by Peter and Leesa.

Peter

Leesa

j

Sharyn

Sharyn's Raffle (a bag of goodies) was won by Nicole.

Sharyn also provided supper.

JIm

Jim Conducted a Listening Quiz and collected some fines to swell the coffers.

 Grammarian Annette warned against some common grammatical errors.

Rose

Rose conducted a thorough General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

High Five

At the end of the meeting, Darryl ran around the room giving everyone a high five.

Our guests Annette and William said they had enjoyed the meeting.

 Tammy won the award for best speech, but she had to leave early and missed being in the photo.

Other winners were Nick (Personal Best,) Darrel (Best Contribution,) and Jonathon (Best Table Topic and also Best Evaluation) 

Winners 8 Sept



Meeting 950 TT and Humorous Contests

Annette, Steve, Liz and Peter

Congratulations to the winners of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests.

The Table Topic was "If you could be any age for one week, what age would you choose and why?"

The contestants, Dave, Amanda, Lisa, Steve, Annette and Darryl all had a thought provoking or amusing answer. The winner was Annette, with Steve second.

The Humorous contest was entertaining with some really funny speeches. The winner, Liz took us back into the past with her speech "Enough to Make your Hair Curl." while Peter's speech "I think Therefore I am." with a modern theme  came second. Another funny speech was Steve's "How did I get Here?"

The contest toastmasters were Jonathon and Rosanne.

Thanks to our District Director Jenny and Bunya Toastmasters Marilyn, Miles and Petra for coming to judge our contest.

Mariilyn, Miles and Petra