Meeting 1016 - A Day at the Races - Changeover Dinner

Toastmasters put on their best Race Day gear for a night of fun and fabulous food.

President Annette welcomed guests: Area 8 Director Irene, Kirsty's husband Michael, Stephen's Wife Wendy, Steve's Wife Heather, Gail's Husband Brian, and Eileen's Husband Ian.

Annette proudly presented Liz with her 30 year Membership Certificate.
Presentations of badges were made to Leesa and Liz for milestone achievements this year in Club.

Irene and Liz

John was awarded a Triple Crown badge for his achievement of 3 Toastmaster Awards in one year.

John

Steve was the Toastmaster who invited Trish to present the Invocation. Trish chose a key word of "Energy" which is the essence of Sandgate Club.

Steve

Trish and John

The Sandgate Toastmasters Cup 2018 was then conducted by John, with a late entry of Woody the Wonder Horse being declared winner.

A delicious meal of either Lamb Shanks or Salmon was enjoyed by all.

The Round Robin was conducted by Stephen, a tale which began as a day at the Races and progressed to scheming shysters, chopped off fingers, fanciful prancing unicorns, and just proves how imaginative Toastmasters can be.

Stephen

The Raffle presented by Monica and Leesa took on a different format - all the books which were donated were to be offered as lucky draws so that all present went home with a collection of reading matter.

Monica and Leesa

The Toast to "Toastmasters International" was proposed by Eileen, to "Toastmasters International Spirit" and also acknowledging the Outgoing and Incoming Executive Officers.

Eileen

Table Topics - conducted by none other than Darryl - began with a story about winning a trip to Melbourne Cup in 1969 and was continued with each speaker ending with time travel from the future and would Jonathon really be here now.

Darryl

Marlene

Carmy

Casey

Trevor

Paul

Jonathon

Participants included Marlene, Carmy, Casey, Blake, Trevor, Paul and Jonathon, as well as John, Annette and Trish.

Installation of the 2018-2019 Executive was handled very effectively by Irene. Unfortunately Incoming President Christiane was still in Mackay owing to a flight delay.

The duly elected Executive - minus Christiane

Annette had the honour of presentation of Trophies. The 2018 Toastmaster of the Year was awarded to John. Well done John. Most Improved Trophy winner is TBA.

Annette and John

A reminder that there are 3 Meetings in July, as we have another 5th Tuesday.

Annette as Immediate Past President Annette will be acting President in Christaine's absence.

Sandgate Toastmasters - a Day at the Races 2018

Club Officer Training July 2018

Who's coming to Club Officer training? It's free to all Toastmasters whether they hold an executive role or are just interested in finding out more about Toastmasters and what the various roles involve.

Most of the sessions are very interesting and informative. You also get to meet Toastmasters from other clubs.

You will need to register to attend. If you click on this link, it will take you straight to the sign-in page. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/club-leaderofficer-training-moreton-division-tickets-46973124881?aff=clubleadertraining

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Meeting 1015 - To Good Health

Sargent At Arms Chris opened the Meeting and introduced President Annette. Guests David, Lenore, Bing, Sharyn, Trevor and Kevin were warmly welcomed.

Former Toastmasters Lenore and Bing, Toastmaster of the night Jonathon

Jonathon as Toastmaster of the Evening continued with the theme of To Good Health by reminding us that this week is Men's Health Week.

 A Toast to "A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body" was proposed by Marlene.

Marlene

Wordmaster Eileen gave us "Wellbeing" in keeping with the theme.

We were treated to an Impromptu Speech by Leesa entitled "How Toastmasters helped my job in a Call Centre". Trish evaluated and congratulated Leesa on an excellent presentation.

Trish

Gail spoke on "How Breast Cancer has invaded our lives" and this was evaluated by Blake.

Gail

Blake

 Table Topics were presented by Stephen, covering topics about health and well being.

Stephen

 Participants were Christiane (how Australians can be healthier), John (keep away from addictive foods), Sharyn (what is her weakness), Darryl (sport he regrets not taking up in his youth), Trevor (what age old remedy was he given by his grandma), and Eileen (what food would describe you).

Table Topics were evaluated by Karen and John.

Karen

John

The Raffle was a riddle by Liz about how winning this could make you Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
Lucky one was Kirsty.

Liz with the health and wealth giving parsley plant

Casey controlled the timing, providing updates throughout the Meeting.

Casey

 Another Speech by Kirsty titled "Memory" was evaluated by Paul.

Kirsty

Paul

Then the long awaited 10th Speech by Leesa,, entitled "My Hobby". This marks the completion of her Competent Communicator Manual. The speech was evaluated by Annette.

Leesa and her Decorative Art

Annette

The Business Meeting was chaired by first timer Chris, who was thrown a few tricky moments which he handled well.

Chris

Grammarian Liz praised those who used good phrasing, including Jonathon's "Dollops of
Well Being" and Gail's "barbaric, and strict taboo".

The overall General Evaluation was prepared by Carmy and she covered all areas extremely well offering suggestions for improvement and commending segments which were excellent.

Carmy

Awards: Best Speech and Most Improved went to Leesa. Congratulations on a job well done.

Winners are Grinners

       Best Evaluator - Trish, Best Table Topic - John

A reminder that the next Meeting on 26 June is the Change Over Dinner.

Meeting 1014 Speechfest "Brisbane"

The 5th Tuesday of the month is a good time to hold a Speechfest.

Sergeant at Arms Chris opened the meeting. VPE Christiane stood in for President Annette and welcomed everyone to the meeting. It was good to see Darryl back.

Chris

Christiane

Casey proposed the toast.
Toastmaster Blake was well prepared in spite of having to step into the role at  short notice.

 

Casey

Blake

Word Master Carmy presented the word "Sunshine," which fitted well with the theme of "Brisbane" and was used many times during the evening.

Round Robin Master Marlene invited everyone to tell what they liked or didn't like about a suburb of Brisbane that was not their home suburb. Some that were mentioned were Gordon Park, Teneriffe, New Farm, Highgate Hill, Albany Creek, Bundamba, etc. Steve managed to use the word Sunshine several times by talking about Sunshine Train Station.

There were four prepared speeches. Eileen's speech was a fascinating explanation of the difference between Introverts and Extroverts - and those in between eg. extroverted introverts, and ambiverts.  It was evaluated by Gail.

Eileen

Gail

There was much laughter when Paul told some funny stories about the different stages his children have gone through, and how they are growing up so fast. 

Paul

         

                                                                                     Audience reaction

  

Paul's speech was evaluated by Marlene

Chris told how as a fire fighter,  he teaches school children what to do in case of fire. He demonstrated how they should cover their face with their hands and roll on the floor or ground if their clothes catch on fire, and how to get down low below the smoke level where there is better visibility to escape a house fire.

Carmy evaluated Paul's speech.

Chris

Carmy

Karen's speech was a moving personal story about how her eyesight had been saved, thanks to the work of  Fred Hollows and other doctors.

It was evaluated by Steve.

Karen

Steve

Casey's raffle was an assortment of goodies with a Brisbane theme. It was won by Steve.

Casey

John conducted an Educational Session on the Distinguished Club Programme and explained what all the ribbons on our banner signify. This session completes his Advanced Leader Bronze project and is the third educational award he has earned this year. Congratulations John!

John

Time keeper Christiane announced that the meeting was running ahead of time.

Jonathon gave a thorough General Evaluation of the entire evening, explaining what had been done well and what could be improved.

Christiane 

Jonathon

Steve was presented with the "Best Evaluation" award and Karen and Chris tied for "Best Speech." Chris was also voted "Most Improved."

Award winners 29 May 2018

The meeting finished earlier than usual, which left some time to socialise before leaving.

Next meeting will be on the 12th June.

Our Change Over Dinner will be held on the 26th June. Please pay Blake next meeting if you are coming to the Changeover.