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.

Meeting 1013 - Mythical Creatures

President Annette welcomed Area Director Irene on an official visit to our Meeting.
John was then presented with his Competent Leader Certificate as he has achieved this goal.

Irene. and John with Annette

 Toastmaster Karen provided many anecdotes of assorted Mythical Creatures during her role.

Steve conducted a short Business Session to nominate Casey as incoming Vice President Public Relations. A vote was taken and Casey will take up her role in the new Toastmaster year.

Steve

A Toast to Icky the Fire Bobby who apparently resides on the Isle of Man, was presented by Steve.

Word(s) of the night from John were Plausible and Implausible. Much use of these was made during most sessions.

Round Robin introduced by Eileen - asked "What is your mythical creature?" and this provided some very entertaining depictions of Club Members hidden beliefs. Eileen told us of Ethel Red Kitchen Monster who lives at her workplace.

Eileen

Set speeches were presented and evaluated.

Kirsty present "Breathe" and was Evaluated by Paul

Casey's "Viral Defenders" was Evaluated by Chris

Marlene spoke on "The Power of my Presence" and was evaluated by John

Table Topics presenter Jonathon tested our Mythical Creature knowledge and our imagination too.

Christiane told of the Sandgate Mythical Creature, Chris related the tale of Werewolf and Vampire fight, John explained what quality of Genetic Engineering he would desire, Eileen as a Mythical Creature expert described a photo of one, Annette was almost convinced the Council should ban Unicorns, Irene had to imagine she was a dragon, and Paul as another Mythical Creature expert described the figurine of one.

Jonathon looks on in disbelief at Paul's "mermaid"

An Educational on Effective Feedback in Evaluation was presented by Liz.

Timer Stephen kept us up to date throughout the Meeting.

Annette conducted a military style Listening Quiz which kept everyone on their toes.

Grammarian Christiane congratulated good word usage and noted the over-use of Ums during Evaluations. Tips was also presented by Christiane, which were very helpful ideas to take on board.

Christiane

General Evaluator was Blake who gave an excellent and amusing review of the entire Meeting.

Blake

The Raffle, which was provided by Eileen, was won by Karen.

Awards:    Best Speech: Marlene, Best Evaluator: John, Best Table Topic: Eileen, Most Improved: Casey.

Congratulations to all.