Meeting 1044 Evaluation & Humorous Contests

Contest nights are always exciting and bring out the best in the contestants. 

Annette acted as a fill in for president Gail who was unable to be present. She welcomed guests Sue, Maria, Adrian and Dan as well as the test speaker Lisa and contest judges Alan, Jenny Teena, Terry, Daniel, (Area Director) and Kirsty.

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Annette - Acting President

Contest judges

Eileen was Toastmaster. She warmed up the audience with some hilarious "Dad" jokes. (It's almost Father's Day.) 

Blake took on the role of Contest Chairman for the Evaluation Contest. 

Eileen - Joke Master

Blake - Eval Contest Toastmaster

The test speech was delivered by our guest Lisa.

Lisa - Test Speaker

The contestants Darryl, Leanne & Annette, each gave an evaluation of Lisa's speech. 

Contestants Darryl, Leanne and Annette

First place went to Darryl, with Leanne second and Annette third.

John was Contest Toastmaster for the Humorous Speech Contest

John - Contest Toastmaster

Contestants were Darryl, Stephen, Trish and Casey.

Humorous Speech Contestants Darryl, Stephen, Trish & Casey

All four speeches were very funny and well performed. The Winner was Casey, with Darryl second and Trish third.

Place Getters - Humorous Speech Contest

Stephen's raffle - a beautiful wooden cheese board that he had made and a waxed wrap was won by Eileen.

The Contest winners will compete against other Toastmasters Clubs at the Area Conference in November.

Next meeting Tuesday, 10th September.

Meeting 1043 Sandgate is 45

Happy birthday to us!

We celebrated our club's 45th birthday last meeting with a special supper and birthday cake

Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and handed control to president Gail, who welcomed our guests Area Governor Daniel, first time visitor Dan, and Gokul, Maria and Adrian

Darryl

Gail

Gail presented Blake and Chris with their Competent Communicator  badge, and congratulated them on completing all 10 projects in the CC Manual.

CC for Blake and Chris

Toastmaster of the evening was Monica, who was able to relate some of the achievementsof several long term members.

Jakob proposed a toast to our club's birthday.

Monica

Jakob

Word Master John T chose the word for the evening "Celebrate," with its other forms, "celebration" and "celebratory."

John T

    Round Robin Master Andrea  invited us to tell of a time in our lives when we have celebrated.

Andrea

There were three prepared speeches. Jonathon posed the question "How are we Going?" He used the projector to illustrate his speech about the N.P.S. - Net Promoter Score. It was good to see that most of our members are promoters of Toastmasters and there were no detractors.

Leanne evaluated Jonathon's speech.

Jonathon

Leanne

Trish presented a very informative speech on how to use Power Point effectively, and gave some entertaining examples of  correct and incorrect use. This was the final project to be completed in Trish's Competent Communicator manual. Another CC for Trish!

Trish's speech was evaluated by Paul.

Trish

Paul

In Gail's speech "When Nuts aren't Nuts" we learned all about peanuts.

It was evaluated by Blake.

Gail

Blake

Annette, who has been in the Sandgate Toastmasters for 42 years presented a short and entertaining history of the club.

Eileen was raffle master. Because it is Exhibition week, she made up a sample bag. And because the club is 45 years old, she included items that she thought a 45 year old would like. (All ages queued to buy tickets.)  The lucky winner was Gokul, (who won't be 45 for a  quite a while.)

Annette

Eileen

Supper time! We had an extended break so we could enjoy the sumptuous dips, fruit and cake. (Pictured here with our Area Director Daniel and the Executive Officers of the club.)

Stephen, Daniel, Eileen, Paul, Gail, Darryl, Casey, Annette in front.

A short business session was held after the break, with Stephen as chairman. The main item for discussion was the purchase of new trophies. 

Stephen

Jonathon

There were some hilarious moments during the evening.

Trevor was Table Topics Master and he had some questions for Eileen, Jakob, Chris and Andrea.

Trevor

Eileen - "What makes you happy?"

Jakob - "What are you grateful for?"

Chris - "What is most valuable to you?" 

Adrian - "How do you feel about water?"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Carmy and Casey.

Carmy

Casey

Area Director Daniel had a brief address for the club.

Area Director Daniel

Christiane was Grammarian  and Annette was General Evaluator. Both had some good tips.

Christiane

Annette

The evenings awards went to Leanne (Best Evaluator,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Jakob (Best Table Topic and Most Improved.)

Award winners 13 Aug 2019

Next meeting on the 27th August will be a contest night. More entries for the Evaluation Contest and the Humorous Speech Contest are needed.

Einbinpin Festival 2019

Every year, have an information stall at the local Einbunpin Festival. This year it was organised by Eileen.

Christiane, Leesa, Eileen

Paul, Einbunpin Bunyip, Christiane

Stephen, Leesa, Paul

Marlene, Trish, Einbunpin Bunyip

John & Trish

Peter, John & Trish (getting too shady for clear photos)

 Packing up. How do we dismantle  this?

Meeting 1042 "School Days"

It was a light-hearted meeting, full of fun. Sergeant at Arms Darryl called the meeting to order and recited the Toastmasters Mission Statement from memory. He then set the the tone of the meeting with a short joke.

Darryl

Gail

President Gail welcomed guests Maria, Gokul, Torben and Adrian and inducted new members Jakob and Andrea.

Marlene was Toastmaster for the evening and since the theme was "School Days," she dressed for the part in a mortar board hat and gown.

Marlene

Monica presented a toast to "Old school days."

Darryl presented the word for the evening "Assiduous," meaning showing great care and attention.

Jakob was Round Robin Master and he asked each member to share their best or worst memory from their school days. This resulted in some funny stories.

Monica

Jakob

There were three prepared speeches. Peter's speech "The Cell" was accompanied by soundless moving pictures on the screen to tell the amazing story of cells.

His speech was evaluated by Christiane.

Peter

Christiane

John's speech "Routes to Peace" was a passionate call to action. It completed his Pathways Level 1.
It was evaluated by Annette.

John

Annette

Stephen spoke on "Assertiveness," and used some good body language to demonstrate how to deal with people.

Trevor evaluated Stephen's speech.

Stephen

Trevor

Paul's raffle was chocolate and wine. It was won by Eileen.

Time keeper Casey reported that we were running over time, so the supper break was shortened to 10 minutes.

Paul

Casey

The supper was provided by Marlene & Annette.

Supper break

Darryl called the meeting back to order with another short funny joke.

Trish had prepared Table Topics related to the School theme and selected Gokul, Andrea, Paul, Trevor, Monica and Annette to give a brief impromptu speech..

Trish

Gokul - "Favourite School Subject."

Andrea - "What book was hard to read at school?"

Paul - "Are co-ed schools better?

Trevor - "My teacher glows in the dark"

Monica - "School uniforms"

Annette - "Home schooling a good thing?"

The Table Topics were evaluated by Eileen and Casey.

Eileen

Casey

Gail presented an Educational Session about club contests and encouraged members to take part in the  contests which will be held in August and September.

Gail

Trish

Grammarian Trish commented on descriptive words and phrases used during the evening. She commented on the over use of  the word "really." And she suggested we avoid using the negative word "but" when giving an evaluation.

Jonathon

Jonathon had mostly commendations in his General Evaluation of the entire meeting.

The evening's awards went to Jakob and Andrea (Most Improved,) John (Best speech,) and Annette (Best Table Topic and Best Evaluation).

Award winners 23rd July 2019

As there are 5 Tuesday in July, it will be 3 weeks until next meeting on the 13th August. We will be celebrating our club's 45th birthday that night with a special supper.

Contests will be held on the 27th August.

Meanwhile, some of us will be at our information stall at the Einbunpin Festival this Sunday, 28th July. See you there!