Meeting 1050 "Happy Hour"

Sergeant-at-Arms Darryl set the tone of the evening when he opened the meeting with one of his funny jokes.
President Gail welcomed guests Eric, Bianca, Kym, Gavin and Jason.

Darryl

Gail

Toastmaster of the evening was Trish.

Trish

Blake introduced the word for the evening, "Cheers."
Round Robin Master Peter invited everyone to tell of a "Happy Hour" they had spent at a hotel.

Blake

Peter

There were three prepared speeches. Marlene's speech "When You are Three" was the "Effective Body Language" project in the Pathways programme.
It was evaluated by Monica.

Marlene

Monica

John completed level 2 in Pathways with his speech on Mentoring, "Look, Listen and Learn."

It was evaluated by Trevor.

John

Trevor

Gokul's speech was titled "You Can Do It"  and was evaluated by Liz.

Gokul

Liz

New member Dan had Table Topics for Darryl, Monica, Blake, Liz, Eric and Jonathon, asking  "What comes to mind...." and gave each one an event to speak about.

Dan

Darryl - Christmas Party

Monica - Concert

Blake - Melbourne Cup

Liz - Romantic Dinner

Eric - Friday Afternoon

Jonathon - Cocktail Party

They were evaluated by Stephen and Paul.

Stephen 

Paul

Jonathon had brought some interesting alcoholic drinks (including Irish, Russian Greek & Maynard Duck) for the raffle it was won by Jason.

Time Keeper Eileen announced that the meeting was running behind time, so the supper break was shortened.  Casey had provided a delicious supper.

Jonathon

Eileen

Leesa chaired a short Business Session.  There was no general business, apart from the Christmas Break Up Dinner to be held on the 10th December

Leesa

Grammarian Gail said there had been  some good descriptive phrases during the evening.

Leanne gave a thorough evaluation of the meeting.

Gail

Leanne

Gail was proud to display our new "Select Distinguished" ribbon for our banner.

We are "Select Distinguished."

The evenings awards went to Gokul (Most Improved,) Blake (Best Table Topic,) John (Best Speech,) and Liz (Best Evaluation.)

Award winners 12 Nov 2019

Next meeting Tuesday 26th November. Paul will be taking bookings for the Christmas Break Up Dinner, so bring your money. $35 for visitors. $25 for members.

The Christmas Break Up Dinner will be on the 10th December.

Christmas Break Up

Area Conference 2019

The theme of the conference was "Motivate and Celebrate" - and participants certainly did that!

Area Director Daniel Reid

Conference Chair Christiane

Humorous Speech Contest Toastmaster Gail

Casey - Humorous Speech

Humorous Speech Participants

Darryl came first
 in the Evaluation Contest

Evaluation Contest
First Place Darryl (SandgateTM) 2nd Place John (Bracken Ridge) 

Table Topics Contest Participants 

First Place John (Bracken Ridge TM)
 2nd Madonna (Peninsula) 3rd Leanne (Sandgate)
Table Topics Contest

Guest Speaker Trish Jackson
Artist with a Difference
https://footsiephotos.com/

Guest Speaker Chris McCarthy
https://www.hearandsay.com.au/

John represented Bracken Ridge TM and Sandgate TM

First place John (Bracken Ridge) 2nd Trish Sandgate
International Speech Contest

Our members who attended  - John & Casey not in photo

Thanks to Leanne for some of the photos.

Meeting 1049 "Numbers Count"

This was an extra “5th Tuesday of the month” meeting and it turned out to be one of our most entertaining meetings.

We had 5 guests, Steve, Amanda, Veronica, and Tanya  came for a second visit and first  time visiter Lonnie.

Toastmaster of the evening was Gail, who had some interesting information about numbers.

Gail

The word for the evening, chosen by Marlene was "Plethora," meaning a large or excessive amount.

Stephen proposed  a toast and Chris conducted the Round Robin by asking everyone to tell about a trophy or award they had won.

Stephen

Chris

There were five prepared speeches. John used wonderful body language and humour in his speech, “Being an Aquaholic.” (One photo is not enough to describe this speech.)

John1

John2

John3

John 4

Monica spoke about the value of house plants to purify the air.

Trish presented the speech that she will be using for the contest at the Area Conference and received some valuable feedback.

Monica

Trish

The first three speeches were evaluated by  Darryl, Trevor and Peter.

Darryl

Trevor

Peter

The Timekeeper was Paul. 

Paul - Timekeeper

Trevor presented a fun raffle, which consisted of a cute stuffed mouse, glitter balls, a disco ball and a bottle of  "The Elephant in the Room Pinot." It was won by Tanya.

Trevor 1

Trevor 2

After the supper break, we heard speeches from Leanne and Christiane.

Leanne who holds a HR Truck licence gave us an entertaining insight into the world of truck dirvers in her speech "The Truckie Within" 

In her speech "Bring Your Parent to School Day," Christiane spoke about her job of  Sales and Application Consultant and what it entails. 

Leanne

Christiane

They were evaluated by Darryl and Eileen.

Eileen

Table Topic Master Stephen had topics for Steve, Casey, Annette and Chris.

Steve - Memories involving sport

Casey - Christmas Shopping

Chris - Best holiday spot

Annette - What I'd change about Sandgate

  They were evaluated by John

John

Blake gave a very humorous evaluation of the meeting.

Blake

The evening's awards went to Stephen and Chris - tie (Most Improved,) John and Leanne -tie (Best Speech,) Darryl (Best Evaluation) and Annette (Best Table Topic.)

Award winners 30 Oct 2019

All the best to our competitors at the Area Conference on Saturday.

Next Meeting 12th November.