Meeting No 1064 - Transportation

Sargent-at-Arms Dan efficiently called the Meeting to order, followed by President Leanne welcoming guests. From Bracken Ridge Toastmasters Club, Denise, Sue and Dave, and first time guests Callum and Edward, also returning guest Eric.

Toastmaster Paul commenced the program calling on a Toast from Jonathon. In keeping with the theme, his toast was to "The Bicycle".

Paul

Wordmaster Gail chose "Attrition" and recorded those Members who were able to incorporate it in their segments.

Gail

Round Robin by Leanne was again themed - what was your most memorable transport.

Leanne

Prepared Speeches:

Hazel gave her Ice Breaker "What Brings Me Here" and it was evaluated by Christiane.

Dan truly convinced us with his speech "Why I need a Boat", evaluated by Chris H.

Timing was amazingly kept on Australian time by Liz W in the U.K.

Liz W with her colourful timing backgrounds

Carmy presented the Table Topics, choosing 4 participants - Casey on how to get to the North Pole, Monica about future transport, John became a racing driver, and Leanne was asked what was her best mode of transport.

Carmy on Zoom

The Table Topics were evaluated by JP and Annette.

Annette

A very innovative raffle of a fist full of scratchies (to go buy your essential supplies) was well sold by Casey. And the winner - Dan, who might even scratch enough to put a deposit on that boat.

Further Prepared Speeches:

Gokul also presented his Ice Breaker for Pathways, entitled "All About Myself" and it was evaluated by Trevor.

Chris D's speech (Evaluation Level 1) was titled "Never Underestimate the Knowledge of learning a new skill" and was evaluated by Liz.

Marlene very competently conducted the Business Session, finishing before the allocated time.

Grammarian Trish gave highlights and reminded us of pausing to take a breath rather than using ums and ahs.

Trish on Zoom

The night concluded with the General Evaluation by John.

Awards:

Best Speech - Dan, Best Evaluation - Liz, Best Table Topic - John, Most Improved - Hazel.

Dan, John, Liz, Hazel and President Leanne

 Return Guest Eric enjoyed the Meeting

Meeting 1063 "Vive La France"

It was our first meeting for the new Toastmasters year 2020 - 2021.  Some of our members were able to meet together in person, while the rest attended online. New President Leanne welcomed all to the meeting, with a special welcome to our guest Zakk, and handed control to Toastmaster of the Evening, John. 

President Leanne

John

John had chosen "Vive La France" as the theme and sported a mustache for Basille Day. He even entertained us with a smattering of French and song.

Word Master Dan had chosen the French expression "Faux Pas" which means "a gaffe, blunder or mistake."

Hazel proposed a toast to "Toastmasters Sandgate and their Wit, Wisdom, Commitment and Cooperation."

Round Robin Master Gail asked "What do you think of when you think of France??

Hazel

Gail

J.P. presented the 10th speech in the Competent Communicator Programme, using plenty of body language to  demonstrate "The Power of Yoga." It was evaluated by Leanne. 

J.P.

Leanne

Liz Wo  explained why she is a survivor in her account of her experience on a cruise ship during the Covid -19 outbreak. Her speech was evaluated by Jonathon.

Liz Wo

Jonathon

Trevor told an amusing tale of his "threesome relationship" with his wife and her mobile phone.

It was evaluated by Gokul.

Trevor

Gokul

Paul was Time Keeper.

Paul

Chris presented the raffle, which was chocolate and coffee sachets, and a flask to keep drinks hot or cold. It was won by Leesa.

 Leanne and Gail provided supper, with biscuits and cupcakes iced in the colours of the French flag, by Leanne's niece.

Cupcakes for supper

Marlene's Table Topics were everyday items that were invented by the French.

Calulator, Hairdrier, Pedal Bicycle, Sewing Machine, Folding Umbrella, Bikini.  Peter, Hazel, Christiane Gail, Liz We and Dan were asked to speak for 2 minutes about these items. 

Marlene

Peter

Christiane

Liz We

The Table Topics were evaluated by Monica and Carmy.

Carmy

Grammarian Chris commented on the use of words during the meeting.

Leesa gave a General evaluation of the entire evening, with some helpful suggestions.

Leesa

The evening's awards went to:  

Best Speech - Liz Wo,  

Best Table Topic - Christiane, 

Most Improved - J.P.,

Best Evaluation - Jonathon.

Jonathon has also gained a Competent Leader award.

J.P. Competent Communicator and Most Improved Award

The next meeting will be on the 28th July. Please contact us for details on how to attend. 

Meeting 1062 Change Over. "Change of Hats"

It was time to "change hats" as our new club officers were installed for the coming Toastmasters year, which commences on the 1st July.  Out-going president Gail welcomed our new Area Director Kirsty as well as first time guests Emma and Lisa.

 Gail was pleased to announce that our club had earned President's Distinguished status. (The highest award.)
Congratulations to J.P. and Gokul on completing their Competent Communicator programme, and to Christiane  who has earned her Competent Leader and Advanced Leader Bronze awards.

Gail

Control was passed to Toastmaster Liz, who conducted the meeting from her home in the UK.  Liz had many interesting snippets about hats to share throughout the meeting.

Liz (UK)

Incoming Sergeant-at-Arms Dan read the mission statement.

Dan

As an invocation, Trish read an inspirational poem, "Believe in Yourself."

Trish

John T proposed a toast to Toastmasters International.

Christiane presented the first round of Table Topics, with some challenging topics for Annette, Hazel Paul, Peter, Trish , Leesa and Darryl.

Christiane

Hazel - "Who do you take hat off to?"

Paul -"All hat and no cattle" 

Peter - What is the feather in your cap"

Darryl - "Pull rabbit out of hat."

Jonathon had topics for Dan, Monica, John T, Marlene, and our brave guest Lisa. 

Jonathon

Monica - "Can you trust a man in a hat?"

John T - "Are cowboys sexy when they wear a hat?" 

Lisa - "Are hats more important than shoes?"

J.P. and Monica were time keepers.

J.P.

Gail presented her out-going president's address with a recap of some of the highlights of the past year.

Gail

The yearly club awards were announced. The Toastmaster of the Year award which is based points accumulated for educational progress, participation in club events, etc was awarded to Gail and the Most Improved award went to Casey, who has shown amazing progress during the year as well as excellence in her duties as club secretary.  Congratulations Gail and Casey!

Induction of club officers for the coming year was conducted by in-coming Area Director Kirsty.

Kirsty

The new club officers are:

President: Leanne
Vice President Education: Gail
Vice President Membership: Annette
Vice President Publicity: Marlene
Secretary: Christiane
Treasurer: Chris H
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dan
Parliamentarian: Trish

Our new president Leanne presented an inspiring in-coming president's address.

Leanne

Chris conducted a raffle, the prize was a Coles voucher and the lucky winner was Marlene. Yay!

Chris D

Please note it will be 3 weeks until the next meeting, because there were 5 Tuesday in June. Next meeting will be on the 14th July.