Welcome Fellow Toastmasters and Guests
Thanks to all who attended and contributed to an
extremely entertaining and inspirational meeting on Monday night. A big welcome to three new guests Geoff,
Hannah and Averill as well as returning guest Lana. Fantastic to have you along
and hope to see you back again soon.
Our Toastmaster for the evening was Steve Tutbury who
was welcoming and did an awesome job of adapting the programme for those last
minute changes to accommodate speakers’ needs.
Steve multi-tasked and calmly bridged any gaps in the programme with
ease and that kept the evening flowing.
Graeme introduced his role as General Evaluator and for
the benefit of our guests provided a very thorough General Evaluation at the
close of the meeting. Graeme’s was ably supported by a team consisting of the
Time Keeper and Grammarian. Dee Ford (assisted by Ian Wright) did an extremely
thorough job in her first go as the Timekeeper. Christine Tutbury added a lot of
“Rationale” to the evening as Grammarian.
Our multi-tasking Toastmaster, Steve Tutbury, also
stood in as Table Topics Master. Steve gave
a detailed introduction of his theme – by reading a letter explaining that each
of the impromptu speakers had the opportunity to receive an inheritance from
their wealthy Uncles Estate. But first they had
to provide reasons why they would be the most appropriate guardian for precious and
unusual items from the Uncles eclectic collection of treasures.
- Colin spoke of hoarding when it came to inheriting 6 Pink Flamingo figures.
- Christine saw many opportunities to use and share a collection of
Top Hats.
- Graeme avoided speaking on unbelievable objects
- Sarah Lee was transported down memory lane to her first car at the thought of the
green 1977 VW Beetle with pink poka dots.
- James had some confusion on what a collection of air sickness bags
actually were.
An interesting array of topics providing good scope
for the speakers and resulted in an entertaining and fun session – well done
everybody.
Sheryl and Netta teamed up to give the table topic
evaluation and summary with some praise worthy commendations and recommendation
for our impromptu speakers.
Our first formal speaker was David Grant giving an
Icebreaker speech. David provided us
insights into the many hobbies he had tried over the years, but particularly
spoke with passion on home brewing and all the skills he had learnt along the
way.
Our second Speaker was Wayne Bickers who was making
good use of Visual Aides. Wayne highlighted
how “mutant statistics” impact our lives. Wayne provided a number of examples of what “appeared”
reputable statistics or information that we could rely on, but challenged the
audiences thinking by questioning the validity of some of the statistics.
Chris was doing an advance project and provided us
with an assimilated broadcast entitled “pass the sugar”. Assisted by camera man, Colin Anderson, Chris
was a news anchor providing a well-paced human interest piece on sugar in our
diets.
Speeches were well evaluated by James, Amy and Sarah
Lee respectively. Evaluations were of a
high standard by all, with excellent first time Speech Evaluations by Amy and
Sarah Lee. There was good use of the CRC
approach with commendations and recommendations for each speaker to take into
their next projects.
The Business Session included:
- Christine provided a timely reminder of what a great read the
monthly Toastmaster magazine is
- Presentation of name badge to Dee Ford and formal welcome of her to
the Club. Great to have you as a new member Dee.
- The forward programme for the 24th of June was covered
- Reminder of the Club annual Dinner and Awards night is coming up on
the 29th July
- Voting was held regarding the 3 options of Speight’s, Off the Track
and Breakers for the venue for the dinner.
Breakers came out the winner by a clear majority.
Thank you everyone for a terrific and fun night!
The Awards for the night went to……
Best Speaker: Chris Heath
Best Evaluator: Amy Edwards
Best Table Topics: Sarah Lee (a
gold chocolate bar presented to the inheritance winner)
Best Contribution: Not Awarded
Congratulations to you all.
Have a great fortnight and look forward to seeing you on
the 24th July 2013!
Sheryl
VP Ed
Another great meeting by the sound of it, sorry that I missed it but still feel like I was there!
ReplyDeleteExcellent reporting Sheryl, perhaps you missed your calling!!
Hopefully we will see everyone on 24th June (not July)????
I think the 24th July refers to the end of year awards nite.
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