Meeting – Tuesday 2 March 2010
Inspiring Speeches of the 20th Century
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Evaluation Contest
Marieke stepped up to the plate as Toastmaster this morning. She ran a superb programme. Plenty of enthusiasm and energy from everybody in the club. Great meeting!
Congratulations to Marlene, Mervyn and Eric who participated in the club contest for Evaluations. Marlene was awarded first place. She will represent the club at the upcoming area contest.
Special thanks to Megan Brown (test speaker from AM Toastmasters) as well as guest judges Mike Diggins, Cynthia Mitchell, Merle Ward and Bernadette Emerson.
The next club competition for International prepared speeches is Tuesday the 16th of March.
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Pay Attention!
Check out a winning speech from a Humorous Speech Contest – John Zimmer from District 59 (2008).
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Evaluation contest – 16 February
Don’t forget the Evaluation contest at our next meeting 16/02. Entries to Clinton and Marlene…give it a go…have some fun…we will also need volunteers for assisting to run the contest sgt at arms, telecounters etc volunteers to Clinton/Marlene also Toastmaster.
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Meeting – Tuesday 2 February 2010
3 great speeches from Brenda, Steve and Glenn evaluated professionally by Jo, John and Marlene. Congratulations to Steve for achieving his 10th speech and completing the ‘Competent Communicator” manual. An outstanding milestone in quick time. Steve you are an inspiration to us all…well done. Congratulations also to Glenn for completing his advanced manual ‘The Entertaining Speaker” and in so doing moving another step closer to his advanced award…well done Glenn. Well done also to Brenda who is another member who has totally embraced Toastmasters and who is progressing impressively towards her CC award and also making a huge contribution to the executive committee.
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We enjoyed a fantastic meeting on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of March. President Clinton opened with the apt quote from Winston Churchill “Never give in” which set up the theme for our meeting – Perseverance. Toastmaster Eric provided more inspiration with the analogy of the persevering Thomas Edison.
Bernadette kept us on our toes with an entertaining round of Table Topics.
We were treated to three prepared speeches during the formal part of the programme. Slick Steve strutted his salesman skills to good effect and delivered his first speech from the Advanced Communications manual with a persuasive retail pitch. Great stuff Steve! As usual, Mervyn won over the audience with his impressive word arsenal and storytelling ability. His speech entitled “Stop burning – start living” was thought provoking and humourous. And with stirring emotion, President Clinton drove home the call for members to enter the prepared speech contest on Tuesday 16th March. Clinton’s skills are exemplary. Congratulations to all of our speakers!
Also, congratulations to our first-time guest John, who performed remarkably well, considering he was thrown into the deep end with two speaking opportunities. When faced with the table topic question “Gillette or Schick – which razor would you choose?” – John demonstrated true class. His spin on salary ‘raise’ was razor-sharp and showed his off-the-cuff wit. Well done John. We hope Toastmasters will provide you more opportunities to further enhance your strengths as a public speaker.
Despite dwindling numbers this week, members rose to the occasion and made the meeting a resounding success. Special thanks to Eric for a fantastic job as Toastmaster. Well done to all involved. We look forward to the next meeting on Tuesday the 16th of March!
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