MEETING No: 1091 Tuesday 28th September 2010

Our ‘Bring-a-Friend Evening got underway very punctually at 7:15pm.

Club President Brett combined his General Welcome with his later scheduled Guest Welcome acknowledging visitors including: John Y, (Dai Fei’s brother), Paul M, Darren (Kymberley’s husband), Punnada (Natasha’s friend), Rachel (Brett’s guest), Catherine (Chis’s colleague) Queenie (Bernard’s girlfriend) and Lesley (Paul V’s wife) and Josh returning for one final visit and joining tonight. A very encouraging response to this new initiative of the Club’s Executive.

Apologies were acknowledged from Peter C, Tony Z, Rowenna and Philip B.

Dai Fei Chaired the First Session very ably introducing Adam who read the Mission of the Club before handing over briefly to Natasha (as Grammarian) for the Word of the Day – Rigmarole.

In the Introductions, Dai Fei asked us to fantasize about how we would spend an unlimited amount of money, should it come our way, provoking some wonderfully sublime indulgences. Predominantly everyone would be off overseas in a heartbeat.

VPE Chris navigated us through some Agenda updates while Brett took on the task of completing the Leadership Manual Evaluations for the evening.

Paul V was Toastmaster for the first Speech Session and introduced and managed this task with the hallmark of experience one would expect.

Kimberley presented her first Speech – The Ice Breaker – providing us with an insight into her life through her love of shoes and golf. Kymberley was vey ably Evaluated by Natasha confirmed that this was an excellent first speech and an Ice Breaker that sets a new benchmark both in its narrative, structure and very smooth presentation. Well done.

The second Speaker in this first Session was Gary who presented a highly informative technical presentation from the Competent Communicator Manual Number 4 – How To Say It, with an intriguing title; Don’t Risk It – Use Protection. Gary provided a very succinct warning about the dangers of over exposure to noise and the potential affect on our hearing. This excellent presentation was thoroughly Evaluated by Glen H standing in at short notice for a late apology.

We went to the Break just ahead of time and resumed the Second Session under the Chairmanship of Glen H.

Dai Fei presented the evening’s Toast very fittingly paying tribute to the Australian Athletes competing in the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

The Toastmaster for the second session was Dai Fei who introduced Chris making a somewhat impromptu speech, his seventh, from the ninth Competent Communicator manual – Persuade with Power – with a speech entitled; 5 Golden Rules. Chris provided us with a sequential process for saving for our financial goals, outlining some excellent – free – financial advice. Chris was very appropriately Evaluated by another of our fiscal members Paul V.

John H was then the Table Topics Master and set a very challenging range of ‘Worst Case Scenarios’ for each speaker to provide their response as to how they would either deal with the personal disaster or indeed explain how it was not in fact a problem for them. Following a more formal ‘competition like’ structure, each speaker was asked to come up to the front before being given the topic. The outcome saw some very creative and humorous responses evolve.

Glenn D and Bernard undertook the very challenging roles of Table Topic Evaluators for the first time and did a very impressive job.

The rest of the evenings Evaluations followed with Daniel attending to the Umms and Ahs Counter. Natasha investigating the use of language and the Word of the Day as Grammarian. Big Ears was unveiled by Brett in his inimitable manner. The Timers Report was presented by Chris before Daniel was back at the lectern delivering a comprehensive General Evaluation. Forward Planning was managed by VPE Chris and all the Visitors and Guests responded with some very encouraging Guests’ Comments. The meeting closed with the Closing Remarks from our President Brett.

Next Meeting

Tuesday 12th October 2010

Date for Diary

Phillip Division Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest
Saturday 9th October at Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club.

Regrettably our Club and Area 6 Winner (Peter) is unable to attend.

So our Area will be represented by the Area 6 Runner Up from another Club.

Also Look Out For

Wednesday Evenings ABC1 at 8pm
Strictly Speaking hosted by (Chaser) Andrew Hansen
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/strictlyspeaking/
Previous Programs can be viewed on iView.