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Meeting commenced at 7:15pm
S@A – Paul M.012.
Presidents Welcome – John congratulating our recent participants at the Area 6 Humorous and Table Topics Competitions as well as a vote of thanks to the excellent level of participation by members of the Club in helping to Host the Competition evening.
Apologies – Peter, Meghan, Natasha, Edmond and Katrina
Welcomed – Mark (New Member tonight), Cameron and Jane
Chairman – First Session – Philip
Reading of the Mission of the Club – Kimberley
Word of the Day – [Invincible] Daniel (as Grammarian)
Introductions – The Topic for the Introductions was ‘Finals’ giving rise to a great diversity of impressions, experiences and aspirations in the regular 30 second warm up.
Agenda Update – Kimberley
Leadership Manual Evaluations – John had about 5 Manuals to complete for participants in the evenings Leadership roles.
First Speech Session was led by Mark as Toastmaster and introduced Bernard doing his 5th Speech – Your Body Speaks – with a title – A Friend in Crisis – in which Bernard courageously shared a recent and highly charged situation of a friend going through an extremely tough emotional time.
Bernard spoke with great conviction and suitably poignant pace and demonstrated deep concern about the situations leading up to the revelation of this crisis and concluded with some deep convictions of how he and a mutual friend will deal with this situation in the days and weeks ahead. This was definitely Bernard’s most outstanding presentation to date.
Sam who was clearly impressed by Bernard’s subject matter, delivery and conviction presiding over an excellent Evaluation of Bernard’s speech.
Break – 10 minutes
Chairman Second Session – Glen H
Toast – Glenn D presented a very unique insight into especially historic days and how people who have birthdays on such occasions can often be forgotten. His Toast was very ably executed to: “People whose Birthday is on a Historic Day”
Second Speech Session was led by Paul V as Toastmaster and he introduced Josh delivering Speech No 7 – Research Your Topic – with a title of: “Who Are You?”
Josh provided a structured and well-prepared outline of the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator. Even for those who had heard of, or even participated in a Myers-Briggs assessment this was a highly informative and well-presented refresher on the assessment process and the outcomes that come from this universally renowned Indicator.
Josh was evaluated by Paul V who unpacked the elements of the Speech with precision and insight.
Table Topics – presented by Sandra in her first ever role as Table Topics Master. Sandra presided over one of the most creative Table Topics implementations we have seen in sometime. Sandra had a range of cotton swabs doused in different fragrances and each speaker was asked to evoke a story, memory or mood after sampling one of the odours. The results were stunning, diverse, amusing and even quite poignant, demonstrating how powerful our sense of smell can be in evoking responses.
The Evaluators Bernard and Daniel for the odd and even numbered speakers respectively, provided excellent observations, advice and encouragement in their summation of these impromptu speakers.
Umms and Ahs – Paul M
Grammarian – Daniel (about 4 people using the Word of the Day)
Big Ears – Brett
Timers Report – Kimberley
General Evaluator – Chris
Forward Planner – Kimberley
Guests Comments – Jane and Cameron
Announcements – Belated presentations and motions of thanks were made to outgoing Past President Paul V and outgoing President Brett
President’s Closing Remarks – John made reference to encourage members to make speeches and track their Leadership Manuals
Meeting Closed – 9:15pm
