S@A Glenn D called the meeting to order
and handed the meeting over to Club President Philip for a General Welcome.
There were
formal Apologies from: Glen H, Raghar, Nikita and Ua.
Meghan was
the Chairman for the first half of
the meeting.
Melanie
read the Mission of the Club while
Tiffany proposed the Word of the Day
– Empathetic!
Meghan
asked the members consider a Snapshot of the Year in our Introductions before moving on to finalise the Agenda Update and Forward
Planner update.
Peter
volunteered record achievements in the Leadership
Manual Evaluations.
The
Toastmaster for the first Speech Session was Philip, introducing 2 speakers;
John presented his final speech in the
Entertaining Speaker series and his Advanced Communicator Bronze with a speech
entitled: “It’s More Than Just a Piece of
Gun Metal” in which he delivered some amazing stories behind four recipients of the Victoria Cross Medal from the four major conflicts that modern
Australia has been involved in.
The second
speaker was Glenn D with his
Folktale from the Advanced Communicator Series – with a speech entitled: “How Not to Treat Your Mother” a
amusing but poignant tale from Glenn’s native Indonesia telling the tale of
pride and prejudice and the consequences that finally catch up with those who
mistreat their Mums.
Paul provided a very considered and
encouraging Evaluation of John’s emotive
speech while Lyndal provided a very
comprehensive Evaluation of Glenn’s
Fairy Tale.
The half-time
General Evaluation was delivered
very succinctly by Mark.
In the
meantime John became aware that there appeared to be no action on the ‘food
front’ and after making enquiries found that the ball had been dropped with the
Head Chef away and our ‘mid-meeting refreshments were not on the Kitchen’s
radar. The Club Staff quickly kicked into gear and while they prepared some
finger food it was decided to bring forward a planned working session and move
the Break back a smidge.
Introduced
by Toastmaster for the Second
Session Philip, VPE Meghan
officiated over a Group Working Session to discuss and contribute toward
refinements and suggestions for the Meeting Agenda’s for the year ahead. After
a slightly slow start the ideas and comments started to flow thick and fast.
Meghan will then report back to the meeting with an assessment of all the ideas
we knocked around and how they might be implemented in the near future.
We then
went to an extended break to enjoy some hot refreshments and a more social interactive
and extended Break to acknowledge the end of a calendar year..
Following the
Break S@A Glenn handed the meeting
to Peter as Chairman for the second
half.
Kimberly presented a very timely Toast on Accepting New Challenges. Something that while very
particular to her changing work circumstance related strongly to all Members.
Table Topics was presided over by Heather with very clever series – “The
Eight Days of Christmas” in which speakers were required to speak to a set of
circumstances that were linked to the well known Christmas countdown. Some
fabulous responses ensued.
Evaluations
were delivered by Marlowe and Daniel.
Ums and Ahs Count was recorded by Helen in her first attempt at this role.
Grammarian and Word of the Day were duly noted by Tiffany.
The Big Ears challenge was administrated by
Dai Fei with considerable aplomb.
Timing was a double-act with Lyndal and Meghan keeping track.
Kymberly rounded of the active part of the
evening with a very comprehensive Evaluation
of the second half.
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| New Members L>R: Melanie, Helen and Amelia being inducted into the Club by VPM Mark |
VPM Mark
then conducted a formal Induction of 3 new Members; Melanie, Helen and Amelia
before President Philip delivered his Closing
Remarks.
UPCOMING EVENTS
First Meeting for 2013
Tuesday 8th January 2013
Normal Meeting
Tuesday 22nd January 2013
Special Speeches Only Meeting
Tuesday 29th January 2013
Tuesday 29th January 2013
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