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John called the meeting to order and briefly
explained the reason behind the very different seating arrangements which for
tonight’s meeting were set up in a theatre style set up similar to the Area Competition
format. Before handing the meeting
over to President Philip for his
general Welcome.
Chairman for the first half of the Meeting was Meghan who
explained a little more about the reasons behind mixing up the format for
variation.
Visitors included; Nick, Henry, Jasmine and Nick returning
for his second visit.
Apologies had been received from; Glen H, Marlowe, Dai Fei,
Farzard and Tiffany.
Reading of the Mission
of the Club was undertaken by Samuel
and Grammarian Mark challenged us
with both the Word and/or examples of Oxymorons.
Introductions took on a simple open theme permitting a
briefer slab of the time-slot.
Mark
was Toastmaster for the first half introducing Philip to deliver a dry run of
his International Speech “A Ball of String” in preparation for the upcoming
Area 6 Competition.
Many longer-term members were startled to see Philip use notes for his practice run,
but as Philip’s official Evaluator John
pointed out that Philip had been making a significant number albeit minor
changes to the text of the speech, since the last performance and the notes
were necessary for recall. As a result John focused primarily on issues
requiring improvement before the Evaluation was opened to the entire meeting to
provide solid advice to Philip.
With another deviation from the norm, we then had Table Topics chaired by Heather on the theme of James Bond, or
at least topics centred around numerous James Bond movie titles. Yet another
very creative Table topic challenge that highlighted a somewhat unexpected generational
gap, but producing some excellent responses.
The Evaluators; Meghan and Lyndal provided some very helpful assistance in their analysis of a
diversity of presentations.
The first half was then Evaluated by Glenn D in a succinct
analysis of the meeting thus far.
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John called the meeting back to order
right on time and handed to Chairman
for the second half – Peter.
Kymberly
was challenged to deliver a Toast in
the new seating environment where few if any members had a glass let alone a
full glass but had us both Toast (and use) ‘Our Imaginations’.
Toastmaster
for the second session was John who
introduced 3 Speakers;
Helen
with her second speech entitled “The Kokoda Challenge” recounting a real life
experience of doing this very specific and arduous trek in the hinterland
behind Surfers Paradise. Describing the personal and team challenges she had
met and managed.
Meghan presented her 9th speech from the CC
Manual – Persuade – with a speech entitled “What a Dreadful Problem to Have…”, in she provided
a view from both sides of the coin in dealing with issues and how many issues
pale into insignificance when compared to others.
Finally brand new member Edna delivered a stunning Ice
Breaker Speech entitled; “Starting a New Life in a New Country”. To get
some idea of the quality of this first ever presentation, in thanking Edna,
John asked the meeting rhetorically in jest “Can we just check to ensure that
was Edna’s first speech. An excellent and confident delivery without notes
providing an insight the changes and adaptations required to up-route from a
life you know and venture half way round the world and start afresh.
We then moved into our normal round of Evaluation duties;
Ums
and Ahs Count was recorded by Heather.
Grammarian
and Word of the Day were duly noted
by Mark.
The Big Ears
challenge was undertaken for the first time by Mudhi at very short notice
Paul
V kept track of the Timing for the
evening.
Kimberly
followed up with a very succinct second-half General Evaluation
All Visitors provided very supportive feedback in the Guests Comments before President Philip
presented his Closing Remarks and
endorsed the upcoming Area 6 International and Evaluation Contest.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Area
6 International and Evaluation Contest
Hosted
by Concord West Club at Concord RSL
Saturday 16th March 2013 – 1:00pm
Normal
Meeting
Tuesday 26th March 2013
District
70 International and Evaluation Contest
Cabra-Vale
Diggers Club
Saturday 27th April 2013 – 1:00pm
