CONDOLENCES TO CLUB MEMBER ANNA

The Club wishes to express our sincere condolences to Anna Perdriau on the recent death of her father on 3rd December 2016. Anna and Philip were late apologies at or End-of-Year Dinner held that same day. Anna was already in Canberra with her father and family and Philip contacted us to advise that he was heading down that afternoon.

Anna’s father’s funeral was held on Friday 9th December in Belconnen in the ACT.

Thank you to Peter Crosby for arranging a condolence card which was signed by all Club Members present at the End-of-Year Dinner.

On behalf of the entire Membership of Concord West Toastmasters we wish to ensure Anna of our love and support at this difficult time. 

2016 END OF YEAR CLUB SOCIAL GATHERING & DINNER

We met at the Pron Prohm Thai Restaurant in the private upstair area for our end-of-year dinner.

Many thanks to those who attended and made it a very pleasant evening of fine food and great conversation.
Peter and Kate, Omer, Alex, Heather, Daniel and Lyndal, Bernard and his wife Christine, Aileen and her husband Andrew, John and his wife Keiko and daughter Kay.
We had late apologies from Glen and his wife Julia as well as Philip and Anna.
During the evening President John bestowed upon members both present and absent some awards as a way of recognising firstly; Members who have made contributions throughout the year toward our Club’s success both in terms of our Distinguished Club Program as well as representing us in Competition:

• Heather Gordon – Club Representative Area 6 International Speech Contest 2016


• Daniel Tucker – Club Representative Area 6 Evaluation Contest 2016
• Philip Bendeich – Club Representative Area 6 Humorous Speech Contest 2016
• John Hughson – Club Representative Area 6 Table Topics Contest 2016
• Philip Bendeich – Achieving Advance Communicator Bronze Award 2016 (Multiple)
• Kate Crosby – Achieving Competent Communicator Awards 2016

Then we acknowledged some members who throughout the year have made some memorable contributions to our normal Meetings:

• Alex Lee – Most Prodigious Attendance at Club Meetings 2016 (99%)
• Lyndal Eager Tucker – Most Prodigious Evaluator 2016 (6 Speech Evaluations – 3 Table Topics Evaluations – 3 General Evaluations)
• Paul Hardy – Most Amusing Club Speech 2016 “A Concrete Purpose” (26.04.2016)
• Omer Soker – Best Advanced Club Speech 2016 “Innovation Road Map” (17.10.2016)
• Glen Hobbs – Most Challenging Table Topics Master 2016 (We were asked to answer a written question about what we either hated or loved to do. Glen then called people up to explain another persons statement and take on their persona. Once the Session was complete Glen then revealed who had written what).
• Bernard Lo – Halloween Costume ‘Best Dressed’ Award 2016 (Also recipient of the Perpetual Halloween Skull Award)

Each Award was acknowledged with a Certificate and a mini ‘Sparkling’ Trophy 

CONCORD WEST TOASTMASTERS CLUB – 25th NOVEMBER 2016 – MEETING No: 1231

CONCORD WEST TOASTMASTERS CLUB –
25th NOVEMBER 2016 – MEETING No: 1231

Editors Apology:

My notes of the evening were mislaid so details regarding some speech titles and roles are incomplete.

The Theme – Forgive and Forget

Venue – Auditorium

Apologies – (Records Mislaid).

Visitors – Nil.

Call to Order – S@A  Bernard L.

President’s Welcome – John H.

Chairman One – Bernard L.

Grammarian / Word of the Day – Kate C – (Records Mislaid).

Introductions – Based on the theme – ‘Forgive and Forget‘

Reading of the Mission – Omer S.

Agenda Update – Omer S.

Leadership Manual Evaluations – Mentors.

Toastmaster for Prepared Speeches – Aileen L.

Speaker 2: Anna P. – [AC] “Bring Out More You”

Speaker 3: John H. – [ACG#10 Workshop] – “Listening” (Part 2)

Speaker 4: Philip B. – [Educational] – “Art of Evaluation”

Evaluator 1: Daniel T.

Evaluator 2: Lyndal E.T.

Evaluator 3: N.A.

BREAK

Call to Order – S@A Bernard L.

Chairman Two – Anna P.

Toast – Peter C.

Table Topics Master – Paul H. – Based on Conversation Cards

Evaluations – Odds – John H.

Evens – Lyndal E.T.

Ums and Ahs – Peter C.

Grammarian – Kate C.

Big Ears – Alex L.

Timers Report – Omer S.

General Evaluation – Philip B.

Executive Announcements & Presidents Closing Remarks:

·      Report on recent Area 6 Council Meeting.

New Pathways Program.

International Speech and Evaluation Contest in 2017.

End-of-Year Social gathering – Pron Phrom Thai North Strathfield, 

7pm Saturday 3^rd December 2016

Next Meetings

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 13^th December 2016

Christmas New Year Break

CONCORD WEST TOASTMASTERS CLUB – 8th NOVEMBER 2016 – MEETING No: 1230

The Theme – Great Memories

Venue – Auditorium

Apologies – Paul H, Maj J.

Visitors – Nil.

Call to Order – President John H.

President’s Welcome – John H.

Chairman One – Lyndal E.T.

Grammarian / Word of the Day – Heather G – “Egregious”.

Introductions – Based on the theme – ‘Great Memories‘

Reading of the Mission – Omer S.

Agenda Update – Omer S.

Leadership Manual Evaluations – Anna P. (This is a new initiative where one person provides the written evaluates for all the Leadership roles during the meeting.

Toastmaster for Prepared Speeches – Alex L. [FIRST]

Speaker 1: Glen H. – [ACB#1] – “Anatomy of Human Error”

Speaker 2: Omer S. – [ACB#2] – “Misunderstood and Misconstrude”

Speaker 3: Daniel T. – [ACB# Fairy Tale] – “The Dung Beatle”

Speaker 4: John H. – [ACG#10 Workshop] – “Listening”

Evaluator 1: Heather G.

Evaluator 2: Omer S.

Evaluator 3: Kate C.

Evaluator 4: General.

BREAK

Call to Order – Chairman Lyndal E.T.

Chairman Two – John H.

Toast – Lyndal E.T.

Table Topics Master – Kate C. – Based on Theme of ‘Great Memories’

Evaluations – Odds – Philip B.

Evens – Heather G.

Ums and Ahs – Alex L.

Grammarian – Heather G.

Big Ears – Heather G.

Timers Report – Peter C.

General Evaluation – Anna P.

Executive Announcements & Presidents Closing Remarks:

·      Formal Vote taken on the New Fee Structure to come into place for New Members immediately and current Members from the Renewals in March 2017. Carried.

Next Meetings

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 13^th December 2016

Christmas New Year Break

CONCORD WEST TOASTMASTERS CLUB – 25th OCTOBER 2016 – MEETING No: 1229

The Theme – Halloween

Venue – Restaurant

Dressed up for the occasion.

Apologies – Heather G, Hugh D, Philip B, Anna P, Maj J, Glen H.

Visitors – Leo (Who joined tonight).

Call to Order – S@A Bernard L.

President’s Welcome – John H.

Chairman One – Daniel T.

Grammarian / Word of the Day – Omer S.

Introductions – Based on the theme – ‘Halloween‘

Reading of the Mission – Kate C.

Agenda Update – Omer S.

Toastmaster for Prepared Speeches – John H.

Speaker 1: Kate C. – [CC#10] – “The Women Who Inspire Me”

Speaker 2: Senthill T. – [AC#1] – “Fitter, Bigger and Stronger”

Speaker 3: Aileen L. – [AC#1] – “Good Conversation”

Evaluator 1: Peter C.

Evaluator 2: Omer S.

Evaluator 3: Daniel T.

BREAK

Call to Order – S@A Bernard L.

Chairman Two – Peter C.

Toast – Alex L. – “Finding a Cure for Breast Cancer”

Table Topics Master – Bernard L. – Based on Theme of ‘Spooky Experiences’

Evaluations – Odds – Kate C.

Evens – Lyndal ET.

Ums and Ahs – John H

Grammarian – Omer S.

Big Ears – Omer S.

Timers Report – Lyndal ET.

General Evaluation – Bernard L.

Visitors Comments – Leo Z.

Executive Announcements & Presidents Closing Remarks:

·      SpeechCraft Postponed till May 2017.

·      Presentation of amended Budget for 2016/17.

·      Discussion regarding the New Fee Structure to be introduced in March 2017.

·      Decided that we did not have a quorum based on a total Membership of 26.

·      Requests that the Executive consider 6 monthly Dues or 12 monthly Dues.

·      Farewell to Senthil. T moving on to eventually take up a new medical posting in Newcastle

·      Peter C- Promoted the D70 Speakers Forum – Sunday 30^th October 2016 – Bankstown Sports Club

We say farewell to Senthil, and wish him all the best for the future. 

Next Meetings

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 8th November 2016

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Saturday 3rd December – 

Christmas New Year Dinner Pron Prohm. North Stratfield 7pm

Normal Meeting – Tuesday 13^th December 2016

Christmas New Year Break