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