Meeting - September 22, 2005

There were 16 members present. Theme: Going Backwards.

A very entertaining evening and lots of laughs. John adjourned the meeting at 7:15 and we immediately had a few announcements all for the good of Toastmasters. Linda P our Treasurer announced that the fees are going up. Jane announced that the church is looking for participants for a variety night and all donations will be sent to the survivors of Katrina. Keith thought the agenda was out of order and Marie corrected him that the agenda was absolutely accurate. Heidi is looking for 2 readers and Brenda and Grace volunteered. They have also asked for a 15 minute skit and 13 people are needed. December 8 is the night of the murder mystery and will be held at the Listowel Golf Course. Supper will be at 6:30. Keith, Allan, Jane, Marie, Harvey and Heidi were all involved in the International Plowing Match this week as members of Toastmasters. Felix gave the Timers report and Audrey gave the Language Enricher report. Keith gave the general evaluation of the meeting tonight – very funny, creative and well done – he scolded a couple of members for their inappropriate fighting during the meeting. The Quizmaster for tonight was Diane, well done Diane, once again very humorous. Linda P. evaluated Heidi and said she used tonight’s word for the evening 15 times.....wow amazing Heidi! She also scolded her about doing cartwheels in a skirt! tsk tsk!…..George was amazed that 15 people tied for first place in Table Topics competition. George asked all participants to come up with whatever they wanted – a nice variety of topics and some had a lot to say about nothing! Brian challenged Marie’s point of view (which it hasn’t happened yet), but anyway, did not support her view on legalizing marijuana use….Marie on the other hand challenged Brian by referring to the people who were raised in the 60’s as opposed to being born in the 60’s. An excellent debate and entertaining and was also noted and for the record - that Brian and Marie are not friends! Heidi gave her speech and opened it up with an attempt at cartwheels, a very good attempt I might add. Her speech was about the International Plowing Match and MCing – it sounds like a few challenges to say the least. Linda D gave literary corner by reading an article on the “Power of your Mind”. Audrey provided the word “volunteer” and a reminder to all that it is an important and powerful word. Without volunteers there would be a lot of things that wouldn’t get done. There were no guests tonight. Felix gave the toast to Canada. Jane called the meeting to order at 8:45 and announced how boring and dry it was tonight – all agreed and packed it in for the night and went home.

Linda D

Meeting - September 15,2005

Linguists of Listowel Toastmasters Club met at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Listowel on Thursday Sept. 15, 2005. They had a terrific time as 13 members participated with the theme “Defense Plea”. George is always great at getting the audience warmed up with one of his jokes and getting the meeting off to a fantastic start. He introduced our chairperson for the evening Ken. Ken is very experienced and has been involved in toastmasters clubs since 1972.

Brenda handled the toast and the microphone with confidence and kept very accurate timing throughout the evening. Linda P. word for the meeting was 'deposition' meaning sworn evidence. It was used 18 times during the meeting.

Jane presented an educational program on how to handle table topics. You only have one to two minutes to get your point across. You must remember to listen, pause, confirm, tell, and end. The Table Topics contest is Sept 29th so we needed to practice what we had just learned. Everyone did well with Brian's Table Topics. Each member had to plead “guilty” or “Innocent” to minor disdemeanors such as “taking candy from a child” to “feeding your husbands' cooking to the dog!”

Our speaker for the evening was Heidi. She shared and inspirational speech on hope. Marie gave an excellent evaluation. Daine presentented a very effective evaluation of the meeting. We conducted a short business meeting. Fees are due now. They are $60 semi annually or $120 for the year. Marie moved that the new member fee remain the same. Brenda seconded it and was carried.

Brenda moved that the initial fee for new members be $20 and $120 for the annual fee for a total of $140 for new members for the first year. The fee would be pro-rated during the year. Linda P. seconded the motion.
Carried.
The meeting closed at 9:05

Everyone is invited to attend the humorous speech and table topic contest so invite your neighbours, your friends and your relatives to this fun event Sept 29, 2005. The agenda is full so come for a fun evening.

Secretary for the evening Diane

September 8, 2005 Meeting

Greetings fellow Toastmasters:

Lots of fun was had by all tonight – it was great to see such a good turnout – 15 members in all for our very first fall meeting of 2005. The meeting was kicked off by Ezra with the call to order and a good joke. John our illustrious leader was our chairman for the evening and gave a complimentary salute to our teachers who are in the midst of kicking off another school year. Marie volunteered to be our toast and timer with a salute to Canada our great country as well as commenting on other blessings that we experience on a daily bases living here. Linda D. presented language enricher and introduced the word “dyspeptic” which means bad tempered, short tempered, mean, snappish or prickly. (Please note, there aren’t any of these types of people in our group!), but still…. an interesting word. It actually got quite a bit of use tonight as well as few chuckles. Brenda presented Literary Corner and cautioned us about swimming right after eating and the dangers associated to this – thanks Brenda, it’s great to get a reminder about this sort of stuff again. Brian rose to the occasion (spontaneously) and presented a speech about “I just can’t get away”… Brian has so many relatives and no body remembers his name! …. only that he is a cousin, brother, uncle, or son of someone else. Linda M. did tables topics this evening - reminding us of the joy of children and their need to hear childhood stories about their parents – especially stories when they got into trouble – this lead into a table topics for all to participate and tell everyone about a childhood story/incident of their own. Brian’s story was very entertaining and he won the award for the evening. John presented the education module and the “Distinguished Club” presentation outlining the goals a club has to achieve in order to win the award. Diane gave Brian his evaluation feedback which was very positive – way to go Brian. General Evaluator was Linda P. and gave the meeting an “A” - very complimentary of all participants in the meeting. Marie finished off the meeting with the timers report. Brenda commented on the new increase in fees to join the Toastmasters club going forward – fees were voted on and unanimously accepted and meeting was adjourned at 9:00pm