November 9, 2006
Theme for the Toastmasters meeting was “Remember When”. Brian chaired the meeting. After his opening remarks he made changes to the agenda. Diane presented a Remembrance Day Toast to Canada. For literary corner Jane remembered when the Family Herald Magazine used to come to her house. She chose an article about the International Plowing match in 1964. One year subscription was $1.50 and three years was $3. Linda shared a personal story-“Heights are Hideous”. She has always had a fear of heights because she fell off her third floor balcony when she was16 months old. Luckily she survived with only a few scratches and bruises. Welcome back Linda. Allan presented his eighth speech in his CTM manual. His object was to get to the point. He spoke about protecting the environment. Marie led a team topic where people were divided into two teams and had to speak for approximately 1 minute each and use about 8 specific words in a continuous story. It was a lot of fun and challenged our memory skills and our creativity.
Audrey evaluated Allan’s speech.
Jane and Keith gave an enthusiastic report on the fall conference in Niagara Falls. Keith presented an improve workshop to over 50 participants. Everyone was enthusiastic and learned a lot. District 60 has so many clubs that it will be dividing in half in the near future. New Competent leadership manuals were distributed to our members by Jane. Sheryl did an excellent job as general evaluator.
Next week Linguists of Listowel will be twinning with Mount Forest Motivators at the King Hotel on Wed November 15 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
October 26, 2006
Linguists of Listowel held their open house demonstration meeting. The Theme of the meeting was “Challenges”. Sheryl called the meeting to order at 7:15 and introduced chair person Brian. He welcomed guests Nicole, Devon and Chris. Marie asked everyone what their favorite country was and on the count of three there was an overwhelming chorus of CANADA. This was followed by a toast to Canada.
As Language enricher Diane chose the word Stimulate which means to rouse up or spur. For example, the meeting stimulated her imagination. It was used six times during the evening.
Audrey read a chapter from the book “The Shepherd of the Hills.” Jane presented five true or false questions for the “Believe it or not Section”. It is true that you can not cry in space because there is no gravity!
George presented his #8 speech in his CTM manual. His title was “A Turkeys’ Tale”.
Marie evaluated his speech.
Allan shared his #4 speech in the CTM Manual “My Dog Wally”. There was a round table evaluation with lots of glow points and a few grow points.
Gary presented Table topics with the help of his daughter, Nicole. Members had to reply falsely to a series of questions. Welcome guest Chris won the table topics award.
Keith Stoltz summed up the best aspects of the meeting and offered a few suggestions for improvement.
Brian concluded the meeting and Murder Mystery practice began. Members should have their parts memorized for next week.
October 26, 2006
Linguists of Listowel held their open house demonstration meeting. The Theme of the meeting was “Challenges”. Sheryl called the meeting to order at 7:15 and introduced chair person Brian. He welcomed guests Nicole, Devon and Chris. Marie asked everyone what their favorite country was and on the count of three there was an overwhelming chorus of CANADA. This was followed by a toast to Canada.
As Language enricher Diane chose the word Stimulate which means to rouse up or spur. For example, the meeting stimulated her imagination. It was used six times during the evening.
Audrey read a chapter from the book “The Shepherd of the Hills.” Jane presented five true or false questions for the “Believe it or not Section”. It is true that you can not cry in space because there is no gravity!
George presented his #8 speech in his CTM manual. His title was “A Turkeys’ Tale”.
Marie evaluated his speech.
Allan shared his #4 speech in the CTM Manual “My Dog Wally”. There was a round table evaluation with lots of glow points and a few grow points.
Gary presented Table topics with the help of his daughter, Nicole. Members had to reply falsely to a series of questions. Welcome guest Chris won the table topics award.
Keith Stoltz summed up the best aspects of the meeting and offered a few suggestions for improvement.
Brian concluded the meeting and Murder Mystery practice began. Members should have their parts memorized for next week.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel met at St Paul’s Lutheran Church on October 19, 2006 at 7:15 pm.
Brian had a lot of fun as Chairman for this meeting. The theme was “Cast A Ways”.
He welcomed guest Sandra and she introduced herself to the club. Gary presented The Loyal Toast to Canada. Delegate was the word for the evening. As a verb it means to entrust a task to someone else, as a noun it means you could be a delegate or representative at a meeting. It was used three times during the meeting. Sheryl read the theme song to Gilligans Island. This brought back a lot of memories to everyone. Marie presented her #8 speech in her third CTM manual-Check your Wallets and your Hats. She described her experiences with lost wallets. It was evaluated by Keith. Jane gave her speech-Anaconda 3 about her trip to Australia and Diane evaluated it. Brian Camacho gave a communication exercise in place of table topics. Members had to follow verbal directions to draw a picture, without asking questions. Then they had the chance to draw a different picture and they could ask questions but there was a shorter time limit. Everyone felt it was very beneficial to be able to ask questions.
Allan did an excellent job as General Evaluator. He gave us many good points on the evening and motivated everyone with some grow points.
Murder mystery practice followed the meeting.
Friday October 20, 2006 was the Western Division Humorous and Table Topics competition at the Kin Station in Listowel.
Linguists of Listowel met at St Paul’s Lutheran Church on October 19, 2006 at 7:15 pm.
Brian had a lot of fun as Chairman for this meeting. The theme was “Cast A Ways”.
He welcomed guest Sandra and she introduced herself to the club. Gary presented The Loyal Toast to Canada. Delegate was the word for the evening. As a verb it means to entrust a task to someone else, as a noun it means you could be a delegate or representative at a meeting. It was used three times during the meeting. Sheryl read the theme song to Gilligans Island. This brought back a lot of memories to everyone. Marie presented her #8 speech in her third CTM manual-Check your Wallets and your Hats. She described her experiences with lost wallets. It was evaluated by Keith. Jane gave her speech-Anaconda 3 about her trip to Australia and Diane evaluated it. Brian Camacho gave a communication exercise in place of table topics. Members had to follow verbal directions to draw a picture, without asking questions. Then they had the chance to draw a different picture and they could ask questions but there was a shorter time limit. Everyone felt it was very beneficial to be able to ask questions.
Allan did an excellent job as General Evaluator. He gave us many good points on the evening and motivated everyone with some grow points.
Murder mystery practice followed the meeting.
Friday October 20, 2006 was the Western Division Humorous and Table Topics competition at the Kin Station in Listowel.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
October 5, 2006
The theme was "Challenges" when the Linguists of Listowel met at St. Pauls Lutheran church. Audrey gave the Call to Order and introduced chairperson Marie. Gary presented the loyal toast. Georges' new word for the day was Syllogism. Keith presented literary corner and Jane followed with tips or useless tips. Diane got everyone laughing with her humorous speech "Frazzled". Most people could identify with losing their car in a parking lot. Marie challenged the members with table topics. There was a round table evaluation for Diane's speech. A short business meeting followed the regular meeting. An ad will be placed in the banner and the independant plus for the upcoming Western Division Contest at the Kin Station on October 20, 2006.
October 12, 2006
The meeting began at 7:15 with the call to order by chairperson Allan. Marie introduced special guest Sandra. Audrey presented the loyal toast and mentioned Canadians have much to be thankful for at Thanksgiving. Janes' word for the evening was flummery which can mean sweet dishes or empty compliments. This word was used at least six times during the evening. Diane read "A Turkey of a Tale" by Cynthia Borris. Keith told a story about a lost passport. It did have a happy ending. Sheryl gave some true or false questions- food for thought! George had a turkey story for the Believe it or Not section of the meeting.
Brian did a dramatic presentation that had everyone laughing. He did an excellent job complete with a costume and props. Marie evaluated his speech.
Keith had a bag of household untensils and asked everyone to tell how they would use their item to prepare their turkey for thanksgiving dinner. Our guest Sandra won with her ideas for an icecream scoop!
There was a round table evaluation of the meeting and refreshments were enjoyed.
October 5, 2006
The theme was "Challenges" when the Linguists of Listowel met at St. Pauls Lutheran church. Audrey gave the Call to Order and introduced chairperson Marie. Gary presented the loyal toast. Georges' new word for the day was Syllogism. Keith presented literary corner and Jane followed with tips or useless tips. Diane got everyone laughing with her humorous speech "Frazzled". Most people could identify with losing their car in a parking lot. Marie challenged the members with table topics. There was a round table evaluation for Diane's speech. A short business meeting followed the regular meeting. An ad will be placed in the banner and the independant plus for the upcoming Western Division Contest at the Kin Station on October 20, 2006.
October 12, 2006
The meeting began at 7:15 with the call to order by chairperson Allan. Marie introduced special guest Sandra. Audrey presented the loyal toast and mentioned Canadians have much to be thankful for at Thanksgiving. Janes' word for the evening was flummery which can mean sweet dishes or empty compliments. This word was used at least six times during the evening. Diane read "A Turkey of a Tale" by Cynthia Borris. Keith told a story about a lost passport. It did have a happy ending. Sheryl gave some true or false questions- food for thought! George had a turkey story for the Believe it or Not section of the meeting.
Brian did a dramatic presentation that had everyone laughing. He did an excellent job complete with a costume and props. Marie evaluated his speech.
Keith had a bag of household untensils and asked everyone to tell how they would use their item to prepare their turkey for thanksgiving dinner. Our guest Sandra won with her ideas for an icecream scoop!
There was a round table evaluation of the meeting and refreshments were enjoyed.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
Meeting - Thursday September 21, 2006
Theme: Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest
Call to order by Marie at 7:15 pm. She welcomed all members, guests and visitors from the Mt Forest Motivators.
Keith chaired the humorous contest. He warmed up the audience with his wallet speech. Jane was chief judge and explained the rules and purpose of the humourous contest.
Contestants and Speech Title
Linda - Daycare fun
Brian - What do you do with a drunken Sailor?
Marie - Feng Che
Diane - Frazzled
The second phase of our contest was the Table Topics portion. Caroline Beren was the chairperson. The topic was "WHO DID THAT?"
There were six contestants:
Brian, Sheryl, Allan, Jane, Audrey,Gary- a great job by everyone.
And the winners of the Humorous speech were: Marie - First Place, Diane - Second place
Table topics winners were First place - Audrey, Second Place -Allan, third place - Brian
Way to go contestants- it was a very enjoyable evening.
Marie and Audrey will be representing Linguists of Listowel at the area contest Oct 4, 2006 in Harriston.
The Western Division Humorous Speech and Table Topics contest will be held at the Kin Station in Listowel on Friday October 20th. That evening you will see 8 outstanding humorous speakers and 8 brilliant Toastmasters that love Table topics from across south-western Ontario. Western Division consists of over 600 Toasmaster members from Owen Sound to Guelph to Cambridge to Kitchener- Waterloo to London and to the lake. Listowel is now the center of our Division. Members of the community are welcome to attend.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm
Diane
Meeting - Thursday September 21, 2006
Theme: Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest
Call to order by Marie at 7:15 pm. She welcomed all members, guests and visitors from the Mt Forest Motivators.
Keith chaired the humorous contest. He warmed up the audience with his wallet speech. Jane was chief judge and explained the rules and purpose of the humourous contest.
Contestants and Speech Title
Linda - Daycare fun
Brian - What do you do with a drunken Sailor?
Marie - Feng Che
Diane - Frazzled
The second phase of our contest was the Table Topics portion. Caroline Beren was the chairperson. The topic was "WHO DID THAT?"
There were six contestants:
Brian, Sheryl, Allan, Jane, Audrey,Gary- a great job by everyone.
And the winners of the Humorous speech were: Marie - First Place, Diane - Second place
Table topics winners were First place - Audrey, Second Place -Allan, third place - Brian
Way to go contestants- it was a very enjoyable evening.
Marie and Audrey will be representing Linguists of Listowel at the area contest Oct 4, 2006 in Harriston.
The Western Division Humorous Speech and Table Topics contest will be held at the Kin Station in Listowel on Friday October 20th. That evening you will see 8 outstanding humorous speakers and 8 brilliant Toastmasters that love Table topics from across south-western Ontario. Western Division consists of over 600 Toasmaster members from Owen Sound to Guelph to Cambridge to Kitchener- Waterloo to London and to the lake. Listowel is now the center of our Division. Members of the community are welcome to attend.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm
Diane
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
"The Journey" was the theme for this evenings meeting. Audrey gave a heartwarming memorial to Brenda. She passed away last month after a long battle with cancer and she will be dearly missed. She was an experienced toastmaster and had earned the toastmasters highest award, her DTM.
Brian chaired the meeting and welcomed all members. Diane gave the loyal toast to Canada. She mentioned the hard work Canadian garderners go to as winter approaches. There are many fall flowers that continue to bloom well into October.
George presented the word Soliloquize or Soliloquy which means talking to oneself. Sheryl read an article on pie baking for literary corner. She used a gread deal of expression so people could just picture someone baking a pie.
Marie presented an advanced manual speech on public relations. She explained how important it is to set goals in our toastmasters club and to encourage everyone else to set goals as well. Public relations are very important in getting new members to join and experience the journey to speaking competently.
Jane chaired the table topics portion of the meeting. Since the table topics competition is next week everyone had the opportunity to speak for two minutes about what journey they would take if they won a specified amount in an instant lottery. It was hilarious! George, Diane and Gary tied for third place, Keith was second and Brian was the winner! Gary challenged everyone as quiz master.
Keith was general evaluator and gave lots of glow and grow points. He stressed we should follow the agenda and not get sidetracked. Chairman Brian challenged everyone to plan to do two speeches before Christmas. Members are invited to attend Mount Forest Motivators on Tuesday evening for their humourous and table topics speech contest.
Diane
"The Journey" was the theme for this evenings meeting. Audrey gave a heartwarming memorial to Brenda. She passed away last month after a long battle with cancer and she will be dearly missed. She was an experienced toastmaster and had earned the toastmasters highest award, her DTM.
Brian chaired the meeting and welcomed all members. Diane gave the loyal toast to Canada. She mentioned the hard work Canadian garderners go to as winter approaches. There are many fall flowers that continue to bloom well into October.
George presented the word Soliloquize or Soliloquy which means talking to oneself. Sheryl read an article on pie baking for literary corner. She used a gread deal of expression so people could just picture someone baking a pie.
Marie presented an advanced manual speech on public relations. She explained how important it is to set goals in our toastmasters club and to encourage everyone else to set goals as well. Public relations are very important in getting new members to join and experience the journey to speaking competently.
Jane chaired the table topics portion of the meeting. Since the table topics competition is next week everyone had the opportunity to speak for two minutes about what journey they would take if they won a specified amount in an instant lottery. It was hilarious! George, Diane and Gary tied for third place, Keith was second and Brian was the winner! Gary challenged everyone as quiz master.
Keith was general evaluator and gave lots of glow and grow points. He stressed we should follow the agenda and not get sidetracked. Chairman Brian challenged everyone to plan to do two speeches before Christmas. Members are invited to attend Mount Forest Motivators on Tuesday evening for their humourous and table topics speech contest.
Diane
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
September 7, 2006
"Summer of 2006" was the theme for the Linguists of Listowel September 7th meeting. VP of Education Marie excelled as chairperson for the evening. She welcomed special guests from the Mount Forest Motivators club. They were President Marge and Area Governor Al.
Keith presented the Loyal Toast to Canada. He'd just returned from a visit to Australia and he had lots of praise for Canadians and their sense of humour. He noticed that it was the Candians and the Australians who laughted the most at the tour guides jokes. "Whats up with the members?" was a new challenge for the meeting. If your name was not on the agenda then you were allowed a minute to expain why and then have first choice for the agenda for the following week.
As Language enricher, Jane presented the word "Awesome" She was impressed that eveyone had a chance to use this word several times during the evening. Audrey gave her point of view- "Do it Now". Her idea was that people should make the most of life and not wait till they have time. If you want to travel then do it. If you want to go camping then do it. You may even want to quit your job so you can do the things you want to do! Several members had a counter point of view in that you have to work if you want to have the money to do the extra things in life. If you really enjoy your job then that's what you should be doing to be self fulfilled.
Diane led Table Topics. Each member could speak about a barbeque party where they featured a special recipe. Everyone listened closely and chose Gary's Barbeque party as the one they'd like to attend. Quizmaster Allan challenged us to remember who said what during the meeting. Area governor Al presented the Distinquished Club Program and challenged everyone to get involved. There have been some name changes and a brand new Competent Leader book. This manual will guide you through the learning process and give you practical leadership experience. It focuses on leadership skills you can learn by serving in various toastmaster meeting roles. You can learn how to listen, plan, organize, facilitate, motivate, mentor and build a team. Marge evaluated the whole meeting. She was very helpful and encouraged the club to keep up the good work and quality of their meetings.
September 7, 2006
"Summer of 2006" was the theme for the Linguists of Listowel September 7th meeting. VP of Education Marie excelled as chairperson for the evening. She welcomed special guests from the Mount Forest Motivators club. They were President Marge and Area Governor Al.
Keith presented the Loyal Toast to Canada. He'd just returned from a visit to Australia and he had lots of praise for Canadians and their sense of humour. He noticed that it was the Candians and the Australians who laughted the most at the tour guides jokes. "Whats up with the members?" was a new challenge for the meeting. If your name was not on the agenda then you were allowed a minute to expain why and then have first choice for the agenda for the following week.
As Language enricher, Jane presented the word "Awesome" She was impressed that eveyone had a chance to use this word several times during the evening. Audrey gave her point of view- "Do it Now". Her idea was that people should make the most of life and not wait till they have time. If you want to travel then do it. If you want to go camping then do it. You may even want to quit your job so you can do the things you want to do! Several members had a counter point of view in that you have to work if you want to have the money to do the extra things in life. If you really enjoy your job then that's what you should be doing to be self fulfilled.
Diane led Table Topics. Each member could speak about a barbeque party where they featured a special recipe. Everyone listened closely and chose Gary's Barbeque party as the one they'd like to attend. Quizmaster Allan challenged us to remember who said what during the meeting. Area governor Al presented the Distinquished Club Program and challenged everyone to get involved. There have been some name changes and a brand new Competent Leader book. This manual will guide you through the learning process and give you practical leadership experience. It focuses on leadership skills you can learn by serving in various toastmaster meeting roles. You can learn how to listen, plan, organize, facilitate, motivate, mentor and build a team. Marge evaluated the whole meeting. She was very helpful and encouraged the club to keep up the good work and quality of their meetings.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
June 29, 2006
There was fine food, great wines and fantastic company as the Linguists of Listowel sat down for the summer banquet. Marie opened the evening with a funny story about John our chair for the night. John skillfully chaired the meeting with the theme of Best/Worst summer jobs.
George provided the loyal toast to Canada. He wished Canada a happy 139th birthday. Canada is a country where students have endless opportunities to find a job. Sheryl said Grace before our meal.
Jane presented the word “garrulous”. This is an adjective which means “talking too much about trivial things”. Keith read several of our clubs blog write ups from last June. Brian presented a speech called “It is a lot like Juggling”. Brian is a very talented juggler. He presented an outstanding analogy on juggling and giving speeches. As usual, Brian had everyone laughing. Ken evaluated Brian.
Audrey chair Table topics with our guests Marilyn N and Marge S winning. John presented the presidents pin to Brian. He also installed the new executive. Keith presented John with the Past Presidents pin.
Allan kept everyone guessing as the quizmaster. Linda P did an outstanding job as General Evaluator.
George provided the loyal toast to Canada. He wished Canada a happy 139th birthday. Canada is a country where students have endless opportunities to find a job. Sheryl said Grace before our meal.
Jane presented the word “garrulous”. This is an adjective which means “talking too much about trivial things”. Keith read several of our clubs blog write ups from last June. Brian presented a speech called “It is a lot like Juggling”. Brian is a very talented juggler. He presented an outstanding analogy on juggling and giving speeches. As usual, Brian had everyone laughing. Ken evaluated Brian.
Audrey chair Table topics with our guests Marilyn N and Marge S winning. John presented the presidents pin to Brian. He also installed the new executive. Keith presented John with the Past Presidents pin.
Allan kept everyone guessing as the quizmaster. Linda P did an outstanding job as General Evaluator.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
June 22, 2006
Marie had fun as the chair of our weekly meeting. The theme for this meeting was “Canada Day Celebrations-what do you do”. Gary did the call to order with a very funny story. Brian presented a 4 minute toast which first presented 5 years ago. Gary’s word for language enricher was “queasy” which means affected with nausea. He also presented the word “squeamish” which means easily made nauseous.
Audrey read several very interesting stories about Canada and place in visit in Ontario. Dave presented in Ice Breaker speech called Reminiscences. Dave is also a professional piano player. It was a Ice Breaker to remember as he gave his speech and entertained everyone with his playing.
Linda P presented a speech called Lucky Number Seven from the Specialty Speech manual. Jane presented her final speech for her ATM Gold. Keith evaluated Dave’s speech; Brian evaluated Linda’s and Ken evaluated Jane’s speech.
Sheryl was quizmaster and we did a round table general evaluation of the meeting. Plan to attend our year end banquet on June 29th. The theme will be “Best/Worst summer jobs”
Audrey read several very interesting stories about Canada and place in visit in Ontario. Dave presented in Ice Breaker speech called Reminiscences. Dave is also a professional piano player. It was a Ice Breaker to remember as he gave his speech and entertained everyone with his playing.
Linda P presented a speech called Lucky Number Seven from the Specialty Speech manual. Jane presented her final speech for her ATM Gold. Keith evaluated Dave’s speech; Brian evaluated Linda’s and Ken evaluated Jane’s speech.
Sheryl was quizmaster and we did a round table general evaluation of the meeting. Plan to attend our year end banquet on June 29th. The theme will be “Best/Worst summer jobs”
June 15, 2006
Lights, camera, action! It was a Fathers Day video taping of our weekly Toastmaster meeting. The meeting was taped so Brenda would be able to watch one of our meetings again. Brian was our chair for the meeting. He told us many funny stories about fathers. New member Dave toasted men’s health week. Sheryl gave us the word “Philomath” for language enricher. Philomath is a noun which means “a scholar” or “a lover of learning”.
George read a very humourous story called “Suicide Hill”. Marie kept everyone laughing with table topics. Each member had to portray a famous father. George won table topics with a very funny about his father called Peter Pan.
Keith presented Point of View on why we should have Father’s Day every month. Linda M presented the Counter Point of View. Linda P was the quizmaster and Audrey was the General Evaluator.
The meeting ended with some fun Father’s Day refreshments. Plan to attend our next meeting with the theme of Canada Day Celebrations.
George read a very humourous story called “Suicide Hill”. Marie kept everyone laughing with table topics. Each member had to portray a famous father. George won table topics with a very funny about his father called Peter Pan.
Keith presented Point of View on why we should have Father’s Day every month. Linda M presented the Counter Point of View. Linda P was the quizmaster and Audrey was the General Evaluator.
The meeting ended with some fun Father’s Day refreshments. Plan to attend our next meeting with the theme of Canada Day Celebrations.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
June 8, 2006
Movie reviews was the theme for this weeks Toastmaster meeting. Allan started the meeting with a humorous story about Brian. Brian had fun with our theme. He introduced each member as an actor or actress and told us what movie we would star in. We were honoured to have a guest with us tonight. Newest member Sheryl brought her friend Barbara to our fun filled evening.
George provided our toast to Canada and Keith read a movie review for literary corner. Allan presented speech number six from the CTM manual. His very humorous story was called “The Untold Story”. Allan kept us laughing as he told us about the local history.
Jane presented table topics. She gave everyone a record album and we had to tell the audience why the album brought back memories. We also had to do our presentation with an emotion that Jane suggested. Ken was declared the winner after all the laughter had subsided.
Sheryl presented the Point of View. She told us why this movie was an outstanding, action packed, thriller. Linda P gave the Counter Point of View. She told us the opposite. Both Sheryl and Linda gave excellent reasons on why we should or shouldn’t see the movie. It was very funny when both ladies admitted that they had not seen the movie.
Ken presented an excellent General Evaluation for the evening. We had an excellent turn out, we had a guest and we had lots of laughter. See you at the next meeting.
Keith
George provided our toast to Canada and Keith read a movie review for literary corner. Allan presented speech number six from the CTM manual. His very humorous story was called “The Untold Story”. Allan kept us laughing as he told us about the local history.
Jane presented table topics. She gave everyone a record album and we had to tell the audience why the album brought back memories. We also had to do our presentation with an emotion that Jane suggested. Ken was declared the winner after all the laughter had subsided.
Sheryl presented the Point of View. She told us why this movie was an outstanding, action packed, thriller. Linda P gave the Counter Point of View. She told us the opposite. Both Sheryl and Linda gave excellent reasons on why we should or shouldn’t see the movie. It was very funny when both ladies admitted that they had not seen the movie.
Ken presented an excellent General Evaluation for the evening. We had an excellent turn out, we had a guest and we had lots of laughter. See you at the next meeting.
Keith
Saturday, June 03, 2006
June 1, 2006
George did an outstanding job as chair at our fun filled Toastmaster meeting. This was George’s first time as chair and he handled it like a pro. He introduced each member with the place that person would like to visit during the holidays. Audrey introduced George by remarking that George has more time to travel now since he is semi-retired.
Newest member, David presented the toast to Canada. Allan gave us the word travelogue for language enricher. Travelogue is a noun which means a “lecture on ones journey” or “a documentary film describing a foreign country”. Marie read Bugs Vacation for literary corner. A bug’s life is unforgettable.
Sheryl presented her ice breaker speech. The club got to know her better as she told us about the key points in her life. Very well done Sheryl. Brian had everyone involved in an exciting round of table topics. One person had to do a one minute point of view on why they wanted to vacation at the suggested location. The next person had to do the counter point of view on why they would not want to vacation at that location. Person number one then had 30 seconds for a rebuttal with the second person having another 30 seconds for the final counter point of view. After all the laughter had subsided, Jane was declared the Table Topic winner.
Jane did the evaluation for Sheryl, Linda P was the quizmaster and Keith completed the evening as the General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 8th starting at 7:14 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave, Listowel. The theme is “Movie Reviews”.
Newest member, David presented the toast to Canada. Allan gave us the word travelogue for language enricher. Travelogue is a noun which means a “lecture on ones journey” or “a documentary film describing a foreign country”. Marie read Bugs Vacation for literary corner. A bug’s life is unforgettable.
Sheryl presented her ice breaker speech. The club got to know her better as she told us about the key points in her life. Very well done Sheryl. Brian had everyone involved in an exciting round of table topics. One person had to do a one minute point of view on why they wanted to vacation at the suggested location. The next person had to do the counter point of view on why they would not want to vacation at that location. Person number one then had 30 seconds for a rebuttal with the second person having another 30 seconds for the final counter point of view. After all the laughter had subsided, Jane was declared the Table Topic winner.
Jane did the evaluation for Sheryl, Linda P was the quizmaster and Keith completed the evening as the General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 8th starting at 7:14 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave, Listowel. The theme is “Movie Reviews”.
Friday, May 26, 2006
May 25, 2006
Brian has fun with “My Favourite actor/actress is” theme at our weekly Toastmaster meeting. He skillfully chaired the meeting as he told each member why they resembled a famous actor or actress. The Toastmaster members were transformed into everyone from Mr. Bean to Judge Judy.
George did the call to order by telling us that the Linguists of Listowel Murder Mystery crew was his pick for best actors and actresses. George also gave a toast to Queen Victoria and to Canada. Jane presented two words for language enricher. Effusive: which is an adjective meaning excessively demonstrative. Topsy-Turvy: This means in utter confusion or disorder. Sheryl read an article for literary corner. Keith presented an Education Module called “Creating the Best Club Climate”.
Ken had fun with table topics. Half the members were the producers and the other half were the actors/actresses. There was no clear winner although Audrey did get picked many times. Keith presented speech number one from the Interpretive Reading manual. Jane presented a speech about Josh Groban and then played one of his pieces on the piano. Marie evaluated Keith’s interpretive reading and there was a round table evaluation for Jane. Audrey kept us listening and guessing for quizmaster. Linda P summed up the evening as General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 1st with the theme “The places you will see and visit during the holidays. Same Place – Same Time.
Keith
George did the call to order by telling us that the Linguists of Listowel Murder Mystery crew was his pick for best actors and actresses. George also gave a toast to Queen Victoria and to Canada. Jane presented two words for language enricher. Effusive: which is an adjective meaning excessively demonstrative. Topsy-Turvy: This means in utter confusion or disorder. Sheryl read an article for literary corner. Keith presented an Education Module called “Creating the Best Club Climate”.
Ken had fun with table topics. Half the members were the producers and the other half were the actors/actresses. There was no clear winner although Audrey did get picked many times. Keith presented speech number one from the Interpretive Reading manual. Jane presented a speech about Josh Groban and then played one of his pieces on the piano. Marie evaluated Keith’s interpretive reading and there was a round table evaluation for Jane. Audrey kept us listening and guessing for quizmaster. Linda P summed up the evening as General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 1st with the theme “The places you will see and visit during the holidays. Same Place – Same Time.
Keith
May 25, 2006
Brian has fun with “My Favourite actor/actress is” theme at our weekly Toastmaster meeting. He skillfully chaired the meeting as he told each member why they resembled a famous actor or actress. The Toastmaster members were transformed into everyone from Mr. Bean to Judge Judy.
George did the call to order by telling us that the Linguists of Listowel Murder Mystery crew was his pick for best actors and actresses. George also gave a toast to Queen Victoria and to Canada. Jane presented two words for language enricher. Effusive: which is an adjective meaning excessively demonstrative. Topsy-Turvy: This means in utter confusion or disorder. Sheryl read an article for literary corner. Keith presented an Education Module called “Creating the Best Club Climate”.
Ken had fun with table topics. Half the members were the producers and the other half were the actors/actresses. There was no clear winner although Audrey did get picked many times. Keith presented speech number one from the Interpretive Reading manual. Jane presented a speech about Josh Groban and then played one of his pieces on the piano. Marie evaluated Keith’s interpretive reading and there was a round table evaluation for Jane. Audrey kept us listening and guessing for quizmaster. Linda P summed up the evening as General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 1st with the theme “The places you will see and visit during the holidays. Same Place – Same Time.
Keith
George did the call to order by telling us that the Linguists of Listowel Murder Mystery crew was his pick for best actors and actresses. George also gave a toast to Queen Victoria and to Canada. Jane presented two words for language enricher. Effusive: which is an adjective meaning excessively demonstrative. Topsy-Turvy: This means in utter confusion or disorder. Sheryl read an article for literary corner. Keith presented an Education Module called “Creating the Best Club Climate”.
Ken had fun with table topics. Half the members were the producers and the other half were the actors/actresses. There was no clear winner although Audrey did get picked many times. Keith presented speech number one from the Interpretive Reading manual. Jane presented a speech about Josh Groban and then played one of his pieces on the piano. Marie evaluated Keith’s interpretive reading and there was a round table evaluation for Jane. Audrey kept us listening and guessing for quizmaster. Linda P summed up the evening as General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend our next meeting on June 1st with the theme “The places you will see and visit during the holidays. Same Place – Same Time.
Keith
Friday, May 19, 2006
May 18, 2006
It was Book Review time at the weekly Toastmaster meeting in Listowel. It was an evening full of laughter and fun. It was a night where we used the language enricher word a record number of times. It was a night where we gained a new member. Thank you David W for joining our exciting club. Nicole was our guest for our meeting.
Sheryl started the meeting with a complimentary welcome to Brian, the chair for the meeting. Brian kept the meeting running smoothly as he introduced each member as a character from a book. Brian told us his favourite book is called “Hitchhiking Through the Galaxy”.
Gary toasted Canada by reminding everyone about our freedoms that we have. Freedoms to read any book we like. George was language enricher. His word was “Shilly Shalley”. It is a verb which means; to act in an undecided manner or to hesitate. The word was used 11 times during the meeting. One person used it three times in table topics.
Jane entertained everyone with tongue twisters. She had everyone in the room read one tongue twister. Keith presented the “Going Beyond the Club” Educational Module. Everyone had fun with Audrey’s table topics. She had each member take a book and do a one minute book review. Keith won this round of table topics.
Brian wrapped up the meeting with another humorous story. Please attend our next meeting on Thursday May 25th starting at 7:14 pm. The theme is “My favourite actor/actress is……..
Sheryl started the meeting with a complimentary welcome to Brian, the chair for the meeting. Brian kept the meeting running smoothly as he introduced each member as a character from a book. Brian told us his favourite book is called “Hitchhiking Through the Galaxy”.
Gary toasted Canada by reminding everyone about our freedoms that we have. Freedoms to read any book we like. George was language enricher. His word was “Shilly Shalley”. It is a verb which means; to act in an undecided manner or to hesitate. The word was used 11 times during the meeting. One person used it three times in table topics.
Jane entertained everyone with tongue twisters. She had everyone in the room read one tongue twister. Keith presented the “Going Beyond the Club” Educational Module. Everyone had fun with Audrey’s table topics. She had each member take a book and do a one minute book review. Keith won this round of table topics.
Brian wrapped up the meeting with another humorous story. Please attend our next meeting on Thursday May 25th starting at 7:14 pm. The theme is “My favourite actor/actress is……..
Monday, May 15, 2006
May 11, 2006
Toastmaster had a fun time with the Mother's Day theme at our weekly meeting. Linda P skillfully and humorously had everyone laughing all night long. Linda told us her favourite motherly sayings.
Gary introduced Dave W, our guest for the evening. George provided us with a toast to mothers and to Canada. Gary provided the word “Slugabed” for language enricher. A slugabed is someone who stays in bed longer than they should. Audrey read a story called “How we Kept Mother’s Day”.
Brian provided his point of view on why Listowel needs a Recreational Centre and Gary provide the counter point of view on why Listowel does not need a Recreational Centre. Newest member Sheryl presented a 6 minute impromptu speech. Sheryl did an outstanding job considering she has not presented her ice breaker speech yet. Ken gave a glowing evaluation of Sheryl’s speech.
Jane presented table topics. She asked all members to pick up a garage sale item from the churches garage sale table. The members had to explain why they were giving this gift to their mother or spouse. Ken won table topics with his memorable “one boot in the grave” story. The evening ended with Keith as quizmaster and Audrey as General Evaluator.
Plan on attending the next meeting on May 18th with the theme of “Book Reviews”
Keith
Gary introduced Dave W, our guest for the evening. George provided us with a toast to mothers and to Canada. Gary provided the word “Slugabed” for language enricher. A slugabed is someone who stays in bed longer than they should. Audrey read a story called “How we Kept Mother’s Day”.
Brian provided his point of view on why Listowel needs a Recreational Centre and Gary provide the counter point of view on why Listowel does not need a Recreational Centre. Newest member Sheryl presented a 6 minute impromptu speech. Sheryl did an outstanding job considering she has not presented her ice breaker speech yet. Ken gave a glowing evaluation of Sheryl’s speech.
Jane presented table topics. She asked all members to pick up a garage sale item from the churches garage sale table. The members had to explain why they were giving this gift to their mother or spouse. Ken won table topics with his memorable “one boot in the grave” story. The evening ended with Keith as quizmaster and Audrey as General Evaluator.
Plan on attending the next meeting on May 18th with the theme of “Book Reviews”
Keith
May 4, 2006
Hello Everyone:
We have our new 2006-2007 executive as follows:
President: Brian
VP of Membership: Gary
VP of Public Relations: Diane B
VP of Education: Marie
Secretary: Audrey
Treasurer: Allan
Sergeant of Arms: Sheryl
Congratulations to All!
P.S. Linda P - please send in this important information into International Toastmasters.
Next Week's meeting needs some roles filled!
Let's try to get all positions filled on Monday evening by 7:15 p.m. sharp!
There's a TM $1.00 gift certificate to everyone who committs by the Monday evening deadline!
You must be present at the meeting to claim your prize! Sorry, no
rainchecks.
May 11th Meeting
Theme: Mother's Day
Call to Order: ______________
Chair: Linda P
Toast/Timer: ______________
Language Enricher:_________
Literary Corner: Audrey
Speaker #1: ______________
Speaker #2: ______________
Educational Module: ________
Point of View: _____________
Counter Point of View: ______
Evaluator #1: _____________
Evaluator#2: _____________
Table Topics: ____________
Quizmaster: _____________
General Evaluator: _________
Business Meeting:
Anything for the Good of Toastmasters:
Regrets: Allan, Diane B, Marie
Linguists Meeting Dates, Themes, Important Dates Etc......
Thurs May 18th: Book Reviews
Thurs May 25th: My favourite actor/actress is.....
Thurs June 1st: Oh the places you will see and visit during the holidays.....
Thurs June 8th: Movie Reviews
Thurs June 15: Father's Day
Thurs June 22: Canada Day Celebrations
Thurs June 29: Graduation Ceremonies - Potluck Installation of Officers Meeting Fri June 30: Has everyone sent in their paperwork for CL, CTM, ATM-B, ATM-S, ATM-G, DTM into International Toastmasters?
Thurs July 13th: Audrey's Place - Listowel Fair Day Parade Thurs July 27th: Felix's Place - Palmerston Thurs Aug 10th: Tall Tales Contest - St. Paul's Lutheran Church - Listowel Thurs Aug 24th: Gary's Place - Listowel Thurs Sept 7th: Back to School Regular Toastmaster Meeting
Remember: New Officer Training Days sometime in June
Jane
VP of Education
Linguists of Listowel
Toastmaster Club
We have our new 2006-2007 executive as follows:
President: Brian
VP of Membership: Gary
VP of Public Relations: Diane B
VP of Education: Marie
Secretary: Audrey
Treasurer: Allan
Sergeant of Arms: Sheryl
Congratulations to All!
P.S. Linda P - please send in this important information into International Toastmasters.
Next Week's meeting needs some roles filled!
Let's try to get all positions filled on Monday evening by 7:15 p.m. sharp!
There's a TM $1.00 gift certificate to everyone who committs by the Monday evening deadline!
You must be present at the meeting to claim your prize! Sorry, no
rainchecks.
May 11th Meeting
Theme: Mother's Day
Call to Order: ______________
Chair: Linda P
Toast/Timer: ______________
Language Enricher:_________
Literary Corner: Audrey
Speaker #1: ______________
Speaker #2: ______________
Educational Module: ________
Point of View: _____________
Counter Point of View: ______
Evaluator #1: _____________
Evaluator#2: _____________
Table Topics: ____________
Quizmaster: _____________
General Evaluator: _________
Business Meeting:
Anything for the Good of Toastmasters:
Regrets: Allan, Diane B, Marie
Linguists Meeting Dates, Themes, Important Dates Etc......
Thurs May 18th: Book Reviews
Thurs May 25th: My favourite actor/actress is.....
Thurs June 1st: Oh the places you will see and visit during the holidays.....
Thurs June 8th: Movie Reviews
Thurs June 15: Father's Day
Thurs June 22: Canada Day Celebrations
Thurs June 29: Graduation Ceremonies - Potluck Installation of Officers Meeting Fri June 30: Has everyone sent in their paperwork for CL, CTM, ATM-B, ATM-S, ATM-G, DTM into International Toastmasters?
Thurs July 13th: Audrey's Place - Listowel Fair Day Parade Thurs July 27th: Felix's Place - Palmerston Thurs Aug 10th: Tall Tales Contest - St. Paul's Lutheran Church - Listowel Thurs Aug 24th: Gary's Place - Listowel Thurs Sept 7th: Back to School Regular Toastmaster Meeting
Remember: New Officer Training Days sometime in June
Jane
VP of Education
Linguists of Listowel
Toastmaster Club
Saturday, April 22, 2006
April 20, 2006
Newest member Sheryl opened the meeting with a nice introduction to Marie, our chair for the evening. Our theme was “Spring has Sprung”. Marie used this theme throughout the meeting by explaining what type of spring each member was.
Ezra presented the Toast to Canada. He told us how nice it was to live in Canada and enjoy the beautiful spring weather. Especially today, since the temperature was a sunny and warm 22 degrees. Brian presented the word Empathy for language enricher. Audrey read two poems for literary corner. Her poems were called “Natures Call” and “I wander lonely as a Cloud”. Linda P presented an off the cuff speech called “My intimating Yard”. Keith presented a workshop called “Developing a Mission” from the Leadership Excellence Series. This was the last project that Keith had to do to achieve his silver.
Jane presented a challenging round of table topics where four members would work together to create a story. It was unofficial, but the one team of men won this round of table topics.
The meeting ended with a business meeting run by Jane. These are the nominations for the upcoming elections. President: Diane B, Brian, George. VP of Education; Marie. Treasurer: Allan. Secretary; Audrey, Linda P. Memberships; George, Gary. VP of Public Relations; Diane. Sergeant at Arms; Sheryl, Linda P. Please contact John P to add your name to this list.
Please attend our next meeting on April 27th at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Listowel starting at 7:14 pm. The theme is “Backwards Meeting”.
Keith
Ezra presented the Toast to Canada. He told us how nice it was to live in Canada and enjoy the beautiful spring weather. Especially today, since the temperature was a sunny and warm 22 degrees. Brian presented the word Empathy for language enricher. Audrey read two poems for literary corner. Her poems were called “Natures Call” and “I wander lonely as a Cloud”. Linda P presented an off the cuff speech called “My intimating Yard”. Keith presented a workshop called “Developing a Mission” from the Leadership Excellence Series. This was the last project that Keith had to do to achieve his silver.
Jane presented a challenging round of table topics where four members would work together to create a story. It was unofficial, but the one team of men won this round of table topics.
The meeting ended with a business meeting run by Jane. These are the nominations for the upcoming elections. President: Diane B, Brian, George. VP of Education; Marie. Treasurer: Allan. Secretary; Audrey, Linda P. Memberships; George, Gary. VP of Public Relations; Diane. Sergeant at Arms; Sheryl, Linda P. Please contact John P to add your name to this list.
Please attend our next meeting on April 27th at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Listowel starting at 7:14 pm. The theme is “Backwards Meeting”.
Keith
April 13, 2006
There was a fun Easter egg hunt as the Linguists of Listowel gathered for their weekly meeting. Heidy opened the meeting with a very funny story on an Easter egg hunt. She skillfully chaired the meeting. Linda M provided the Toast to Canada. Linda used to live in London, England and told us how lucky Canadians are to live in a country where there is a feeling of security.
Brian explained the difference between the words Affluent meaning wealthy and Effluent which means waste or sewage. He encouraged us to use both words during our meeting. Jane read us an Easter story about painting eggs with love.
Marie presented an off the cuff speech called “When did I turn into my mother”. This very humorous story was very entertaining. Keith presented an Educational Workshop called “Visionary Leader” from the Leadership Excellence Series. Jane presented the Point of View. Her point was that there should be a national holiday every year for an Easter egg hunt. Jane is still a kid at heart. Harvey presented the counter point of view.
Heidy presented a fun round of table topics. She made the members used a unique accent to read a story. Brian won this round of table topics. Linda P was second with her cowboy accent. It was a very humorous round of table topics. Brian gave everyone some very value grow and glow points as he presented his general evaluation of the meeting.
Keith
Brian explained the difference between the words Affluent meaning wealthy and Effluent which means waste or sewage. He encouraged us to use both words during our meeting. Jane read us an Easter story about painting eggs with love.
Marie presented an off the cuff speech called “When did I turn into my mother”. This very humorous story was very entertaining. Keith presented an Educational Workshop called “Visionary Leader” from the Leadership Excellence Series. Jane presented the Point of View. Her point was that there should be a national holiday every year for an Easter egg hunt. Jane is still a kid at heart. Harvey presented the counter point of view.
Heidy presented a fun round of table topics. She made the members used a unique accent to read a story. Brian won this round of table topics. Linda P was second with her cowboy accent. It was a very humorous round of table topics. Brian gave everyone some very value grow and glow points as he presented his general evaluation of the meeting.
Keith
Saturday, April 08, 2006
April 6, 2006
If only I had know..... was the theme for the weekly Toastmaster meeting on April 6th. We had one of the largest meetings of the year with everyone ready for a fun and educational evening. There were several guests at our meeting. Diane R from Toast of the Valley, Vermont and Cherlyn O from Gowanstown grace us with their presence.
Audrey opened the meeting with the call to order. She told us that we should not have any regrets and we should not concern ourselves with "If I had only know". Jane was the chair for the evening. Jane kept the meeting flowing with quotes and introducing each member as a famous person.
Diane B presented the Toast. She toasted the health and safety for all Canadians. Heidy was the language enricher. She taught us the differences between "resident" and "residence"; "constituent" and "constituency. George read a motivating story from Inspire the Body and Soul Life Lessons. He told us how to make each day a master piece. Diane R presented speech number five from the Story Telling manual. Her title was Bring History to Life. Brian presented speech number five from the Speaking To Inform manual. Both speeches were very enlighting and entertaining. The speeches were evaluated by Audrey and Keith respectively.
Linda M presented a mini humourous speech as she outlined how we were going to run table topics. Each member needed to help Linda solve a household problem that she was encountering. Audrey won table topics by telling Linda how to solve her garage door opening problem. Everyone laughed a dozen times as we heard the solutions.
Gary presented a very informative general evaluation for the evening. Overall, the meeting was very sucessful. We had a large crowd, we had guests and we had lots of fun and laughter.
Please attend our next meeting on April 13th. The theme is Easter Egg Hunt. Same place. Same time.
Keith
Audrey opened the meeting with the call to order. She told us that we should not have any regrets and we should not concern ourselves with "If I had only know". Jane was the chair for the evening. Jane kept the meeting flowing with quotes and introducing each member as a famous person.
Diane B presented the Toast. She toasted the health and safety for all Canadians. Heidy was the language enricher. She taught us the differences between "resident" and "residence"; "constituent" and "constituency. George read a motivating story from Inspire the Body and Soul Life Lessons. He told us how to make each day a master piece. Diane R presented speech number five from the Story Telling manual. Her title was Bring History to Life. Brian presented speech number five from the Speaking To Inform manual. Both speeches were very enlighting and entertaining. The speeches were evaluated by Audrey and Keith respectively.
Linda M presented a mini humourous speech as she outlined how we were going to run table topics. Each member needed to help Linda solve a household problem that she was encountering. Audrey won table topics by telling Linda how to solve her garage door opening problem. Everyone laughed a dozen times as we heard the solutions.
Gary presented a very informative general evaluation for the evening. Overall, the meeting was very sucessful. We had a large crowd, we had guests and we had lots of fun and laughter.
Please attend our next meeting on April 13th. The theme is Easter Egg Hunt. Same place. Same time.
Keith
Monday, March 27, 2006
March 23, 2006
March 23rd Meeting, Theme- Apologies Excepted
Although there was only a handful of members at this meeting we did cover some ground. Marie chaired, Felix read an article about corporate Toastmaster Clubs. George came prepared to time and give us the Loyal Toast. Linda Piper presented Table Topics which put us in a tag team of skits. Ezra and Jim were present. Brian gave an off the cuff speech of how he perceived the commentators and certain events in the recent Winter Olympics. It was humourous as usual but he really should partake in a game of curling before he tries to understand the terms used in this sport. His speech was evaluated by round table.
We ended the meeting brain storming how we can retain current members that are not coming out to our meetings and to increase our membership. We all agreed that we need new life to our meetings. This could be accomplished with new members and a variety of formats to our meetings. One suggestion was to send out a survey. A gavel club was discussed.
Lights, Camera Action is the theme for our next meeting. Sounds like fun, please plan to attend.
See you all next Thursday March 30, 2006.
Enjoy your week!
Marie
Although there was only a handful of members at this meeting we did cover some ground. Marie chaired, Felix read an article about corporate Toastmaster Clubs. George came prepared to time and give us the Loyal Toast. Linda Piper presented Table Topics which put us in a tag team of skits. Ezra and Jim were present. Brian gave an off the cuff speech of how he perceived the commentators and certain events in the recent Winter Olympics. It was humourous as usual but he really should partake in a game of curling before he tries to understand the terms used in this sport. His speech was evaluated by round table.
We ended the meeting brain storming how we can retain current members that are not coming out to our meetings and to increase our membership. We all agreed that we need new life to our meetings. This could be accomplished with new members and a variety of formats to our meetings. One suggestion was to send out a survey. A gavel club was discussed.
Lights, Camera Action is the theme for our next meeting. Sounds like fun, please plan to attend.
See you all next Thursday March 30, 2006.
Enjoy your week!
Marie
Monday, March 20, 2006
Linguists of Listowel
Linguists of Listowel
March 9, 2006
The Linguists of Listowel gathered at St Paul's Lutheran Church. The theme for the meeting was the "Luck of the Irish". It was an extremely foggy evening and members that did arrive said they were very lucky because the fog made driving very treacherous. George called the meeting to order at 7:15. He had a good Irish Joke and passed control over to Chairman Gary. Gary always has a joke to share and volunteers at every opportunity. He is keen to improve his speaking skills. Diane presented the loyal toast to Canada. She mentioned that Listowel has an Irish heritage and that everyone has a chance over the next two weeks to participate in Paddyfest celebrations. Our Irish ancestors came to Canada to find a better life in a country filled with freedom and opporunity for all. Paddyfest is about people celebrating Irish customs and raising money for a good cause. Idiosyncrasy was the word for language enricher. Keith presented Literary Corner. It was an interesting story called "A Dog's Diary". Jane gave an advanced manual speech about MSG. There are many hidden names for MSG and it can cause many people to feel very sick. There was a round table evaluation for her presentation. Keith had everyone participate in table topics. He had been to a Maddog theatre improv session and used some of the ideas he had learned to help people become more comfortable speaking in front of an audience. Eye contact is extremely important and challenging. Gary had a few quotes as quizmaster to check how well everyone was listening. There will be a murder mystery presentation at the Listowel legion March 16, 2006 at 7 pm. Guests are welcome. Diane
March 9, 2006
The Linguists of Listowel gathered at St Paul's Lutheran Church. The theme for the meeting was the "Luck of the Irish". It was an extremely foggy evening and members that did arrive said they were very lucky because the fog made driving very treacherous. George called the meeting to order at 7:15. He had a good Irish Joke and passed control over to Chairman Gary. Gary always has a joke to share and volunteers at every opportunity. He is keen to improve his speaking skills. Diane presented the loyal toast to Canada. She mentioned that Listowel has an Irish heritage and that everyone has a chance over the next two weeks to participate in Paddyfest celebrations. Our Irish ancestors came to Canada to find a better life in a country filled with freedom and opporunity for all. Paddyfest is about people celebrating Irish customs and raising money for a good cause. Idiosyncrasy was the word for language enricher. Keith presented Literary Corner. It was an interesting story called "A Dog's Diary". Jane gave an advanced manual speech about MSG. There are many hidden names for MSG and it can cause many people to feel very sick. There was a round table evaluation for her presentation. Keith had everyone participate in table topics. He had been to a Maddog theatre improv session and used some of the ideas he had learned to help people become more comfortable speaking in front of an audience. Eye contact is extremely important and challenging. Gary had a few quotes as quizmaster to check how well everyone was listening. There will be a murder mystery presentation at the Listowel legion March 16, 2006 at 7 pm. Guests are welcome. Diane
Friday, February 17, 2006
February 16, 2006
The Linguists of Listowel held their International Speech and Evaluation Contest at St Paul’s Lutheran Church. It was an exciting evening as the members of the Linguists showcased their best talents.
The Evaluation contest was chaired by Marie. Marie was assisted by Brenda as Chief Judge and Audrey as Sergeant of Arms. Our target speaker was Mark J from the Energetics Toastmaster Club in Waterloo. He presented a very enthusiastic speech called “My Least Favourite Season”. His least favourite season is RSP season. Mark kept us laughing as he made a complicated subject very easy to understand. We look forward to seeing Mark in future Humorous Speech Contests.
The contestants for the Evaluation contest were; Jane, Allan and John. Each contestant presented a well balanced evaluation that was clear and concise. After much deliberation, the judges placed Allan in first and Jane in second place. Allan and Jane will represent the Linguists of Listowel at the Area 18 contest.
The International Speech contest was chaired by Jane. Jane was assisted by Audrey who was Chief Judge and Sergeant of Arms. The contestants and their speech titles were: Allan-My Dog Wally; Gary-Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life; Brenda-When Things Go Wrong; Marie-For Your Enjoyment Only; Keith-Why Wait….Just Do it.
All the speeches were excellent. Anyone of the contestants would have been able to compete successfully at Area or at a Division contest. The judges put Gary in third place, Marie in second place and Keith in first place. Marie and Keith go on to the Area 18 contest. George and Linda P also helped in making the contest a success.
The Area 18 Contest will be held on Thursday March 2, 2006 at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave North, Listowel starting at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.
Our next meeting is on February 23, 2006 at St Pauls Lutheran Church starting at 7:14 pm. The theme of the meeting is “Homonyms”. It is guaranteed to be a meeting full of fun and laughter. Everyone is invited. See you there.
The Evaluation contest was chaired by Marie. Marie was assisted by Brenda as Chief Judge and Audrey as Sergeant of Arms. Our target speaker was Mark J from the Energetics Toastmaster Club in Waterloo. He presented a very enthusiastic speech called “My Least Favourite Season”. His least favourite season is RSP season. Mark kept us laughing as he made a complicated subject very easy to understand. We look forward to seeing Mark in future Humorous Speech Contests.
The contestants for the Evaluation contest were; Jane, Allan and John. Each contestant presented a well balanced evaluation that was clear and concise. After much deliberation, the judges placed Allan in first and Jane in second place. Allan and Jane will represent the Linguists of Listowel at the Area 18 contest.
The International Speech contest was chaired by Jane. Jane was assisted by Audrey who was Chief Judge and Sergeant of Arms. The contestants and their speech titles were: Allan-My Dog Wally; Gary-Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life; Brenda-When Things Go Wrong; Marie-For Your Enjoyment Only; Keith-Why Wait….Just Do it.
All the speeches were excellent. Anyone of the contestants would have been able to compete successfully at Area or at a Division contest. The judges put Gary in third place, Marie in second place and Keith in first place. Marie and Keith go on to the Area 18 contest. George and Linda P also helped in making the contest a success.
The Area 18 Contest will be held on Thursday March 2, 2006 at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave North, Listowel starting at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.
Our next meeting is on February 23, 2006 at St Pauls Lutheran Church starting at 7:14 pm. The theme of the meeting is “Homonyms”. It is guaranteed to be a meeting full of fun and laughter. Everyone is invited. See you there.
Monday, February 13, 2006
February 9, 2006
It was a fun Valentines meeting on Thursday February 9, 2006 as Toastmaster met for their weekly meeting. Linda P started the meeting with a humourous story about Chairperson Gary. Gary did an excellent job as chair. He skillfully told Valentine stories about each member. He kept us laughing with the details, jokes and stories.
Heidy presented a Toast to Canada and reminded everyone on the importance of freedom of speech. Heidy had recently attended a public meeting where she was ready to hand out Toastmaster cards inviting the politicians to a Toastmaster meeting. Heidy had a great idea to offer a training course for politicians especially since the municipal elections are happening this year.
George’s new word was “boondoggle” which means “any unnecessary or useless labour”. Jane read a story about Super Wrench for literary corner. Allan presented a very educational speech called “Are you Prepared”. Are you prepared if the power goes off for one or more days? He taught us five important steps that we should do to be prepared in case of a power failure. Heidy Schmidt did an outstanding job in evaluating Allan.
Audrey presented a timely Educational Workshop called “Evaluate to Motivate”. She gave out an excellent handout that covered the 10 behaviors of an effective evaluator. A round table evaluation gave Audrey many valuable glow points and grows points. Devin and Nicole stepped up to conduct Table Topics. It was a fun round with Audrey receiving the most votes. Keith recapped the evening as the General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend the next meeting on Thursday February 16th at 7:14 pm. This is the date of our International and Evaluation contest. Please plan to attend this fun evening. Everyone is invited. The contest will be held at St Pauls Lutheran Church at 505 Wallace Ave N, Listowel.
Keith
Heidy presented a Toast to Canada and reminded everyone on the importance of freedom of speech. Heidy had recently attended a public meeting where she was ready to hand out Toastmaster cards inviting the politicians to a Toastmaster meeting. Heidy had a great idea to offer a training course for politicians especially since the municipal elections are happening this year.
George’s new word was “boondoggle” which means “any unnecessary or useless labour”. Jane read a story about Super Wrench for literary corner. Allan presented a very educational speech called “Are you Prepared”. Are you prepared if the power goes off for one or more days? He taught us five important steps that we should do to be prepared in case of a power failure. Heidy Schmidt did an outstanding job in evaluating Allan.
Audrey presented a timely Educational Workshop called “Evaluate to Motivate”. She gave out an excellent handout that covered the 10 behaviors of an effective evaluator. A round table evaluation gave Audrey many valuable glow points and grows points. Devin and Nicole stepped up to conduct Table Topics. It was a fun round with Audrey receiving the most votes. Keith recapped the evening as the General Evaluator.
Be sure to attend the next meeting on Thursday February 16th at 7:14 pm. This is the date of our International and Evaluation contest. Please plan to attend this fun evening. Everyone is invited. The contest will be held at St Pauls Lutheran Church at 505 Wallace Ave N, Listowel.
Keith
Friday, January 27, 2006
January 26, 2006
Winter Vacations was a great theme for our meeting on Jan 26 (the day after the snow storm closed schools & some highways)
George started us off with his airport security check joke – do you know why knitting needles are prohibited on flights? -- Old lady may knit an Af….. Oops, you know what!
Chair John followed up with another plane joke with hunters trying to get their 2 moose home – funny thing, same thing happened previous year!
Marie’s Toast to Canada concentrated on our natural beauty with snow & ice on limbs (tree that is)
Surfacing from Monday’s Election, Audrey proposed ‘truthiness’ meaning perceived to be true, as our challenge for use this meeting.
First Speaker Jane gave us a fascinating demonstration on Quilting. The equipment & precision necessary interested us all.
Then second Speaker Keith helped us imagine a winter vacation in New Zealand—that would be in August – no snowmobiling & he’ll be broke for a long while IF he, Jane & Melissa go to meet up with Cameron (son).
Allan had a mischievous time setting up our two minute Table Topics (with little prep!) We had to speak on our holiday in unexpected locations remembering Opening, Body & Conclusion (& truthiness).
Diane & John gave smooth helpful evaluations of the speeches & Brenda wound up with the General Evaluation. Oh Marie described her frustrations with the stopwatch hilariously, & we’ll need to buy another before Contests night.
After Snack we had an Exec meeting. In order to earn any Distinguished Club status, Linguists needs more members out & completing projects.
How to accomplish this is the rub.
Brenda
George started us off with his airport security check joke – do you know why knitting needles are prohibited on flights? -- Old lady may knit an Af….. Oops, you know what!
Chair John followed up with another plane joke with hunters trying to get their 2 moose home – funny thing, same thing happened previous year!
Marie’s Toast to Canada concentrated on our natural beauty with snow & ice on limbs (tree that is)
Surfacing from Monday’s Election, Audrey proposed ‘truthiness’ meaning perceived to be true, as our challenge for use this meeting.
First Speaker Jane gave us a fascinating demonstration on Quilting. The equipment & precision necessary interested us all.
Then second Speaker Keith helped us imagine a winter vacation in New Zealand—that would be in August – no snowmobiling & he’ll be broke for a long while IF he, Jane & Melissa go to meet up with Cameron (son).
Allan had a mischievous time setting up our two minute Table Topics (with little prep!) We had to speak on our holiday in unexpected locations remembering Opening, Body & Conclusion (& truthiness).
Diane & John gave smooth helpful evaluations of the speeches & Brenda wound up with the General Evaluation. Oh Marie described her frustrations with the stopwatch hilariously, & we’ll need to buy another before Contests night.
After Snack we had an Exec meeting. In order to earn any Distinguished Club status, Linguists needs more members out & completing projects.
How to accomplish this is the rub.
Brenda
Sunday, January 22, 2006
January 19, 2006
The Linguist of Listowel had a night of 100 laughs as we gathered to celebrate the theme of "Flu Remedies". Marie skillfully chaired the meeting and kept everyone laughing as she incorporated each fu remedy into the introduction of the next person. Diane presented a Canadian toast where she instrusted everyone to pick up a car load of people and take them to vote. Allan gave us the new word "Prostration" which means to be utterly defeated or physically exhausted.
Keith presented speech number five from the Special Occasion Speeches manual. His speech was called Mr Scrouge. Brenda presented speech number seven from the CTM manual. She did an excellent job in telling us about Afghanistan where her son in law is stationed with our Canadian Forces. Ezra Steckly evaluated Keith's speech and Jane evaluated Brenda's speech.
George provided the entertaining topics for Table Topics. Each person had to pick a slip of paper from the envelope and explain what their occupation was, what they were sick with and what home remedy they would use. There was lots of laughter as everyone had a chance to explain why their home remedy worked. Gary received the most votes as he told us why he could not miss work as a waitress at Al Jerkys. He did say waitress.
Gary was also involved as the quizmaster. He kept us guessing with "who said that". Gary replayed some of the funnier quotes from the evening. Audrey did a splended job as General Evaluator. The evening ended with Marie giving us some final laughs on flu remedies. Everyone then enjoyed Allan's muffins.
Bring your friends to next weeks meeting with the theme "Suggested Winter Vacations" on Thursday January 26th at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave, Listowel at 7:14 pm.
Keith
Keith presented speech number five from the Special Occasion Speeches manual. His speech was called Mr Scrouge. Brenda presented speech number seven from the CTM manual. She did an excellent job in telling us about Afghanistan where her son in law is stationed with our Canadian Forces. Ezra Steckly evaluated Keith's speech and Jane evaluated Brenda's speech.
George provided the entertaining topics for Table Topics. Each person had to pick a slip of paper from the envelope and explain what their occupation was, what they were sick with and what home remedy they would use. There was lots of laughter as everyone had a chance to explain why their home remedy worked. Gary received the most votes as he told us why he could not miss work as a waitress at Al Jerkys. He did say waitress.
Gary was also involved as the quizmaster. He kept us guessing with "who said that". Gary replayed some of the funnier quotes from the evening. Audrey did a splended job as General Evaluator. The evening ended with Marie giving us some final laughs on flu remedies. Everyone then enjoyed Allan's muffins.
Bring your friends to next weeks meeting with the theme "Suggested Winter Vacations" on Thursday January 26th at St Pauls Lutheran Church, 505 Wallace Ave, Listowel at 7:14 pm.
Keith
Monday, January 16, 2006
January 12, 2006
It was a very interesting evening, Jan 12 with Small Claims Court as our theme. Gary started us off with a couple appropriate court jokes & John kept our attention with more. (John admitted to being the best doctor in the country, while under oath) As Language Enricher John challenged us with ‘notwithstanding’ which means nevertheless or although. I still can’t get its sense.
Audrey read us a provocative poem titled ‘In Touch’ by Fran McRae.
Brenda delivered the Education Module “The Leader as a Coach.”
It had some great tips for Team Leaders besides mouthing praise & encouragement. With team members not meeting expectations, the Coach must meet, & work, to improve the members’ & the team’s performance.
Table Topics was full of laughs as members defended themselves for some infraction such as being angry, grumpy, wrong, not ready…
We, being only 7, had 2 rounds of 1 minute each. George, Gary & Audrey starred.
Ken gave us a glowing evaluation of the meeting. He offered an interesting & helpful tip for Call to Order: sound the gavel at proposed Starting Time, then announce when the meeting will really start, perhaps in 5 minutes. This allows members to use extra time wisely.
Finally we circled George’s ‘treats’ & talked or listened to Federal elections issues as several TMs had attended the All Candidates meeting the previous night.
As I started, it was a very interesting night.
Brenda
Audrey read us a provocative poem titled ‘In Touch’ by Fran McRae.
Brenda delivered the Education Module “The Leader as a Coach.”
It had some great tips for Team Leaders besides mouthing praise & encouragement. With team members not meeting expectations, the Coach must meet, & work, to improve the members’ & the team’s performance.
Table Topics was full of laughs as members defended themselves for some infraction such as being angry, grumpy, wrong, not ready…
We, being only 7, had 2 rounds of 1 minute each. George, Gary & Audrey starred.
Ken gave us a glowing evaluation of the meeting. He offered an interesting & helpful tip for Call to Order: sound the gavel at proposed Starting Time, then announce when the meeting will really start, perhaps in 5 minutes. This allows members to use extra time wisely.
Finally we circled George’s ‘treats’ & talked or listened to Federal elections issues as several TMs had attended the All Candidates meeting the previous night.
As I started, it was a very interesting night.
Brenda
Saturday, January 07, 2006
January 5, 2006
A great group gathered for a fun night with Toastmasters on Thursday night. Jane chaired a fun meeting with a theme of New Years Resolutions. Jane had a funny resolution for each member that was at the meeting.
George gave a tribute to Canada reminding us all that we live in a country where we can celebrate the holiday season. Diane Bender encouraged us to use the word wheedle. This is a verb which means the use of soft words to flatter someone. There was a lot of wheedling during our fun filled meeting.
Allan tried something new for literary corner. He enlightened us with a question and answer weather trivia quiz. It was a fun quiz where Allan practiced his reading skills and with audience participation. Very well done Allan!
Brenda presented speech number four from the CTM manual. Her humorous speech was called "Lost things - Things Found". We all could identify with Brenda on things that get lost during the busy holiday season. (I still cannot find the Christmas gift that I hid for my spouse).
George presented the induction ceremony for Gary. We all welcomed Gary to our club. Audrey was in charge of Table Topics. We all had fun speaking for two minutes on a proverb which we were given. Gary won table topics.
John evaluated Brenda's speech. John presented an award winning evaluation for Brenda with many glow points and grow points. Gary was Quiz Master. He complimented us on the quality of our quotes. Gary included quotes from everyone including himself. Keith finished the evening as General Evaluator.
Our next meeting is on January 13th with the theme of Small Claims Court. It will be another exciting meeting. Everyone is invited so bring a friend. If you miss one meeting, you miss a lot.
Keith
George gave a tribute to Canada reminding us all that we live in a country where we can celebrate the holiday season. Diane Bender encouraged us to use the word wheedle. This is a verb which means the use of soft words to flatter someone. There was a lot of wheedling during our fun filled meeting.
Allan tried something new for literary corner. He enlightened us with a question and answer weather trivia quiz. It was a fun quiz where Allan practiced his reading skills and with audience participation. Very well done Allan!
Brenda presented speech number four from the CTM manual. Her humorous speech was called "Lost things - Things Found". We all could identify with Brenda on things that get lost during the busy holiday season. (I still cannot find the Christmas gift that I hid for my spouse).
George presented the induction ceremony for Gary. We all welcomed Gary to our club. Audrey was in charge of Table Topics. We all had fun speaking for two minutes on a proverb which we were given. Gary won table topics.
John evaluated Brenda's speech. John presented an award winning evaluation for Brenda with many glow points and grow points. Gary was Quiz Master. He complimented us on the quality of our quotes. Gary included quotes from everyone including himself. Keith finished the evening as General Evaluator.
Our next meeting is on January 13th with the theme of Small Claims Court. It will be another exciting meeting. Everyone is invited so bring a friend. If you miss one meeting, you miss a lot.
Keith
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