January 24, 2008

Linguists of Listowel Toastmasters
Club 9016
Date: January 24th, 2008, 7:15

Theme: “Poetry”


7.15 Call to Order ..............Jean
Chairperson ..................................Marie
Marie loves poetry and had written a short poem for every member as they were introduced throughout the meeting.
Keith presented Jean with her name tag and officially welcomed her to Linguists of Listowel.

Loyal Toast and Timer………Elizabeth read a poem celebrating Canada.
Language Enricher …George presented the word parsimony which means undue sparingness in the expenditure of money.

Literary Corner........Audrey read a selection of poetry from Robert Burns. Tomorrow is Robbie Burns Day and she wore a beautiful Scottish Kilt to set the mood.
Speaker........... Leo presented speech #6 on Vocal Variety from his Competent Communicator manual “When fear is all you hear”. Brian gave an excellent evaluation.
Tatiana was our guest speaker. She talked about her horse Ranger. She loves going for rides and caring for him. She will present this speech to her grade 5 class next week. Good luck.
Table Topics…..Diane challenged members to respond to a Grade 5 poetry test. Wayne won the award because of his quick wit and love of poetry.
General Evaluator……Keith was very pleased with the quality of this toastmasters meeting. Everyone was excited to welcome Elizabeth as a new member. She had taken Speechcraft course last spring.

Closing Remarks.....................Marie
The meeting closed with samples of Scottish oatmeal cookies and shortbread supplied by Audrey.





Linguists of Listowel Toastmasters
Club 9016
Date: January 17th, 2008, 7:15



Theme-Movies
Chair Jane had the meeting room set up to represent going to the movies. Everyone had a cup of freshly popped popcorn to snack on. She had a list of all the current movies and mentioned which movie each member would most likely want to see in the near future.
She welcome guests Marge and Dorothy from the Mount Forest Motivators.
Call to Order… Brent
Toast and Timer… George presented a toast to Canadian actors and especially John Candy. Dorothy… evaluated this advanced manual speech.
Language enricher… Leo challenged us with the French word Boniface which means owner of an inn. It was used 4 times during the meeting.

Speaker… Keith presented an advanced manual speech as he interviewed Brent about his love of sports. Marge evaluated
Speaker… Marie gave an excellent interpretive reading. Diane evaluated
Brian presented table topics by giving a movie name to one person to explain how well they liked the movie and then the next person had to tell everyone why they shouldn’t see it. Audrey won the Table Topics award.
My challenge to you is to remember who was quiz master and spoke for 2 min 38 sec.
General Evaluator was Audrey. She explained this role and how important it is to have immediate feedback with grow and glow points. She had lots of suggestions to help the meeting flow smoothly. She also complimented everyone on a job well done.
Jane closed the meeting with lots of movie quotes and quips.

January 10, 2008

Hi Toastmaster Members: It was definitely a black and white meeting as one looked around the room on Thursday January 10th! Audrey Orth brought the meeting alive with her humour with a great introduction for the chair Marie McCutcheon. Wayne Stoltz gave a great toast to Canada. Diane Bender delighted us with a humorous reading on Holstein cattle. Marie chaired the meeting well and told members of her exerience on the farm with holstein calves.
Elizabeth Coghlin gave a terrific #4 speech entitled Prelude to a Kiss (2 more to go) and Jane Stoltz and Brent Jemmett role played in Speaking with Ease #1 speech from Interpersonal Communication.
George chaired Table Topics and presented the members with black and white photos. Members had to speak about the people in the picture on a situation that happened either before or after. Audrey Orth was the overall winner at Table Topics for the evening.
A round table evaluation was done for Elizabeth Coghlin and Brent Jemmett evaluated Jane's speech.
We are doing another Murder Mystery on Wednesday February 20th for the Atwood Lion's Club.Our club on Thursday February 21st is doing the Int'l and Evaluation Contest!Induction Ceremony is slated for next week!
Leo Brisbois is coming up to his number sixth speech...looking forward to hearing it!Our area and district governor will be coming to our club next week...get those speeches ready. One speech per month is recommended!The ladies are up 3 to 2 against the guys...way to go ladies!Till then,Jane

January 3, 2008

Hi Everyone:What a great meeting last night to begin 2008!
Audrey Orth chaired the meeting very well with the Snowbirds theme. Everyone was named a snowbird and Audrey included some interesting facts on her selected birds. Marie McCutcheon was able to whisper out a great toast to Canada and successfully used one timer throughout the entire evening. George Nichol had an informative literary corner on Snowbirds (referring to people) and interesting migrating facts to the sunny south. Brent Jemmett entertained us with his literary corner with Casey at the Bat. Keith Stoltz had the rare opportunity to be interviewed by Opera Winfield last night on his latest website Foodkm.com. Leo Brisbois gave an informative talk on can you hear me?..although most of us had a difficult time hearing him!Jane Stoltz presented Table Topics with members taking a puff ball soaked in a mystery solution and how that smell brought back memories from their childhood.Both Diane Bender and Wayne Stoltz gave excellent evaluations to our speakers last evening. Brent Jemmett was the Table Topics winner.The meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. with some great treats from Marie. Thank you.P.S. Marie, I have your container and will bring back next week. Please help out Marie on next week's agenda and volunteer for a role for Thursday January 10th. Take care,JaneP.S. We had 3 guests out...so the men are ahead winning 2 to 1 over the females!