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.