Ah Moments

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday, we had week 3 of our Speechcraft workshop with our two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). There were 12 members in attendance and that included our newest member Lorna Vanderploeg. The theme for the night was “Ah Moments” and our chairperson for the night was Richard Boertien. He had lots of great examples of "Ah Moments" like when you speed past a cop car then look into the rear view mirror to see that they didn't turn around with their lights on.

Our Toast and Timer was Audrey Orth who gave a good description of her role and a great toast to Canada. The Grammarian role was filled by George Stevers and he challenged everyone to use the word "Respite" which means looking back or reprive.

Next our Speechcrafters both did great jobs introducing each other for their speeches. Diane Schalk's second speech on speaking in earnest was called "Eating Healthy" which was well researched and full of great facts. Doug Culbert's speech was called "Applications of GIS" which was very informative. Our evaluators were Keith Stoltz and Sharon D'Arcey, who gave our speakers some great glow points and some grow points.

Chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters about Evaluating the Speaker. I did the Educational Session on “Organizing Your Speech” and Keith McCluskie gave the sample speech which was called “In Search of the Ultimate Rush”.

Jane Stoltz filled the role of Table TopicsMaster and had everyone pull a newspaper headline and each person had to expand on the rest of the story . The winner of Table Topics was our chairperson, Richard Boertien. Leo Brisebois, as general evaluator, gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting. The glow points were that we were on time and everyone did a great job explaining their roles. The grow points were that need to continue to clap until the speaker sits down and for the speaker to wait to leave till the chair comes to the lecturn. After the meeting, we enjoyed some refreshments and fellowship.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday at the Area's Humorous/Table Topics contest in Harriston and on Thursday for our next meeting with the theme of "Acronyms".

Brent

Dates to remember:

Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston

Oct. 21st Speechcraft #4 - Acronyms

Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.

Nov. 19-21 District Toastmaster Fall Conference in Niagara Falls