This past Thursday, we had week 2 of our Speechcraft workshop with two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). We had very good attendance with 13 members including our newest member Lucy D`Arcey-Curran and our special guest Lorna Vanderplog. The theme for the night was ``Best Country Fairs`` where we heard alot of good memories of going to the fair.
The chairperson for the meeting and for our Speechcraft program is Richard Boertien. He was well prepared and did a great job with our theme. Keith McCluskie performed the induction ceremony of our newest member (Lucy D'Arcey-Curran) and I presented new name badges to our newest Competent Communicators (Richard Boertien and Heidi Menzi)
Our Toast and Timer was George Stevers who gave a toast to Canada and going to the Country Fair. The Grammarian role was filled by Brent Jemmett and I challenged everyone to use the word "Haste" which means swiftness of motion, or speed. It was used 9 times. Sharon D'Arcey did the role of Literary Corner where she read an interesting story that she helped put the book together for about some Listowel residents at a pie auction and buy $100 pies.
Our evaluators were Jane Stoltz, Audrey Orth, and Lucy D'Arcey, who all gave great feedback to our speakers.
Our Speechcrafters both did great jobs going up for the first time with their Ice Breakers. Diane Schalk's was called "Growing Up In Carthage" and Doug Culbert's was called "What Brought Me To Toastmasters".. Marilyn Miller did speech #5 (Body Language) called "Its A Small World", where she entertained us with her speech and her singing voice.
Next our chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters about Speaking with Conviction. Keith Stoltz did the Educational Session on ``Introducing the Speaker`` and Keith McCluskie gave the sample "Being Earnest" speech which was called ``Shorter Work Week``.
Heidi Menzi for Table Topicsmaster had a bag of goodies where we had to choose from and describe how we won or got it at the Country Fair. We ended up with a tie for the winner between Keith McCluskie and our Speechcrafter - Doug Culbert. Marilyn Miller challenged us with Quizmaster and George Nichol as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting.
After the meeting, we enjoyed refreshments provided by Heidi Menzi.
Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and week 3 of Speechcraft with the theme of "Ah" Moments.
Brent
Dates to remember:
Oct. 14th Speechcraft #3 - "Ah" Moments
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
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