October 4, 2010 - Theme: The Best Is Yet To Come.

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

On Thursday night, we had Graduation night for our Speechcrafters (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). There were 11 members in attendance and we even had a guest from the Haliburton Toastmaster Club (Jim Lawr). He is working in the area and decided to come out to one of our meetings. Our chairperson for the night was Richard Boertien and he opened the meeting by going over some of the benefits of joining Toastmasters.

Keith McCluskie got the laughs started with a very funny joke of the day. Our Toast and Timer was Sharon D'Arcey who gave a timely toast to Canada. The Grammarian role was filled by Marilyn Miller and she challenged everyone to use the word "Augment" which means to grow or to intensify. It was used 10 times. Our newest member, Lorna Vanderploeg filled the role of Literary Corner. She read a passage from one of her favorite books (Personal Power - "Wisdom from Around the World").

Next our speechcrafters Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert gave their final speeches and did a great job with evaluating of each other. Afterwards, Keith McCluskie discussed Toastmaster membership. Richard Boertien presented our Speechcrafters with their certificates for completing the workshop. I presented Richard with a certificate for all his hard work being the Speechcraft Coordinator. Also, other members were recognized for recent milestones. Marilyn Miller received her 6th speech certificate and Keith Stoltz with his Advanced Communicator Gold pin.

I filled the role of Table Topics and had everyone pick a fortune cookie. They had to tell the fortune, describe it and explain how the best is yet to come. The winner of table topics was our Speechcrafter Diane Schalk. Jane Stoltz, as Quizmaster, tested our listening skills with some phrases from the night. Brian Camacho was the general evaluator and he gave a review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting. One grow point was that the speakers need to make sure they have prepared introductions and a glow point was the great job of the newsletter that was done by Sharon D'Arcey. After the meeting, we had some very tasty apple crisp and ice cream provided by Jane Stoltz.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting with the theme of Remembrance. Don't forget to wear your poppy!

Brent

Dates to remember:

Nov. 11 - Remembrance

Nov. 18 - Enthusiasm, go, Go, GO!

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