January 6, 2011 - Theme: Sports Night

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

Happy New Year everyone! At Linguists of Listowel's first meeting of 2011, we had lots of laughs and a very sporty meeting with our theme of "Sports Night". We had 12 members in attendance and a guest (Richard Boertien's daughter - Deirdre). We had lots of members participating with the theme by dressing up in their favourite jerseys. Keith McCluskie called the meeting to order with a very enthusiastic introduction of the chairperson for the meeting that included his favourite sport which was the Canadian Tobogganing Team. That Montreal Canadians fan, Leo Brisebois was our chair for the evening and he opened the meeting by giving us the history of sport which was very informative.

The joke of the day was done by one of the Toronto Maple Leaf fans at the meeting, who was myself. I gave a joke involving the Montreal Canadians. Also, to show that I was a good sport I gave a joke about the Leafs. Keith McCluskie was our Toast and Timer, who gave a toast to Canada and our ability to play any sport. The Grammarian role was done by Jane Stoltz and she picked the word "cue" to challenge everyone to use during the meeting that was used an incredible 18 times. Next, Heidi Menzi for her role of Literary Corner gave us some history of the Olympics and sports.

Our first speaker was another Toronto Maple Leaf fan, Lucy D'Arcey. She had a very informative speech with great visual aids called "Information". Next Sharon D'Arcey gave a speech on the role of V.P. of Public Relations and all that is involved. Keith Stoltz gave an entertaining and informative speech called "What Kind of Leader are You?". The speeches were evaluated by Rich Boertien, Marie McCutcheon and Audrey Orth where they all gave great feedback to our speakers.

Jane Stoltz did a very fun Table Topics with the theme of "Sports Night". Everyone was partnered up and one person picked a sport out of the envelope and spoke about the positives of that sport. The second person had to debate why that sport wasn't the best sport. Everyone did a good job debating their sport and the winner of table topics was the boxing fan, Audrey Orth. I took on the role of general evaluator, where I reviewed what was good, what we could do better and what we did best.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Jan. 13th - Junk Mail in January

January 20th – Jeopardy