March 31, 2011, Theme: Great Leaders

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday meeting, we had a fun time with the theme of “Great Leaders”. There were 12 members in attendance and two guests (Dorothy Reid and Caroline Beren from the Mt. Forest Motivators). Sharon D'Arcey called the meeting to order by introducing myself as the chair for the meeting. I went over what makes a great leader and some the people that I considered a Great Leader.

Keith Stoltz took on the role of Joke of the Day and got the laughs going by telling a really funny joke. Lorna Vanderploeg took on the role of Toast and Timer and she gave our toast to Canada. Rich Boertien was the Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Great" throughout the meeting. Heidi Menzi took on the role of Literary Corner and read a very interesting story about medieval times.

Our first speaker was George Stevers with a very informative speech that was titled "Winston Churchill". Rich Boertien was our second speaker and he had a very entertaining speech entitled "Our House" and his experiences about the building of his new home. Next, Jane Stoltz for an Educational Corner went over the role of General Evaluator and the new way that we are using the role at our meetings.

Marie McCutcheon for the role of Table Topic Master had us all write down a great leader. Then we had to pick a quirk out of the envelope and act out that great leader with a quirk (Example; Itchy/scratchy feeling, loud voice, whispering while talking, run-on sentences, etc.). The winner was Richard Boertien.

Keith McCluskie took on the role of general evaluator, where he introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Jane evaluated George's speech and Marilyn evaluated Rich's speech.

Hope to see you all at our next meeting on Thursday

Brent