June 23, 2011 - Awards and Induction Ceremony

Area Governor, Keith Stoltz, officially dismisses all current club executive members and inducts all of the new club executive members for the 2011/2012 year.
















Area Governor, Keith Stoltz (right) officially inducts Leo Brisebois as the new club president of the Linguists of Listowel for the 2011/2012 year.
















Diane Bender (right), presents Brent Jemmett with the Brenda Karges trophy for his work as club president during the 2010 - 2011 year.










Brent Jemmett (club president for 2010 - 2011) gives his acceptance speech after receiving the Brenda Karges award.

June 23, 2011 - Theme: Tall Tales Contest and Year End Party

Audrey Orth presents her Tall Tales speech entitled "Mary Sue".

















Richard Boertien presents his Tall Tales speech entitled "My New Neighbour .......Jim."

















Richard recreates the Mission Impossible scene and background music as he acts out his presentation.

















Richard is on the move in "stealth mode" as he acts out his speech.

June 23, 2011 - Theme: Tall Tales Contest and Pizza Potluck Supper

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday's meeting there were 12 members in attendance and 6 guests. The guests were; Rhea Longman (former member), George Nichol's wife Marilyn, Marge Seawright and her friend April (from the Mt. Forest Motivators), Lorna VanderPloeg's friend Val Hummel (our newest member) and Richard Boertien's wife Pauline. Heidi Menzi called the meeting to order by introducing myself and Keith McCluskie as the chairpersons for the night. We opened the meeting by sharing with everyone what the Tall Tales contest was all about.

Marge Seawright said grace and then we enjoyed our Pizza and Potluck dinner. Our Tall Tales Contest had 6 very funny and extremely exaggerated stories. Keith Stoltz was the Chief Judge and Diane Bender and Geogre Nichol were the timers. The speakers were; Brent Jemmett - "The Great Outdoorsman", Lorna VanderPloeg - "Maple Syrup Festival", Leo Brisebois - "How the Big One Got Away", Keith McCluskie -"Family Reunion", Richard Boertien - "My New Neighbour___Jim", and Audrey Orth - "Mary Sue".

Richard Boertien placed 1st, Brent Jemmett placed 2nd and Lorna VanderPloeg placed 3rd.

Diane Bender presented myself with the Brenda Karges award for being the club president and achieving Presidents Distinguished status for the Linguists of Listowel. Our Area Governor, Keith Stoltz dismissed the old executive members (effective June 30th at 3:00 am) and officially inducted the new executive for the upcoming 2011/2012 year.

Hope to see everyone at our next meeting at Wayne Stoltz's house in Trowbridge on July 21st.

Brent

June 16, 2011 - Theme: Fabulous Fifties and More

Club President, Brent Jemmett (left) presents Sharon D'Arcey with a certificate of achievement for completing her Competent Communicator manual. This certificate is achieved by presenting 10 speeches.








Club president, Brent Jemmett (left), presents Lorna VanderPloeg with a certificate of achievement for completing her 6th speech from the Competent Communicator manual.

June 16, 2011 - Theme: Fabulous Fifties and More

Brent Jemmett was the chairperson for the evening.


















Wayne Stoltz provided us with the Joke of the Day.


















Diane Bender filled the role of Literary Corner and provided all members with a reading.

June 16, 2011 - Theme: Fabulous Fifties and More

Lucy D'Arcey presented her speech from the Competent Communicator manual entitled "Are Your Assumptions Correct?"
















Leo Brisebois presented his speech from the Advanced Manual. Leo performed a roast of his co-worker entitled "Roasting Bernie".
















Audrey Orth presented her speech entitled "Life in the Fifties".











Audrey Orth (far right) holds pictures of her life in the fifties as Diane Bender (left) helps Audrey with her props.










Sharon Diehl was the Table Topics Master for the meeting.

June 16, 2011, Theme: Fabulous Fifties and More

Lorna VanderPloeg was the speech evaluator for Lucy D'Arcey's speech.

















Keith Stoltz was the speech evaluator for Leo Brisebois speech presentation.

















Sharon D'Arcey was the speech evaluator for Audrey Orth's speech presentation.

















Richard Boertien was the Grammarian for the meeting. His word of the evening was "obstructive" meaning to block or impede.

















George Nichol was the general evaluator of the meeting. He introduced each speaker and gave a review of the entire meeting with glow and grow points.

June 16, 2011 - Theme: Fabulous Fifties and More...

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday's meeting there was 14 members in attendance. Wayne Stoltz called the meeting to order by introducing our theme of the night "Fabulous Fifties and More..." and he also mentioned some of the things that happened in the 50's. Then he introduced myself as the chairperson. I opened the meeting by sharing my thoughts on the Fabulous 50's and introduced everyone with some comments made in the 50's.

Wayne Stoltz started the laughs going with a very funny joke for Joke of the Day. Heidi Menzi held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave a toast to Canada and our freedom. Diane Bender for Literary Corner read an entertaining story from Kerri Cox's "50's Housewife". Richard Boertien held the role of Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Obstructive" which was used 5 times.

Our first speaker was Lucy D'Arcey and she gave a very inspirational speech called "Are Your Assumptions Correct?". Next, Leo Brisebois completed his 3rd speech from the Special Occasion manual called the The Roast. His speech was very humorous and was called "Roasting Bernie". Then our third speaker was Audrey Orth, who completed speech #8 out of the CC manual. It was a very interesting and informative speech called "Life in the 50's"

Sharon Diehl was our Table Topics Master and she had everyone tell a family tradition or memory of the 50's. The winner was a tie between George Nichol and Wayne Stoltz. Lorna Vanderploeg gave an evaluation for Lucy's speech, Keith Stoltz evaluated Leo's speech and Sharon D'Arcey evaluated Audrey's speech. George Nichol gave the meeting an evaluation as our General Evaluator. For Point of View, Sharon D'Arcey gave the benefits of being able to walk in someone else's shoes. Then Keith McCluskie did a great job trying to counter the points.

We also had an Awards Ceremony for Lorna Vanderploeg completing her 6th speech and Sharon D'Arcey for completing her Competent Communicator manual.

After our meeting we enjoyed some refreshments provided by Lucy and Sharon D'Arcey.

Please join us at next week's Tall Tales Contest and Pizza/Potluck Dinner. Remember to bring your plates and utensils.

Brent

June 9, 2011 - Theme: Yes You Can

Keith Stoltz (Area Governor) was the Chair Person of the meeting. He provided us with lots of ways to get involved with "Yes, you can".
















Lucy D'Arcey provided the members with the "Joke of the Day" and she also filled the role of "Literary Corner".

















Lorna Vanderploeg presented her 6th speech from the Competent Communicator manual entitled "How to Deliver Difficult Messages".
















Sharon D'Arcey completed her 10th speech from the Competent Communicator manual. Her speech was entitled "Excuses, Excuses, Excuses".

June 9, 2011 - Theme: Yes You Can

Shown Right: Jane Stoltz was the Table Topics Master for the evening. All members in attendance had to read Tongue Twisters aloud three times (slow to start, faster, and very fast).
















Next Right: George Nichol was the speech evaluator for Sharon D'Arcey's speech number 10 from the Competent Communicator manual.
















Bottom Right: Sharon Diehl was the General Evaluator of the meeting. She introduced each speaker and also gave a general evaluation of the whole meeting with glow and grow points.

June 9, 2011 - Theme: Yes You Can

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday's Linguists of Listowel meeting there were 14 members in attendance. Diane Bender called the meeting to order by describing her role and reading a story from a book by Dr Phil's wife. Then she introduced Keith Stoltz as the chairperson. Keith opened the meeting by explaining to everyone how we could incorporate our theme of "Yes, You Can". He had a very funny joke and had great famous quotes throughout the meeting that tied into theme. The Theme of the meeting - Yes You Can was used 14 times.

Lucy D'Arcey started the laughs going with a very funny joke for Joke of the Day. Then for Inspirational Thought, I read a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Leo Brisebois held the role of Toast and Timer and he gave a toast to Canada and all the things that we are able to do. Lucy D'Arcey for Literary Corner read a very interesting passage from "The Book of Awakenings". Heidi Menzi held the role of Grammarian and she challenged us to use the word "Embelish" which was used 4 times.

Our first speaker was Lorna Vanderploeg and she completed her 6th speech entitled "How to Deliver Difficult Messages". Next, Sharon D'Arcey completed her 10th speech entitled "Excuses, Excuses, Excuses". Congratulations on completing your Competent Communicator manual!

Jane Stoltz was our Table Topics Master and she had everyone read Tongue Twisters (three times....slow at first, faster and very fast). The winner was Audrey Orth. Keith McCluskie gave an evaluation for Lorna's speech and George Nichol evaluated Sharon D'Arcey's speech. Sharon Diehl gave the meeting an evaluation as our General Evaluator. We had a total of 74 laughs during the entire meeting.


After our meeting we enjoyed some refreshments provided by Jane Stoltz.

Please join us at next week's meeting with the theme, "Fabulous Fifties Plus Much More"

Brent

June 2, 2011 - Theme: A World of Opportunities

Speech Presentation

Sharon Diehl is shown in both pictures presenting her 4th speech from the Competent Communicator Manual (How to Say It).
Sharon's speech was entitled "A Farmer's Wife".

































Leo Brisebois is shown as the Table Topics Master of the meeting.
Leo provided each member with an opportunity at 1 minute of impromptu speaking about a predetermined opportunity, picked from an envelope at random.

June 2, 2011 - Theme: A World of Opportunities

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

Thursday's Linguists of Listowel meeting was yet another fun meeting filled with lots of laughs. There was 11 members in attendance. Heidi Menzi called the meeting to order and introduced myself as the chairperson. I opened the meeting by telling everyone some of the experiences that I have experienced and some that I wish to get the opportunity to do with our theme of "A World of Opportunities".

Heidi Menzi held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave a toast to Canada and all the great opportunities. Jane Stoltz for Literary Corner read from the New Zealand Bed and Breakfast Guide 2010 and talked about her vacation. Keith Stoltz held the role of Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Spry" which means nimble. Spry was used 3 times.

Our speaker for the meeting was Sharon Diehl with Speech # 4 out of her Competent Communicator Manual called "The Farmer's Wife". It was a very humorous and entertaining speech. Next, we had an Award Ceremony for Keith McCluskie completing his 10th speech and earning his Competent Communicator certificate.

Leo Brisebois was our Table Topics Master and he had everyone pick an Opportunity out of the envelope. There was a tie for the winner between Keith McCluskie and Sharon Diehl

Audrey Orth gave a great evaluation for Sharon's speech. Keith McCluskie gave the meeting an evaluation as our General Evaluator.

After our meeting we enjoyed some refreshments provided by Lucy D'Arcey. The club's executive had a business meeting.

Please join us at next week's meeting with the theme, "Yes, We Can"

Brent

May 26, 2011 - Theme: Mom/Dads the Word

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At last Thursday's Linguists of Listowel meeting, we had a very fun and enjoyable time. There was 11 members in attendance. I called the meeting to order and introduced Heidi Menzi as our chairperson. Heidi opened the meeting by describing her role as chairperson and telling her thoughts on family and children with our theme of "Moms/Dads the Word".

I started the laughs going with a joke for Joke of the Day. Audrey Orth held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave a toast to Canada and telling us that everyday should be Mother's/Father's day. Lorna VanderPloeg held the role of Grammarian and she challenged us to use the word "Disambiguation" which means a work of art or as a group of anonymous people. Disambiguation was used 5 times by one person, Diane Bender.

Our first speaker was Keith McCluskie with Speech # 10 out of his CC called "Memories". It was a very inspiring and entertaining speech. Next, Jane Stoltz did an Educational Corner that was where she reviewed the results of her survey on Survey Monkey.

As Table Topics Master, Diane Bender had cute sayings that moms or dads have used throughout time. Jane Stoltz was the winner with her saying "Get Your Elbows Off the Table, This is Not a
Horse's Stable"

George gave a great evaluation for Keith McCluskie, remembering some of Keith's quotes that were used throughout his speech. Congratulations to Keith McCluskie as he has achieved his CC!!! Keith Stoltz gave the meeting an evaluation on starting first with the grow points, good, very good and lastly very, very good aspects of the meeting. Sharon D'Arcey tested our listening skills from the meeting as Quiz Master.

We were finished our meeting by 9:00 p.m. and had a brief fellowship.

Please join us at next week's meeting with the theme, "A World of Opportunities"

Brent

May 19, 2011 Backwards Meeting

Leo Brisebois presented his speech about negotiations.

















Leo Brisebois had the assistance of Wayne Stoltz to demonstrate successful negotiation skills in his presentation to the club members.

May 19, 2011 Backwards Meeting

Sharon Diehl called the meeting to order.


















Brent Jemmett was the chairman of the meeting.


















Heidi Menzi evaluated Lorna VanderPloeg's speech.


















George Nichol was the General Evaluator of the entire meeting.

May 19, 2011 Backwards Meeting

Table Topics Participants

Shown right: Audrey Orth

















Shown Right: Jane Stoltz (V.P. of Education)

















Shown Right: Brent Jemmett (Club President)


















Shown Right: Wayne Stoltz

May 19, 2011 Backwards Meeting

Lorna VanderPloeg is shown presenting her speech #8 from the Competent Communicator Manual (Get Comfortable with Visual Aids).
Lorna's speech was entitled " A Day in My Feathers".
The life of her family pet named Stella.