The Theme was Fall Harvest which brought out many good memories of back on the farm around Harvest Time.
We kicked off the meeting with Valrie Hummel's Induction Ceremony done by Lorna VanderPloeg, our V.P. of Membership and Valrie's mentor.
Jane provided the joke of the day about a preacher’s son getting his license and asking his dad for the car however his dad asked him to complete a list of tasks. The son completed all of the tasks but forgot to cut his hair. The son recalled that the prophets had long hair. The pastor replied, Yes, and everywhere the prophets needed to go, they walked.
Jane also presented an Educational Corner on tips to use in the Humorous and Table Topic contest coming up on September 29th. She also gave us coaching ideas on how to find a speech title using the brainstorming technique.
Literary Corner was provided by both Valrie Hummel and Karen Bott. Both speakers read autumn poems quoted by famous writers. Both read exceptionally well and made us all feel like we were part of the experience.
Toast and Timer role was filled by Audrey Orth. She described how fortunate we are to live in a country full of bounty. Table Topics was done by Heidi Menzi. We all had to tell a story about what we remember, positive or negative, about Autumn Harvest. We all had good stories to tell. Karen Bott won with her story about her youth when she used to collect a bag full of baby frogs and scare people with them.
Grammarian, Lorna VanderPloeg, gave us the word "Ruckus" which was used over 7 times during the night. The Quiz Master, Marilyn Miller, had some good quiz's to get us thinking and test our memory.
George Nichol, who was the General Evaluator of the meeting and chairperson for the Evaluator role for Keith McCluskie, gave us an evaluation of the meeting with suggestions for improvements.
All in all, we had over 35 laughs and there were lots of good autumn stories that we had the pleasure to enjoy at the meeting.
Linguist of Listowel
Leo Brisebois
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