September 13, 2012 Theme: Fall

The Linguists of Listowel met at the St. Paul's Lutheran Church.  I drove by about an hour before the meeting and it was a pleasure to see the sign out front.  It was readily visible and clear.

In attendance this evening were the following members:  Tony, Leo, Brent, Keith & Jane Stoltz, George, Keith M., Audrey, Vern, Heidi, Marie, Val and John.  Special guest of the night was Joy Klumpenhouwer.

The theme of the evening was "Fall" and the meeting was brought to order by Leo.  The evening started on time.

Tony was the chairperson this evening and welcomed everyone with his opening remarks pertaining to the theme.

Next, Vern introduced our guest for the evening, followed by any agenda changes.  There were no changes this evening.

Joke of the day was done by Audrey.  Humorous and well done in a clear and steady voice, the punch line had everyone laughing.  Keith M. was our toast and timer for the evening,  while Brent was our grammarian.  The word this evening was "impeccable", an adjective meaning faultless or blameless.

Keith S was next with Literary Corner.  Well done with a twist, Keith had a fellow toastmaster, John, give him a number between 2 and 14.  He then proceeded to read several small articles from McLean's magazine from the page number given to him by John.

"Animal Antics" was next.  This was the title of the speech given by Vern.  Some of his facial expressions mimicking animals had the group laughing throughout his speech.

George was the Table Topics master this evening.  Everyone participated in this event.  An envelope was passed around.  Inside the envelope were slips of paper with various local, and not so local, fairs and festivals.  Each member had the opportunity to say why they enjoyed, or planned to go to, the event listed on their slip of paper.

The next part of the meeting was the reports and General Evaluation.  Jane took control of the lectern for this segment of the meeting.  First, she introduced the speech evaluator for Vern.  This role was performed by Leo, who gave an excellent review.  This was followed by Jane asking for the various reports.  First up was Keith M. who gave the timer report.  Next was the Grammarian report by Brent.  The word of the evening had been used 10 times.  As well, Brent had counted 61 laughs, 5 um's and 10 ah's.  The Table Topics report was next, with the winner being our guest Joy.  Last, Heidi tested our listening skills with the Quizmaster report.  Last, Jane gave her General Evaluator report.

The meeting was slowly  wrapped up with Anything for the good of Toastmasters and Keith M. giving updates about the Sept. 6th Executive Meeting.  Val then asked went through the various roles still available for the next meeting and asked for members to fill them.  Our guest Joy was then asked if she wanted to comment on the meeting.  She said it was a little overwhelming, a feeling many of us have shared at our first Toastmasters meeting.

Tony gave the closing remarks and brought the meeting officially to end.

Thanks to Jane for providing snacks :)