November 15, 2012 Theme: Famous People

Brent Jemmett called the meeting to order and introduced Val Hummel as the chairperson for the meeting. Brent went on to explain that Val is a famous person because her picture as "Madame Clair Voyant" appeared in the Listowel Banner and Snap Perth local newspapers.
Val's opening remarks reflected on famous people's characteristics verses the characteristics of a "typical" average person. Val compared each of the members to famous people in the world.
Val introduced our Toast and Timer, Vern Noseworthy, as Dr. Doolittle because he is the proud owner of a hobby farm with many animals that he talks to regularly.
Vern explained his role and provided a patriotic toast to Canada. Vern had done some research and found that a famous person, Fidel Castro (President of Cuba), had once given a speech that was 4 hours and 29 minutes and another speech to the Communist Party that lasted 7 hours and 10 minutes.
Audrey Orth was the Grammarian and Laugh Counter for the meeting. Audrey introduced us to four different words; Celebrate - verb, Celebrated - adjective, Celebration - noun and Celebrity - noun. She challenged everyone to use these words during the evening and they were used 6 times during the meeting. There were also 42 good laughs during the meeting.
Tony Galvao took on the role of Literary Corner and introduced his role and the purpose. Tony provided the members with a reading from the Small Farm Canada magazine. Dan Needles was the author of the story "Art of the Supper Table and Endless Talk."
Heidi Menzi presented an Oratorical Speech - Project # 5 from the Interpretive Reading Manual. The speech was entitled " The Lipizzaner Stallions". Heidi achieved her ACB (Advanced Communicator Bronze) award with the completion of this speech. Congratulations Heidi!
Apryl Browning presented an Educational Module entitled "Gestures: Let Your Body Speak". This was done in the form of a Power Point presentation and verbal presentation with lots of good examples.
Tony Galvao (V.P. of Membership) conducted an induction ceremony for our newest Linguist of Listowel club member, Tracy D'Arcey. Tracy was welcomed into the club by all members.
Diane Bender was our Table Topics Master for the evening. Each member had to select, from an envelope, a picture of a famous Canadian. Each member had the responsibility of introducing this famous person to the rest of the members, use gestures and explain why these people should join Toastmasters.
Keith McCluskie evaluated Heidi's speech presentation with glow and grow points.
Apryl Browning was the General Evaluator for the meeting and provided her views of how the meeting went and asked for reports for the evening.
Tony Galvao was the Table Topics winner for the evening.
Brent Jemmett was the Quiz Master for the meeting and challenged our listening skills by asking us who said what phrase during the meeting. Brent caught us with two phrases that we couldn't figure out who said them.
Anything for the good of Toastmasters included discussions about the new Stratford club starting up and how we can help out, praise and congratulations to Brent Jemmett (V.P. of Public Relations) for lots of good exposure and recognition of our club in the local papers and media, discussions about the upcoming Christmas potluck meal and the 10th anniversary of the Mount Forest Motivator's club on November 20th.
Keith Stoltz practiced a Toast for the weekend's ceremonies. Apryl provided her closing remarks and adjourned the meeting. Snacks and refreshments were provided by Val and Apryl and enjoyed by all.