Humorous and table topics contest

Contestants: Heidi, Rich, Sharon, Brent, Marie, Keith M, Jane.

Humorouos Contest Winners: First Place Brent Jemmett, Second Place Rich Boertien

Table Topics Contest Winners: First Place Jane Stoltz, Second Place Keith McCluskie

Speakers for the evening: Audrey and Heidi.

Sharon and George welcome Lisa to a Toastmasters meeting September 9,2010


Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,
On Thursday the Linguists of Listowel held their Humorous and Table Topics contests. We had great attendance and lots of guests. We had guests from other Toastmaster Clubs in our Area, who helped being judges and counters. Our guests were Karen Bott, from the Mt. Forest Club (Dorothy Denis and her husband, Dorothy Bell and Pauline), from the Hanover Club (Trudy Baran, Denise and her husband).

Our Area Govenor, Keith Stoltz did a great job chairing the Humourous contest where we had 5 participants that had everyone laughing with their funny speeches. The particpants were:

Marie McCutcheon - "One Size Fits All"
Sharon D'Arcey - "Family Dynamics"
Heidi Menzi - "Holiday Impressions"
Brent Jemmett - "Funny Things My Dad Said and Did"
Rich Boertien - "Man's Best Friend"

The order the judges determined were Brent Jemmett (1st), Rich Boertien (2nd), and Mari McCutcheon (3rd).

Marie McCutcheon did a great job chairing the table topics contest where we had 5 particpants. The participants were challenged to speak about the word "SUNSET" for at least one minute to a maximum of 2 minutes.

The participants were Rich Boertien, Keith McCluskie, Jane Stoltz, Brent Jemmett and Heidi Menzi. The order the judges determined were Jane Stoltz (1st), Keith McCluskie (2nd) and Brent Jemmett (3rd).

Diane Bender was the Chief Judge for both contests and Keith Stoltz was Sargent of Arms for the Table Topics Contest. Audrey Orth and Marilyn Miller were our timers for both contests. Rich Boertien, Brent Jemmett, Jane Stoltz, and Sharon D'Arcey provided snacks for our intermission and after the meeting.

The first and second place contestants will be heading to the Area Contest on Oct. 20th at Harriston's Community Living Building.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and the start of our Speechcraft program, so spread the word.

Brent
President

Dates to remember:
Sept. 27th Hanover Contest
Sept 30th Speechcraft....Hats
Oct. 5th Mt. Forest Contest
Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston
Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,
What another great meeting! We had great attendance and the meeting was full of many laughs that were too numerous to count. The theme for the night was "Fact or Fiction".

Audrey Orth called the meeting to order right on time and introduced myself as the Chairperson. Throughtout the meeting I challenged everyone with a quiz that I found on the Myth Busters website. We had 3 members tie for the most correct answers with 6.

Next Sharon Diehl as our Toast and Timer gave a great toast to Canada and kept accurate times of all the roles. The Grammarian role was filled by George Nichol and he challenged us to use the word "Prevaricate" which means to act or speak misleadly. "Prevaricate" was used 9 times. Keith McCluskie did the role of Literary Corner where he read an interesting story out of a Country Woman article called "The time the ice cream tasted salty".

We had a business meeting conducted by Diane Bender to address the vacant secretary role and we elected Marilyn Miller. Then our Area Govenor, Keith Stoltz inducted Marilyn into the role. Next we had a ribbon ceremony where Diane Bender put our President's Distinguished ribbon on our banner and Keith Stoltz put the ribbon of "Home of the Area Govenour" on the banner.

We had one speaker for the night. Richard Boertien completed his second speech out of the "Speaking to Inform" manual. His speech was called "Milwaukee Iron" where he told us the story of how the motorcycle Harley Davidson came to be and how it is the great motorcycle with his great sound effects.

Sharon D'Arcey did a great job evaluating Rich's speech by giving some great glow points speech.

Marie McCutcheon had a very interesting challenge for everyone with Table Topics where we partnered up, had to speak for 3 minutes and had to tell everyone about the new item that we are going to sell . The partners that won were Audrey Orth/Richard Boertien who all had us wanting to buy an electronic typewritter.

Heidi Menzi challenged with quizmaster and Keith Stoltz as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went.

Afterwards, we enjoyed snacks provided by Audrey and Sharon D'Arcey.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and our Humourous/Table Topics Contest.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Sept 23rd Linguists of Listowel's Humourous and Table Topics Contest.
Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston
Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.

July 22, The best about summer Holidays
Chairperson: Brent Jemmett
Loyal Toast & Timer: Audrey Orth
Grammarian:
Table Topics #1: Keith McCluskie
Award for Best Table Topics
Point of View: Jane Stoltz
Counter Point of View:
Table Topics #2: Keith Stoltz
General Evaluator: Rich Boertien
Reports
Award for Best Table Topics
Anything for the Good of Toastmaster
Snacks: Jane Stoltz


Dates to Mark on Your Calendar


August 5: Tall Tales Contest
August 19: Show & Tell