Jane, Keith, Diane, Audrey, Keith M, Brent, Rich attended the Listowel Ag Society appreciation supper.

Keith McCluskie spoke about Toastmasters, Linguists of Listowel and introduced speakers Diane Bender, Rich Boertien and Brent Jemmett

Great speech Rich!

Keith's public school teacher is impressed with his speaking skills at the Listowel Agriculture Society appreciation supper.

Audrey congratulates Keith on his jokes and introductions.

Good Morning Linguists of Listowel,
Wasn't that a powerful meeting last night? Fifteen enthusiastic members were happy to be back at Toastmasters after the Easter Break. The agenda was full and everyone fulfilled their roles exceptionally well. I know because I was general evaluator. Brent Jemmett was chairperson and carried the theme “Let’s Scream for Ice Cream” throughout the evening. Loyal Toast & Timer: Audrey Orth, ATMG shared some history of ice cream. Grammarian: Jessica Kelly, CC gave us the word “Interlard” which was used 17 times. Literary Corner: Marie McCutcheon, DTM – she read an original ice cream story. Speaker #1: Speech #2 CC Marilyn Hynes “Don’t Tick off the Property Manager” Speaker #2: Speech #10 CC Heidi Menzi “Horticulture”
Rhea led Table Topics and it was great to see everyone describe their favourite ice cream flavours. Jessica Kelly earned the table topics trophy.
Brian Camacho presented an Education Module "Evaluations" that explained the importance of effective evaluations. Keith and Jane listened well and gave awesome evaluations to Marilyn and Heidi. Chairperson Brent closed the meeting and everyone enjoyed ice cream snacks provided by Sharon D’Arcey.

Diane Bender, ACG
President
Meeting Theme: Let’s Scream for Ice Cream
(1 min) Call meeting to order : Sharon D’Arcey
(3-4 min) Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Brent Jemmett, CC
(5 min) Anything for the Good of Toastmasters:
(1-2 min) Joke of the Day: Marilyn Hynes
(1-2 min) Loyal Toast & Timer: Audrey Orth, ATMG
(1-2 min) Grammarian: Jessica Kelly, CC “Interlard” was used 17 times
(3-4 min) Literary Corner: Marie McCutcheon, DTM – she read an original ice cream story
(5-7 min) Speaker #1: Speech #2 CC Marilyn Hynes “Don’t Tick off the Property Manager”
(8-10 min) Speaker #2: Speech #10 CC Heidi Menzi “Horticulture”
(15-20min)Table Topics: Rhea Longman. Winner was Jessica Kelly
(16 min) Educational Session on Evaluations Brian Camacho, ATMB
(3-4 min) Evaluator #1: Keith Stoltz
(3-4 min) Evaluator #2: Jane Stoltz
(5 min) General Evaluator: Diane Bender, ATMG
(1-2 min) Chairperson’s Closing Remarks Brent Jemmett, CC
9:00 Adjournment
Ice Cream Snacks Sharon D’Arcey
Dates to Mark on Your Calendar
Apr 15: Useless Information
April 16-18: Spring Conference at Mississauga, at the Delta Meadowvale
Apr 22: Born to Win

Linguists of Listowel

Linguists of Listowel
What a great evening we had. The theme was lessons children/ friends/ parents teach us. Past president George Nichol wowed us all with his skills as chairperson. He had interesting introductions for everyone and even shared a few jokes.
We welcomed George Stevers as a guest this evening, he was introduced by Keith Stoltz. George is a farmer and “enjoys” fixing farm equipment!
Keith M. was toast and timer- for some reason he really seems to enjoy keeping us all on time!
Jessica Kelly entertained us with literary corner, mentioning how little children can teach us lessons on what and when to eat. Sharon Diehl gave us the word Sapience which is a noun and means deep wisdom or knowledge. It was used several times throughout the meeting.
Sharon D’Arcey presented speech #3 in her CC manual “To be a Kid Again”. Her mentor Diane Bender was the evaluator. She was very impressed with the sapience of Sharon’s speech. It was persuasive entertaining and inspiring.
Jane Stoltz used her vacation experiences to entertain us with her speech “Waves”. A tsunami advisory in New Zealand had most people scrambling to higher ground – but not the Stoltz’s. Jane described how her husband Keith thought it would be safe to get to the top of the house they were staying in and then view the pandemonium with binoculars! Audrey Orth evaluated Jane with lots of glow points.
Brian Camacho led table topics- he even gave us choices. Winner was Jessica Kelly.
Keith Stoltz evaluated the meeting with many glow points and even some suggestions to make our meetings better in the future.
We congratulated Rhea Longman on her acceptance to Redeemer College and we were excited to learn that she had earned a leadership scholarship as well! Way to go Rhea.
Diane Bender ATMG
President of Linguists of Listowel

Linguists of Listowel

Sharon welomes Marilyn to Toastmasters Linguists of Listowel!

Brent congratulates Jessica on recieving her Competent Communicator certificate.

Rhea shares her toastmaster experience with her father at our OPEN HOUSE

Hi Toastmasters:


Last evening's program was completely filled and chucked full of surprises and we ended on time.

Audrey Orth did a fantastic job as chair sharing her Irish stories, tales, jokes and quotes!

Thank you to our guests last evening for coming and sharing our evening.

Marie McCutcheon received lots of smiles and chuckles with her Irish joke.

Congratulations to Jessica Kelly for receiving three certificates last evening, Sixth Speech, Tenth Speech and winner of Table Topics Award!

Our word provider, Rhea Longman counted Gregarious used 13 times throughout the meeting!

Rich Boertien gave his #7 Speech: Do Unto Others and Diane Bender read us a story on The Lady of Gollerus.

Sharon D'Arcey entertained us with a reading about the story of Blarney!

Jane gave her point of view with the benefits of holidays and Brian Camacho did his hilarious counter point of view.

Our listening skills proved to be right on target for our quizmaster Jessica Kelly.

Congratulations to Sharon Diehl for taking on general evaluator for the first time last evening.

A welcome to Marilyn Hynd in announcing her membership into our club!

There are many spots open for next week.

Challenge yourself next week as we need a chairperson, as our president is absent next week to enjoy the lessons her grandchildren will teach her.

Jane Stoltz

VP of Education

Linguists of Listowel

Speaker Rich Boertien welcomes guest Marilyn Hynd to Toastmasters.

President Diane Bender congratulates Jessica Kelly on completing her 10th speech March 4, 2010

Evaluator Brian and Mentor Audrey congratulate Rhea on her second speech.


Linguists of Listowel – LISTEN, LAUGH, LEARN & LEAD
Area 66 – District 86 – Western Division – Region VI – Club #9016
Linguistsoflistowel.blogspot.com
Area Governor: Diana Snowden Division Governor: Glenn Oxford
Date: Thursday March 4, 2010
Meeting Theme: Oxymorons

Call meeting to order (7:15): Heidi Menzi
Chairperson: Brent Jemmett Agenda Review:
Joke of the Day: Keith McCluskie
Loyal Toast & Timer: Sharon D’Arcey Grammarian: Diane Bender "Seriously Funny"
Literary Corner: Audrey Orth "Olympics"
Speech #1:CC #2 Rhea Longman "Moving, Moving"
Speech #2:#1 Entertaining Rich Boertien "Along Interstate 75"
Speech #3: CC#10 Jessica Kelly "ROAK"
Table Topics Master: Sharon Diehl
Evaluator: Brian Camacho
Evaluator: Keith McCluskie Evaluator: Leo Brisebois
General Evaluator Heidi Menzi
Guest Comments: Marilyn Hynd
Reports from Timer & Grammarian –1 minute each
Award for Best Table Topics, Keith McCluskie
For the Good of Toastmasters,
Next Week’s Program Review,
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks: Brent Jemmett

Snack & Refreshments: Sharon D’Arcey Adjournment (9.00)
Dates to Mark on Your Calendar
March 10: Area Contest Walkerton, Jubilee Hall
March 26: Division Contest University of Waterloo
Apr 16-18:Spring Conference at Meadowvale Conference Centre in Mississauga
March 4: Executive Meeting
March 11: Irish Blessings Open House March 18: Lessons Children Teach Us