November 10, 2011 Theme: Facing the Challenge

V.P. of Education, Jane Stoltz, was the Chairperson for the meeting. Jane provided us with lots of encouraging ways that each one of us can "Face the Challenges in life and succeed.
















Youth Leadership participant, Lexi Curran presented her speech presentation entitled "Why I Should Get A Puppy".
She had some very convincing views and ideas why a puppy would enrich her life.















Youth Leadership participant, Caitlyn Grubb presented her speech presentation entitled "Joan of Arc".
Caitlyn did a good job providing the club members with history and the story of Joan of Arc and how she faced the challenge and changed the history of the world.














Lucy D'Arcey, provided the club members with her speech presentation entitled "Character Is A Choice".
Lucy's speech presentation left us with lots to think about when we interact with others and what impression we leave with them.














Club President, Leo Brisebois provided everyone with a speech presentation from one of the advanced Toastmaster manuals.

November 10, 2011 Theme: Facing the Challenge

Youth Leadership participants; Lexi Curran (left) and Caitlyn Grubb (right) jointly shared the role of Table Topics Master.
They did a great job by providing the club members each with two questions "What would you prefer more ...........or .........?
Each club member had to answer these impromptu questions and speak aloud for one minute.













Sharon D'Arcey's role of the evening was an evaluator of Lexi Curran's speech presentation entitled "Why I should get a Puppy". This was done to help Lexi know what her strengths are in public speaking and perhaps offer a suggestion to help improve one thing for the next speech.














Club Treasurer, George Nichol, also had the role of speech evaluator and he evaluated Caitlyn Grubb's speech presentation entitled "Joan of Arc". George gave lots of praise as well and offered a suggestion to help Caitlyn with her next speech presentation.














Diane Bender was also a speech evaluator for the evening and provided feedback to Lucy D'Arcey after she presented her 9th speech from the Competent Communicator manual. The speech was entitled "Character is a Choice".















V.P. of Membership, Lorna VanderPloeg was the General Evaluator of the entire meeting. She provided the club members with her views of how the meeting was conducted, value-added features and some suggestions for possible changes/improvements for the next meeting.

November 10, 2011, Theme: Facing the Challenge

Linguists of Listowel

Them: FACING THE CHALLENGE

Good remarks by our chairperson Jane Stoltz about the challenges we face every day and good quotes to make you stop and think.

This was the third week for our Youth Leadership last night and they both presented another speech. Lexi's speech was entitled "Why I Should Get A Puppy". Caitlyn's speech was entitled "Joan of Arc".

Both Youth Leadership participants are doing great and they have made great strides since the first week.

The word of the day "COWABUNGA" was used 11 times throughout the night and was well presented to everyone. Good job Keith McCluskie!

We had Joke of the Day by Leo Brisebois. Leo also presented a speech about praise for someone’s retirement. Lucy D’Arcey's speech "Character is a Choice" was a very inspirational speech. I always like her speeches as she always give us something to take away with us. Tonight, we all have choices. It’s not what you do that makes the difference, it’s how you respond to it that make all the difference.

We had good inspirational quotes by Jane Stoltz throughout the evening;

"Do the things you think you cannot do".

"Never leave until tomorrow what you can do today".

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened".

Doesn’t that make you think? There are a lot of truths in those phrases/quotes.

Toast and Timer by Valrie Hummel was a patriotic toast to all our fallen soldiers and family members that went to war, with some never returning. Good toast!

Marie McCutcheon did an education module on GESTURES and gave us examples using habits the female and male use often that give away their speech.

Table Topics were lead by no other than Lexi and Caitlyn. They worked it out together by explaining their roles and giving out impromptu speaking roles. An example of choices were; Would you prefer being poor or rich and why? Good choice to table topics.

Evaluator George Nichol, Sharon D’Arcey, Diane Bender and Keith Stoltz, all did a good job giving good points and grow points.

Lorna VanderPloeg, general evaluator took over the chairing part of the meeting for the evaluators role and gave us comments about the meeting

65 LAUGHS for the evening and lots of fun.

Leo Brisebois

Club President

"Do the things you think you cannot do".

Good night