Wednesday, April 20, 2011

April 7, 2011, Social Media

Left: Chairperson - Sharon D'Arcey
Speaking about social media.

















Left: Karen Bott presented her first Ice Breaker speech.










Left: Richard Boertien, speaking about his new house.









Bottom Left: Karen Bott being congratulated by club president Brent Jemmett for presenting her Ice Breaker speech "All About Me".

April 7, 2011, Theme: Social Media

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel, we had a very enjoyable meeting. There were 9 members in attendance. Keith McCluskie called the meeting to order by introducing Sharon D'Arcey as our chairperson for the meeting. Sharon introduced our theme for the evening of "Social Media" by telling us what social media is and how it is used in today's society.

I took on the role of Joke of the Day by telling a couple of jokes about Facebook. George Stevers held the role of Toast and Timer and he gave our toast to Canada. Keith Stoltz for the role of Literary Corner read a story from Gold Wing Magazine about a trip that some Americans took on their motorcycles through Western Canada.

Our first speaker was our newest member, Karen Bott's Icebreaker speech called "All About Me" and we all got to know more about her. Our second speaker was Rich Boertien had a very entertaining and informative speech called "Reduce the Stress in Your Life".

Sharon D'Arcey also filled in for the role of Table Topic master and had us all speak about the pros and cons of social media. The winner was Leo Brisebois.

I tested everyone's listening skills as Quizmaster and Heidi Menzi took on the role of general evaluator, where she introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Keith evaluated Karen's speech and Leo evaluated Rich's speech.

Hope to see you all at our next regular meeting on Thursday with our theme "Boost your Hometown".

Also, remember Tuesday is Mt. Forest's workshop on "Be An Exceptional Presenter!" by Gary Mull.

Brent

March 31, 2011, Theme: Great Leaders

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday meeting, we had a fun time with the theme of “Great Leaders”. There were 12 members in attendance and two guests (Dorothy Reid and Caroline Beren from the Mt. Forest Motivators). Sharon D'Arcey called the meeting to order by introducing myself as the chair for the meeting. I went over what makes a great leader and some the people that I considered a Great Leader.

Keith Stoltz took on the role of Joke of the Day and got the laughs going by telling a really funny joke. Lorna Vanderploeg took on the role of Toast and Timer and she gave our toast to Canada. Rich Boertien was the Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Great" throughout the meeting. Heidi Menzi took on the role of Literary Corner and read a very interesting story about medieval times.

Our first speaker was George Stevers with a very informative speech that was titled "Winston Churchill". Rich Boertien was our second speaker and he had a very entertaining speech entitled "Our House" and his experiences about the building of his new home. Next, Jane Stoltz for an Educational Corner went over the role of General Evaluator and the new way that we are using the role at our meetings.

Marie McCutcheon for the role of Table Topic Master had us all write down a great leader. Then we had to pick a quirk out of the envelope and act out that great leader with a quirk (Example; Itchy/scratchy feeling, loud voice, whispering while talking, run-on sentences, etc.). The winner was Richard Boertien.

Keith McCluskie took on the role of general evaluator, where he introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Jane evaluated George's speech and Marilyn evaluated Rich's speech.

Hope to see you all at our next meeting on Thursday

Brent

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

March 24, 2011 - Table Topics Theme: Blizzard Stories

Table Topics participants adding their personal experiences to the on-going blizzard story started by Table Topics Master, Karen Bott.

Keith Stoltz (top left)

Richard Boertien (bottom left).

March 24, 2011 - Table Topics Theme: Blizzard Stories

More Table Topics participants adding their experiences to the on-going blizzard story.

Marilyn Miller (top right)

Lorna Vanderploeg and Table Topics Master, Karen Bott (next right)

Leo Brisebois (middle)

Jane Stoltz (next right)

Marshall McCoy and Table Topics Master Karen Bott (bottom right)



March 24, 2011 - Table Topics Theme: Blizzard Stories

Even more Table Topics participants add their personal past experiences to an on-going blizzard story.
George Stevers (left)

George Nichol (second left)

Brent Jemmett (next left)

Audrey Orth (next left) shown with Table Topics Master, Karen Bott

Heidi Menzi (bottom left)



Thursday, March 24, 2011 - Theme: Blizzard Stories

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel, we had lots of fun with the theme of Blizzard Stories. There was 13 members and 1 guest (Lorna's son - Marshall) in attendance. Marilyn Miller called the meeting to order with a minute of silence for the fallen firefighters and then she introduced our chair for the meeting. Audrey Orth was chair for the evening and she told some blizzard stories. She also told us how the community came together with volunteers to help organize the funeral for the firefighters (Raymond Walters and Ken Rea).

Rich Boertien started the laughs going with the role of Joke of the Day by telling a couple of jokes. Keith Stoltz held the role of Toast and Timer and he gave a toast to the fallen heroes (Ken and Raymond). The Grammarian role was done by George Nichol and he challenged everyone to use the word "Obfuscate".

Our first speaker was Lorna Vanderploeg and she gave us a very entertaining speech about some personal blizzard stories. Our second speaker was Heidi Menzi and she told us about the time she visited Victoria Island, British Columbia with all their beautiful gardens (Butchart Gardens). I did the role of Point of View and told the points of why people should join Toastmasters. Then Leo Brisebois had to counter those points with reasons why not.

Karen Bott took on the role of Table Topics Master and had us all continue a story that she started by using some props that she brought. The winner was Audrey Orth. Keith McCluskie tested our listening skills with the role of Quiz Master and Jane Stoltz took on the role of general evaluator, where she introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Marilyn evaluated Lorna's speech and Keith McCluskie evaluated Heidi's speech.

Hope to see you all at our next regular meeting on Thursday. There will be a short business meeting to follow our regular meeting for the club executive officers.

Brent

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011 - Theme: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations in Listowel

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting was an extremely enjoyable meeting filled with many laughs. We had 13 members in attendance and one guest (Marilyn Miller's sister - Georgina Salter). The theme for the night was "'St. Patrick's Day Celebrations in Listowel" and Keith McCluskie called the meeting to order by introducing Sharon O'D'Arcey who was our chair for the night. She went over the history of St. Patrick's day and what the day means to her.

Audrey Orth started the laughs going with the role of Joke of the Day by telling three Irish jokes. Lorna Vanderploeg took on the role of Literary Corner where she shared some facts about St. Patrick's day. I held the role of Toast and Timer where I gave a toast to Canada where we are able to celebrate all different cultures. The Grammarian role was done by Jane Stoltz and she challenged everyone to use the phrase "Luck of the Irish" . It was used 19 times and Jane counted 93 laughs.

Our first speaker was George Nichol and did an interpretive reading of the monodrama from a George Bernard Shaw play entitled "Getting Married". Our second speaker was Marie McCutcheon and she gave us a very informative speech and discussion about the dangers of microwaving food. Next Jane Stoltz did an Educational Corner on the different levels at Toastmasters. Keith McCluskie evaluated George's speech.

Keith Stoltz did a great job as Table Topic Master and asked us all questions dealing with St. Patrick's Day. The winner was Keith McCluskie. Marilyn Miller took on the role of general evaluator, where she explained her role very well and gave us feedback on the overall meeting.

Hope to see you all at our next regular meeting on Thursday.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs March 24: Linguists of Listowel, Blizzard Stories

Thurs March 31: Linguists of Listowel, Great Leaders

Contest Dates

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Monday, March 14, 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011 Theme: Face The Fear and Do It Anyways.

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel meeting, we had 9 members and 1 guest (Marilyn's friend Ron Coleman) in attendance. The theme for the night was "'Face the Fear and Do It Anyways" and Audrey Orth called the meeting to order with her thoughts on the theme. I was chair for the evening and discussed some of the top fears as well as some of my fears.

Wayne Stoltz started the laughs going with the role of Joke of the Day. Marilyn Miller held the role of Toast and Timer and she gave a toast to Canada where we are able to face our fears. The Grammarian role was done by Sharon D'Arcey and she challenged everyone to use the word "Frivolous". It was used 10 times.

Our speaker was Keith Stoltz and he gave us a very informative Educational Module on going outside the club. He went over with everyone the District's "Go outside your club program". We gave an evaluation by the round table format where everyone gave Keith glow and grow points.

Sharon D'Arcey also took on the role of Table Topics Master and had us pick a question from a Trivial Pursuit card. Then we had to explain to everyone how we knew the answer to one of the questions. The winner was Audrey Orth. George Stevers tested our listening skills with Quiz Master and Keith McCluskie took on the role of general evaluator, where he went over a checklist of what we did well and we missed during the meeting.

Hope to see you all at our next regular meeting on Thursday and remember to wear your green for St. Patrick's Day.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs March 17: Linguists of Listowel, Paddyfest Celebrations

Contest Dates

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

March 3, 2011 Theme: What Season Are You?

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting was a great meeting filled with many laughs. We had 15 members in attendance and 1 guest (Mary Lynn Ericson). The theme for the night was "'What Season Are You?" and George Nichol called the meeting to order with his thoughts on all the different types of seasons. I was chair for the evening and went over what my favourite types of seasons are.

Jane Stoltz started the laughs going with the role of Joke of the Day. Keith McCluskie held the role of Toast and Timer where he gave a toast to Canada where we have all different temperature ranges like being -50 degrees in the winter to being +33 degrees in the summer. The Grammarian role was done by Diane Bender and she challenged everyone to use the word "Seasonable" . Our newest member Karen Bott took on the role of Ah Counter, where she listened for the those filler words.

Our first speaker was Sharon D'Arcey with her inspiring speech titled "What Really Matters". Our second speaker was Keith Stoltz and he gave us a very entertaining speech that he was going to give at the Toastmaster Appreciation Brunch in Mississauga as the keynote speaker. Sharon's speech was evaluated by the round table format where everyone gave her glow and grow points. Keith had an evaluation form that he had us all complete to help him get feedback.

Lorna Vanderploeg did a great job as Table Topics Master and had us all describe our favourite thing or memory about a certain season. Marie McCutcheon took on the role of Literary Corner and Audrey Orth took on the role of general evaluator, where she gave us feedback on the overall meeting.

Hope to see you all at the Area's contest on Wednesday night in Listowel and at our regular meeting on Thursday.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs March 10: Linguists of Listowel, Face the Fear and Do It Anyways

Thurs March 17: Linguists of Listowel, Paddyfest Celebrations

Contest Dates

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Sunday, March 06, 2011

March 3, 2011: Table Topics

Lorna Vanderploeg was the Table Topics Master during the meeting themed; What Season Are You?
Lorna guessed what season each member liked best and asked each of us to answer a question related to that season.

March 3, 2011: Speech Presentation Participants

Richard was purring like a cat to help with sound affects during an interactive portion of Keith Stoltz's speech presentation.
Mary Lynn Ericson (left) and Marilyn Miller (centre) enjoy Richard's antics.

February 24, 2011: International Speech and Evaluation Contest Winners

Area Governor Keith Stoltz (back centre) congratulates the winners.

The winners of the International Evaluation Contest were: (left) 2nd place- Keith McCluskie and 1st place - Jane Stoltz.

The winners of the International Speech Contest were (front centre)1st place - Sharon D'Arcey (What Really Matters), (right) 2nd place - Brent Jemmett (Mackenzie's Figure Skating Career).

Monday, February 28, 2011

February 24, 2011: International Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest Events



Preparations are underway for the Linguists of Listowel International Speech and Speech Evaluation Contests.
Top left: Linguists of Listowel club members and guests from the Mount Forest Motivators finalize preparations before the Speech Evaluation Contest begins.

Middle: Area Governor, Keith Stoltz is finalizing the list of competitors for the International Speech and Speech Evaluators Contest. Club president, Brent Jemmett is shown looking on and helping out.

Bottom left: In the foreground is George Stevers shown reading up on the finer points of evaluating a speech. Both Richard Boertien and Marie McCutcheon are shown greeting our guests from the Mount Forest Motivators club.

February 24, 2011: International Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest

Fellow Toastmasters and Friends
This past Thursday, the Linguists of Listowel held their International Speech and Speech Evaluation contest. It was an excellent night filled with lots of great speeches and lots of guests (Eight). We had 13 members in attendance with everyone taking a part in the contests. We also had lots of help from our guests from the Mount Forest Motivators who helped fill in roles such as judges and counters.
Our Chairpersons for the night were Leo Brisebois for the Speech Evaluation Contest and Keith Stoltz for the International Speech Contest. They both did fantastic jobs as chairpersons. Our chief judge for both contests was Audrey Orth and Richard Boertien was the Sergeant of Arms. The timers were Marilyn Miller and John Ridgeway from the Mt. Forest Motivators. The target Speaker for the Evaluation contest was Ron Hills from Top Talkers, who gave a very entertaining speech called "Is Anybody Listening?".
The winners of the Evaluation Contest were:
1st - Jane Stoltz, 2nd - Keith McCluskie 3rd - Brent Jemmett
The winners of the International Contest were:
1st - Sharon D'Arcey (What Really Matters), 2nd - Brent Jemmett (Mackenzie's Figure Skating Career), 3rd - Leo Brisebois ("Perceptions")
The first and second place winners will compete at the Area contest on March 9th in Listowel.
This Tuesday, March 1st, is the Mount Forest Motivators contest and if you are able to make it there to support them like they did our contest, it would be good to help them out.
Hope to see you all this Thursday at our meeting with the theme of "What Season Are You?"
Brent

February 17, 2011: Additional Club Point

Club president, Brent Jemmett is shown holding the Linguists of Listowel club point chart.
Club secretary, Marilyn Miller will add another point to the club chart for completing her 10th speech of the Competent Communicator manual.

February 17, 2011: Competent Communicator Speech Number 10

Congratulations to Marilyn Miller for completing her 10th speech from the Competent Communicator manual.
Club president, Brent Jemmett is shown presenting Marilyn Miller with her certificate of achievement.

February 17, 2011: New Member Induction

Karen Bott is being welcomed into the Linguists of Listowel Toastmaster's club by Keith McCluskie.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

February 17, 2011 - Theme: Favourite Destinations in the Summer

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

We had a lot of fun at Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting with the theme of "Favourite Destinations in the Summer". It had all 13 members in attendance thinking of the warmer weather. George Nichol called the meeting to order and named many favourite summer destinations. Keith McCluskie did a great job as the chair for the evening and opened the meeting by telling everyone some of his favourite things to do in the summer.

Lorna Vanderploeg with Inspirational Thought gave us a quote from Bob Marley. Next, Richard Boertien got the laughs going with Joke of the Day by telling us some summer jokes. Our newest member, Karen Bott tackled the role of Toast and Timer for her first time. She gave a timely toast to Canada with all the things that we are able to do in the summer. Leo Brisebois with the role of Literary Corner shared an entertaining reading from William Safire's book - "Lend Me Your Ear". The Grammarian role was done by Richard Boertien and he challenged everyone to use the word "Conundrum" and it was used 6 times.

The first speaker was Marilyn Miller, who did speech number 10 out of her CC manual. She did a very entertaining speech called "Enthused - A Journey Through Toastmasters". Our second speaker was Jane Stoltz and she gave us an Educational Corner on what it takes to reach all the levels (ie. Competent Communicator, Advanced Communicator Bronze, etc) at Toastmasters. The speech and Educational Corner were evaluated by Lorna Vanderploeg and Wayne Stoltz respectively. They both gave great feedback to our speakers.

Then we had an Awards Ceremony where I presented Marilyn a certificate for receiving her CC and also helping us reach another point towards our Distinguished Club Program. Next, we had an Induction Ceremony by Keith McCluskie where we inducted our new member Karen Bott to our club.

Heidi Menzi was our General Evaluator and she reviewed with us how the meeting was going. I was the Table Topics Master for the meeting and had everyone pick a summer destination out of the envelope and tell us why it was there favourite thing to do in the summer. The winner was our Chairperson, Keith McCluskie. Keith Stoltz was our Quiz Master and he challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night and also tested us on the agenda.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our Club's International and Evaluation contest, so get those speeches all polished up. Also, we will need people to fill roles of judges and counters.

Brent

Club Contest Dates

Linguists of Listowel Thursday February 24th

Talk Talkers Saturday February 26th

Mount Forest Motivators Tuesday March 1st

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

February 10, 2011 - King of Spades and Queen of Diamonds

Table Topics - Depicting Famous Couples for Valentines Day.
Top Left: Clarke Kent (Keith M) and Lois Lane (Marie McCutcheon).
Middle Left: Romeo (Audrey Orth - on right) and Juliet (Heidi Menzi).
Middle Right: Gracie Burns (Jane Stoltz) and George Burns (Richard Boertien)
Next Left: Robin Hood (Leo Brisebois) and Maid Marion (Lorna Vanderploeg)
Bottom Left: Blondie (Lucy D'Arcey) and Dagwood (George Stevers)




February 10, 2011 - King of Spades and Queen of Diamonds

Marie McCutcheon presents an oratory speech from the courtroom segment of the book entitled "To Kill a Mocking Bird".

February 10_2011 - King of Spades and Queen of Diamonds

Marilyn Miller - Chairperson (Her majesty, the Queen of Diamonds)
Marilyn displays the gifts of her treasury, complete with royal crowns for the King and Queen of Table Topics.

Monday, February 14, 2011

February 10, 2011 - Theme: King of Spades and Queen of Diamonds

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting was the second night of our Open House for the month of February and what a fun night it was! We had 13 members in attendance and 1 guest (Karen Bott).

The theme for the night was "King of Spades & Queen of Diamonds". Lorna Vanderploeg called the meeting to order and introduced her royal highness “Queen of Diamonds – Marilyn Miller”. Marilyn took on the role of chairperson for the evening and did a great job outfitted with her royal attire, props that complimented the theme of the meeting and introductions of all the roles.

Keith McCluskie filled the role of Joke of the Day and presented a giggle for the evening entitled “My Dad Scribbles”. Audrey Orth held the role of Toast and Timer and gave a toast to Canada, the land that we can all be kings and queens without being born with royal blood.

Literary Corner was done by Heidi Menzi who read from a newspaper article entitled “Small Business” written by local columnist Raymond Canon. The article consisted of businesses such as Happy Foods Group – inventors of Holy Crap Cereal and also a company located in Hensall, Ontario called Ice Sculpture – makers of ice sculptures that are sold world wide.

The Grammarian role was done by Keith McCluskie and he challenged everyone to use the hyphenated word "gung-ho" and it was used 9 times. It was noted that “ah’s” and “so’s” were the most common filler words used during the evening.

Our first speaker was George Stevers with his speech titled "Achieving Food Sovereignty". Our second speaker was Richard Boertien and he presented his speech called "Abstract Concept". The third speaker was Marie McCutcheon with her oratory speech entitled “To Kill a Mocking Bird”.

Leo Brisebois acted as Toastmaster/General Evaluator and introduced all of our speech evaluators individually. The speeches were evaluated in sequence by Lucy D’Arcey, Keith Stoltz and Jane Stoltz respectively who all gave each speaker instant feedback.

Diane Bender did a great job as Table Topics Master. Diane paired us up to portray famous acting couples and proclaim our Valentines love and wishes to each other. The couples were; Clarke Kent and Lois Lane, Blondie and Dagwood, Maid Marion and Robin Hood, Fred and Wilma Flinstone, George and Gracie Burns and Romeo and Juliet. The winning couple was Clarke Kent and Lois Lane that played by Keith McCluskie and Marie McCutcheon.

Leo Brisebois, as general evaluator, gave us feedback on the overall meeting with glow and grow points.

A Challenge from the President to the Linguists of Listowel - I will give a prize to the member who brings out the most guests for the month of February during our Open House month.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs Feb 17: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Favourite Summer Destination

Club Contest Dates

Linguists of Listowel Thursday February 24th

Talk Talkers Saturday February 26th

Mount Forest Motivators Tuesday March 1st

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Friday, February 11, 2011

February 3, 2011 - Theme: The Good Ole Days

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting was the start of our Open House for the month of February and what a great start! We had a full house with 15 members in attendance and 3 guests. Sharon D'Arcey, our V.P. of Public Relations brought out the media to show them what we are all about. We had Andrew Smith from the Listowel Banner and Gary Moon who is the Vice Chair of the North Perth Arts and Culture Council and was taking pictures for Snap Perth. Also, Heidi Menzi brought out her friend Karen Uhler.

The theme for the night was "'The Good Ole Days" and Audrey Orth called the meeting to order with her thoughts on the theme. Sharon D'Arcey took on the role of chair for the evening and did a great job with her introductions of all the roles.

Richard Boertien started the laughs going with some Bar room jokes for Joke of the Day. Wayne Stoltz held the role of Toast and Timer where he gave a toast to Canada where we are free to speak. The Grammarian role was done by Marie McCutcheon and she challenged everyone to use the word "Cliché" and it was used 10 times. She also challenged everyone to use their favourite cliché during the meeting.

Leo Brisebois acted as Toastmaster and introduced all of our speakers. Our first speaker was Marilyn Miller with her speech titled "Just my Thoughts". Our second speaker was Richard Boertien and he re-presented his humorous speech called "Acronyms". The third speaker was Keith Stoltz and he gave an entertaining speech called "5 days". The speeches were evaluated by Rich, George Nichol and myself where we all gave the speaker instant feedback.

Heidi Menzi did a great job as Table Topics Master and had us all describe our favourite thing that we picked out of the envelope. Some examples were; favourite type of tree or favourite road trip. The winner was Marilyn Miller. George Stevers gave our second Joke of the Day with a funny joke about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson camping. Diane Bender was our Quizmaster and she challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night. Jane Stoltz took on the role of general evaluator, where she introduced all the speech evaluators and gave us feedback on the overall meeting.

A Challenge from the President to the Linguists of Listowel - I will give a prize to the member who brings out the most guests for the month of February during our Open House month.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs Feb 10: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Queens vs Kings

Club Contest Dates

Linguists of Listowel Thursday February 24th

Talk Talkers Saturday February 26th

Mount Forest Motivators Tuesday March 1st

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

January 27, 2011 - Theme: Jokingly Speaking

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting with the theme of "Jokingly Speaking", we had 11 members in attendance. Diane Bender called the meeting to order and challenged us with some trivia. I was the chair for the evening and opened the meeting by telling everyone my favourite comedians and some of their jokes.

Lucy D'Arcey held the role of Toast and Timer where he gave a timely toast to Canada. Heidi Menzi got the laughs going with a funny Joke of the Day. The Grammarian role was done by Jane Stoltz and she challenged everyone to use the word "Gobbledygook" and it was used many times. Gobbledygook means jargon or hard to understand. Audrey Orth took on the role of Literary Corner where she read a very entertaining story from the magazine Country Woman.

The first speaker was Lucy D'Arcey, who presented speech number 3 out of her CC manual. She did a very informative speech with a good message called "I'd Rather Be Fooled" and it was about random acts of kindness. Our second speaker was Richard Boertien, who did speech number 4 in the Advanced Communication and Leadership Program which was "The Demonstration Talk". He told a very entertaining speech called "Filler Words". The speeches were evaluated by Diane Bender and Sharon D'Arcey. They both gave great feedback to our speakers.

George Nichol did a good job as Table Topics Master and had us all try to finish the punch line to the joke that he started telling. The winner was Rich Boertien. Keith Stoltz was our Quizmaster and he challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night and also tested us on the agenda. Leo Brisebois took on the role of general evaluator, where he went over how the meeting went by telling us what we did well and what we could improve on.

Remember - Challenge from the President to the Linguists of Listowel - I will give a prize to the member who brings out the most guests for the month of February during our Open House month.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs Feb 3: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Ground Hogs -OPEN HOUSE

Thurs Feb 10: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Queens vs Kings - OPEN HOUSE

Club Contest Dates

Toastmasters of Hanover Monday January 31st

Linguists of Listowel Thursday February 24th

Top Talkers Saturday February 26th

Mount Forest Motivators Tuesday March 1st

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Friday, January 28, 2011

January 20, 2011 - Theme: Jeopardy

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

On Thursday's Linguists of Listowel's meeting, we had another very enjoyable meeting. The theme for the night was "Jeopardy". We had 11 members and one guest (Karen Bott) in attendance. Brian Camacho called the meeting to order and gave his thoughts on what the theme of Jeopardy meant to him. I was the chairperson for the evening and opened the meeting by giving the definition of Jeopardy and talked about the game show Jeopardy which I used throughout the meeting.

Keith Stoltz held the role of Toast and Timer where he gave a timely toast to Canada. The Grammarian role was done by Heidi Menzi and she challenged everyone to use the word "Wabash" and it was used 5 times. Wabash means good man or an Indian word meaning did it well.

Our speaker Richard Boertien presented speech number 2 in the Advanced Communication and Leadership Program which was "Resources For Informing". He told a very entertaining speech called "I Call It Home Now". It was about his hometown of Listowel and it was very informative. The speech was evaluated by George Nichol and he gave great feedback. We also had an Educational Module where we learned what goes into creating an outstanding Club climate which was given by Audrey Orth.

Leo Brisebois did a good job as Table Topics Master and had us all ready to play some baseball. He started telling a story of a baseball game and we had to keep the story going to explain how the winning run was scored. The winner was George Nichol. Jane Stoltz was our Quizmaster and she challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night. Sharon D'Arcey took on the role of general evaluator, where she went over with everyone what we did well and what we could improve on.

A Challenge from the President to the Linguists of Listowel - I will give a prize to the member who brings out the most guests for the month of February during our Open House month.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting.

Brent

Toastmaster Calendar Dates

Thurs Jan 27: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Jokingly Speaking

Thurs Feb 3: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Ground Hogs

Thurs Feb 10: Linguists of Listowel, Regular Meeting, Queens vs Kings

Sat. Jan 29: Officer Training, Phase 2, in Hanover, Details to Follow

Hanover at the Grace United Church. Starting with registration at 8:30 Presentations for all executive and would be executives until 10:45. 10:45 am to 11am will be a short coffee break and then a great session on Memory... How to Make It Better. This will be followed by a hot lunch (included in the training cost). Then two seperate presentations; one on Judging and one on Evaluations will be conducted. It will be over by 3:30. Cost is $10/person.

Club Contest Dates

Toastmasters of Hanover Monday January 31st

Linguists of Listowel Thursday February 24th

Talk Talkers Saturday February 26th

Mount Forest Motivators Tuesday March 1st

Area 66 Contest Wednesday March 9th

Division W Contest Friday March 25th

Monday, January 17, 2011

January 13, 2011 - Theme: Junk Mail in January

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Linguists of Listowel, we had a great meeting filled with lots of laughs. The theme of for the night was "Junk Mail in January". We had 13 members in attendance and a guest (Heidi's friend - Elsie Havenga). Audrey Orth called the meeting to order with a very good introduction of the chair for the meeting. Leo Brisebois was our chair for the evening and he opened the meeting by telling us all about the different kinds of junk mail out there.

The joke of the day was done by George Nichol, who gave us a very funny joke that got the laughs started. Marie McCutcheon was our Toast and Timer, who gave a toast to Canada and how we have so many plentiful things even junk mail. The Grammarian role was done by Keith McCluskie. He picked the word "fidget" to challenge everyone to use during the meeting and it was used 11 times. He also counted the number of laughs during the meeting and we had a whopping 114 laughs. Next, George Stevers for his role of Literary Corner read a couple of poems called "Success" and "Life is Earnest".

Our speaker Heidi Menzi gave a speech out of the Storytelling manual. She told an entertaining personal story called "On the Way to School". The speech was evaluated by Keith Stoltz and he gave great feedback. We had an Educational Module where Jane Stoltz told us how to set goals and how to plan to reach those goals

Sharon D'Arcey did a very fun Table Topics with the theme of "Junk Mail in January". She had an envelope in front of us that had junk mail inside and we had to promote the junk mail. George Stevers took the award for his promoting of Toastmasters because he comes to Toastmasters for the free counseling. I took on the role of Quizmaster and challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night. Richard Boertien took on the role of general evaluator, where he reviewed how the overall meeting went.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting.

Brent

Dates to remember:

January 20th - Jeopardy