2010 - 2011 Linguists of Listowel Toastmaster Executives

Back Row (left to right): Jane Stoltz - V. P. of Education, Keith McCluskie - V. P. of Membership, George Nichol - Treasurer, Richard Boertien - Sergeant at Arms and Brent Jemmett - President.
Front Row (left to right); Sharon D'Arcey - V. P. of Public Relations and Marilyn Miller - Secretary.

October 29, 2010 - Division W Table Topics Contest

Congratulations to Jane Stoltz for placing second in the Division W Table Topics Contest held at the University of Waterloo, Arts Lecture Theatre!
Jane is the V.P. of Education at the Linguists of Listowel Toastmaster's club.

October 28, 2010, Meaning of Halloween

Trick or Treat!
Marilyn Miller was in the Halloween spirit for the evening as she is shown with a wide assortment of her Halloween decorations. Marilyn had lots of Halloween displays, historical information and personal stories to share with the group.
Marilyn was also the Table Topics Master for the evening and invited everyone to share their most memorable Halloween experience or memory of their favourite Halloween costume.

October 21, 2010 - New Member Lorna Vanderploeg

October 21, 2010, Lorna Vanderploeg was inducted as a new member of the Linguists of Listowel Toastmaster Club.
Lorna is welcomed into the club by the V.P. of Membership - Keith McCluskie.






Lorna is shown below with her assigned mentor, President of the Linguists of Listowel - Brent Jemmett.

October 21, 2010 - Sample Speech: Show What You Mean

Therapist Leo Brisebois counsels patient Katherine about her fear of being buried alive in a box. He prides himself on being able to provide all of the advice and direction needed in 5 minutes or less during a sample speech of the Speechcraft project "Show What You Mean".

October 28, 2010 - Theme: Trick or Treat

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday, we had week 5 of our Speechcraft program with our two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). There were 11 members in attendance. The theme for the night was “Trick or Treat” and our chairperson for the night was Richard Boertien. He shared the history of Halloween with us and even had a mask on for most of the meeting.

The very funny joke of the day was given by George Stevers. Our Toast and Timer was Diane Bender who gave a good description of her role and a great timely toast to Halloween in Canada. The Grammarian role was filled by Leo Brisebois and he challenged everyone to use the word "Vitiate" which means reduce the value or impair the quality.

We had 4 speakers for the night. Lucy D'Arcey did a great job with her first speech (Icebreaker) which was called "First Star I Saw Tonight". Next our speechcrafter Diane Schalk did her speech with no notes or lectern. It was called "Appreciate The Day" which was a story of a scary time in her life. Doug Culbert's Show What You Mean speech was called "Working In The Caribbean" which was very interesting and humorous. Marilyn Miller did her Vocal Variety Speech which was called "History of Halloween". She had lots of great props and it was well researched. Our evaluators were Keith McCluskie, George Nichol and our two speechcrafters did a great job with their first evaluations of each other’s speech.

Heidi Menzi gave a very informative Educational Session on “Vocal Variety”. Sharon D'Arcey gave the sample speech which was called “An Angel Among Us” where she didn't use the lectern or any notes.

Marilyn Miller filled the role of Table Topics and had everyone tell about their favourite Halloween costume or memory. The winner of table topics was Heidi Menzi.

I was the general evaluator who gave a review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting. After the meeting, we had some refreshments provided by Lucy D'Arcey.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and graduation of our Speechcrafters.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Nov. 4 Speechcraft #6 - The Best Is Yet To Come, Gradutation Time

Nov. 11 - Remembrance

Nov. 18 - Enthusiasm, go, Go, GO!

Nov. 19-21 District Toastmaster Fall Conference in Niagara Falls

October 21, 2010 - Theme: Acronyms

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

Our Thursday night's meeting had the theme of Acronyms which is one our Chair's (Rich Boertien) favourite things to talk about but doesn't like them used in life. Rich had lots of great examples of acronyms like OK (was from the war and meant zero killed). He even created some new ones like L.C. (literary corner) and W.G. (word giver) for the role of Grammarian. We had week 4 of our Speechcraft workshop with our two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). There was great attendance of 14 members and that included our newest members Lucy D'Arcey and Lorna Vanderploeg. We had an induction ceremony for our newest member Lorna.

Our TNT or (Toast and Timer) was Lorna Vanderploeg, who tackled the role for her first time. She did a good job of keeping times of the meeting, gave a good description of her role and a great toast to Canada's new Saint. The W.G. or Grammarian role was filled by Sharon D'Arcey and she challenged everyone to use the word "Discombobulate" which means to throw into confusion and it was used 10 times. The role of L.C. (Literary Corner) was done by Marilyn Miller. She read a story she found at the library from the "Book of Best American Short Stories".

Next our Speechcrafters both did great jobs introducing each other for their speeches. Diane Schalk's speech on was called "Exercising For Life" which was well researched and told everyone to shake that booty. Doug Culbert's speech was called "A Reason for Project Development" which was very well done and informative. Our evaluators were Audrey Orth and Brent Jemmett, who gave our speakers some great glow points and some grow points. Chairperson, Richard Boertien, spoke to the Speechcrafters about "Show What You Mean". George Nichol did a very informative job with the Educational Session on “Gestures in Speaking”. Leo Brisebois gave the sample speech that included lots of gestures and laughs with his co-star (Katherine). He played Dr. Newhart and dealt with Katherine's fear of being buried alive in a box.

George Stevers was the Table Topics Master and had everyone come to the front, pull a picture and had to explain about the picture. The winner of table topics was Sharon D'Arcey. Keith McClucskie challenged everyone's memory and listening skills with Quizmaster. Keith Stoltz as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting. One grow point was getting someone to set up the speaker's area before the speaker is introduced. After the meeting, we had some refreshments provided by Jane Stoltz.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting with the theme of "Trick or Treat". I would like to have a quick Executive Meeting after our meeting for those on the Executive.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Friday October 29th: Division W Humorours Speech and Table Topics Contest, 7:00 p.m., registration at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Waterloo, Arts Lecture Theatre, Room 116, Cost if $5.00/person plus $3.00 for parking.

Thursday Nov 4: Speechcraft Graduation, Theme: The Best is Yet to Come

Thursday Nov 11: Regular Meeting, Theme: Rememberance

Friday thru Sunday Nov 19 - 21: District Toastmaster Fall Conference at the beautiful Sheraton on the Falls in Niagara Falls

October 20, 2010

Chairperson Keith Stoltz presents Humorous Trophy to Gregory C. N. Smith

Humorous Contest Winners: Diana Snowden 3rd, Gregory C. N. Smith 1st, Jafar Mirjalali 2nd.

Table topics contest: Keith McCluskie 3rd, Tammara Hodgins 2nd, Jane Stoltz 1st, Chairperson Keith Stoltz

Chairperson Keith Stoltz planned an excellent contest. He offered a prize to the club with the highest attendance. It was a tie between Mount Forest Motivators and Linguists of Listowel.

Table Topics Contestants

Irma Devries, Jane Stoltz, Tammara Hodgins, Ron Hills, Audrey Orth, Caroline Beren,

Gregory C. N. Smith, Keith McCluskie

Humorous Speech Contestants

Audrey Orth, Rich Boertien, Dorothy Reid, Brent Jemmett, Diana Snowden, Gregory C N Smith, Caroline Beren, Jafar Mirjalali

Area 66 Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest

October 20, 2010

Ah Moments

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday, we had week 3 of our Speechcraft workshop with our two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). There were 12 members in attendance and that included our newest member Lorna Vanderploeg. The theme for the night was “Ah Moments” and our chairperson for the night was Richard Boertien. He had lots of great examples of "Ah Moments" like when you speed past a cop car then look into the rear view mirror to see that they didn't turn around with their lights on.

Our Toast and Timer was Audrey Orth who gave a good description of her role and a great toast to Canada. The Grammarian role was filled by George Stevers and he challenged everyone to use the word "Respite" which means looking back or reprive.

Next our Speechcrafters both did great jobs introducing each other for their speeches. Diane Schalk's second speech on speaking in earnest was called "Eating Healthy" which was well researched and full of great facts. Doug Culbert's speech was called "Applications of GIS" which was very informative. Our evaluators were Keith Stoltz and Sharon D'Arcey, who gave our speakers some great glow points and some grow points.

Chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters about Evaluating the Speaker. I did the Educational Session on “Organizing Your Speech” and Keith McCluskie gave the sample speech which was called “In Search of the Ultimate Rush”.

Jane Stoltz filled the role of Table TopicsMaster and had everyone pull a newspaper headline and each person had to expand on the rest of the story . The winner of Table Topics was our chairperson, Richard Boertien. Leo Brisebois, as general evaluator, gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting. The glow points were that we were on time and everyone did a great job explaining their roles. The grow points were that need to continue to clap until the speaker sits down and for the speaker to wait to leave till the chair comes to the lecturn. After the meeting, we enjoyed some refreshments and fellowship.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday at the Area's Humorous/Table Topics contest in Harriston and on Thursday for our next meeting with the theme of "Acronyms".

Brent

Dates to remember:

Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston

Oct. 21st Speechcraft #4 - Acronyms

Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.

Nov. 19-21 District Toastmaster Fall Conference in Niagara Falls

Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest Winners

September 23, 2010
Shown are the winners of the Linguists of Listowel Humorous speech contest and Table Topics contest.
Starting from left to right;
Richard Boertien - 2nd place in Humorous speech.
Brent Jemmett - 1st place in Humorous speech.
Jane Stoltz - 1st place in Table Topics.
Keith McCluskie - 2nd place in Table Topics.

Speechcraft Member - Diane Schalk

September 30, 2010
Jane Stoltz is shown here with one of our Speechcraft members, Diane Schalk.

Newest Speechcraft Member - Doug Culbert

October 7, 2010
Audrey Orth is shown here with our newest Speechcraft member, Doug Culbert.

Richard Boertien During Theme Night - Hats

September 30, 2010
Richard Boertien is the chairperson of the night to kick off the fall Speechcraft program.
Richard is shown here wearing one of his many hats that he brought along for the theme of the meeting: Hats

Newest member Lucy D'Arcey with mentor Diane Bender

October 7, 2010
Lucy D'Arcey was inducted as a new member of the Linguists of Listowel Toastmaster Club. Lucy is welcomed into the club by her mentor, past president - Diane Bender.

Best Country Fair

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

This past Thursday, we had week 2 of our Speechcraft workshop with two participants (Diane Schalk and Doug Culbert). We had very good attendance with 13 members including our newest member Lucy D`Arcey-Curran and our special guest Lorna Vanderplog. The theme for the night was ``Best Country Fairs`` where we heard alot of good memories of going to the fair.

The chairperson for the meeting and for our Speechcraft program is Richard Boertien. He was well prepared and did a great job with our theme. Keith McCluskie performed the induction ceremony of our newest member (Lucy D'Arcey-Curran) and I presented new name badges to our newest Competent Communicators (Richard Boertien and Heidi Menzi)

Our Toast and Timer was George Stevers who gave a toast to Canada and going to the Country Fair. The Grammarian role was filled by Brent Jemmett and I challenged everyone to use the word "Haste" which means swiftness of motion, or speed. It was used 9 times. Sharon D'Arcey did the role of Literary Corner where she read an interesting story that she helped put the book together for about some Listowel residents at a pie auction and buy $100 pies.

Our evaluators were Jane Stoltz, Audrey Orth, and Lucy D'Arcey, who all gave great feedback to our speakers.

Our Speechcrafters both did great jobs going up for the first time with their Ice Breakers. Diane Schalk's was called "Growing Up In Carthage" and Doug Culbert's was called "What Brought Me To Toastmasters".. Marilyn Miller did speech #5 (Body Language) called "Its A Small World", where she entertained us with her speech and her singing voice.

Next our chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters about Speaking with Conviction. Keith Stoltz did the Educational Session on ``Introducing the Speaker`` and Keith McCluskie gave the sample "Being Earnest" speech which was called ``Shorter Work Week``.

Heidi Menzi for Table Topicsmaster had a bag of goodies where we had to choose from and describe how we won or got it at the Country Fair. We ended up with a tie for the winner between Keith McCluskie and our Speechcrafter - Doug Culbert. Marilyn Miller challenged us with Quizmaster and George Nichol as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting.

After the meeting, we enjoyed refreshments provided by Heidi Menzi.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and week 3 of Speechcraft with the theme of "Ah" Moments.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Oct. 14th Speechcraft #3 - "Ah" Moments

Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston

Oct. 21st Speechcraft #4 - Acronyms

Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.

Nov. 19-21 District Toastmaster Fall Conference in Niagara Falls

Start of Speech Crafter Program Sept. 30, 2010

On Thursday Sept 30th, we started our Speechcraft workshop with two participants (Diane Schalk and Joan Dietrich). We had very good attendance with 13 members including our newest member Lucy D'Arcey-Curran. The theme for the night was "Hats" and pretty well everyone either was wearing or brought their favourite hat.

The chairperson for the meeting and for our Speechcraft program is Richard Boertien. He was well prepared and had lots of fun with the theme. When he was introducing everyone, he had a special hat for that person.

Our Toast and Timer was Marilyn Miller who was performing the role for her first time. She did a great job with her toast to Canada and included our theme. The Grammarian role was filled by Heidi Menzi and she challenged us to use the word "Onamonapia". George Nichol did the role of Literary Corner where he read an interesting story about a dog called "Tip".

Next our chairperson Richard Boertien spoke to the Speechcrafters the Importance of Public Speaking. Diane Bender did the Educational Session on "Selecting Your Topic" and I gave the sample Icebreaker speech which was called "My Time at Campbell`s Soup". Keith McCluskie did a great job evaluating the speech by giving some great glow points speech and showing the speechcrafters how we give instant feedback.

Jane Stoltz had everyone describe why they picked the hat they did for Table Topics. We ended up with a 3 way tie for the winner (George Nichol, Audrey Orth and Diane Bender). Audrey Orth as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went and some grow points on how to improve our meeting.

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

July 8, 2010

President Brent congratulates Heidi on her Interpretive Reading.

Linguists of Listowel – LISTEN, LAUGH, LEARN & LEAD
Area 66 – District 86 – Western Division – Region VI – Club #9016
Linguistsoflistowel.blogspot.com & toastmasters86.org
Area Governor: Keith Stoltz
Division Governor: Melanee Jessup
Date: Thurs July 8, 2010 Theme: Mind Games


7:15 p.m. Call meeting to order: Diane Bender, ACG CL
(3-4 min) Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Brent Jemmett, CC
(1-2 min) Joke of the Day: Diane Bender, ACG CL
(1-2 min) Loyal Toast & Timer: George Stevers
(5-7 min) Speaker #1: Interpretive Reading #1 Heidi Menzi, CC

(20 min) Table Topics: Rich Boertien, CC

(3-4 min) Evaluator #1: Audrey Orth, ACG
(20 min) Press Conference Activity Brent Jemmett, CC

(5 min) Anything for the Good of Toastmasters:
(July 22 agenda review,)
(1 min) Award for Best Table Topics Rich Boertien, CC
(1 min) Award for Attendance given to Keith McCluskie Diane Bender, ACG CL

(1min) Report from Timer: George Stevers
(2 min) Quizmaster: Keith McCluskie
(5 min) General Evaluator: Brian Camacho
(2 min) Chairperson’s Closing Remarks: Brent Jemmett
9:00 p.m. Adjournment
Snacks: Diane Bender, ACG CL


Dates to Mark on Your Calendar
July 22: The Best About Summer Holidays
Aug 5: Take My Word for It
Aug 19: Show & Tell