What happened last Meeting
at Sandgate Toastmasters
10th September 2002
Theme: Spring - New GrowthEveryone brought a potted plant or plant cuttings, which were auctioned at the close of the meeting.
Round Robin
In keeping with the theme of new growth, Trish asked, "If you had the power to change the world, what would you change?" Some answers were, "more closeness & tolerance," "more listening & less talking," "no war" "teach children to love and not hate," "reverse the events of
9/11 last year" "Equal opportunity." One Toastmaster said she would like to change her actions when she picked her neighbour's flowers to bring to the meeting, not knowing that it was a special plant. Her neighbour, who is a fellow Toastmaster, said she would like to take back the words she said when her flowers were picked!
Table Topics
Liz kept to the "Spring" theme and asked,
1. "How do Forget-me-nots remember?" Caroline said that other flowers with trumpets hear everything and pass the information on to them.
2. "Is a miniature Hibiscus
actually a Lowbiscus?" John
said he had never described his miniature Hisbiscus as "Low." It is simply
a "Small" Hibiscus.
3. "Can a Lily-of-the-valley
grow on a hill?" Narda said, Yes, it is just a name. It will grow anywhere
in the shade.
4. " Why was the Petunia lonely
in the onion patch?" Marlene said it was planted in the middle of the
onions, which kept all its friends away, so it cried and watered the onions
and they had a bumper crop.
Speeches
1. "I'm a Foodaholic."Caroline presented an inspiring
account of her battle with the bulge. It was the final speech in the Communication
and Leadership Manual and she was given a standing ovation.
2. "My Hero." John told an interesting story about
Governor Arthur Phillip.
3. "Continual Development" Nev spoke about continually
learning and self-improvement.
Auction
Instead of a raffle, there
was a brisk plant auction at the close of the meeting. This was a lot of
fun.
Awards
Best Table
Topic: Marlene
Best Speech: Caroline
Best Evaluation: Narda
Best Contribution: Del
Encouragement: Neville
Coming Up
Sunday October 6:. Area Conference at Brighton Bowling Club,Sandgate.
Monday October 7: SpeechCraft.
An 8 week course run by our club at the Brighton State School, North Rd,
Brighton.
October 22: Murder! But you'll be quite
safe.
October 29: Novice Speech and Interpretive Reading contests.
See Trish for more information.