Dear Blue Tongue members, intending members and guests,
Meeting #128 was the 2009 Humorous Speech Competition. Mark took on the role of competition chairman and chaired the rest of the meeting. Our special guest and Chief Judge for the competition was the new Area 47 Governor Dinesh de Silva.
During the first half of our meeting, Geoff presented the Table Topics assignments to the non competitors: Marcus, Mark, Dinesh and Tara. The table topics session concluded with Elke providing the evaluations.
The second half of the meeting this week was reserved for the humorous competition. The competitors in the humorous competition were Jason, Geoff and Elke. The crucial time keeping duties went to Marcus.
Jason was the first contestant and delivered a speech titled “Tips for achieving peak performance”. Our 2nd contestant, Geoff, had a speech on his canoeing
adventures across 40 rivers (in 40 days?). The final competitor Elke delivered her speech
about a late night ‘bird’ experience in her first share house experience. The contestants were judged by the Dinesh, Mark and Tara.
The competition was a closely contested event, with each judge nominating a different winner. And the winner was finally decided by the Tie Break points system.
The winner of the 2009 Blue Tongue Toastmasters Humorous Contest, who will represent our club at the upcoming Area 47 contest, is Elke van Ewyk.
Congratulations also goes to Geoff, who was the runner up for the event.
The evening concluded with Marcus delivering the timer’s report. And Dinesh delivering an evaluation of our club and for the evening.
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part in the humorous event. A special thank you to Elke for organising membership badges and championship trophies.
Reminder that Mark has the ‘Entertainment Book’ available for sale ($65) with all profits to help the club purchase equipment such as contest trophies and name badges. Please let Mark has books for review at the club meeting - it offers a large range of discounts (valid until 1st June 2010) to restaurants, clubs, events (eg movie tickets) etc.
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The next meeting for Blue Tongue Toastmasters will be held on Wednesday 2nd September and will back to our usual meeting format.
When: 5.45pm, Wednesday 2nd September
Where: IBM Building (Room 13.05)
601 Pacific Highway
St Leonards NSW 2065
We will be meeting in the ground floor reception area at 5.30pm before going up to the meeting room.
I have attached below a draft agenda for the meeting. Please let me know:
a) If you will be attending the meeting or send your apologies
b) If you would like to present any other assignment – I am looking for members to take on the following meeting assignments:
My Word
Table Topics Evaluation (1)
Visitors Welcome
Toastmaster
Speaker Evaluators (2)
Did You Listen?
General Evaluator
Best regards,
Mark Ransom
VP Education
Blue Tongue Toastmasters
ph: 0419 767 250
