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Meeting on 14th October 2009 |
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Friday, 16 October 2009 06:45 |
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Nine guests and a throng of members enjoyed 3 speeches of exceptionally high standards. The Best Speaker was won by Peter Roxburgh with his 2nd speech at the club; he won Best Speaker on the previous occasion too. Peter beat off very strong competition from Tony Peters and from Robin Thirlwell who both excelled.
Table Topics, managed by Melanie Austreng, was good fun. A guest, Greg Tansil, won Best Table Topics on this occasion with a well delivered speech.
Cottonwood Speakers welcomes Robert Carter as a new member, Robert has spoken in Table Topics at a previous meeting.
It was good to see Barry Mitchell again, who has moved out of the area; although Barry was on crutches due to a running injury he still provided an excellent evaluation.
A brief educational slot about "pauses verses umms" was delivered by Club President Steve Osborne who incidentally was voted Best Evaluator.
Seems Dan Webb is a natural Toastmaster, effortlessly managing the meeting as though he had been in the role for years.
Tony Peters has generously offered to fill our Vice President Public Relations for the balance of this Toastmaster year, the Sargeant at Arms role previously handled by Tony has been taken by Dinah Smith. |
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Area Humorous Speech Competition |
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:54 |
Five Club Members travelled to Stubbington to the Area Humorous Speech and Table Topics competition on a beautiful September afternoon.
Disappointment. Tony Peters performed his excellent speech exceptionally well only to be beaten into 2nd place by a member from the local club who is planning to become a professional speaker. Bearing in mind this was the first competition that Tony has entered, he did exceptionally well.
The Table Topics subject was particularly exacting and was not won by Steve Osborne.
It was good to be involved - to participate; a lot was learnt about these competitions and it is interesting to meet members from other Toastmaster clubs. |
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Meeting on 23rd September |
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:54 |
With 7 guests including the Area Governor, Keith the venue had an expectant atmosphere which was orchestrated elegantly by Robin Thirlwell as Toastmaster.
Dawn Wilson and Kenny Jones entertained with their respective speeches. I think I will use Dawn as my travel guide - she makes the places she visits sound so enticing and make a note not to go competitive drinking with Kenny Jones if he reverts to his old ways.
Peter Roxburgh, new member performing his ice-breaker won the best speech which gave everyone in the audience a new perspective on arranged marriages.
Olga Taylor was Table Topics Master with a new twist on using colours as a subject. Dan Webb won with 'purple'. An entertaining evening, as always. |
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Club Humorous Speech and Table Topics Competition. |
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:53 |
With 4 Humorous Speeches and 7 contestants for the Table Topics competition, this was a fun filled evening well managed by Dan Webb as Competition Chairperson for the Humorous Speeches competition and Hazel Montague the Table Topics.
All four Humorous Speeches were good enough for the area competition. The author was amazed that David Singleton-Smith who was the first contestant was actually beaten into 2nd place by Tony Peters. Well done too to both Simon Bell and Kenny Jones, the other contestants.
The seven contestants for Table Topics contestants included Jane Hullcoop, competing before she has performed her ice-breaker and Dan Webb who came 2nd in his first competition. Steve Osborne won on this occasion. |
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Meeting Report 13th August 2009 |
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Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:33 |
There is something liberating about doing business in August. Everything we do is a bonus because most other people are on holiday and Steve Osborne set us off at an exciting pace as usual.
Guests were abundant tonight and from far afield as Russia thanks to Olga's nephew Alexis, Germany thanks to Gabby and less far flung but equally welcome, Jason Cunningham and a husband and wife team Ken and Margaret from Hamwiic Speakers near Southampton.
Our Sergeant at Arms was Tony at the last minute, thank you Tony and our Toastmistress was Fiona Grant who I will never separate from the concept of laughter yoga.
Speeches and evaluations were kept to perfect time by Simon Bell and Hazel Montague evaluated us all with an air of experience mixed with the skittishness of a little girl.
Dan Webb won best speaker. Simon Bell won best evaluator and Peter Roxbrugh won best table topic speaker. Andrew Collinson evaluated the wonderful table topics ranging from a brush to mosquito spray with great candour (I'm not even sure what that means but it seems to fit).
So, all in all, another fantastic meeting.
Simon Bell wrote this report (did you guess?). |
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