Club Meeting #254 - 26th April 2007

With our young talented toastmasters coming up through the ranks, this time we had Jennifer to be the toast mistress of our 254th club meeting. Well done Jennifer, who quickly reorganised the meeting and ensured our first time visitors understood what each of the roles were about.

We had 6 visitors attend our meeting, where both Brendan and Terry took the next step and signed up to become a member. Well done guys and we will be in touch with you shortly to scheduel you into the agenda.

Our Table Topics was run by Michael, who gave us a unique taste of Australian sport, running a theme of sport sledging. Quite a topical and contraversial subject with lots of great responses. Well done Michael for giving us something a little different and challenging us in a new way, which is what its all about.

Manual speechs were given by both Manel and Claudia which were a delight to listen to. Such powerful and well crafted speechs. A special congradulations also goes out to Claudia who at last after a number of years has completed her 10th speech and is now a Competent Communicator.

This is also an extra special meeting where Business Talk Toastmasters has now completed all of the requirements to be recognised as a Select Distinguished Club. This is a significant achievement and is only achieved by a select number of clubs in the Metro Division. Well done business talk toasties for making this possible.

Claudia becomes Competent Communicator

Congradulations and well done Claudia on such a persistant effort. This is what Toastmasters is all about. You have given us some memorable speeches and look forward to you progressing through the advanced manuals.

The speeches Claudia gave to achieve this milestone were.

1. 1995-05-25 - Life Experiences
2. 1996-07-25 - To Be Free
3. 1997-08-28 - Famous, for 15 Minutes
4. 1998-04-23 - I've Now Got the Fever
5. 1998-08-13 - Should Junk/Fast Fodds be Banished from our Lives?
6. 1998-11-12 - Let's Party
7. 2000-03-09 - If I had my Life to Live Over Again
8. 2000-09-28 - Music is Good Medicine
9. 2006-11-09 - The Joys of Commuting
10. 2007-04-26 - Let's Begin to Really Listen

Rosetta becomes Competent Communicator

Congradulations Rosetta on becoming a Competent Communicator and is a wonderful milestone to achieve. Rosetta is now the second club member to have achieved this goal this year and can now move into working on the advanced toastmaster manuals to further develop his speaking skills.

The speeches Rosetta gave to achieve this milestone were.

1. 2004-08-05 - Me
2. 2004-09-30 - Customer Service
3. 2004-10-28 - First Love
4. 2005-02-03 - The Bra - A Woman's Best Friend
5. 2005-04-28 - To be or not to be
6. 2005-09-01 - Half Baked Speech
7. 2006-03-09 - School days - naughty ways
8. 2006-07-13 - When you hurt the one you love
9. 2007-02-08 - wake up
10. 2007-04-12 - Embrace Ebay

Club Meeting #253 - 12th April 2007

Happy 12th birthday Business Talk Toasty club!

This is a great achievement and a credit to the strong leadership within the club. It was a full house again, with 10 visitors and a special appearance from Robin who has been hiding away in the background for a while. Great to have you back!

Like all club celebrations, we did it in style. Our special occassion Toastmaster, Lionel, did the honours and were privelaged to hear Kevin give his Australian Championship humourous speech. Good luck Kevin and you really have a winner there!

And like all brithdays, where would we be without the cake. Thanks Gail for organising this which was absolutely delicious, with not even a crumb being left to give the birds.

Manel was given the responsibility to run the round robin and what a surprise it was, being asked to decribe something special we remember about our own 12th birthday. This was an excellent choice and was well contributed by all our our guests. This is what its all about, giving it a go, and everyone gave such a great answer. Thanks Manel.

Next came the manual speechs from Glenn and Rosetta. Its amazing to see how each of you have progressed in the delivery and development of your speechs which were both very entertaining and captivating. A special congradulations also goes to Rosetta who has now completed her first 10 speechs, now making her now a Competent Communicator. Well done Rosetta and look forward to seeing you progress into the more advanced manuals.

Lastly, thanks again Kevin for being able to provide us with some special entertainment on our 12th birthday. We all loved your speech and wish you the best of success for the Australian Championships.

2nd April 2007 - Metro Division Speech-a-thon

A big thankyou goes out to everyone that came along and participated in the speech-a-thon. It was a really fun time where we all had a go at giving a speach, evaluation and ended off with some impromptu speaking.

Details of the speechs given are:

Lionel - ATM - Story Telling #2 - I am glad I accepted that invitation

Craig Short - ATM - Humorous #2 - Obsessions Music / Volunteering

Max Warlond - ATM - Fact Finding Report #4 - Do we really care?

Julie Jensen - CTM - #5 - Fear to comfort - comfort to fear

Jennifer Haling - CTM - #4 - Land of Saris & Spice

Scott Evans - ATMB - Humorous #1 - Goals - do you believe in them

Another similar event will be held in a few months so let us know now so we can make the necessary arrangement. We will be limiting the numbers to a maximum of 12 speakers.

If we have a lot of interest, we may organise another one to give every one a chance of participating.