Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 7th of December 2009

ANZ Talk of the Town ToastMasters (07 December 2009)

by: Caitlin McMahon, Club Secretary

• Club President, Hugh Kilpatrick opened the meeting.
• The toastmaster was Robert Horvath.
• Word of the day: Intrepid, meaning fearless, bold or brave
• Round Robin presented by Christopher Greig: “Christmas seems to be starting earlier every year. If this keeps going, what are we going to do?”
• Table topics presented by Ben Maslen:

• 1. Should we sign the ETS, or wait and work out the details first? Yang Xu
  1. What makes a good public transport system? Allan Gowers
  2. How will you spend the Christmas break? Frank (guest)
  3. Are office Christmas parties a good thing? Caitlin McMahon
  4. Is Christmas too comercialised? Jasmine Zhang
  5. What was the best gift you ever received? Pallavi Murthy
  • 1, 3 and 5 evaluated by Ross Turetsky. 2, 4 and 6 evaluated by Ajit Ravindran.

Prepared speeches:

David Tasker – Ice breaker: “Slow and easy wins the day”.

David is an accomplished speaker who has just joined Talk of the Town Toastmasters club.

Key points:  Find your own tempo

Do what others do, and do it really well.

Evaluated by Hugh Kilpatrick

Kevin Mitchell – “Leave them laughing”

Key points: Get to know your audience

Make them laugh in the first 30 seconds

Know the room

Evaluated by Tania Wilson

Time keepers report by Rachel Seo.

Gruntmaster report by Elizabeth Montgomery

Word of the day report by Jasmine Zhang. Robert Horvath used ‘intrepid’ the most times (9).

Awards:

Best table topic: Jasmine Xhang

Best evaluator: Ajit Ravindran and Hugh Kilpatrick

Other business:

Hugh encouraged the clubs advanced speakers to deliver more speeches to continue their public speaking development and inspire the newer speakers.

Elizabeth Montogomery is moving interstate and will not be attending this club any more.

Next meeting is January 18^th 2010