Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 6th of April 2009

Word of the Day: “Wrested” – Kevin Mitchell

Round Robin – Jonathan Scheele “What does the Easter holiday mean to you”

 

 

Table Topics Run by Tania Wilson

 

1. What would you change in the world if you could: Kevin told us he would remove Cancer from the world.
2. What landmark would you give to Melbourne: Jon Scheele told us he would give Melbourne a memorable but aesthetically pleasing landmark.
3. Should bosses monitor their employees on Facebook: Ben told us everyone should do everything on facebook.
4. Where would you go on your dream holiday: Celina told us she’d travel to chinese city where the air was clean and the natural environment still lived.
5. Is Google crossing the line of acceptable invasion of privacy with street view: Chris Greig (winner) told us it was close but not over the line as yet.
6. What do you think of Kevin Rudd’s latest angry outburst: Felix told us he could understand as ‘we all have our moments’ (even tennis players.

 

Best Table Topic won by Chris Greig. Evaluators were Robert Horvath and Helen Boileau

 

 

Structured speeches:

 

Allan Gowers: Why Not ? Evaluated by Kumar Gopalan

Sam Patterson (Best Speech winner)  “A Face in the Crowd” : evaluated by Carols Jones

Ross Turetsky “Government and your money” : evaluated by Jasmine Zhang (best evaluation winner).

Will Lo: “What’s my plan B ?”: evaluated by Helen Boileau

 

No grunt master

Harkmaster: Celine Yu/Carlos Jones (bit of mixup between harkmaster and gruntmaster 😉

 

Time Keeper: Tram Tao.

 

Other business:

 

Badges arrived and were distributed (some more still to be picked up).

Tram resigned as VPE

Elections will be held in the first week of May.

Competitions will be held soon.

 

Next Toastmaster: Wilmar.