These were the titles of two excellent speeches delivered today at Pania Toastmaster's meeting capably chaired by the'chief' toastmaster Graeme.10 members attended and heard Carol and David enlighten us with their "Get To The Point" assignments from The Competent Communicator Manual.
Club No 1996
Wednesday 30 April 2014
Friday 25 April 2014
'SPECTRUM CARE"
"Spectrum Care", was the name given to Laurence's Company with his speech from 'The Public Relations' manual based on a project called 'crisis management' at Pania Club's meeting on Thursday 24th April, due to the long holiday weekend and also school holidays, attendance was down on the usual numbers but a great meeting was had with lots of entertainment under the guidance of Toastmaster Graeme.
Wednesday 16 April 2014
"This Was Their Finest Hour"
What a rousing rendition of a shorten version of Winston Churchill's great speech to the Houses of Parliament on 18th June 1940, shortly after he became Prime Minister was given today by Mike in the assignment "Oratorical Speech" from the Interpretive Reading Manual "This Was Their Finest Hour"' Mike had the voice and actions to bring the speech to life and he certainly achieved that.
"LOVE LANGUAGE" so did "BEATRICES GOAT"
Those were the names given to our two speeches at Pania's meeting on Thursday 10th April (Wahine Day 1967!) The first was all about "Beatrice's Goat" a reading from the StoryTelling Manual 'A Folk Tale' from Jen. While "Love Language" was presented by Carol from Project Two in the Competent Communicator Manual 'Organise Your Speech.The meeting ran well under the guidance of Toastmaster David.
Monday 7 April 2014
"WALKING, WALKING, WALKING can be 'A PAIN IN THE PROVERBIAL!"
Well on a lovely autumn day on Thursday 3rd April Pania members heard two great speeches which 'tired and painful'. No! it was not the speeches themselves that caused that, but the thought of the excellent topics chosen!
Our Toastmaster was Wendy and once again she produced one of her magnificently coloured programmes with an Autumnal theme and ran the meeting with her usual flair and style.The meeting commenced with Mike introducing Darryl with his speech entitled "Walking, Walking, Walking" and he did a fair bit of it! 100kms to be precise as a party of four, raising money for a Oxfam. Darryl told us in a very interesting fashion about his 100kms walk around the Taupo area (which took 30 hours) and some of the highs/lows on the way. Excellent voice volume and pace (remember he was only walking!) and humour added to an all round great presentation. The four in his group(including his wife) ended up the walk dressed as 'The Craggy Island Crew' from the TV show Father Brown, no doubt a sight to behold! Mike had some good commendations for him and a couple of really worthwhile suggestions for improvement.
Second up was Cheryl, introduced by Ian, with a 'Research Your Topic' assignment entitled "A pain in the Proverbial". Cheryl did extremely well in telling us all about Osteo-arthritis , no notes, excellent pace, good clear and understandable facts and what we can all do to lessen the chances of suffering, one in six will suffer and for us older ones over 60, 50% of us will suffer. Well done Cheryl a very well presented assignment and a n excellent finish. Ian gave Cheryl due praise for her efforts and a had a couple of useful suggestions.
Table Topics followed with TT Master Carol. What a master she turned out to be with some excellent topics where members were requested to finish a sentence i.e. David 'People don't believe when ...' and he chose stop drinking! Talking about his home brewing (which he does just to see the result and hear the brew bubbling away-YEAH RIGHT!!) well answered David with enthusiasm and humour. Graeme 'back in my day when ....' people showed respect for others. Good answer to the question!! got right into the topic, great gestures and recounted a recent experience.
Barbara was next ' The last time I really belly-laughed ...' some filling in while the thought processes commenced but then an excellent story well told and very humorous-even some belly laughter!, Cheryl had 'I just couldn't believe it the other day when .." and spoke about her funny boss and some of the hyjinx they get up to, again humorous and interesting. Darryl then told us about 'when I woke up in the middle of the night recently .....' he was dreaming about Jen!!!. enough said -I think!!!
Jen gave some feed back for Carol (as TT Evaluator) and had good comments for all the speakers with lots of laughter included- Great session all round.
Craig gave us a hurried General Evaluation, with some suggestions for those on the program and was assisted by Time Keeper David who almost kept us to time!
Best Evaluator; Mike.
Best Table Topics; David
Best Speaker;(a tricky one!) Cheryl.
Well done to all who participated (that was everyone there) we do it again next week 10th April (Wahine Day).
Our Toastmaster was Wendy and once again she produced one of her magnificently coloured programmes with an Autumnal theme and ran the meeting with her usual flair and style.The meeting commenced with Mike introducing Darryl with his speech entitled "Walking, Walking, Walking" and he did a fair bit of it! 100kms to be precise as a party of four, raising money for a Oxfam. Darryl told us in a very interesting fashion about his 100kms walk around the Taupo area (which took 30 hours) and some of the highs/lows on the way. Excellent voice volume and pace (remember he was only walking!) and humour added to an all round great presentation. The four in his group(including his wife) ended up the walk dressed as 'The Craggy Island Crew' from the TV show Father Brown, no doubt a sight to behold! Mike had some good commendations for him and a couple of really worthwhile suggestions for improvement.
Second up was Cheryl, introduced by Ian, with a 'Research Your Topic' assignment entitled "A pain in the Proverbial". Cheryl did extremely well in telling us all about Osteo-arthritis , no notes, excellent pace, good clear and understandable facts and what we can all do to lessen the chances of suffering, one in six will suffer and for us older ones over 60, 50% of us will suffer. Well done Cheryl a very well presented assignment and a n excellent finish. Ian gave Cheryl due praise for her efforts and a had a couple of useful suggestions.
Table Topics followed with TT Master Carol. What a master she turned out to be with some excellent topics where members were requested to finish a sentence i.e. David 'People don't believe when ...' and he chose stop drinking! Talking about his home brewing (which he does just to see the result and hear the brew bubbling away-YEAH RIGHT!!) well answered David with enthusiasm and humour. Graeme 'back in my day when ....' people showed respect for others. Good answer to the question!! got right into the topic, great gestures and recounted a recent experience.
Barbara was next ' The last time I really belly-laughed ...' some filling in while the thought processes commenced but then an excellent story well told and very humorous-even some belly laughter!, Cheryl had 'I just couldn't believe it the other day when .." and spoke about her funny boss and some of the hyjinx they get up to, again humorous and interesting. Darryl then told us about 'when I woke up in the middle of the night recently .....' he was dreaming about Jen!!!. enough said -I think!!!
Jen gave some feed back for Carol (as TT Evaluator) and had good comments for all the speakers with lots of laughter included- Great session all round.
Craig gave us a hurried General Evaluation, with some suggestions for those on the program and was assisted by Time Keeper David who almost kept us to time!
Best Evaluator; Mike.
Best Table Topics; David
Best Speaker;(a tricky one!) Cheryl.
Well done to all who participated (that was everyone there) we do it again next week 10th April (Wahine Day).
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