In a meeting of many 'firsts' our Toastmaster of the day, Linda ran an excellent program at Pania Toastmaster's meeting on 11th October. Well drawn up, clear, uncomplicated program and a wonderfully warm welcome assisted Linda to make the meeting an excellent one! We had two guests (who were there for the third time,) Julie & Jenny, next time they may be Toastmasters!! It was also great to see Jane & Russell back with us after their winter break.
Club No 1996
Sunday 14 October 2018
Thursday 4 October 2018
'WILL GENDER EQUALITY EVER BE ACHIEVED?"
This was the very interesting topic for Pania's Table Topics Contest held at out Thursday lunchtime meeting. The Chairman, Laurel, handled the Contest with extreme professionalism and this enabled everything to run smoothly.
In this Contest each contestant draws for speaking order and then one by one come into the room to answer the same topic for between 1 and 2 minutes. We had five contestants and all of them without exception spoke extremely well to the subject and within the limited time available to them had some excellent ideas both for and against. It seems from the general consensus of the speakers that we will struggle to achieve gender equality certainly in out lifetime, but things are getting better!! One speaker (a male) even felt that we were getting to the stage of males being pushed aside to the preference of females!!
The Contestants in speaking order were, Marc, Carol, Mike, Darryl and Paula so we had a mixture of plenty of experience with the first four and then Paula, who has only been with the Club since June.However, as mentioned, all performed really well, to what turned out to be a very good topic for them and they can all feel justifiable proud of giving it a go and performing so well.
As in any Contest there needs to be a winner and first place (for the second year in a row) went to Marc, while Carol was placed second and Mike 3rd.
Our special thanks to those who made the effort to enter the contest (after all it does not require much preparation) also to Laurel for her excellent running of the Contest and for thinking up the Topic, and to the Judges and other assistants, particularly Steve & Christine from Napier Club.
We do hope that our two guests (Julie & Jennifer) there for the second visit enjoyed the slightly different meeting.
Marc now goes on to represent the Club at the Area R3 Contest on 3rd November , when he will come up against the winners from the other five clubs in the Area.,We wish him well!!
Napier Club are holding their Table Topics Contest (and their Humorous Contest) on Monday 8th October at the Greenmeadows Community Centre, Tait Drive and everyone is welcome for what will be a great night's entertainment.(and its' free!!)
In this Contest each contestant draws for speaking order and then one by one come into the room to answer the same topic for between 1 and 2 minutes. We had five contestants and all of them without exception spoke extremely well to the subject and within the limited time available to them had some excellent ideas both for and against. It seems from the general consensus of the speakers that we will struggle to achieve gender equality certainly in out lifetime, but things are getting better!! One speaker (a male) even felt that we were getting to the stage of males being pushed aside to the preference of females!!
The Contestants in speaking order were, Marc, Carol, Mike, Darryl and Paula so we had a mixture of plenty of experience with the first four and then Paula, who has only been with the Club since June.However, as mentioned, all performed really well, to what turned out to be a very good topic for them and they can all feel justifiable proud of giving it a go and performing so well.
As in any Contest there needs to be a winner and first place (for the second year in a row) went to Marc, while Carol was placed second and Mike 3rd.
Our special thanks to those who made the effort to enter the contest (after all it does not require much preparation) also to Laurel for her excellent running of the Contest and for thinking up the Topic, and to the Judges and other assistants, particularly Steve & Christine from Napier Club.
We do hope that our two guests (Julie & Jennifer) there for the second visit enjoyed the slightly different meeting.
Marc now goes on to represent the Club at the Area R3 Contest on 3rd November , when he will come up against the winners from the other five clubs in the Area.,We wish him well!!
Napier Club are holding their Table Topics Contest (and their Humorous Contest) on Monday 8th October at the Greenmeadows Community Centre, Tait Drive and everyone is welcome for what will be a great night's entertainment.(and its' free!!)
"CAMPERVANS and OTHER JOURNEYS"
“Campervans
and other journeys”
What
a wonderful meeting we had on Thursday.
Our
Toastmaster was Anna, who ran the meeting with great energy and enthusiasm after
trying to convince us she was grumpy from a recent break-in.
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