PAKURANGA TOASTMASTERS

^29th May 2005

Publisher : Alun Chisholm

Editor : Mark Finey

Club 3830 Area A5 District 72

What's Been Happening ……

Meeting 724 held on the 4^th of April – our Chairman tonight was David Johnson, who made a great job of keeping the meeting to time. The word of the night was 'Nexus.'

There were three prepared speeches, Patti Leigh doing her number 1st speech, titled 'Late Starter' great to see Patti doing her Ice Breaker speech, next up was Kim Batchelor completing his number 7 speech, titled 'Just Do It' and the final speaker was Jennifer Rochester doing her 5^th Speech titled 'Mouse Trap.'

After a coffee and a biscuit, the fun part of the night got under way, Table Topic's Master was Jan Blyde, who came along with a bag of items, for each speaker to choose from, as usually this was very entertaining.

In General Business Alun Chisholm told us that elections for new club offices would take place in the 1^st meeting in May other news covered was that it's the clubs 30^th Anniversary and that we need to start organising a social event later on in the year.

Meeting 725 held on the 18th April, word of the night was Supercilious supplied by our Grammarian. Toastmaster this meeting was Jennifer Rochester and Chairman was Jan Blyde.

At this meeting there were 2 prepared speakers Logan Pick Up and David Johnson.

Logan Pick Up completing his number 5 speech and David completing his number 7 speech.

Jan Blyde did an educational speech on emergency procedures.

After a short break, table topics got under way, Mark Finey was the Table Topics Master, he selected several speakers, who had the opportunity to speak about a country that they would like to travel too.

General Business this evening – Tauranga Convention taking place 6,7,8^th May, also there will be a fee increase at some stage and finally club elections taking place next meeting.

Meeting 726 held on the 2nd May, theme of the night was Black & White, word of the night – Zest, supplied by our Grammarian – John Whiteley.

Tonight we had one guest, Heather. Chairman this meeting was David Johnson and Toastmaster was Logan Pick Up

Two prepared speakers tonight – Logan Pick Up completing his number 6 speech titled 'The Pirate Letter' and Patti Leigh completing her number 2 speech titled 'The ¼ Acre Section'.

After a short break Table Topics got under way, Table Topics Master tonight was Jennifer Rochester, who selected eight victims to speak on a variety of topics following the theme Black & White.

General Business this evening – Club Elections were held, National Convention in Tauranga 6,7,8^th May.

Meeting 727 held on the 16^th May, theme tonight was Blue, Chairman was John Whiteley, who managed to find late volunteers to fill a number of the roles. Toastmaster tonight was David Aiken and our Grammarian tonight was Patti Leigh, this was her first time in this role and she made it look easy.

Two speakers tonight – Jan Blyde completed a speech from the Advance Manual titled 'Getting back on track' and Kim Batchelor completing her number 8 speech titled 'On your bike', both speakers were well prepared.

After our refreshment break, table topics got under way, Christine Alcott was the Table Topics Master,

she had a selection of different topics for each speaker, table topics can often be a challenge, to think on your feet, but with practice it becomes easier.

General Business this evening –

Congratulations goes out to Alun Chisholm on winning the District Evaluation Contest.

Election of new club officers, there are still a couple of roles available.

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