As from the 7th September Werribee club will be holding hybrid meetings from the excellent modern facility.
Koomail Tardy Community Centre
117 Alcock Road,
Truganina 3029.
Meeting 853 - Music
Another online meeting (No. 853)
is done and dusted. We had two ill members and two others having problems with
their internet connection. Nevertheless, for those of us present last night,
this was another rewarding meeting.
Congratulations to those members who had some “first-times” and
who did such a fabulous job:
Rupa: First-time Meeting TM
Kumar: First-time Speech
Evaluator
Pete: First-time Round Robin and
first-time Timer.
Best Table Topic: Clare Miller
Best Evaluator: Stephen Cate
Best Speaker: not awarded
Meeting 852
Last night we held meeting 852, the fourth on these surreal times of
Covid-19. One of the (many) things we learn in Toastmasters is to be flexible
and resilient. A handy skill to have for our new way of holding meetings and
the challenges technology throw at us — microphones not working, losing
internet connection and suchlike.
Yesterday, we had 13 members connected, enough for a Quorum. This was handy because, as required in the first meeting of May, we elected a new committee to guide our club in 2020–2021.
The members responsible to guide us next Toastmaster year are:
President: Clare M
VP Education: Rajesh M
VP Membership: Sahi S
VP Public Relations: Stephen C
Treasurer: Patti K
Secretary: Daniel I
Sgt-at-Arms: Yaseen M
Congratulations to all those elected.
Word of the Day for the meeting was:
Spontaneous. Hamed introduced it to us, with the exact definition and some
examples of its use. Following on Hamed’s introduction of the WOD, he presented
us with four wonderful Table Topics. The speakers all responded to the
challenge, not only giving a definitive answer to the questions but also
presenting an interesting point of view.Yesterday, we had 13 members connected, enough for a Quorum. This was handy because, as required in the first meeting of May, we elected a new committee to guide our club in 2020–2021.
The members responsible to guide us next Toastmaster year are:
President: Clare M
VP Education: Rajesh M
VP Membership: Sahi S
VP Public Relations: Stephen C
Treasurer: Patti K
Secretary: Daniel I
Sgt-at-Arms: Yaseen M
Congratulations to all those elected.
The topics were evaluated by Daniel I.
It was during the toilet break that we had the biggest challenge of the evening. Our Meeting Toastmaster Sahi S, who up until that moment had been doing a Stirling job, lost the connection to the meeting. She was able to connect later with her phone but only with voice and without visual.
As VPE and one of the most experienced members in the club, I usually give myself minor roles so, if needed, I can step in on any vacant role. Thus, I stepped in to get the meeting moving. Sahi will soon have a chance to do the role again.
The speakers for the night were Kumar B, Rajesh M, and Jacquelene B. The speech topics and the style and personality of the speakers were varied and different.
We often say in our meetings that Toastmasters is a lab where you can test different things and how they work for you. Such was the case with Kumar’s speech last night. He is doing project 2 of Level 1 and was reprising his first speech of the project. His evaluator had recommended him to use more pauses to give the audience time to absorb what he’s telling us. So, Kumar did. This time the recommendation was that the pauses were too long and that he had lost a bit of the energy present on his first delivery. Which also goes to show that no behaviour is the best at all times and all situations. It is incumbent on us, speakers, to find out what works for us, in what context and in what measure. The more we speak, the better we learn this.
The second speaker was Rajesh M. With this speech Rajesh finished Level 2 of his Path. He spoke about mentoring and how they can influence our lives for the better.
The third speaker was Jacquelene B. Jacquelene is working on the Competent Communicator award, part of our Legacy Program. Because of a combination of work commitments and health issues she had been delayed in finishing the award. Now, she is on a hurry to finish it before TMI’s deadline of 30 June 2020. She gave speech 8 of this program, “Using visual aids”. She gave a wonderful speech about her love of books, using books as visual aids.
The Watchdog reports were presented by Golsa (Harkmaster), Hamed (Word of the Day and Grammarian), Pete M (Grunt counter) and Yaseen (Timer). The reporters did their job with the usual efficiency and at times some humour. These roles may be “minor” in the sense they don’t take much time but they are vital information and an occasion to speak to inform.
The awards, as voted by those present, were:
Best Table Topic: Rupa
Best Speaker: Kumar
Best Evaluator: Patti
Meeting 853 will be held on 20 May and you can find the Agenda attached. Please, do look for what roles you have assigned, so there are no surprises on the day. Also, look at the forward program which shows tentative roles for the following three meetings.
On this meeting, we will be reintroducing the Round Robin, which we had left aside while we settled on our online meetings. Pete M will be the Round Robin Master. On the following meeting (854) we’ll reintroduce the Thought of the Day.
Meeting 851
Last night we held our third online
meeting. I am one of those who think that “in-person” meetings are far superior
to online meetings and, nonetheless, I must admit I am glad we have continued
our activity online. In these times of social isolation and fear of the
invisible enemy (Covid-19), having seen and heard 16 fellow toastmasters and
guests has been like a caress to my soul. Thank you all for being there.
We had present 12 members, two guests Venkat and Ganesh, two visitors from
other clubs Moenika (Aeerospeakers) and Craig (City of Greater Geelong), for a
total of 16 people online.
Clare M was the Meeting Toastmaster and she discovered two advantages to online meetings. First, she could not have attended an “in-person” meeting as her partner was not home and she had to mind the children. Second, when her toddler refused to sleep she managed to quickly look after her needs and return pronto to the meeting. An unsuspected silver lining to online meetings!
Most important of all, Clare directed the meeting with her usual affability and efficiency.
Golsa A presented us with four Table Topics. Not only were the topics interesting and challenging, but they also left enough room for the speakers to shine while answering them.
The Topics were ably evaluated by Sahi, who did the job for the first time and went on to win the award for Best Evaluator. Congratulations, Sahi.
After the toilet/stretching break, we resumed with three riveting speeches. Yaseen was first with “Pandemics — Destroyer of Humankind”. A meticulously researched and prepared speech about the history of pandemics and their effect on humanity. Kumar was second with “Can an illiterate person be a mentor?” This was really close and personal; a very touching personal story of the influence his illiterate mother had on Kumar’s life. Third and the last speaker was Nirupama (aka Rupa to friends and fellow TM). My memory fails me and I can’t remember the title of Rupa’s speech. To make matters worse my nbn modem failed during her speech and I was without an internet connection for 2-3 minutes, so I can’t tell you much more about her speech. But, what I can indeed tell you is that with this speech Rupa has now completed Level 1 of her Path. A round of applause, please, for Rupa on her achievement!
The speeches were evaluated by Daniel (that’s me!), Stephen, and Elena. They offered the speakers encouragement for all the things they did well and appropriate suggestions for improvements and challenges.
The watchdog reports were done by Patti (Harkmaster, Word of the Day, and Grammarian) Hamed (grunt counter), and Elena (timer). Well done to you all!
Rajesh conducted the General Evaluation, with feedback to all those who haven’t had some. It is important we all reflect on what we are doing and how we are doing it and make a balance sheet of what are our strong points, what and how we can do better. Rajesh did just that; he gave us his opinion on the meeting and what we can learn from it.
After the General Evaluation and because we had some time, we did a Round Robin with the subject “what is the last book you have read”. We wanted to experiment how to do it online as we’ll soon reintroduce this segment.
Before closing the meeting, Venkat, Ganesh, Moenika and Greg (our guests and visitors) talked briefly about their thoughts on the meeting.
Awards for the meeting, as voted by those
present:Clare M was the Meeting Toastmaster and she discovered two advantages to online meetings. First, she could not have attended an “in-person” meeting as her partner was not home and she had to mind the children. Second, when her toddler refused to sleep she managed to quickly look after her needs and return pronto to the meeting. An unsuspected silver lining to online meetings!
Most important of all, Clare directed the meeting with her usual affability and efficiency.
Golsa A presented us with four Table Topics. Not only were the topics interesting and challenging, but they also left enough room for the speakers to shine while answering them.
The Topics were ably evaluated by Sahi, who did the job for the first time and went on to win the award for Best Evaluator. Congratulations, Sahi.
After the toilet/stretching break, we resumed with three riveting speeches. Yaseen was first with “Pandemics — Destroyer of Humankind”. A meticulously researched and prepared speech about the history of pandemics and their effect on humanity. Kumar was second with “Can an illiterate person be a mentor?” This was really close and personal; a very touching personal story of the influence his illiterate mother had on Kumar’s life. Third and the last speaker was Nirupama (aka Rupa to friends and fellow TM). My memory fails me and I can’t remember the title of Rupa’s speech. To make matters worse my nbn modem failed during her speech and I was without an internet connection for 2-3 minutes, so I can’t tell you much more about her speech. But, what I can indeed tell you is that with this speech Rupa has now completed Level 1 of her Path. A round of applause, please, for Rupa on her achievement!
The speeches were evaluated by Daniel (that’s me!), Stephen, and Elena. They offered the speakers encouragement for all the things they did well and appropriate suggestions for improvements and challenges.
The watchdog reports were done by Patti (Harkmaster, Word of the Day, and Grammarian) Hamed (grunt counter), and Elena (timer). Well done to you all!
Rajesh conducted the General Evaluation, with feedback to all those who haven’t had some. It is important we all reflect on what we are doing and how we are doing it and make a balance sheet of what are our strong points, what and how we can do better. Rajesh did just that; he gave us his opinion on the meeting and what we can learn from it.
After the General Evaluation and because we had some time, we did a Round Robin with the subject “what is the last book you have read”. We wanted to experiment how to do it online as we’ll soon reintroduce this segment.
Before closing the meeting, Venkat, Ganesh, Moenika and Greg (our guests and visitors) talked briefly about their thoughts on the meeting.
Best Table Topic: Stephen
Best Speech: Kumar
Best Evaluation: Sahi
Next meeting is next week, as yesterday was the fifth Wednesday of the month, and it will be a special meeting as we’ll have a Business Session in which we’ll elect club officers for the new TM year 2020-2021 commencing on 1 July. Why do we elect club officers in May when they will only assume office in July? Because if we elect them in May they can be trained in June and take office fully trained in July.
Any member in good standing (i.e., financial) can stand for election. The vacant positions are:
President: Leads the club and represents it at District events.
VP Education: in charge of the educational program and of providing members opportunities for their development; also represents the club at District events
VP Membership: Looks after membership issues, mainly providing info to guests on how to join the club and cost involved
VP Public Relations: Looks after the club website and Facebook page
Treasurer: Takes care of club finances, collects membership fees from members, pays memberships to TMI
Secretary: Takes minutes of meetings, assist VPE as Base Camp Manager
Sgt-at-Arms: In our “in-person” meetings sets up the room, greets members and guests, counts the votes to elect Best TT, Best Evaluator, and Best Speaker.
Best Speech: Kumar
Best Evaluation: Sahi
Next meeting is next week, as yesterday was the fifth Wednesday of the month, and it will be a special meeting as we’ll have a Business Session in which we’ll elect club officers for the new TM year 2020-2021 commencing on 1 July. Why do we elect club officers in May when they will only assume office in July? Because if we elect them in May they can be trained in June and take office fully trained in July.
Any member in good standing (i.e., financial) can stand for election. The vacant positions are:
President: Leads the club and represents it at District events.
VP Education: in charge of the educational program and of providing members opportunities for their development; also represents the club at District events
VP Membership: Looks after membership issues, mainly providing info to guests on how to join the club and cost involved
VP Public Relations: Looks after the club website and Facebook page
Treasurer: Takes care of club finances, collects membership fees from members, pays memberships to TMI
Secretary: Takes minutes of meetings, assist VPE as Base Camp Manager
Sgt-at-Arms: In our “in-person” meetings sets up the room, greets members and guests, counts the votes to elect Best TT, Best Evaluator, and Best Speaker.
Meeting 850
Hello, Fellow Werribeans,
Last night we held meeting 850; a nice round number product
of 31 years when our club has been helping women and men from the southwestern
side of town to develop into a better version of themselves.
This meeting was also our second online, adjusting ourselves
to these new strange days of COVID-19 and all its consequences. In my opinion,
online meetings are not nearly as interesting nor do have the personal impact
of in-person meetings. Nevertheless, they are still interesting and have value
for those of us participating. They show our collective resilience and our will
to remain connected.
The meeting was attended by 13 members, a guest, Val, a
friend of Elena M, and a visitor, Greg B, Area Director N31.Meeting Toastmaster
was Rajesh M, who with his usual affability guided us through the evening.
Kumar B, one of our newest members and recently appointed to the vacant VP
Membership seat, conducted the Table Topics. His questions were challenging but
fun. By the way, how I wish I had received the first question: What would you
do if you were a butterfly!
Area Director Greg B, then ably evaluated the topics. He was
encouraging, supporting and offered positive points of improvement. After a
short toilet/stretching break, we resumed proceedings with two excellent
speeches. Elena M. spoke from and advances manuals of the Legacy program about
the challenges and benefits of delegating. Clare M spoke about leadership
styles, which ones she preferred, and how important is to respect the other
person when you communicate.
The speech evaluators were Cynthia D and Daniel I. Both
offered valuable insights, warm support, and suggestions for improvement.
Yaseen M challenged our listening skills with an interesting
set of questions. Sahi S reported on our use of those ungrammatical sounds we
often utter when we speak. Hamed K, our timekeeper for the day, reported on the
time used by our Table Topics, prepared speeches and evaluators.
Finally, Patti K did the General Evaluation giving feedback
on general items and then she followed on her role as President to close the
meeting.
Meeting awards, as voted by those present, were:
Best Table Topic — Golsa ABest Evaluator — Greg B
Our next meeting (852) is on the fifth Wednesday of the
month. This means that a week later we’ll hold meeting 853. Meeting 853 on 6
May will see our members electing the club executive for 2020–2021. Elections
are held in May so the new club officers can be trained in June or early July
and be ready to take the reins on 1 July.
All members in good standing can nominate or be nominated
for the seven executive positions, in order of seniority: President, VP
Education, VP Membership, VP Public Relations, Treasurer, Secretary,
Sgt-at-Arms. If you wish to nominate yourself or someone else for any position
(including the ones with nominations), please send the nomination to Club
Secretary, Clare M.
Regards,
Daniel, VPE
Werribee Toastmaster club is now online
Werribee Toastmaster club continue to meet online until
social distancing measures change and allow in-person meetings to recommence.
We had an excellent first online meeting.
It was Golsa’s and Hamed’s first speeches and I look forward
to handing them their ribbons when we can finally meet in person again. Yaseen
won best Table Topic, Sahi best Speaker and Clare best Evaluator. Special
mention to Rupa who did an excellent job with her first evaluation.
I would love more members next meeting and some have
indicated they may join. Even if you are not listed on the program then we need
Table Topic speakers, last minute changes and as General Evaluator/President I
will call on any member/guest who has not yet spoken to ensure that we have
full participation.
Patti, President
Meetings 848 and 849
Hello Werribeeans,
Coronavirus has changed our lives in ways we never suspected. This was
reflected in our meeting last night when only nine members and two guests were
present.
We had a long business session with a robust discussion which Paul will report on separately.
Sahi conducted her first session of Table Topics in an efficient, calm manner. Well done Sahi! The topics were ably evaluated by Paul and Nirupama (Rupa).
There were only two speakers. Kumar gave a powerful “icebreaker” speech about the power of self-belief. Rupa gave a speech about Covid-19 with a lot of important, well-researched facts. These speeches were evaluated by Daniel and Peter respectively.
The “watchdog” reports were presented by Sahi (Harkmaster), Daniel (Grammarian and Word of the Day), Paul (Gruntmaster) and Krishna (Timekeeper) while Jacquelene ably conducted the general evaluation.
Best Table Topic Award went to Krishna, Best Evaluator Award was shared by Rupa and Peter.
On this night we also farewelled Krishna and Ramon from the club. Both have informed us that because of a change in personal circumstances they can no longer attend our meetings.
Krishna and Ramon, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours and give you both a big THANK YOU for your tremendous contributions to the club.
We had a long business session with a robust discussion which Paul will report on separately.
Sahi conducted her first session of Table Topics in an efficient, calm manner. Well done Sahi! The topics were ably evaluated by Paul and Nirupama (Rupa).
There were only two speakers. Kumar gave a powerful “icebreaker” speech about the power of self-belief. Rupa gave a speech about Covid-19 with a lot of important, well-researched facts. These speeches were evaluated by Daniel and Peter respectively.
The “watchdog” reports were presented by Sahi (Harkmaster), Daniel (Grammarian and Word of the Day), Paul (Gruntmaster) and Krishna (Timekeeper) while Jacquelene ably conducted the general evaluation.
Best Table Topic Award went to Krishna, Best Evaluator Award was shared by Rupa and Peter.
On this night we also farewelled Krishna and Ramon from the club. Both have informed us that because of a change in personal circumstances they can no longer attend our meetings.
Krishna and Ramon, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours and give you both a big THANK YOU for your tremendous contributions to the club.
Daniel, VPE
Meeting 846
Hello Fellow Werribeeans,
We had another packed and eventful meeting last night.Peter chaired a short but dynamic Business Session and promptly handed over to
Krishna as Toastmaster.
This was the first time Krishna fulfilling this role and he did it magnificently. He introduced and explained all segments, had positive and friendly transitions a constant smile on his face.
Ramon conducted the Round Robin around the theme of the meeting —compassion– and many interesting thoughts we heard on this matter.
Awais was the Table Topics Master, doing the role also for the first time. He had four interesting questions that gave ample room to the respondents to present their thoughts. Stephen took the honour of being voted as Best Table Topic Speaker for the night.
Brand new member, Sahi gave her Icebreaker speech titled “Giving up is not an option”. She had us all mesmerised for almost five minutes and by the end of the meeting, she was voted as Best Speaker for the evening. Congratulations Sahi, what a way to start your Toastmasters journey!
Rajesh was the second speaker and he presented us with some interesting and useful facts about the different leadership styles.
Fresh from coming Second at the Northern Division International Speech Contest, Stephen closed the rota of speakers with another fantastic speech where he experimented with vocal variety.
Evaluators were Patti, Daniel, and Ramon. The members and guests voted Ramon as Best Evaluator of the meeting.
We must be doing something right as another three new members were inducted. Welcome to the Werribee Toastmasters Club Golsa, Hamed, and Kumar ! May your membership of our club a great journey of development and contributions. In addition, we had four guests.
Regards,
Daniel VPE
This was the first time Krishna fulfilling this role and he did it magnificently. He introduced and explained all segments, had positive and friendly transitions a constant smile on his face.
Ramon conducted the Round Robin around the theme of the meeting —compassion– and many interesting thoughts we heard on this matter.
Awais was the Table Topics Master, doing the role also for the first time. He had four interesting questions that gave ample room to the respondents to present their thoughts. Stephen took the honour of being voted as Best Table Topic Speaker for the night.
Brand new member, Sahi gave her Icebreaker speech titled “Giving up is not an option”. She had us all mesmerised for almost five minutes and by the end of the meeting, she was voted as Best Speaker for the evening. Congratulations Sahi, what a way to start your Toastmasters journey!
Rajesh was the second speaker and he presented us with some interesting and useful facts about the different leadership styles.
Fresh from coming Second at the Northern Division International Speech Contest, Stephen closed the rota of speakers with another fantastic speech where he experimented with vocal variety.
Evaluators were Patti, Daniel, and Ramon. The members and guests voted Ramon as Best Evaluator of the meeting.
We must be doing something right as another three new members were inducted. Welcome to the Werribee Toastmasters Club Golsa, Hamed, and Kumar ! May your membership of our club a great journey of development and contributions. In addition, we had four guests.
Regards,
Daniel VPE
Meeting 845
Fellow Werribeans,
We had another dynamic meeting last night.
As usual, we had a few “first time” at the meeting. It was the first time we approved minutes posted on line, rather than printing them for the meeting. Thanks to our Secretary Clare for this initiative. Members will need to check the accuracy of the minutes on the club Google Drive once Clare sends us a notice.
Best Speaker: Patti
As usual, we had a few “first time” at the meeting. It was the first time we approved minutes posted on line, rather than printing them for the meeting. Thanks to our Secretary Clare for this initiative. Members will need to check the accuracy of the minutes on the club Google Drive once Clare sends us a notice.
The Business Session was well handled by club Pres, Patti and
we promptly moved to the Educational Session and a second “first time” with our
Club Treasurer, Cynthia taking up the role of Meeting Toastmaster.
Congratulations Cynthia on a job well done. Having the
Agenda on the whiteboard didn’t help her because she had to keep looking over
her shoulder. Yet, she kept cool, calm and collected and connected the segments
with a smile on her face, explaining the segments.
Yassen was responsible for not one but two “first times”:
First time in charge of the Round Robin and First time as Table Topics
Evaluator.
After the break, our newest member (so far), Sahi was not
only welcomed to our club, she was also in charge of Ah-counting for the “first
time”.
Congratulations to all our “first timers”! Toastmasters is a
“learning by doing” program and just like you cannot learn to play the guitar
without “playing the guitar” you cannot learn the skills of public speaking and
communications without speaking in public and communicating.
We had three marvellous speakers on the night. First off the
rank was Patti with her Pathways Icebreaker speech. Although she is an
experienced speaker, she was also speaking for the “first time” in her Path.
This was an emotional speech where she told as about growing up as an adoptee
and finally, only a few short years ago, finding and reconnecting with her
birth mother and her blood sister and brother.
Nirupama (Rupa to her friends) spoke about the Fury of Fire,
something close to all Australians right now.
Clare closed the roster of speakers with her “first speech”
on level 2 of her path. She explained how all leadership styles are needed
depending on the time and stage of a project and she gave us the example of the
2021 Census.
We had 8 or 9 guests and at least 3 have expressed their
desire to join us within my hearing distance. I can say with confidence that
exciting times are ahead for the club.
The voting by members and guests produced these results:
Best Table Topic: Stephen
Best Evaluator: Paul Best Speaker: Patti
Congratulations to Stephen, Paul, and Patti!
Daniel, VPE
Meeting 844
Fellow Werribeeans,
Last night’s meeting 844 was unusual as we were almost
outnumbered. Almost but not quite! Eleven members were present and also 10
guests and a former member visited us. This gave the meeting an unusual
flavour.
Nevertheless, we keep going forward.
Last week we farewelled a member who is moving out of the
area, Gavin, but today we welcome our newest addition to Werribee Toastmasters
gang (I was going to say brotherhood, but why not sisterhood? thus I settled on
gang), Sahi.
Sahi will be formally inducted to our club at our next
meeting when she will also do the grunt counting. At the break or whenever you
can, please say g’day and welcome her to the club.
The award for Best Evaluator went to Patti(again!) and Paul
as best Speaker.
Daniel, VPE
Meeting 843
Hello Werribeans,
Meeting 843 last night was the last for 2019 and one of
great fun for all. Nine members (just short of a quorum) and five guests
attended.
Krishna chaired his first Business Session and he didn’t
fell undaunted by the situation. He moved us through the Agenda firmly and
promptly and handed over the gavel to our meeting Toastmaster, Patti, ahead of
time.
One of our newest members, Nirupama (or Rupa for her
friends) presented the table topics for her first time. She had a top notch
preparation and the topics were introduced with a big smile on her face and
plenty of enthusiasm. Awais, Pete (guest), and Michelle (guest) received the
topics and answered with enthusiasm and vigour.
The award for Best Table Topic went to our guest, Pete.
After the tea break, we had two Speakers. Rajesh started
proceedings with his first speech of Level 2 in the Dynamic Leadership Path.
The aim of this project is Understanding your Leadership Style. Rajesh showed
us how well he understands the different types of leadership and how leadership
is a process.
The second speaker was Daniel (me, myself, and I) who
presented the project Using Descriptive Language, one of several elective
projects on Level 3 of Effective Coaching Pathway. The speech had as a title
"My Tribulations in Australian English”. With this speech, he completed
Level 3 of his Path.
The evaluators were Daniel (Table Topics), Stephen (Rajesh’s
speech), and Julie (Daniel’s speech). For the first time in my five years in
the club, there was a three-way tie in the voting: all three evaluators
received the same amount of votes! Three different evaluation styles all of
them equally well received by the audience.
My thanks also go to Yaseen who accepted at the last minute
to be acting Sgt at Arms and who carried the task efficiently and without a
fuss.
We now have a break over the Festive Season and will
reconvene on 29 January. I will send a draft agenda around mid-January.
Wishing you all the best for this Festive Season.
Daniel, VPE
Meeting 840 - Wendy's Retirement
Meeting 840 was an important watershed in the history of the Club with the announcement by Wendy, a member of 24 years standing, that the time has come for her to retire from active Toastmasters service. Wendy’s announcement came as somewhat of a shock, because she has been a mainstay of Werribee Toastmasters for so many years, she has attended practically every meeting, has a long and distinguished record of service to the Club and accordingly it's hard to imagine the Club without her.
But as they say ‘as one door closes, another opens’. Werribee Toastmasters is a vibrant Club with a long and established history in meeting the Toastmasters International concept of altruistic service to the Community.
Meeting 840 welcomed four guests and inducted new member Yaseen, as such it indicates a positive future of the Club.
Overall, meeting 840 was fast moving and involving, with a masterful performance by Ujjwal Gandhi in his first-time role as Toastmaster.
Paul stepped in to conduct the Table Topics segment, using Toastmasters International set of cards, which made the last-minute call to present this segment relatively easy. Paul donated the set of cards to the Club for future use.
Various members put their hands up to step into vacant roles …… well done to those who volunteered and well done also Ramon for managing a trying situation so well.
Visitor Monica was called on to be the Ahh/Err counter and acquitted herself with a report that even established Members would be proud of.
Winners of the key Educational segments were:
· Best Evaluator: Patti
· Table Topics Winner: Elena
· Best Speech: A well-deserved Wendy.
Wendy’s speech was about how each of us can be a Star and she supported her speech with giving each attendee a cloth origami style star that she made herself. Wendy’s rationale for this special gift, is for each of us to hang it in a prominent position in our home, to remind us that we are all Stars. Wendy, you knocked our socks off!!
In all, Meeting 840 was, fun, engaging and informative, but tinged with sadness with Wendy’s retirement announcement.
I’m sure all WT members would join me in thanking Wendy for her dedicated commitment to the Club over so many years and to ask her to please pay us a visit from time to time.
Paul
Sergeant at Arms
But as they say ‘as one door closes, another opens’. Werribee Toastmasters is a vibrant Club with a long and established history in meeting the Toastmasters International concept of altruistic service to the Community.
Meeting 840 welcomed four guests and inducted new member Yaseen, as such it indicates a positive future of the Club.
Overall, meeting 840 was fast moving and involving, with a masterful performance by Ujjwal Gandhi in his first-time role as Toastmaster.
Paul stepped in to conduct the Table Topics segment, using Toastmasters International set of cards, which made the last-minute call to present this segment relatively easy. Paul donated the set of cards to the Club for future use.
Various members put their hands up to step into vacant roles …… well done to those who volunteered and well done also Ramon for managing a trying situation so well.
Visitor Monica was called on to be the Ahh/Err counter and acquitted herself with a report that even established Members would be proud of.
Winners of the key Educational segments were:
· Best Evaluator: Patti
· Table Topics Winner: Elena
· Best Speech: A well-deserved Wendy.
Wendy’s speech was about how each of us can be a Star and she supported her speech with giving each attendee a cloth origami style star that she made herself. Wendy’s rationale for this special gift, is for each of us to hang it in a prominent position in our home, to remind us that we are all Stars. Wendy, you knocked our socks off!!
In all, Meeting 840 was, fun, engaging and informative, but tinged with sadness with Wendy’s retirement announcement.
I’m sure all WT members would join me in thanking Wendy for her dedicated commitment to the Club over so many years and to ask her to please pay us a visit from time to time.
Paul
Sergeant at Arms
Outgoing President's Message
I have arrived in Australia several years ago as an international student reading for bachelor of computer science and mathematics. I found myself a quick wit nervous when it came to impromptu speaking compared to my mother tongue. Few of my colleagues and my professional mentor mentioned about how toastmasters can improve the quality of delivering a speech not only in office presentations but also in social events such as a speech on a wedding ceremony or even prepare for a good job interview. Since then I have come long way improving my leadership skills thanks to Werribee Toastmasters Club.
I joined Werribee Toastmasters Club over three years(2015) ago. Within few months I got the opportunity to serve the club official as club secretary, and was soon asked to take over the role of Vice President Education, VPE. This is a very engaging role that involves organising meeting agenda and helping fellow members to advance through their manuals. Regularly getting in touch with few dozens of members and guests and organizing meeting roles is quite challenging but certainly it did improve my management and people skills. I’m very thankful to my fellow members and support they have given and also, I’m quite impressed with our clubs’ support to let young members rise and take leadership.
I found Werribee Toastmasters club a very welcoming place to not only improve public speaking and leadership skills, but also an excellent productive environment to socialize and meet new people and exchange life experiences and learn new things. We are always open for guests to visit our meetings. As we have members coming from various backgrounds we have so many interesting speeches. Speeches varying from ‘Backyard Beekeeping’ to ‘Getting married in India’ to ‘Heart in terms of its structural integrity.
As outgoing president for 2017/18 I’m quite happy to celebrate our achievement during my tenure.
I joined Werribee Toastmasters Club over three years(2015) ago. Within few months I got the opportunity to serve the club official as club secretary, and was soon asked to take over the role of Vice President Education, VPE. This is a very engaging role that involves organising meeting agenda and helping fellow members to advance through their manuals. Regularly getting in touch with few dozens of members and guests and organizing meeting roles is quite challenging but certainly it did improve my management and people skills. I’m very thankful to my fellow members and support they have given and also, I’m quite impressed with our clubs’ support to let young members rise and take leadership.
I found Werribee Toastmasters club a very welcoming place to not only improve public speaking and leadership skills, but also an excellent productive environment to socialize and meet new people and exchange life experiences and learn new things. We are always open for guests to visit our meetings. As we have members coming from various backgrounds we have so many interesting speeches. Speeches varying from ‘Backyard Beekeeping’ to ‘Getting married in India’ to ‘Heart in terms of its structural integrity.
As outgoing president for 2017/18 I’m quite happy to celebrate our achievement during my tenure.
- We were able to reach 8 goals new members get 'Select Distinguished' Ribbon for the club, we were just only one short of highest 'President Distinguished' Ribbon.
- We had recruited 8 new members to the club.
- We had 5 members complete there CC manuals this year; Chih, Paul, Peter, Udana and Wendy and another 4 member very close to completing CC.
- We had 1 member (Udana) complete there Leadership manual
- We had 1 member (David) complete there Advanced Leadership manual
- May and Wendy for their continual work with the youth leadership program @ Westbourne Grammar, Seaholme Primary, and Point Cook Senior College. Well done and congratulations
- Wendy and May on your joint, long standing and continuing effort of helping to enhance the speaking skills and self-confidence of young people in Melbourne’s West.
- We have had 3 out of 4 area contest awards won by our club members.
- Humorous Speech Contest - Venky S.
- Table Topics Speech Contest - Greg H.
- International Speech Contest - Venky S.
- With Venky proceeding across to the National contest with his Humorous Speech
- With Pauls great organising skills, he successfully secured and organised 2 Bunnings sausage sizzles for recruiting and promoting the club in the west.
- The launch of Pathways where we had members from other clubs come and provide us a walk through of how it is used compared to the old manuals.
- We have Celebrated 30th Anniversary with a special meeting
- We have celebrated 800th meeting with a special meeting
- We have celebrated our newly appointed committee with a special dinner meeting.
- During this time we were able established werribeetoastmasters.org and launch new website and keep updated with averaging more than 2 articles per month. Our VPM Paul's contribution of meeting wraps were outstanding. We had about 12000 page views last year.
- We had more than 100 guest visits in the past year.
- We were able to improve on online collaboration and enhanced the rostering and agenda generation for VPE.
- Club Awards for year (2017/18)
- Best Speaker Award Elena M.
- Best Evaluation Award DTM Wendy P.
- Best Table Topics Master Award Greg H.
Last year (2016/17) as acting President and VPE I have selected Paul H. as the toastmaster of the year considering for his organizational help and so many little contributions to the club. This year (2017/18) as the Club President I have selected toastmaster of the year, Peter K. Perter has significantly improved as a member, His role as Treasurer he delivered beyond expectations. By taking Treasurer role Peter has tremendously improved his skills on technology especially with the online tools we are using for managing our club. Peter is very reliable and deliverable he also completed his CC manual as well.
I'd like to thank for the enormous support given to me by club officials and all of the club members. I'm quite lucky to be a member of skill rich club like Werribee Toastmasters and get help from many members in advanced levels including 3 DTMs and one charter member. Having a charter member for club more than 30 years old is quite significant. I'd like to thank Our Area Director Debbie H. and Northern Division Director Clare B. for their support and attending few events we had in this year.
Udana A.
Outgoing Club President for 2017/18
30 Jun 2018
Meeting number 800 - Reunion
After 30 plus years Werribee Toastmasters is still going strong. Our 800th meeting started with a colorful opening by our very own town crier Paul Von Harder. Meeting was vividly colored by honorable past and currentt members of the club. Today's theme was Reunion, a perfect theme for the night. Today we had a different meeting than usual. We altered the agenda to fit more speeches and table topics. We had 7 speeches and 6 table topic speeches in total. On this meeting our speeches were mainly focused on club's history and personal experience. Out timing were officially 5 - 6 minutes, However we had rather relaxed time limits for the speeches. I volunnteered to do the timing for the event.
On This special meeting, Meeting Toastmaster Chih and Sergeant at Arms David did excellent job, behind the curtain as well. David G facilitate the table topics with mixure of riddles and topics related to the meeting theme. First table topic was most memorable reunion for Ramya A. 'How did you handle a unexpected reunionn' was a perfect match for Patty K. Patty explained how she met her birth mother after more than half a century for the first time. Third table topic was for Arun Raman, this table topic was based on a riddle 'What walks on four legs in the morning , two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the eveining' rather than solving the commonnly known riddle Arun took us to wonderful place of mythycal creatures and mysterious places. Paul got the riddle 'When is door is not a door' this was a piece of cake for Paul, He also extended his topic to new level describing his reunion with his own son who is older than him. 'I have eyes but I cann't see, I live in the dark but I grow with light' riddle went for Peter K, who delivered a great table topic with lots of humour. Last table topic 'Experience in odd reunion' went to area contest winner of table topics, our own Greg H.
Our former member and President(2008) Tedd Powell, DTM opened the speeches with a great speech on comparing Australia now and then, presenting his views on various areas, economy, migration and population growth, crime and property.
Charter member Bruce Bedson's delivered a quite humorous speech on his experience from meeting number 1 to 800 meetings and most of the milestones between. He went for nearly 15 minutes sharing his experience. As the time keeper I had to ring the bell and flick the red light for Bruce.
Next Speeches were from May Wilson, DTM (President 1996, 2005, 2006) and followed by Wendy Powell, DTM(President 2000, 2011, 2012) who light heartedly remembered the club history and wonderful memories. Next Area director Debbie Rose celebrate this special occasion followed by beautiful speech by our northern division director Claire Bunworth. Clair explained the gift she received from the Toastmasters, how she has improve her professional work and how it helped her to climb up the ladder. Kylie, one of the past member and Bruce Bedson's daughter, delivered a speech on how she grew up with the club, how much she benefited from the club and how she won an interview thankfully to toastmasters.
Our Imediate past president Elena morandini delivered the general evaluation. As the club president I was hounered to handover table topics awards abetween tie Peter K and Patty K and best speech award went for Claire bunworth. After I closed the official meeting we had a wonderful gatherinng enjoying fingerfood and wine. Paul was very merry therefore I decided to do the meeting wrap for him for this meeting.
Udana Abeypala
Club President
May 2nd, 2018
Meeting number 799 - Thrive
After three low attendance meetings, meeting 799 was well attended and we welcomed six guests.
It was good also to see two of our most valuable members Daniel I and Elena M in attendance.
Despite the room’s clock showing the time as ten to three, we did get the meeting to open on schedule (mental note: replace clock batteries at next meeting!!)
Program changes saw Jacquelene B assume the role of Toastmaster, no doubt because of her past record of excellence in stepping-In without prior notice. Thank you Jacquelene.
Table Topics Master Chih posed four questions based on Thrive, the theme of the night. Unfortunately, Chih asked me ‘what AFL team will thrive this year”? Not being a huge fan of AFL, this threw me somewhat, but I managed to bluster my way through and was amazed to later receive Best T.T. Speaker award. Full marks to 1st time visitor Kesharika for overcoming her nerves and participating in the T.T segment.
A major tea-break disaster was avoided by May W. Quel horreur, it was realised that the milk supplies had run-out!!!!! Then it was found that May had saved the day by bringing a carton of milk. Give that lady a medal!!
With attendees fully refreshed after cups of tea and coffee (with milk), we launched into the Speech segment and were treated to three excellent offerings from Peter K, Daniel #2 and Wendy.
Peter spoke on the subject of over consumerism, and as we have become to expect from Peter, used props to underline his message. I was dumb enough to accept a challenge from Peter and was given four huge slabs of chocolate to consume before the meetings end.
Unfortunately, I am on a diet, plus none of it was MILK chocolate!
Daniel #2’s speech task was to ‘Persuade with Power’ and he certainly achieved that …….. you could have heard a pin drop through-out his speech and that is always a sign of an engaged audience. Daniel’s subject was about the value of reading and his excellent concluding and persuasive line was “read books and your whole life will change for the better”. Excellent stuff Daniel.
Twenty-five years of Toastmasters experience was evident from Wendy who was the Speech award winner for the night. I have to say that on any other night both Daniel’s and Peter’s speeches could well have been award winners.
Chih, Daniel#1 and yours truly were the evenings speech Evaluators and faced the difficult task of evaluating three excellent performances. I was rapt to be awarded Best Evaluator but feel that a vote re-count would not have been inappropriate!
President Udana adroitly carried-out the triple task of Timekeeper, General Evaluator and closing the meeting.
Whilst I was happy to receive two awards (for the first time) Udana managed to deflate any boosted ego I may have had, by ensuring I got back to my seat at the end of the room, before announcing my second award. Just you wait Udana …. revenge will be mine!!!!
Footnote:
A high-light of the Business session was Wendy P’s announcement that the Youth Leadership program will commence at Point Cook Senior College on Monday 23rd April.
This of course is in addition to the Y.L. programs that Wendy, ably assisted by May W, runs at Westbourne Grammar and Seaholme Primary schools. Exposing young people to Toastmasters hugely increases their confidence and maturity levels. Well done Wendy and May.
Paul
V.P. Membership
Membership of Werribee Toastmasters is not a destination, it is a journey to be enjoyed.
20 Years of Youth Leadership at Westbourne Grammar 1998 – 2018
In 1998 Werribee
Toastmasters International commenced a Youth Leadership program with Westbourne
Grammar School’s Year 11 and 12 students, a program that after 20 years is
still running successfully.
Wendy Powell and May
Wilson, two of the original WTM team that commenced the program in 1998 are
still continuing the good work.
Wendy says: “The
students are always enthusiastic in preparing and presenting speeches and evaluations.
Their level of Evaluation is excellent and at a standard that would stand-up
well at any Toastmasters meeting.
At the last meeting of
each course, students invite other teachers and parents and have never failed
to impress in demonstrating their abilities.
Looking back, 20 years
seems a long time, but May and I wouldn’t have missed the experience of
bringing the Youth Leadership program to Westbourne Grammar’s young people”.
In addition to the
above, Wendy is introducing the Youth Leadership Program to the Point Cook
Senior College, with the initial TM meeting commencing 23rd April
2018.
And of course Wendy
and May also run the Youth Leadership program at Altona’s Seaholme Primary
School.
Well done and
congratulations Wendy and May on your joint, long standing and continuing
effort of helping to enhance the speaking skills and self-confidence of young
people in Melbourne’s West.
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| Wendy Powell, DTM |
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| Daniel Iglesias, DTM & Charter Member Bruce Bedson |
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| May Wilson, DTM |
Meeting number 798 - Dreams
The meeting tonight was small and intimate which meant we could have some fun and everyone got to shine in multiple roles.
We had three great but very different speeches, learning much about our fellow Toastmasters in the process. This followed on from the revelations during the Round Robin and Table Topics which stayed focussed on the evening topic of “Dreams”.
During the Round Robin we found that some members had current unfulfilled tangible dreams like specific travel, some less tangible like enlightenment and self-development and some who are so content that they feel that they fulfilled all their dreams.
We had a speech from the child hood of a veteran member, the journey to become a member and beyond from our president and a passionate speech about working with computers from the third presenter of the night.
We had a first time guest who made a wonderful Table Topic Speech about coming to Australia, getting a great job and his dream of building a foundation for poor and disadvantaged children. What an amazing dream, may he succeed with the help of all of us!
Of course, the takeaway from any Toastmasters meeting is how far we have come and how Toastmasters has made such a difference to all who attend.
So let your inner orator out and join us at our next meeting.
Jacquelene B
Meeting number 797 - Rewards
Another smallish attendance for meeting 797, but it was wonderful to see long term member and Past-President Elena M.
We also welcomed 1st time Guests Sam and Subha and returning Guests Arun and Ardeena.
Topic for the night was ‘Rewards’
During the Business segment (capably Chaired for the 1st time by Peter K) Wendy P announced a successful meeting with Point Cook Senior College’s Bryce F. The intention is to introduce some of the College’s under-performing students to the benefits of Toastmasters. Should the programme be accepted by the College’s Board, it will earn valuable income for Werribee Toastmasters.
Peter also reminded us that the six month membership subscriptions are due.
Toastmaster for the night was President Udana who commenced the Educational segment by asking me to announce the Word Of The Day.
I feel my choice ‘Control’ failed to gain the meetings imagination, because I was the only person to include it in a presentation. But to be fair I did provide the word on very short notice.
Mental Note: Do better next time Paul!!!
Next Udana introduced Round Robin Master, Chih.
We’ve become used to Chih’s well-conceived thinking and he did not disappoint with questions related to the Rewards theme.
• He asked Peter K: Are today’s kids more spoilt than in the past?
• David Garrick was asked: Are we in an age where we over-reward ourselves?
• Guest Ardeena was asked: Do you shop just for the Reward Points, or are you loyal to companied you’ve made past purchases from?
• Arun was asked: Do you feel businesses are now-a-days less compassionate?
As Table Topics Evaluator I departed from the format of providing equal evaluation to each of the respondees, because I felt both Ardeena and Arun deserved special mention on their efforts on what is a daunting experience for Guests. I felt especially so, because both Guests acquitted themselves so well, with confident and animated deliveries.
Another Mental Note: Stick to the script, Paul.
Speaker # 1, David G spoke on short notice and delivered yet another eloquent and unscripted speech based on a Sales presentation. We all felt for David, because he was suffering from a heavy cold and was obviously quite unwell. Never-the-less he manfully soldiered-on. Well done David.
Speaker # 2 was Yours Truly. My speech was titled Professional Speaking and was my first after achieving Competent Communicator status. My speech time duration was scheduled for 15 to 20 minutes, for me a huge leap from the 5-7 minutes I’d got used to. I felt my speech was competent although I had to rely heavily on notes.
Mental Note: Don’t be scared of failing from time to time. Extending yourself leads to improvement.
Speaker # 3 was Jacqueline B who expounded on the ‘Me Too’ social phenomenon with a speech titled “Jumping on the Bandwagon”
Jacqueline transfixed her audience with a powerful and convincing argument which questioned if men are now becoming the disadvantaged sex, and if sometimes unprovable allegations can in fact set-back the female fight for equality.
A brave and challenging speech from Jaqueline. Well done.
Jaqueline and I were jointly awarded Best Speaker, although I thought David’s sufferings made the competition less than equal, (hope Jaqueline agrees!!).
For myself, I felt that Jacqueline’s effort trumped mine on the night and was amongst the best I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing at Toastmasters.
Speech Evaluators Chih, Elena and Wendy, all gave excellent observations and advice.
Elena delivered a concise (and precise) Timekeepers Report.
Toastmaster Udana closed the meeting a little over the target of 9.30pm, but I don’t think anyone minded the over-run because it was such a good meeting.
Time flies when you are having fun!! Well, done everyone
Paul
V.P. Membership
Rewards
Membership of Werribee Toastmasters is not a destination, it is a journey to be enjoyed.
Meeting number 795 - Adventures
The meeting started on time as usual and despite the few apoligises we received, we had a good amount of members step up and volunteer for roles. In addition, we had four guests for the evening; Hassan, Laith, Aluel and Arun.
The Meeting Toastmaster for the evening was Peter, who also gave us the round robin which started us off with many adventures and experiences shared. The most humorous one goes to the adventure experienced by Hassan, when he was out one night, driving in the car with no petrol station in sight, and then the low petrol light suddenly sparked on in his car. One hell of an adventure that most can relate to at least once in their lifetime.
A special mention goes out to Jacquelene, who volunteered for Thought of the day and the table topics even though she was already performing a speech. The average toastmasters would of felt overwhealmed, but not Jacquelene. She delivered very well thought out questions even though it was prepared with very short notice and involved all the guests so that they were able to participate in the improptu table topic's segement. Well done Jacquelene.
We had 2 speeches for the night delivered by David and Jacquelene. David gave us a abstract speech on a great book that he read about the characteristics of the politicians in the past and Jacquelene delivered a speech about how we need to pay more attention to our real life friends as opposed to our social media network. Both entertaining speeches, which were complemented with valuable evaluations from both our Daniels (Daniel I and Daniel B).
The Harkmaster report did wake everyone up, as I made sure that the questions were asked before the victim was chosen to answer the question. All in all, it did prove that everyone was awake and alert as all questions were answered. I also delivered the report for which recorded Greg repeating the word of the day (Experience) the most times in the night, a total of 6 times. The Ah counter report was provided by Heman, followed by the Timekeeper report by Greg.
Udana, the club president, gave us his general evaluation on the night as a whole, and listed some very easy to follow points of improvement. Our club President also presented the best evaluator of the night" Daniel B, and best Table Topics of the night: Laith. Good work to both of you and those who participated in those segments and provided the competition that made the voting decision so much more harder!
Looking forward to another eventful meeting in Meeting number 796. See you all then.
Cheers,
Chih
Meeting No.792 'Tasks'
Our 1 st meeting of the 2018 Calendar year was a fun and fast-moving affair and with a very
pleasing seven Guests in attendance.
David G was our Toastmaster and coordinated the evening with his usual aplomb and good
humour ………. a prime example of Toastmastership, well done David
In May’s absence, Daniel I provided the Thought of the Day, as follows: “Books are the bees
that take one intelligence to another”, sorry I did not record who the original creator of that
gem of wisdom was.
Carol M gave us a real pearl as the Word of the Day = Novaturient. My Word app struggles
with this word, in fact it does not recognise it, but the structure of the word indicates ‘of the
new’ an excellent WOTD to start the New Year. Carol’s challenge was well taken-up by
everyone but the person using it the most was Daniel I.
Our illustrious VP Education Chih, took-on the role of Table Topics Master and provide 5
challenging questions around the nights theme of Tasks. Table Topics is a segment which
helps us ‘think on our feet’ and we had some excellent responses to Chih’s posers. I often
question whether Guests should be asked Table Topics questions on the ground that even
experienced Members find Table Topics daunting at times. However, Chih dispelled my
reservations by inviting one of our Guests, Zalak, to speak on the subject of Procrastination.
I think it fair to say that Zalak astounded all of us by standing-up in front of 20 or so people
and giving a poised, confident and well-structured speech …….. many of the more
experienced Members would have been proud to match Zalak’s performance. Well done
Zalak, I hope we see more of you, in anticipation of what you can demonstrate with more
experience!!!
We had five speeches scheduled, but four apologies. Fortunately, Venky S had a speech
prepared and was able to step forward to save the day.
Wendy P presented a speech entitles “It’s Only A Box” a delightful and absorbing speech
about an old box (which turned-out to be a gentleman’s writing cabinet). As a person who
appreciates the high quality of antique workmanship, I recognised the beautiful
craftsmanship of this box and have to say it’s quality surpasses anything that is made in this
day and age and is a fine example of British wood working skill. Yes, it’s only a box Wendy,
but a family heirloom beyond price.
Venki gave us an animated speech in the humorous vein on the subject of how to respond
to a spouses loaded question. The question he addressed was ‘Darling do you think this
dress makes me look fat?’ Venky accurately detailed how this question is answered was
probably the 1st step in the break-up of many marriages.
I was allotted the easiest task of the night in evaluating Venky’s speech. Simple, how can
you critique excellence!!! Still I did my best and was thrilled to be awarded Evaluator of the
night. As they say in England, that was ‘money for old rope’. LOL
Daniel #2 was our Harkmaster (the section that probes whether we have been listening).
Daniel posed some well-directed questions and it was interesting to note that all were
answered correctly. Not only a good-looking audience but one that listens also!!
Carol was Grammarian and WOTD Master. She found our grammar practically faultless and
as mentioned previously awarded Daniel I, as the person using Novaturient the most.
Greg H officiated as Ah Counter and I have to say how happy I was when Greg said he was
surprised that I uttered Ah or Err seven times during the night …………. a big improvement on
my early days average of around FORTY such faux pas. Yaaay!!!
Timekeeper for the night was Peter K, who started off being a little apprehensive because it
was his first time in the role. Peter produced one of the best Timekeeper’s reports, very
detailed and concise. Maybe that was a first for you Peter, but I’m sure your performance
has earnt you many repeat performances. Well done Peter.
President Udana concluded the meeting and closed it only slightly past the 9.30pm target.
Afterthoughts:
Please note in your dairies and/or forward programmes, that we have a Bunnings
fund raising Sausage Sizzle booked for Saturday 23 rd June. This is a golden
opportunity for the Club to more than meet rising costs without having to raise
membership fees. I will issue a manning roster closer to the date.
Only two Guest’s Welcome Folders were available on the night, so I’ll will send info
PDFs by email to: Willi R, Kaushal B, Mujtaba S and Fawzana T.
President Udana mentioned that the time is coming for members to step-up and
think about nominating for Management Committee roles for the 2018 -2019 year.
We are approaching Werribee Toastmasters milestone 800th meeting.
Can I suggest that we all have a think about how we celebrate this special event?
Please sent thoughts and ideas to President Udana
Membership of Werribee Toastmasters is not a destination, it is a journey to be enjoyed.
Paul von Harder
VP Membership
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