Bedford Speakers

BEDFORD SPEAKERS

 

MEETING MINUTES – THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2011

22^nd Club Meeting of the Year

 Hi all, thanks for a great evening on Thursday.  We managed to pack in a great evening of excellent speeches, humour and table topics.  Thanks to you all for attending and participating.

 We had 16 members and 1 guest attend Thursday’s meeting and would like to extend a warm welcome Jaimen who recently joined the club.

 Tim’s Word of the Day:  Effusive

 Speeches 

 We had three speeches this evening:

 1.    Sue Savage – Tartuffe (Interpretive Reading: 4).  Sue effusively recited an extract from Moliere’s Tartuffe, bringing life and energy to the scenario with great vocal variety, dialects and body language.  Well done Sue.

 2.    Maciej Sadza – Presentations 101 (Competent Communicator: 7).  Mac delivered a speech which is related to a Public Speaking Course he shall shortly undertake.  Mac gave great guidance on public speaking tips and a very useful handout.

 3.    David Minzey – Etna Event (Entertaining Speaker: 4).  Dave gave an thrilling, energetic and very confident speech employing body language, vocal variety and relating to a recent holiday in Sicily.

 Table Topics

 Paul Hayward hosted Table Topics on the musical theme of song titles and what they mean to you.  Well done to Byford, Paul Hindess,
Narinder and Tim (first Table Topic), for rising to the occasion, combining wit with quick thinking to present great impromptu speeches.

 Evaluators

 Tony Stead, Tony David, Val and Martin were thanked for sharing their wisdom and experience and for providing alternative examples of expression.

 General Evaluator

 Gayna reminded us of the value within evaluations, highlighting how we all enjoy receiving our feedback slips and the impact they can make.
Gayna then commended Evaluators and offered great guidance for further development.

 Meeting Evaluator

 Dave, in his usual energetic, proactive and encouraging style, rounded off the meeting by recognising the importance of each role in making the evening a rewarding and successful event. 

 Awards

 Best Speaker:           David Minzey

Best Evaluator:         Val

Best Table Topic:     Paul Hindess and Tim

Grunts:                       Paul Breakey

Humour:                     David Minzey

 Future events

 1.         Christmas Dinner – 1 December 2011

2.         Speech and Evaluation Contest – 23rd February 2012

3.         Area Speech and Evaluation Contest – 21 March 2012

4.         Division Speech and Evaluation Contest – 21 April 2012

5.         National Speech and Evaluation Contest – TBC

 Members are invited to register for roles on the club website.

 Next Club Meeting:  Thursday 8 December

 The Club Christmas Meal will be held at 7.30pm on Thursday 1^st December at the Ruby Murray Restaurant, High Street, Bedford http://www.rubymurrayrestaurant.co.uk/.  The invitation is extended to guests.  Names to Gayna (gaynacooper@gmail.com) soonest please.

 The theme of the evening will be a Tall Tales competition.  There will also be Limericks throughout the evening; participation is encouraged.

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 Fellow Toastmaster

Bedford Speakers cordially welcomes you to an evening of fun, food
and laughter at our annual …

 

TALL TALES Contest 2011

When: Thursday 1st December 2011

Time: 7:30pm

Where:  Ruby Murray

17
High Street

Bedford,

MK40
1RN.

See link: http://www.rubymurrayrestaurant.co.uk/

Tall Tales are not the result of a cross between a giraffe and monkey….or are they???

Not sure what a Tall Tale is?…..don’t trust me to tell you the truth?

Narinder linked an archived article from Toastmasters for your convenience: http://www.toastmasters.org/ToastmastersMagazine/ToastmasterArchive/2007/November/TallTales.aspx
Have a read and see if you would like to give it a go.   Bonus…you can count it towards your CC manual… (don’t forget to ask someone to be your evaluator)