Innisfail Scores Two New Members
Innisfail Toastmasters warmly welcomes Peter Cochrane and Sue Music to the Club as members even if we now know that Peter’s wish to join comes from his desire to mix with other twisted minds.
Tonight’s meeting saw a stirling performance from Loretta, fulfilling her new role as Sergeant at Arms as well as Toastmaster of the Evening ably assisted by Sue Treston. Christer finally got to air his word ’skew-whiff’, wearing a formal shirt and tie with his tie skew-whiff to remind us to use the word. Sheridan posed some interesting table topics and almost stumped Anne with one titled ‘Gondalas and Greenhouse’. She got her revenge by posing him the topic ‘The time has come, the walrus said ….’
Peter amazed and delighted us all with a speech he prepared at very short notice to fill speech vacancies left by Raylene and Marj who were unable to attend. His speech entitled “To cut and how to cut” was chocca block with whimsical sayings and hilarious propositions for how we might help the ‘pollies’ cut their budget expenditure. The rest of area 32 better look out because it would appear Innisfail has found themselves a contender for the humorous speech competition.
Anne gave an educational to ensure members were aware of the office bearers positions within the executive committee. She emphasized that becoming an executive member provided yet another experiential way to learn and practice communication and leadership skills. The only prerequisite she said is a willingness to learn and participate and she encouraged everyone to seriously consider putting their hands up for the challenge. The election of office bearers will take place on the second meeting in May.
The Club has organised a new roster for the provision of supper and Christer showed that he is not only a smart dresser but a terrific cook by bringing a cake he made himself that was absolutely delicious. The recent executive meeting has sorted out the programme until the end of July but members were assured that there is still going to be room to move due to inevitable absences for one reason or another.
Congratulations to both Lorraine and Vivianne for improvements in evaluations.
We had 4 apologies and 12 in attendance this evening which when all is said and done is not too bad for the evening of a public holiday. Good work Innisfail!!