Another fantastic meeting at the London Irish Centre. Nearly 30 people I think (did anyone count?), including 8 guests. I opened the meeeting, then had to find extra seats for the latecomers. Timely they missed listening to the timekeepers introduction. Ben brought life to this role by remarking on all of those who spoke, and quoted Auston Dobson "Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, time stays, we go". Sue came back from Austrailia to be the Toastmaster. Christopher Norris was Grammarian and introduced the word Iota - when you do not know something, or a very small thing, something I missed while getting chairs. Simon themed the table topics on his current situation, moving home. Incredibly, for the second time running our guest Anna Parton won best table topic speaker, she has now signed up to be member, hooray. Other speakers included David, Vicky, Doug & Rose. The standard of table topic speakers was very professional said one guest. Abigail finally gave her Icebreaker, Who Me, which summarised her thoughts on previous speeches at Northern Lights whilst she was hunting to find her own speech idea. Her Icebreaker was not all about herself, so we will need to ask her on our own to find out more. Peter's vocal variety speech extended our knowledge of William Carnegie. Inka evaluated his speech and commented the his use of painted/powerful/pauses. She also noted that before we did not have an iota about William Carnegie, and that Peter brought facts and figures to life. Louise's speech was about facing a crossroads, and her now chosen direction, involving the fulfilment of a dream to mix work and international travel, although sadly this means that she was bowing out of Northern Lights. Louise's final speech involved a run through of some of the things learned while giving her past 7 speeches, which includes making speeches stonger by making them personal, or more self => more power. Jilly brought history to life in her descriptive speech titled the spitfire girls. Finally, Division B Gov Hillary Brigg's was GE, and by the time she came to stage she remarked that if she stepped straight off the stage then the meeting would still end over time. She evaluated everyone who had not yet been evaluated and amazingly did it without notes. We eventually finished 15 minutes late after she rightly used her full slot, I put myself at fault for my timing error, starting one minute late which simply cascaded horribly, remind me to start one minute early next time. Sadly a lot of people went over the red light and some even ignored the bell. Half of us, however, still made time for drinks and socialising down at at the bar, guests included. Since I forgot at the meeting, I would now like to announce that the club speech and evaluation contest will be held on the 15th of March, at our usual venue and same time. Robert Carmichael President |
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Meeting Report 18th January 2010posted 23 Jan 2010 13:17 by Robert Carmichael [ updated 31 Jan 2010 07:58 ] |