Monthly Newsletter – April 2017

·         International Convention 2017 ·         Presidential Citation Award ·         Dates Not to be Missed

International Convention 2017

Don’t miss your chance to celebrate with members from around the world at the 86^th Annual Toastmasters International Convention.  Get ready for the best one yet!

August 23–26, 2017
Vancouver Convention Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia

Customise your convention experience with a variety of registration, add-on and special event options.   www.toastmasters.org/Events/2017-International-Convention

Presidential Citation Award

Each year at the Toastmasters International Convention, the International President announces recipients for a Presidential Citation. This citation is presented to members who have shown continual support and dedication to the organization. Recipients of this citation are selected at the sole discretion of the International President.

Nominations for this citation may be sent to Toastmasters International using the online nomination form. Be sure to complete the form in its entirety. The deadline is May 1.

The Presidential Citation recipients will be notified by email. If you have submitted a nomination, you will also be notified of the outcome by email.

Not all nominees will receive an award, and an individual cannot receive the award more than once. Reasons why an individual nominated was or was not selected is confidential in matter and will not be shared.  Nomination form can be found  here:- www.toastmasters.org/Presidential-Citation-Award

Dates not to be Missed

            District Conference & Contests

o   Fri to Sun 5^th to 7^th May – join us and support Excalibur members;-

Simon Bucknall (Speech) and Freddie Daniells (Evaluation)

Excalibur Meetings 6.45pm for 7pm

o   Wed 10^th May –Club Elections followed by Standard meeting

o   Wed 24^th May – Standard meeting

o   Wed 14^th June – Past Presidents meeting

o  Wed 28^th June – Standard meeting with an end of year party feel!.  Handover to new President.  

12th April Meeting Summary

Not everyone was away spring cleaning or celebrating festivals like Passover and Easter, which meant we had a great turnout plus guests. Three were members of Women in Banking and Finance Speakers – City; Eileen, Shola and Nadine. 

Paul A opened the meeting handing over to our president Lynne C who referenced the latest TM Magazine in her opening speech, relating top tips for innovation to speaking. 

Janet T feeling pretty rough with flu, but hiding it well, was our TM. She was still incredibly energetic! New member Prakash P was our 'forgetful' timekeeper.

Marcin  T ran an interesting TT session calling upon non TM guest  Robert (Janet's husband) with ‘how many real friends do you have’, followed by returning member Marc L ‘lets not focus on history' followed by Lynne C ‘being president changed my life' then last but not least Anne B 'onwards and upwards’.  Hannah V, Carol W, David L and David W evaluated. 

Lynne's little story won her best TT of the night.  (Freddie D handed Lynne her award and suddenly got camera shy! So unlike Freddie!)

Our prepared speakers were Bob F repeating his CC no:2 FEAR, ‘false evidence appearing real’. 

Paul A, who enthusiastically interpreted 12th night. Project 4 from Interpretive Reading.

Cat K’s after dinner speech on ‘Time',  project 5 from Entertaining  Speaking, won her best speaker of the night. (She was pleased as punch and loved receiving the award).

Hannah V evaluated Bob with thoughtful C’s and R's. 

David L’s evaluation of Paul's speech won him best evaluator. 

Freddie D comprehensively evaluating Cat ran out of time. Oh no!!  

Marc L was back on stage at his first meeting doing open feedback encouraging the 4 guests to participate which they all did very effectively. 

Nadine W our GE gave the club and speakers thoughtful and considered feedback promising to return again. 

Lynne closed out the meeting with the following dates:-

22^nd April - Div B Contest -  Both Lynne and Bob are also doing workshops 

26^th April -  Mini debating workshop with Paul Carroll

5-7^th May -  District Conference

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Great night. Great energy. Great fun. See you all next time. 😄

Meeting closed.