Hello Harrovians.
It has been a while since our last posting on this blog.
Many things have been happening in the background. to make the club better causing this absence.
As the old club committee's year draws to a close, the new committee will take over officially from 1st July 2008. Many of the old committee have agreed to carry on in different roles, ensuring consistency and continuation of the good work to date.
Monday's meeting is the penultimate for this old committee - and what a night it was! You can certainly see the improvement in the standard of speeches and evaluations - "Good Evaluations = Good Clubs".
The evening started with the intimitable Toastmaster Warren Sheng, who presented outgoing President Tony Lazar with a diamond studded bottle of Port, and a gold plated "To My Dad" bar of "Tobarlone" (could never get my tongue or keyboard around this word!) for incoming President Alan Mcmahon, that Waitrose had discounted by 110% especially for Warren.
Thank you Warren for this wonderful gesture. You are in danger of losing your thrifty image!
Tony loved the new superb new programme printed in glorious technicolour so much that he forgot his lines and ran out of time! He was red lighted off by Timer Naran Patel.
The energetic Karl Howe came on as grammarian with the Vigourous word of the day.
A thoroughly enjoyable table topics ensued, ochestrated by newest recruit, table topics master Chetan Vekaria - an excellent job for the first time, carried out with confidence like an old pro - seems like we have another potential speaker in the making.
As always, Lorna Burns provided the concise, yet to the point evaluation of the table topics speakers. Well done to Jo Hallas for winning, and Guest Karl for excellent table topics - they loved the stage so much, not even 'fingers on the buzzer' Timer Naran could get them off!
3 superb speeches followed from 'kitchen knife krazy' Maneesha, 'get the bar stewards' Indra, and 'flying high' Super Mandip. Following in Alan's footsteps, Mandip has now also completed his first 10 speeches.
3 excellent evaluations followed from Alan Mcmahon, Anthony Mcguigun and Shirley Holmes.
The colourful General Evaluator Angela Lansbury waxed lyrically about the evening, with a insightful evaluation of those who had not been evaluated. Angela had arrived at the club early to give a training on evaluations before the meeting started - very appropriate.
The winners were:
Table Topics - Jo Hallas
Evaluation - Shirley Holmes
Best Speech - Maneesha Sharma
Competent Communicator - Mandip Sohal
A special Gold Award for Angela, an advanced speaker, who has now completed over 40 speeches.
Also congratulations to Alan Mcmahon who completed his 10th speech at the last meeting and is also a Competent Communicator.
I am really looking forward to the ultimate meeting of the old committee on 30 June. Make sure you are all there, or you will miss a cracking meeting.
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