UM Masters Meeting - Wednesday, January 22nd 2014

UM Masters had an amazing meeting today.  There were 19 people in attendance and 6 of them were guests – one guest joined today and another 2 expressed interest in joining next week. 

Nicole was our Toastmaster and she chose the theme “Memory”.  During introductions members and guests gave a brief talk on what the theme meant for them.  Our President Dianne presented the club with their Sunshine Ribbon.  She explained that we were awarded this ribbon because we had met at least twice a month in July and August always having a prepared speech and we had at least 2 new people join our club in the summer.

Randy gave an excellent speech on “What it means to be a good coach”.  He used great vocal variety and gave 5 qualities of a good coach.  He is currently coaching his son’s basketball team.

June led the club in the Table Topics session and challenged Dianne and Laurie to questions which required them to use their memory.

Ru and Pegah gave excellent speech and table topic evaluations.

The gold star was give to Aaron (a guest) who took on the role of Grammarian.

Next week is our Open House and we welcome all visitors.  February 5^th the club will have a Junior Speech contest.

Blogged by Dianne

Club President.

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If you would like to take part in a UM Masters meeting, we’re located in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba. Our meetings are held every Wednesday from 12:05 –12:50 PM in Room 111 at St. John’s College (which is part of the University of Manitoba).

If you're in Winnipeg and interested in sitting in on a club meeting to see if Toastmasters is right for you, please feel free to contact Catherine Plouffe at Catharine.Plouffe@umanitoba.ca