Frankston Toastmasters ClubDecember / 2014

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Frankston Clean Up At Area B1

Five Stars

A Newbie view of d73semi2014

Upcoming Events

Frankston Toastmasters Penultimate (Holidays) 936WED, 3 DEC 2014 @ 7:15PMBSL Centre, (Acacia Room)24-26 High StreetFRANKSTON, VIC, 3977

Frankston Toastmasters Extravaganza (Xmas) 937*WED, 17 DEC 2014 @ 7:15PMBSL Centre, (Acacia Room)24-26 High StreetFRANKSTON, VIC, 3977* final meeting for 2014

Frankston Toastmasters BBQ(New Year) 938**WED, 14 JAN 2015 @ 7:15PMFrankston BeachFRANKSTON, VIC, 3977- Details yet to be confirmed** first meeting for 2015

Bass Division Contests*** SAT, 28 FEB 2015 Berwick RSL17 Langmore LaneBERWICK, VIC, 3806*** times yet to be confirmed

Frankston Clean Up At Area Contests

Results for Frankston at the Area B1 ContestsFirst up came the Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests for Area B1 hosted by Frankston.Funny Speeches and excellent evaluations. The scene was set, a full house, and not a chair tospare. Frankston's Anne Ahern the Winner of the Humorous Speech Contest with a tale ofshopping woes and dog experts. Simon Walliker then placed Second in a high calibre EvaluationContest.

The Contests concluded with the Table Topics and International Speech events hosted byMornington Peninsula. The Table Topics Contest posed the question "if you could go back intime, what would you change about your life and why?" After an excruciatingly long wait for ananswer it was announced that David A. Hughes was the Winner. David A. Hughes backed that upwith a Win in the International Speech Contest for his deeply personal and moving story titled "if Ionly listened" with Simon Walliker coming Second with his hard hitting message of "respect &attention".

As a side note fellow Frankston Toastmasters Candie "Durbs" Durber and Robyn O'Donnell bothwill be going through to Area Contests. Durbs with Evaluation, Table Topics, and Humour forMornington Peninsula; whilst Robyn was successful in Humour for Silver Service.

A coterie of former and current Division and Area Governors were on hand as Contest Chairs andJudges. We even had a past District Governor on the team. Add to this mix a travellingToastmaster from Thailand. Thank you to our fellow contestants from Cranbourne, Frankston,Mornington Peninsula, and South Coast Toastmasters Clubs. This makes it a clean sweep forFrankston having at least one representative in each of the four contests going on to compete inthe Bass Division contests hosted by Berwick on February 28th, 2015. Two great nights ofcompetition. See you for the Bass Division contests next year.

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FRANKSTON TOASTMASTERS

NEWSLETTERRegion 12 * District 73 * Division Bass * Area B1 * Club 1851

2014/15 CommitteePresidentJoanne Ball, CCpresident-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Vice President Education David A. Hughes, DTMvped-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Vice President MembershipAnne Ahernvpm-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Vice President Public RelationsSimon A. Wallikervppr-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Secretary Marat Tolgambayevsecretary-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Treasurer David A. Hughes, DTMvped-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

Sergeant-At-Arms**** Lina Hervesaa-1851@toastmastersclubs.org**** position rotating till January 2015

Immediate Past President Michael Lilley, CTMipp-1851@toastmastersclubs.org

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"Reach For Your Star" District 73 Semi-Annual Convention

Simply put the internet does not do justice to the picturesque views ofBrighton Beach from Milano's the location of this year's Semi AnnualConvention. Once the formalities were out of the way we went straight to themornings keynote speaker Jon Yeo from TEDx Melbourne organisers of BestPractice summits her in Melbourne. Jon's key quotes include "No one has themonopoly on ideas; the youngest we have had on our stage was 16 yearsold, the oldest was 90"... "answer only what is questioned, nothing else; don'tgive anyone a reason to put you aside"... "I factor in a 5% disapproval factorto our events; our aim is to push the boundaries, but you don't know wherethe boundaries are till you go there"

The workshop titled Outside Your Comfort Zone hosted by Ian Murray andFrankston's David A. Hughes tested the boundaries in even more picturesquesurroundings sharing tips on how to keep the audience engaged in tryingcircumstances. The duo left us with these gems "the most important part ofthe speech is the thought process of the audiences mind"... "to help connect,focus your eye contact for longer than is ordinarily comfortable"

Kevin Broughton and Robert Williams from Clearly Talking presented BigHairy Audacious Goals. Here we heard about "Can vs. Should" "Logical vs.Fanciful" and "Thwarting Behaviour" a more aggressive form of Tall PoppySyndrome conducted by yourself and others the nay sayers. This pairspearlers included "things holding you back are fairly often the things inside ofyou"... "self esteem relies on your sense of self worth, sense of competence,and sense of belonging"

Frankston's Michael Lilley Area B1 Governor gave a speech opening for the@d73 council. His speech gave us a gift, not a gift in the conventional senseof the word, but a gift of 30 minutes. Standing proxy at the District Council itwas inspiring to hear of the goals progress and monitoring across the district.What was more inspiring was the passion and commitment displayed ofwhich certain items will make their way back to club level to be discussed.