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Meet Our New Members Where We Wind Down for a Well Deserved Rest Over the Festive Season Canning Vale Toastmasters Club Newsletter December 2015 From the Editor December is the month Meet our new members where we wind down for a well deserved rest over the festive season. This doesn’t mean it isn't a busy month. This month we had 3 fun meetings and two new members joined our ranks. We hope you had a safe and happy Christmas, enjoyed with family and friends and here’s wishing Akash Kashyap Paul Highwood you a fabulous new year for 2016. May your dreams To our new members: and goals come to fruition. Welcome to Canning Vale Toastmasters and congratulations on This edition is to help with taking that first step in your Toastmasters journey. Every member those withdrawals and see is willing to help you at any time and we will all support you with you over until January your progress towards your goals. 19th, when we meet again. Enjoy! To make the most of your membership, be sure to read page 2 in your Competent Communicator Manual, especially A Toastmas- Robyn ters Promise. We all look forward to watching you become the speaker and leader you want to be. In This Issue Roll of Honour Let There be Light! A Word from the President Upcoming Events Tip of the Month Member Musings Merry Christmas to all our happy gift recipients Roll of Honour Our Newest Advanced Leader Bronze AWARD MEMBER DATE ACHIEVED ALB Michele Naidu December 5th A Few Words from the President Let’s Shed Some Intense Light on Toastmasters Acronyms Let’s take a closer look at those acronyms. Now that you know what the acronym stands for, this will show you the requirements for each award. Communication Track CC — Competent Communicator - Completed The Competent Communication Manual ACB — Advanced Communicator Bronze - Completed Competent Communicator Award and completed two manuals from the Advanced Communication Series ACS — Advanced Communicator Silver - Completed Advanced Communicator Bronze Award and completed two additional manuals from the Advanced Communication Series, plus conducted two presentations from The Better Speaker Series and/or The Successful Club Series ACG — Advanced Communicator Gold - Completed Advanced Communicator Silver Award and completed two additional manuals from the Advanced Communication Series, plus conducted a presentation form the Success/Leadership Series, Success/ Communication Series or Youth Leadership, as well as Coached a new member with their first three speech projects Leadership Track CL — Competent Leader - Completed The Competent Leadership Manual ALB — Advanced Leader Bronze - Achieved Competent Leader Award, Completed Competent Communicator Award, served at least six months as a club officer and participated in the preparation of the Club Success Plan plus participated in district sponsored Club Officer Training whilst serving in this role and conducted any two presentations from the Successful Club Series and/or The Leadership Excellence Series ALS — Advanced Leader Silver - Achieved Advanced Leader Bronze Award, served a complete term as a District Officer, Completed a High Performance Lead- ership Program and served successfully as a Club Sponsor, Mentor or Coach DTM — Distinguished Toastmaster - Achieved Advanced Communicator Gold Award and achieved Advanced Leader Silver Award Woodstock Hippy If you jump, your family will feel like you Meeting 374 This sign at train stations, The hippy girls were sharing reduced peace, love and flowers with suicides by 20% last year. us all tonight where we re- membered Woodstock and learned about “The Forgotten Anzac”, John Monash, The Value of Reflection and how to Diffuse Verbal Criticism from When I open our speech presenters. my text book, I fall into the Table Topics from Marcus abyss of took us on an early holiday boredom and our evaluators gave excel- lent feedback to not only the member they were evaluating, but to us all. Eloyise is a storyteller Mark’s questions caught us & a poet! out a couple of times, showing we need to brush up on our My headphones are more listening skills. His highlight of precious to me the night was Luke’s first than my child evaluation which was of his sometimes Mentor, Jenny. Tough gig, but it’s always challenging the first time and Luke was up to the task. Did you get your $100 note? If Between Oktoberfest & you did, you will find our for- Hippy Night, gotten Anzac on it. Check one you’re keeping us out soon, if you find one. on a constant chemical high Woodstock Trivia Woodstock, the most famous music festival in rock 'n' roll history, took place 46 years ago on August 15-18, 1969. Any decent flower child worth their name was there to protest against the Vietnam war abroad and racial ten- sion at home. The idea for the festival came from band manager Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld, a songwriter turned record company executive. They wanted to raise money to build a recording studio in Woodstock, upstate New York, a haven for artists including Bob Dylan, The Band and Van Morrison. The organisers played down the numbers they anticipated, telling the authorities they expected 50,000, while selling 186,000 tickets in advance (costing six dollars for each day) and planning for 200,000. In the end 500,000 attended. Another million had to turn back because of traffic. It was originally advertised as 'A Weekend in the Country.' About two dozen ticket booths should have been in place to charge $24 ad- mission, but they were never installed because of the crush of festival-goers. Attempts to get people to pay were abandoned on day one, the fences were torn down and Woodstock was declared a free event. Beatniks, hippies, flower children and rock legends gathered together not in Woodstock, but in the little town of Bethel, rural New York State. There was no suitable site in Woodstock, so organisers opted for Wallkill, 40 miles away, but residents blocked their plans, so dairy farmer Max Yasgur stepped in to offer his alfalfa field, in the neigh- bouring hamlet of Bethel. A deal was struck for $75,000. With storm clouds approaching, the crowd was urged: 'Let's think hard to get rid of the rain.' A chant went up: 'No rain, no rain, no rain.' But it didn't stop the deluge and in three hours, five inches of rain fell and the festival became a mudfest. Joan Baez famously sang 'We shall overcome' during a full-on thunderstorm. During the downpour there were fears some artists would get electrocuted. Alvin Lee, of Ten Years After, was warned of the risk as it was still raining when his turn came to go on. 'Oh come on, if I get electrocuted at Woodstock we'll sell lots of records,' he said. As an unknown and unproven business concern, the organisers, Woodstock Ventures, had to pay inflated sums to get the top rockers to sign up. Jefferson Airplane were the first, paid $12,000, double their usual fee. Even hippy band The Grateful Dead demanded cash in hand before they would play, as did Janis Joplin and The Who. Off-duty police officers were banned from providing security, so a New Mexico commune known as the Hog Farm were hired to form a 'Please Force.' The Hog Farmers were led by Wavy Gravy, a toothless former beatnik comic, who put on a Smokey-the-Bear suit and warned troublemakers they would be doused in fizzy water or hit with cus- tard pies. As well as forming the Please Force, The Hog Farm were in charge of catering, ordering in bushels of brown rice, buying 160,000 paper plates, forks, knives and spoons and 30,000 paper cups. They fed between 160,000-190,000 people at the Hog Farm Free Kitchen, 5,000 at a time. The performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix that closed Woodstock was described by the rock critic from the New York Post as 'the single greatest moment of the Sixties'. Yet it was witnessed by just a fraction of the crowd. Most had gone home by the time Hendrix came on stage, at 9am on a Monday morning. Organisers at Woodstock Ventures were at least $1.3m in debt afterwards. It took more than a decade for backers to recoup money, through audio and recording rights. Meeting 375 Lead by our Toastmaster, Rena, this was the meeting where Dennis admitted that on the weekend, he had lost Thanks for telling us his virginity, on a 1 night stand no less ……….......... about being a 25 year his camping virginity. old virgin , Dennis. We all want to hear Sheldon inspired us to about that because “Back yourself” in his Tonic “Sex Sells”! and our Table Topics from Jenny had us reminiscing about the year that was. Prem told us that his most challenging speech was When I was a kid, there about Gay Marriage, Chandana remembered was no air conditioning. If Vanessa’s humorous we were hot at night, we all speech and Elena was dragged our mattresses out prompted to take action by on to the back lawn. Luke’s speech about his brother trekking around Australia to raise awareness and funds for PTSD suffer- ers. We had lots of laughs with Theatre Sports and once again were privileged to witness an Icebreaker speech. This time by Jim. We capped off the night by electing our new club officers who will lead our club from January 1 until July 31, 2016. They are; President—Vanessa, VPE— Mark, VPM—Dennis, VPPR—Robyn, Treasurer— Elena, Secretary—Matthew, SAA—Ronnie. Congratula- tions to all and good luck in your role. Community Spirit During November we noticed that the Canning Vale College Student Councillors had a very worthwhile initiative to collect food donations for families in our community who may not have enough food during the Christmas period.
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