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July Meetings: Review

Posted by LP User on Saturday, July 27, 2013, In : Meetings

Club Meeting - Wed 3rd July
We started our new year with bang with twenty three members and four guests coming out in force. Big congrats go to Ryan Arendse for delivering is Ice Breaker speech and starting his new role as SAA! Justine Crew-Brown gave a fabulous CC2, Mallorie Lee a thought provoking CC4, Ruth an entertaining AC4, Melanie Steyn a rivetting AC4 and Marion Thomas a hilarious AC9 roast of Theo.

Best Speaker: Mallory Lee CC4
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3 June: Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, In : Meetings

Our June meeting was a bumper one with 5 speeches, brilliant table topics and fantastic evaluations.

With Theo away Jeremy stepped in as acting president and Carey Fenn as Toastmaster was exceptional - her preparation for the role was flawless and she kept us effortlessly on track.

The speeches of the night were no different. Clinton McKenzie wowed us with his 'Road Less Travelled' CC1. Reto 'Woke' us up with his rivetting CC2 story of surviving a fire and Jeremy tuned us into our caveman insti...
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April Meeting Reviews

Posted by LP User on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, In : Meetings

April Club Meeting

On Wed 3rd April we had a bumper meeting with no less than 6 speakers. Justine Crewe-Brown kicked off with a sizzling hot CC1, Neville took us on an hair raising adventure to the Antarctic with his CC4, Ruth told us a true story on how a little faith can save the day (AC2), Dawid is on roll and made us aware of how a number sequential small mistakes can have disastrous results. (CC3), Lorne entertained us with a reading from Herma...
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18 March: Early Bird Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, In : Meetings

7 members and 2 guests gathered for another fun filled Early Bird Express meeting at the Windsor Gardens with Helen Burton taking the lead as Toastmaster of the day. Nick Satchel treated us to his CC1 of comparing his life's journey to a hike; Debby Satchel shared with us how to grow our 'African Money Trees' in a lively CC6 and Ruth Cort enthralled everyone with an East African Fable in her AC5.

These short and sweet meetings continue to be a wonderful start to the week and we are now managi...
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21 Feb: Advanced Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Friday, March 1, 2013, In : Meetings

On Thursday 21st February we hosted our first ever Advanced meeting. It was well attended with 10 members and 7 guests in total and gave a wonderful opportunity for advanced speakers to take the stage. Aaron Blanchard did an outstanding job of organising the meeting and then pulling off a brilliant first time Toastmaster role! Mike Fawcett entertained us with a humourous sales pitch presentation, Theo Potgieter showed us how to 'Eat An Elephant' when attempting to become a Distinguished Toast...
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18 Feb: Early Bird Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Friday, March 1, 2013, In : Meetings

Our Early Bird Express meeting was a small but festive one with Neville Arends completing his CC3 and Helen Burton being Toastmaster. The rest of the meeting was dedicated to an hilarious round of Table Topics run by Helen Burton on justifying rather strange new home choices (carpark in Koeberg or Kalkbay Habour Wall)! Verity Price then challenged everyone with some pretty stiff proverbs which made for good practice for competition style impromptu speaking.

As always, the morning meeting is a ...
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6 Feb: Club Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Monday, February 11, 2013, In : Meetings

What a vibrant February meeting ! Two Oceans is truly on a roll and destined to be a top club! We won (yet again) the covetted Treasurer' excellence award for paying over ALL our dues on time. Well done Verity and thank you all club members!

It was a meeting of firsts. Not only did we have the privilege to induct 2 first time toastmasters (Carey and Dawid), but for the first time our meeting was recorded on video (thank you Aaron)! We also had a first time toastmaster of the evening -...
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21 Jan: Early Bird Meeting Review

Posted by VPPR on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, In : Meetings

Our Early Bird meeting got off to a great start this year with two visitors joining us for breakfast and Helen Burton running a brilliant meeting with her theme 'flying by the seat of your pants'.

Debby Satchel delivered a fantastic CC4 urging us to 'just do it' when it comes to seizing the opportunites life sends our way. Marion Thomas then delivered an inspiring PR Speech to encourage us to grow the Early Bird club with a vision to it eventually chartering in it's own right.

After a delici...
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9 Jan - Meeting Review

Posted by Theo Potgieter on Saturday, January 12, 2013, In : Meetings

A big thank you to all members & guests who helped to make last nights meeting a resounding sucsess !

We had the privilege to induct Ingrid Kingon as a new member. This brings us one step closer to our DCP goal of President’s Distinguished since we now have 4 points in the bag. Every members achievement helps us towards our goal of 10/10 points by June.

We had 5 guests at the meeting, two of whom have expressed interest in joining and Dawid Mocke was voted in a member and will be ind...
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19 Nov: Early Bird Meeting Review

Posted by VPPR on Wednesday, November 21, 2012, In : Meetings

This past Monday morning saw 6 members gather at The Winsor Restaurant for the monthly Early Bird Express Meeting. We also had two visitors join us - Penny from the Pro Biz group that Kay Price-Lindsay spoke to last month and Nick who is one of our returning members Debby Satchel's son! Nick dove straight in and did a wonderful job as timekeeper, while Marion took the honours as Toastmaster of the day.

Debby Satchel gave an informative CC2 on the secrets of networking that was the perfect s...
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7 November - Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Thursday, November 15, 2012, In : Meetings

This months meeting saw a wonderful turnout. With 13 guests including: former member Cecily Froud, a Toastmaster from Berlin and two teenagers wanting to see what Toastmasters is all about. It made for a brilliant evening where the club treated to fantastic speeches by Claire Strohbach (cc4), Verity Price (cc9) and an educational on effective evaluations by Marion Thomas. Lorne Sulcas ran a dynamic Table Topics section in our new longer slot to help members improve their impromptu speaking....
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15 Oct: Early Bird Express Meeting Review

Posted by VPPR on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, In : Meetings

This Monday morning saw a small group of Two Oceans members and guests gather at The Windsor Garden Restaurant for another Express Meeting. Though the gathering was small, the spirit, as always, was big.

Claire Strohbach gallantly stepped into the Toastmasters role at the last minute, and as always she guided the meeting gracefully and eloquently! Our newest member Debby Satchel, delivered a wonderful CC1 that took us on her journey of dealing with her fear of public speaking. It is very clea...
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5th September: Meeting Review

Posted by LP User on Friday, September 7, 2012, In : Meetings

We had a brilliant meeting to herald in Spring! The four outstanding CC2's really proved that the quality of speakers at Two Oceans Toastmasters is exemplary. With Aaron pondering the pro's of Possum Plucking, Mallorie uncovering the silver lining of her fears, Jeremy reminding us that Gingers are people too, and Claire exploring whether or not we should respect our elders – our September meeting was a laughter filled and very memorable meeting. The quality of speeches was so outst...

13 Aug - Early Bird Express Meeting

Posted by LP User on Monday, August 13, 2012, In : Meetings

Two Oceans enjoyed a true Woman's Month Early Bird meeting this morning, with Alana Bryne single handedly taking on being Sergeant At Arms, Toastmaster and Evaluator for two speeches! Stepping in Marion who came down with flu, Alana did a sterling job of multi-tasking through her various roles of the morning. Verity stood in a President for the Toast and Awards, while a first time visitor Andrew acted as timekeeper!

It made for a very festive meeting with a thought provoking and beautifully c...
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16 July - Early Bird Express Meeting

Posted by LP User on Monday, July 16, 2012, In : Meetings

Two Oceans sneaked in a 'back to school' Express meeting this morning with the theme "Believers are Achievers". The role of Toastmasters in believing that you can achieve, was carried through the whole of the meeting and 11 hardy souls braved the wet weather to join us for a laughter filled morning.

Verity Price in her first Toastmaster role then took control of the "flight" and flew us gracefully from Fish Hoek, on our own special trip, including comingup with an "impromptu" impromptu...
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4 July: New Year, New Beginnings

Posted by LP User on Friday, July 6, 2012, In : Meetings

Our first club meeting of the Toastmasters year was held on Wednesday 4th July and saw the new club president Theo Potgieter outline the incoming committee vision for the year: to focus on helping all our members reach their educational goals and keep improving the quality of each meeting.

Kay Price-Lindsay was the Toastmaster for the evening and she carried the theme of 'A New Broom Sweeps Clean' fluidly through the night with peels of laughter all round.. She also introduced some new ...
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Please Note:

District 74 means the 9 countries of Toastmasters Southern Africa (approximately 125 clubs)

Division D means Namibia & the Western Cape of South Africa (approximately 30 clubs)

Area D1 means the 4 Toastmasters clubs in Fish Hoek, Tokai, Claremont & Newlands