15th May 2024 – New Committee
Our Annual General Meeting was held on this beautiful
summer evening to elect a new committee for the upcoming year commencing on
July 1st. Our President Kathy opened up the meeting, greeting
members and guests. Martin then chaired the AGM, calling on the ongoing
committee to read their reports on how the club did overall during the year, and
what they learned and accomplished from their roles. Afterwards, a short
election was held to determine the new committee which are as follows and
congratulations to everyone:
·
Past-President - Kathy
·
Vice President of Education – Brian
·
Vice President of Membership – Warren
·
Vice President of PR – Mona
·
Treasurer – Pat
·
Sergeant at Arms – Christine
·
Secretary – Husnain
Motions were then put forward by club members such as:
1. All
contests to be over and done by the end of November.
2. Perform
a dance with each report.
3. Continue
to use café for main meetings.
4. Summer
party to be held at our venue for meetings.
We then moved to the usual meeting. Pat did a great job as
ToastMaster, calling on the various officers to come up and explain their
roles. The Grammarian was Mark, who gave the word of the day Temerity, which
means the quality of being confident and unafraid of danger or punishment.
Stephen put a unique twist on the Table Topics session by handing out lollipop
sticks with numbers written on them to member.
There were two speakers for this evening, Mona and Connie. Mona
presented her speech on her time as secretary for the club, including what she
had and what ideas she brought to the committee. She especially emphasises that
without the committee and the work they do, the club would simply not function.
Connie’s speech was on different learning styles that people use to learn, and
they are different for each person. Even though the projector wasn’t working,
and she couldn’t show the presentation she had made, it was a great speech
because she knew exactly what she wanted to say.
After the break, Frances gave her general evaluation on how
the meeting when, including what went very well and could be improved upon. The
officers read out each of their reports and the evaluators gave their feedback
on how each of the speakers did. Bea read out a beautiful poem entitled “Hokusai
Says” by Roger Keyes for her Creative Corner piece. Kathy then closed the
meeting and the roles for the next meeting were filled.