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New members: Welcome to Canning Vale Toastmasters and congratulations on taking that first step in your

Toastmasters journey. Every member is willing to help you at any time and we will all support you

with your progress towards your goals.

To make the most of your membership, be sure to read page 2 in your Competent Communicator

Manual, especially A Toastmasters Promise. We all look forward to watching you become the

speaker and leader you want to be.

IN THIS ISSUE:

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS

CANNING VALE TOASTMASTERS CLUB

NEWSLETTER August 2017

We meet every Tuesday at 6.30pm

Canning Vale College Library

Dumbarton Road

Phone: 0417 915 464

Email: [email protected]

Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

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Chris Lynch Harrish Nair

Presidents Message The fantastic 4 New Committee Member

Inauguration A year in the role of VPE Toastmaster of the year Member awards CVTM Gavel Club / Speechcraft

Madison Goddard


CVTM President’s Message

Hi all members and guests,

A new Toastmasters year brings a new committee and a new set of goals for us to

strive to achieve. I am so overjoyed to be the President of our amazing club during

our 10th year and have high expectations, as we set sail the good ship Canning

Vale, to be a Presidents Distinguished Club once again. Of course, we will aim to

be the first club in the world to reach 10 goals, as we did last year.

I was so surprised and overwhelmed when I was

announced as Toastmaster of the Year for CVTM

2016/17 and I join a very elite set of Toastmasters

who have done so much for our club.

I want to congratulate Dennis Foo and his team for

the amazing year we had last year and especially

Eloyise Braskic, our VPE, who did an amazing job in keeping our members

focused and on track to achieve their goals and over all, the club goals.

I know our new committee of Andre, Hadi, Ronnie,

Colin, John, Raj and myself will do our best to help all

of our members achieve their goals this year.

It’s full steam ahead for the SS Canning Vale to

Presidents Distinguished!

- Mark Richards DTM

CVTM


The Fantastic 4: Meeting 439

I was lamenting - wanting more land... more space for an orchard, vegetable patch and chickens...maybe even a cow. A very wise friend went to his bookshelf & handed

me a small book of short stories written by Leo Tolstoy. The story I retold was called How Much is Enough! I really like stories with surprising endings & this was one of those stories! Although it was written over 100 years ago the moral of this story is just as relevant today. We can spend our time desiring, wanting and chasing more but in the end it does you in. I remind myself of this story when I start dreaming of Daisy the milking cow!

My Speech involved techniques for interper-

sonal communication. I ran through the differ-

ent stages of rapport and had a role playing

session with Shree.

I was inspired to give this speech as I have al-

ways had some social anxiety and am interest-

ed in ways of overcoming it. I think a lot of us

have issues of running out of things to talk

about, so I addressed this in my speech. Using

acronym HPM—History Philosophy Metaphor.

We had an all star cast at meeting number 439 with 4 fantastic speeches! I interviewed the speakers at this meeting to hear where

they got their inspiration from.

Vanessa Chang

Dennis Foo


The Fantastic 4: Meeting 439 cont...

The CC6 speech on 'Vocal Variety' titled Airports, was

a collection of my personal 'funny' experiences at air-

ports during my work and holiday travel over the years.

The speech starts off with a typical airport announce-

ment and then sets the scene with relatable experienc-

es at arrival and departure gates. The

next announcement is a typical announcement which

leads the speech into my immigration experiences in

other countries, namely with stories from the UK, USA and Cambodia. Finally there is an in

plane announcement on landing in Perth, which leads to a brief story on Australian customs. The

speech finishes with 'Happy to be home' and thanking the audience for taking a trip with me to the

airport .

The inspiration for the speech came when I was looking at a topic to use for the CC6 vocal variety.

I was sharing one of the airport stories with a friend and he thought it was funny. So I thought I

should expand this and incorporate the dialogues and emotions to write the story for the CC6

speech.

I thought this topic and the stories would appeal to the audience, as all can relate to this because

personal stories seemed to work well for me with the audience over the last few speeches

I went to India for my cousin’s wedding earlier this

year in April and thought I would write a speech about

wedding ceremonies in India, and the different mean-

ing each ceremony has (Roce, Mendhi and the Wed-

ding) to me.

I felt it was an interesting topic, a lot of people are fas-

cinated by Indian weddings and it is a very relatable

subject.

Andre Figueiredo

Nim Gnanendran


New Committee Member Inauguration

Goooooo Team!!!!

Meeting 448 was the formal inauguration of the bi-annual committee members. Our Immediate Past Area Director, Michele Naidu, formally inducted the members into their roles.

Introducing your new Committee Members, please welcome:

Mark Richards: President, Andreu Figueirdo: Vice President Education (VPE), Hadi Sunar: Vice President Membership (VPM), The amazing Ronnie Giandzi: Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), The cool but crazy Colin Gan: Secretary, Supermario Raj Subramaniam: Sargent at Arms (SAA). Missing was John Cecchi : Treasurer


Toastmaster of the Year

Mark Richards

Toastmaster of the Year | President

CVTM

Mark Richards aka Public

Speaker extraordinaire; Toast-

master of the Year and Club

President!!!

What an exciting time it was for

Mark Richards and our club.

Mark has been running CVTM

since 2008 and this is the first

time he has been club president.

Awarded by our former President

Dennis Foo, Mark won the

Toastmaster of the year award

for all his contributions to the

club and Toastmasters Interna-

tional. This award was elected

by our club members—Well

Mark delivering an emo-

tional speech taken back

by what he has achieved.

Well done to Mark Rich-

ards. He is an invaluable

member the club and

makes a difference to the

lives of every member of

CVTM


Eloyise Braskic; A year in the role of VPE

Q: How did you find your role as VPE at CVTM?

I was incredibly fortunate to spend a year in the role of Canning Vale Toastmasters Vice President Education.

The role entails assembly of and updating the club’s weekly agenda and coordinating agenda roles based on people’s learning and capabilities.

There are very strong accountabilities associated with taking on the responsibility of VPE.

I noticed if I missed meetings not only would I miss a piece of magic every week, but I’d also fall behind with following the advancement of members. Thankfully, Mark and Robyn Richards where there the whole way through, and were always willing to lend a hand of support to keep me up to date. I couldn’t have done the role without their generous support and leadership.

Q: What is the biggest take away for you that your learnt during your time?

I was given a magnificent insight into the culture and inner workings of the club’s dynamic.

My biggest take-away from the role was having patience with people, but also not being afraid to reach out to people for support or to support them.

There were numerous times when a person would withdraw last minute, and I could either reach out to the group for someone to step up, or step up myself and speak to that person and see if I could help them with why they wanted to withdraw so suddenly. It was an insight into other people’s strengths and weaknesses and every time, every meeting, without fail, someone would astound you and inspire you.

Q: Why would you recommend this role to another member?

I’d fully recommend everyone giving the VPE role a go, at least once in his or her Toastmasters journey.

It gives you a lot more respect & appreciation for what goes into making such an inspiring & successful club like Canning Vale what it really is.

We are stronger together and we progress & advance in our public speaking journeys much quicker, because of the amount of support we have behind each other.

This role has taught me a lot about people, and people are the source of everything in our world.

Without people we’d be incredibly lonely.


Believe and Achieve

Congratulations to Michele Naidu and Andre Seiquera on

their achievements!!!!!

Andre was awarded a very rare Triple Crown Award for achieving three awards in one year, being: 1. Advanced Leadership Silver 2. Advanced Communicator

Gold. 3. Distinguished Toastmaster He received this award from our new Area Director, Laila. The lovely Michele was awarded a plaque to commemorate achieving President’s Distinguished Area Director. Congratulations to both Michele and Andre on their accomplishments. You have inspired your fellow club members to follow in your steps


Speechcraft / Gavel Club

Speechcraft

Canning Vale Toastmasters will be holding a Speehcraft course at our club from the 4th October till the 8th November on Wednesday nights. We will be looking for participants to assist during this time to help teach the participants. This is a great opportunity to pass on skills that you have learnt but weren't aware you had.

There is a limit of 10 people for the Speechcraft course. We will be posting out flyers and have the course noted on the Toastmasters dis-trict 17 website. If you know someone who would like to participate in this 6 week course, please ask them to email [email protected]

Gavel Club

Gavel Club has commenced at Canning Vale College and we have the following volunteers teaching students how to improve their public speaking skills:

1. Shree Subramanian

2. Raj Subramanian

3. Esthel Inasee

4. Kishor Adhikari

5. John Plamer and;

6. Ronnie Giandzi

This club is open up to any student and our goal is to have 20 sign up. If you know any high school students that live in the area, let them know of this club. We would love to have them participate!


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