Meeting started at 7.00am, with grace from Les Geraghty, standing in for Stephen Dorrington, and assisted by a karakia from his cell phone.
President (for the last time as) Elect Rhonda Wisbey welcomed Viv Dykes to her first meeting since surgery and also welcomed guests Roy Dykes and Jim Rickard. Several members have birthdays in the next little while.
Upcoming Events:
Rialto Movie night – Les updated us on this upcoming event on Tuesday, July 21, showing ‘Military Wives’. Cost is $20 per head
Changeover Lunch – Reminder that this is tomorrow, Saturday, July 3, at Harbourside from 11.30am to 2.00pm
‘This is Us’ He Waka eke Noa launch – Last Saturday, was a great success and any and all members are invited to attend the trial workshop this Sunday at the Historic Village from 9.00am to 1.00pm, to work through their personal and family story on a hoe (paddle).
Rhonda thanked Les, Pauline and Pat for their work on this project and acknowledged the $36,000 gained in recent funding for the project.
Guest Speaker: Alan Holloway, Toastmaster, (introduced by the other toast master Neil Matson)
Topic: Tauranga Toastmasters
With the use of interesting visual aids of the clothing worn by himself as a baby and young boy, Alan entertained us with some expert, funny and crisply delivered examples of good speeches.
Toastmasters is an organisation that began 95 years ago and is now in 85 countries, with over 300,000 members worldwide. Alan was approached to join them over 65 years ago, and did so 40 years ago, after 25 years of careful consideration of that decision!
At the age of 70 he came to Tauranga and became active in Tauranga Toastmasters to ‘Make friends who could deliver a decent eulogy at his funeral’ and claims that was his motivation for becoming area director, to make sure he has a bigger funeral crowd by leading a group of five clubs.
From a body language lesson using his jacket to the ‘three part’ rule, to the ‘final
statement’ advice, Alan imparted wisdom and wit about speech making to us, his audience. And the women present will forgive him the topic of his demonstration piece ‘All my life dominated by women’, as he probably had a point with a grandmother who embroidered roses on his shirt tails to make sure he kept them tucked in!
Off the topic of speeches Alan also shared his lost opportunity to be a millionaire after WW2 when he failed to become the sole franchise holder for New Zealand for Japanese car imports! The advice from Prime Minister at the time Sid Holland was that Japan would never be a source of imports for such things and the moneymaking role was not taken up!
Dean Thompson gave a vote of thanks to Alan.
Viv Dykes won the raffle
Sergeant: Stephen Dorrington commented that doing a job poorly is the way to lose
it, but I don’t think he’s capable of being a poor sergeant.
Fines were handed out to Les for the grace, Barry Fredheim for the sartorial elegance of his shoes, and for his truck and Greg Brownless for the glorious anorak he wore today.
He commented on a Rotary heavy three day weekend, with this meeting, Changeover and the This is Us workshops, then moved on to Scandal (Rhonda winning the joke competition), Politics (David Clarke, David Seymour, Michael Woodhouse (no relation to Dave) and Paula Bene
fit tt Team NZ and Paul Goldsmith getting honourable mentions), Karaoke (secrets to success) and how to play Skullopoly (involved beer and dry Weetbix eating
in our context)
He finished by finding the fashion for everything being outrageous, outrageous!!
