POWERtalk Pollokshields, 16th October, 2017 - Ghosties and Ghoulies.

Theme of the evening:   Ghosties and Ghoulies.

President Roz opened the meeting and welcomed a visitor, Barbara.

                                           The Chairman for the evening was Brendan.

 An entertaining and original education feature was given by Iris on the theme of Ghosties and ghoulies.   She gave us an idiot's guide to Ghosties and Ghoulies - a four step guide which taught us how to identify the problem and then gave us various ways of dealing with the unwanted hauntings.

                        The first speaker for the evening was Scilla who gave us all a very
                              inspiring and thought provoking speech on the theme.

The second speaker was Liz who gave us a speech to entertain based on current events relevant to the theme of the evening.

There were discussions on the European Conference 2018, the future of our organisation and an extra meeting was arranged to discuss this.   The other matter under discussion was the Interclub on November 6th, 2017.

The meeting concluded with a General Evaluation and Vote of Thanks from Grace.

The next meeting of POWERtalk Pollokshields is on Monday 6th November 2017 at 7.30 in the Pollokshields Burgh Halls and this is an Interclub.  All welcome.

Pollokshields Club - Autumn Leaves

The Meeting of 2nd October, 2017 of Pollokshields Club was opened by  President Roz.

The Theme of the evening was Autumn Leaves…

The Chairman for the evening was Iris who gave us a most interesting explanation of the seasons.

She then conducted the Topics session and topics were given by Carol, Liz, Scilla and Grace.

The education session was led by Carole who made this in the form of a Game - Room 101 where groups of members had to persuade her what to assign to Room 101.    The Winners were, Brendan, Louise and Grace.    So Christmas Crackers have now been assigned to Room 101.  This was an interesting, fun and very worthwhile session.

Following the tea interval, the speeches were by Brendan and Roz who both gave us two entertaining speeches suitable for the theme of the evening.

Timekeeping was by Grace and the General Evaluation was by Louise.

Pollokshields Club - Change is in the Air

The first meeting of Pollokshields club took place on Monday 4th September, in Pollokshields Burgh Hall, Glasgow.

Members were welcomed by our President Roz  who gave us the Theme of the Evening "Change is in the air".

Anita was the Chairman for the evening and led the topics which everyone took part.

Liz led a session on "Just a Minute" and this was a  very lively session with a draw between the two teams at the end.

Following the tea break we had two excellent speeches from Carol and Grace which were evaluated by Scilla, the timer was Louise and the General Evaluation was by Brendan.

The next meeting takes place on 18th September at 7.30pm in The Pollokshields Burgh Hall where all guests would be warmly welcomed.

Rovers Carlisle Weekend - 1-3 September 2017.

Members met at the University on 1st September for our annual  Training Weekend.

The first thing on the Agenda was dinner in The Cava Bar on the Campus.

Saturday morning started with the installation of the Board by the Region President.

during the Business meeting the Delegate to Convention gave her Report.

Iris Gibson, Speech Contest Chairman.

There were six contestants in the Speech Contest. Due to Lack of time the winners were not announced until later.

Saturday lunch was at the Devil's Porridge Museum where we had a very interesting visit.

 Following Dinner on Saturday in The Halston, the Speech Contest Winners were announced. Evelyn and Diana were presented with the cup by the Chairman of Judges Marjorie.

Members at Dinner     Topic Leader Ruth

 Sunday Morning bought an interesting and very lively session by Marjorie called "What, Why and Where"

A group Discussion was then led by Evelyn on the future of our club and the organisation.

The final item on the Agenda was a presentation with slides on a Utah adventure by Iris.

Members ready to depart.   Everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable weekend and that the new premises were a success.