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Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you're speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. You'll learn and practice in a friendly, comfortable environment with people who are there for the same reason you are to become better communicators.
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In October 1924, a group of men assembled by Dr.Ralph C. Smedley met in the baseme nt of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., forming a club to afford practice and training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings, and to promote sociability and good fellowship among its members. The group took the name Toastmasters. |
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At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about 90 minutes. Each meeting gives all participants an opportunity to practice conducting meetings, giving impromptu speeches, presenting prepared speeches, and offering constructive evaluation.
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Today, Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, training seminars and speech contests. Toastmasters International includes more than 200,000 members in over than 9,700 clubs in 80 countries. |
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Pictured (Left to Right): District 25 Lt. Governor Marketing, Randy Terrell; Region III International Director Nancy Starr Cassidy; District 25 Lt. Governor Education & Training Maurice Taitt; International President Dilip Abayasekara; District 25 Secretary Dodi Foster; Betty Miller; District 25 Governor Earl Hill; District Sergeant at Arms Louise Faircloth; Division A Governor David McCallister; and International Director Ralph Wallace.
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