A Year of Many Firsts

It’s time for this week’s Toastmasters Throwback but first I want to share some highlights from this past week.

At work this week we had our usual Lowe’s. For Day 2, our supervisor did something different for briefing. She asked us questions pertaining to Lowe’s counting procedures. If we answered the questions right, we each got a candy bar. See where this is going?

On break, I asked her “What’s my favorite brand of designer bag?” To which her and my boss easily answered, “Coach.” Then I asked “What or WHO sparked my interest in Coach?” Maura gave me the best answer and told me she reads my blog (remembering the Ashtabula trip). It was the same girl who wore that cute pink dress.

At Toastmasters Wednesday night, we welcomed a new member into our club. This guy has podcasting experience and he dropped some famous names. I should have dropped Jordan’s name and his Local 724 podcast. With Jim and Michelle attending a big event out of town next meeting, Bobby agreed to take on the role of setting up the virtual platform for our club. We may have just found our new VP Multimedia guy.

Now onto the Toastmasters Throwback.

By now District 13 was hopping with four clubs and room to grow. Washington’s club had aspirations to charter a club just south in Waynesburg. That dream came true in May 1943.

The roulette wheel seems like an interesting way to get folks to participate in meetings. Maybe that’s something we should do in our club meetings. It might a good way to pique interest in other members to do their part or our guests to join the club. It was used at the Division C contest to determine speech order for contestants.

One of the Jeannette Toastmasters plugged his chapter in the local paper, and that same year the first ever District Speech contest was held at the Spring Conference. It took part at the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. All five clubs sent participants, and the winner was the (original) Greensburg club. Woo hoo! The new Toastmaster year began on July 1 and saw a changing of the guard to a new District Leader.