Last night was our first Greensburg Toastmasters meeting of the new year. It was also my first meeting as President of the club. It’s not my first rodeo (12 years strong as a Toastmaster) and this is third time leading my home club. Overall, the first meeting of the new Toastmaster year was a smashing success.
On the agenda were three speakers giving three diverse topics. I gave a Storytelling speech that was about my first semester at the Hiram G. Andrews Center. Greg gave a practice speech for a toast he’s going to give at his sister’s wedding. Jim spoke on youth leadership for his project that inches him closer to the title of Distinguished Toastmaster. Table Topics saw us answer all types of questions. Mine was “What’s Your Greatest Skill?”. Our evaluators all gave great feedback to their respective speakers and I picked up some great takeaways for my next speech. I plan to retool my speech at Laurel Highlands and make it about Slippery Rock or Transfer Day when I discovered my next place of higher education.
Our club is the new home club of the Division C Director. Greensburg welcomed a new member before the June 30 deadline. That one member was all we needed to qualify for the Distinguished Club program. We finished as a Select Distinguished Club in 2022-23. Madame District Director Vornbrock also told us that Area 24 (our area) achieved Distinguished honors. In addition to Greensburg achieving Select Distinguished honors, Achievers and BPMI achieved President’s Distinguished honors. A big thank you to Jim and Michelle Teague for the leadership in the club these past four years. Both took turns serving as President. Jim in 2019-2020 and 2021-2022; Michelle in 2020-2021 and 2022-2023.
Very soon, our club will be welcoming three new Distinguished Toastmasters, or DTMs for short. Jim and Michelle are about to finish up their requirements and Mary Ellen is very close. She ran an amazing summer TLI/Club Officer Training event a few weeks ago. I’m looking forward to seeing what she has planned for the division in 2023-2024.
For me, I’m going to focus on the Moments of Truth, the Club Success Plan, and the Distinguished Club Program. If I stay the course and when we grow our club’s membership, I’ll meet my goals. Thus, I will solidify my case that Greensburg Toastmasters is indeed… a club of champions.
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