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Welcome!

Renaissance Speakers is an enthusiastic and fun Toastmasters speaking club with the purpose of training you in the skills of public speaking.


Club Officers 1-Jul-2009 to 30-Jun-2010

President
Roberta Perry, DTM, Co-Founder, Past District 1 Governor

This year's theme:

"Dare To Soar!"

"Being comfortable is boring - so get out of your comfort zone!" Those wise words I adopted in 1974 when I joined Toastmasters in Seattle, Washington.  Our club theme this year reflects that challenge to get out of our comfort zones, to have the courage to do what we have dreamed whether at our club, at work or in our community.

L. Ron Hubbard wrote in the Philadelphia Course lectures, "Be willing to cause something; going ahead to achieve the effect one has postulated, against any and all odds."

Visit our club and "Dare to Soar!"


VP Education
Jeff Harman, ACS

VP Production
Debbie Ellish, DTM

VP Membership
Annette McCullough

VP Public Relations
Richard Stewart, DTM

Secretary
Susan Boughton, CC, CL

Treasurer
Naomi Conners, ATMS, CL

Seargent at Arms
Bruce Delfeld, ATMS

Webmaster
Raymond Korns, DTM

Immediate Past-President
Lance Miller, DTM, 2005 World Champion of Public Speaking

Last year's theme:

"Creating the Ideal Scene"


Co-Founder
Roberta Perry, DTM

Co-Founder
Richard Stewart, DTM

VP Production?
I've never seen that before...

An interesting thing occurs when you have a large Toastmasters club. The post of Vice-President Education becomes unoccupiable, in that, the work involved is way out of proportion to other club officers, even the President!

This is because "scheduling", independent of educational requirements, can become a full-time job. For this reason, in Renaissance Speakers we have split the VP Education post into two positions creating a new post of VP Production whose entire job is just scheduling speakers and producing a 6-week calendar. This enables the VP Education to focus on helping members achieve their educational goals by completing Toastmaster manual projects.

This is one of the secrets of our club's success. It not only allows the club to easily grow even larger, but makes the job of recruiting a VP Education relatively easy.


Legend:
CC= Competent Communicator
ACB= Advanced Communicator Bronze
ACS= Advanced Communicator Silver
ACG= Advanced Communicator Gold
CTM= Competent Toastmaster
ATM-B= Advanced Toastmaster Bronze
ATM-S= Advanced Toastmaster Silver
ATM-G= Advanced Toastmaster Gold
CL= Competent Leader
DTM= Distinguished Toastmaster