Since 1955
Bi-monthly bulletin of District 47 Toastmasters Serving Florida and the Bahamas www.toastmastersd47.org
February – March 2002
Register for the Spring Conference! We Held the Presses to Bring You the Latest! • Per Caps due to TI April 10, 2002 • Final DEC Meeting April 13, 2002 • Division Contests Held Late April, 2002 • Club Elections Month Elect those new officers! May, 2002 • Spring District Conference May 17-19, 2002
Conference Links And Phone Numbers
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ou may have been Sunshiner, you may anticipating this issue cut the page from of The Sunshiner! We within). You will find held the presses to links and phone ensure you would numbers here on the have the updated front page. We also Registration Form! have included a “Why is this so simple map to the important”, you may hotel. More informaask? Because we tion and more detailed The Radisson Riverwalk in Tampa want YOU there! The directions will be conference is for you and is made exciting made available on the District 47 Website. by you! Feel free to contact Eileen with any The District 47 Spring Conference 2002 is questions. There is time to advance scheduled for May 17-19 at the Radisson register at discount prices and get decent Riverwalk Hotel in Tampa. The theme is hotel rooms at disctouned rates. However, “Lighting the Path to Success”. don’t delay! You will find the registration form in this issue. All you need to do is copy this registration form, fill it out and mail it in! (If you insist on mutilating your copy of The
This Conference features the District Table Topics Contest as well as the District level of the International Speech Contest. This is the same International Speech Contest See “Spring Conference”, Page 2
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800·333·3333 General Questions:
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Point - CounterPoint (An Editorial Feature)
W e all remember those days in school anxiously awaiting our grades. The angst of approaching midterms and finals. “Will I pass”? While it may seem a panacea to be relieved of that stress and anxiety, what if there was no possibility of failing, provided you went through the motions? Would a diploma continue to have meaning? Would even a PhD still hold value? The same may be asked of our Toastmaster designations. While we may not wish to admit it, all too often the Toastmasters educational system fails its students by not “failing” its members. 1
Too often we see members receiving designations without having really accomplished the goals laid out by the manuals. Too often we see ATMs even DTMs who do not have the skills becoming of those titles. We as Toastmasters wish to promote educational accomplishment but designations lose their meaning if we forget the education. Pursuant to building esteem and fostering well being and cheer, we lose sight of the most important goal: to help the Toastmaster improve. Manual assignments are designed with purpose. To that end, improvement can only be served if we See “Point - CounterPoint”, Page 3