D47 Sunshiner - March, 2010

The Sunshiner March 2010

www.toastmastersd47.org

Registration is Open!

District 47 Spring Conference

Celebrating Our Nationalities

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We Will Sell Out! Page 1

Kristina’s Korner G – O – A – L!!

In the last few days, I have been watching the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

To me, it’s a powerful union of people from around the world, all competing in interesting sports and most of the time, in great sportsmanship. There are amazing success stories and at times, some sad ones too. The contestants are skilled and have practiced, planned and prepared for years.

Do you think they set a goal?

Watching the different sports, makes me think about what specific skills each of the goal-oriented contenders must possess, in addition to focus, confidence and determination.

Curling Hockey Snow Boarding Cross Country Biathlon Figure Skating

->Strategy ->Teamwork ->Courage ->Endurance ->Precision ->Balance

Publisher Kristina Kihlberg, DTM Editor Linda Deshauteurs, DTM

District 47 Executive Officers for 2009-2010 DG LGET LGM PRO Secretary Treasurer IPDG

Kristina Kihlberg Rick Furbush Pamela Rolle Pierre Taschereau Patricia Martinez Laz Sanchez Antionette Fox

District 47 Leaders

These are qualities that we use in order to achieve our goals in our non-Olympic lives too. In our Toastmasters life, skills like the above certainly come in handy.

Think of our members who are Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM).

Do you think they set a goal?

Have you accomplished an educational goal this year? We suggest that you complete at least one goal for each Club where you are a member – each year.

Each member joined for specific reasons. Are you achieving your goals? Just like each member, each Club, Area and Division has its goals. The District has goals too. We can achieve our goals as a District and become President’s Distinguished with your help. If each member stays focused & confident, partakes in the Club strategy & teamwork, shows courage by speaking outside of the Club, enters a contest or takes on a leadership role and stays motivated, we will have an excellent chance to again become one of the most successful Districts in the world!

District Advisor SAA Webmaster Division A Governor Division B Governor Division C Governor Division D Governor Division E Governor Division F Governor Division G Governor Division I Governor

Loretta Sandy Jim Ellis Jeanine Kinsey Scott Vail Elizabeth Taschereau Melody Tapley Karen Novek Jason Smith Mack Payne Beatriz Williams Anthony Longley

The Mission of the District is to enhance the performance and extend the network of clubs, thereby offering greater numbers of people the opportunity to benefit from the Toastmasters educational program by: ♦Focusing

on the critical success factors as specified by the district educational

Have you achieved your goal?

and membership goals ♦Ensuring

that each club effectively fulfills its responsibilities to its members

Kristina Kihlberg, DTM District Governor

♦Providing

kkihlberg@toastmastersd47.org

effective training and leader-

ship development opportunities for club and district officers

Four Critical Success Factors Membership

Paid Clubs

CC’s

AC’s

The Sunshiner is a publication of District 47 Toastmasters. Reproduction of articles is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the District 47 Governor. Toastmasters International and Toastmasters International emblems are trademarks of Toastmasters International registered in the United States, Canada and many other countries.

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Rick’s Room The District Conference… How important is this event?

If you ask most anyone who has attended a District conference they will probably tell you it was a turning point in their Toastmasters career.

When I first joined Toastmasters, I wanted to overcome some fear of public speaking but more importantly I wanted to gain that confidence that those great speakers had. I wanted to create speeches that would make a difference.

As I went along in my Toastmasters club, I didn’t really get the big picture or see what Toastmasters really has to offer until my first District Conference.

What an experience. To meet 300 - 400 dedicated Toastmasters in one place for a 3 day weekend was like going to the Disney World for Public speaking. I could have my pick at 12 different speaking and educational workshops. I not only got to meet but listen to a World Champion of Public Speaking as a keynote and 2 of his other workshops.

But the most significant experience of the whole weekend was spending time with all those amazing Toastmasters each evening in the hospitality suite.

Oh… and the Bahamians. Not only the life of the party but a dynamic life force in our District. The life long friends I made would give me a whole new perspective of my Toastmasters experience.

We are planning our biggest Spring District Conference ever on April 16-18 in Ft. Lauderdale. The registration is now open on our District 47 website, http://toastmastersd47.org/. I urge you to come and be a part of the BIG PICTURE.

See you there!

Rick Furbush, DTM Lieutenant Governor Education & Training rickfurbush@mac.com

Division Contests Coming Your Way! Division

Date

A

Friday March 12

Time

Venue

6:30 PM Pelican Preserve Country Club, 9802 Pelican Preserve Blvd, Ft. Myers, FL; contact: 239-561-6350

G

Saturday March 13 2:00 PM FCCI Insurance Group Building, 6300 University Parkway, Sarasota, FL Saturday March 13 12:30PM Carnival Cruise Lines, 3655 NW 87 Ave, Doral, FL; contact: Patricia Rivera 305-588-6215 Saturday March 13 9:00 AM Bayfront Medical Center,701 6th Street South, St Petersburg, FL

B

Saturday March 20 10:00 AM Embassy Suites, Fort Lauderdale approximately $15-20 dollars

C

Saturday March 20 8:00 AM Hillsborough Community College, Brandon Student Services Building, 10414 East Columbus Drive, Tampa

F E

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Pamela’s Place The Greatest Investment You’ve invested in your career; you’ve invested in your family; now it’s time to invest in yourself.

It’s time to discover, embrace and celebrate your communication and leadership skills. Ask any member and they will tell you, Toastmaster’s International is an enjoyable and rewarding learning experience.

Keeping yourself positive, poised and confident is a continuous process. The training goals of Toastmasters include concepts of leadership, goal planning, growth development, training, mentorship and teamwork. Imagine, having your own Mentor to aid your personal leadership development. A good Toastmasters Club should ALWAYS assign a Mentor to new members.

A Mentor is someone who is experienced and can provide guidance to new members. Mentors help new members develop confidence and become familiar with the Competent Communicator (CC) and Competent Leader (CL) manuals. They help members to learn about Club meeting roles and opportunities available for advancement.

Mentors are not only for new members, but they can help with members who are more experienced and want to learn more about refining and learning new skills. Perhaps you would like to learn how to motivate and inspire people. A Mentor can help.

It all boils down to becoming “the best you”. Navigating through life can be a challenge. It doesn't matter if you are just starting out, in your middle years or moving towards retirement you can benefit from a Mentor. Your entire Club benefits from having Mentors so what are you waiting for?

Get your fresh start with a Mentor today. After all, who is best to invest in than you?

Speak with your Club Officers to get a Mentor and become the best Toastmaster you can be!

Pamela D. Rolle, DTM Lieutenant Governor Marketing prolle@toastmastersd47.org

Welcome to District 47!

A NEW TOASTMASTERS CLUB IN BOCA RATON Spread the word to your friends and members as

E ELE E’ EM PORTUGUES

we build our Club and expect to charter in early March.

This new Club is the first Club in the United States with meetings fully conducted in the Portuguese language. The purpose is to open the opportunity of joining Toastmasters to the increased demand of the Brazilian community in South Florida.

Time: Every Saturday 9:30 – 10:30 AM Location: Glades Boca Baptist Church, 10101 Judge Winikoff Drive, Boca Raton, FL 33428 For more information, please contact: Paulo Schneider (954) 857-1282 Evaldo Amaral (954) 536-2242

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Toastmasters Couples Finding an activity that both you and your spouse/partner can enjoy together is always a treat. It gives you an opportunity to share good times and make memories together. Sharing the experience of Toastmasters together takes the relationship to a whole, new level!

your life who also wants to grow their communication and leadership skills. And the networking opportunities can easily lead to great social activities when you share it with a partner.

In this segment we’ll share with you the stories of several “Toastmaster couples” who enjoy their Toastmaster experiences together.

If you have a Toastmasters Couples story to share, Who better to practice your speeches with than the please contact us at Sunshiner@toastmastersd47.org, hubby or wife. Wouldn’t it help your relationship to learn to listen better? What a great way to enjoy con- and don’t forget a photo! tests and conferences than with that special person in

Liz & Pierre Taschereau

Cathy Koyanagi & David Clarke Cathy currently serves the District as our Compassionate Communicator; David recently distinguished himself in his role as the Fall Conference Chair.

Liz is the current Division B Governor while Pierre is serving his second term as the District 47 Public Relations Officer.

Back in May 2001 is when we decided to visit a Toastmasters’ club in Hollywood. Liz had been curious about the organization while living in Texas and I had visited the Early Bird Club in Fort Lauderdale a few times. After the first meeting at Gelfand Good Morning TM Club, we decided to join and it has been an extremely rewarding experience since then.

Sharing Toastmasters has been so much fun and we’ve made so many friends! Every meeting we attend provides for great experiences and conversations we get to share. We love to talk about speech ideas and rehearse speeches together. The leadership track has also been lots of fun for us as we both served our home club in many leadership positions including EVP and President. We have learned a great deal about public speaking, leadership, working in teams, community service, furthermore; we have learned about ourselves and nurturing our own relationship through Toastmasters.

One of our favorite leisure activities is to attend out of town conferences as we get to travel and see other Toastmasters perform. We always come back home grateful that we are part of such a fantastic social organization. This year we are both becoming DTMs and our Toastmasters journey has taught us many lessons, enabled us to visit many places and most of all, we’ve made lifelong friends along the way!

We have been married for 30 years and have been involved in Toastmasters for 20 of those years. During the 80’s we were living on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands when David was introduced to Toastmasters by his boss at RCA. He joined the island Toastmasters club, “Rikonono”, which means “The Big Wind”. Cathy soon followed.

We enjoy being in the same clubs, because it is a shared interest. However, we make it a point to never evaluate each other during a club meeting.

Guess our marriage is more important than Toastmasters!

The Toastmaster experience has ameliorated our life tremendously. It has provided a pilgrimage for our personal growth and development. It has also given us abundant opportunities. During our travels in Toastmasters we have developed many friendships.

Most importantly, Toastmasters has enriched our relationship by providing us with interests and experiences in which we mutually find joy and delight.

One wonderful experience was when our children turned 18 and joined our home club. As parents we were jubilant to have a common interest with our adult children and to share quality time with them.

It had been a while since they [teenagers] actually wanted us involved in their time.

Toastmasters is more than an experience or opportunity: it is a journey, A journey when shared with a spouse or partner is stupendous and meaningful.

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Celebrating Our Nationalities!

What better way to showcase the diversity and international flair of our District 47 Toastmasters than to “Celebrate our Nationalities” at our 2010 Spring Conference scheduled for April 16-18, 2010 at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale, Fl.

per night, based on double occupancy. Availability is limited and rooms will sell out!

Invest in yourself by registering online today on our website www.toastmastersd47.org.

Full Conference Experience Rates:

We can hardly wait for you to enjoy the special experiences lined up for our members March 8 – March 25 and guests.

March 26 – April 12 We are thrilled to announce that our keynote speaker is 2007 World Champion of Public Speaking Vikas Jhingran! Vikas is prepared to delight us with his powerful speechmaking skills in his keynote address, “The Missing Masala”, where he talks about the special spice that each one of us can bring to a speech.

$135.00 $150.00

Registration closes on April 12, 2010 or whenever the conference sells out, whichever occurs first.

For A La Carte pricing and No Meals Conference Package, please visit our website at www.toastmastersd47.org

Please register and make your online payment at www.toastmatesd47.org.

He’ll also present “The Charismatic Speaker” and some simple things that good For payment by check, please contact Conspeakers do to elevate their speeches to the ference Chair Myrna Brooks via e-mail at mbrooks@toastmastersd47.org next level, as well as “The Emotional Approach to Public Speaking” – You won’t Invest in yourself by joining us and regiswant to miss it! tering today!

In addition, we will be treated to the best of the best in District 47 as the Table Topics We look forward to a weekend of networkand International Speech contestants vie for ing, learning food and fun. We expect this the title of District 47 best speaker. will be a sold-out event so to avoid disappointment register now!

On-site accommodations at the Embassy www.toastmastersd47.org Suites are available at the rate of $109.00

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The Blue Envelope At the end of this month, Toastmasters International will mail out a very special 8.5x11 baby blue envelope to the President of record for each Club. This envelope contains the voice of your Club and the future of our organization: it contains your Club Proxy.

What’s the big deal?

Yes, so glad you asked! You need to ensure that you do one of two things: 1. Plan to attend the Annual Business Meeting to vote your Club’s ballots. The Meeting will be held during the International Convention August 11-14 in Palm Desert, California.

OR 2. Turn them over to our District 47 Leadership to exercise your Club’s two votes. The District Governor’s name and address are already printed on the Proxy for your use.

Well in addition to the election of the Board of Club Presidents!

Directors who will guide our organization, there are important proposals up for a vote at If you don’t get your special 8.5x11 baby blue envelope in March then contact TI, they can the International Convention. issue ONE duplicate copy.

Do I need to do something?

Email Etiquette someone else downloads it by that name onto their system, they might not remember what it is a week from now. Sure, they could rename it, but be courteous and name your file so that its name stands on its own, such as “TM_Division_H_Contest Flyer 022010.pdf”. (And no, there is no Division H in District 47.)

Email has quickly become the foremost delivery system for sending/receiving business and personal messages.

Let’s make sure we use this important tool correctly and with some basic courtesy.

Here are three guidelines to follow when using your email: 1. Do not broadcast other people’s email addresses without their consent. When you send an email to a number of people who don’t already have each other’s email address, put your own email address in the “To” field and put your list of addresses in the “BCC” (not CC) field. BCC stands for “Blind Carbon Copy” and the BCC recipients do not see each other’s email address when they receive the email.

2. Be very descriptive with file names for attachments. You may have only one “flyer.pdf” file on your system, but when

3. If an attached file is not intended to be edited by the recipient, make it into a PDF file, if possible. There are several free or lowcost PDF generators available. Not everyone has Excel and/or PowerPoint on their system, and even if they do, the fonts on your system might not be the same as the fonts on recipient’s system, resulting in the file looking different than intended. If someone does send you an Excel or PowerPoint file and you don’t have those applications on your system, you can download free “viewers” for those files from Microsoft. Google “PowerPoint viewer” or “Excel viewer” to find them.

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#1 Club in the District A District 47 contest for all Clubs!

FIRST PLACE: •Ribbon for Club Banner “District 47 Club of the Year” •Pins for members of the Club •Certificate of Recognition for the Club •Recognition at the Fall Conference •Advanced Manual Set •Darren LaCroix Package •Lance Miller Club Series

SECOND PLACE: •Lance Miller Club Series •The Successful Club Series (11 manuals) •The Better Speaker Series (10 manuals)

THIRD PLACE: •Lance Miller Club Series •The Successful Club Series (11 manuals)

How to win?

Earn points for each item.

For example, if your Club earns 20 CCs during the year (July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010), you would have 15,000 points!

For more details visit www.toastmastersd47.org

ITEM POINTS CCs 750 ACS 600 CL/AL/HPL 500 DTM 500 Deliver a Success Leadership 150 Deliver a Youth Leadership 150 Deliver a Speechcraft 250 New Members 200 District Officers Member of Club 100 Officer Training - Fall 300 Officer Training - Spring 300 Total Members (100 per member) 100 Octobert Renewal 200 April Renewal 200 Officer List Submitted on time 300 Proxies 50 Page 10

Tips for the CL Manual halfway through and make an announcement when that person completes the CL Manual.

Let her know you appreciate the special care and preparation that she took with each meeting role.

So, what’s the deal with the CL program?

The Competent Leadership (CL) Manual gives you an opportunity to learn and practice leadership skills by serving in Club roles.

It will help you gain self-confidence and skills that will help you in many ways: academically, professionally and personally. The CL Manual offers training in time management, organization, planning and critical thinking – all of which can be applied to everyday life.

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Encourage the President and VPE of your Club to promote the CL Manual at each Club meeting. Emphasize how the Manual functions as a valuable learning tool – training each member on the different roles of the meeting and helping them build beneficial skills for the working world and daily life.

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Place equal importance on the leadership and communication tracks in your Club by including accreditations for both tracks in all correspondence, agendas and programs for your Club.

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Use the Competent Leadership Achievement Chart! Post it on the wall during meetings and keep it up-to-date. Draw attention to the successes listed on the chart.

Consider this: If the CL Manual can help a Club run more efficiently and successfully, and it can also help Club members to improve their lives, why wouldn’t your Club leaders pursue it? Some- • For every speech a member gives, your Club times, a little promotion from a fellow Toastcan request that he perform and receive master can help smooth the way. In case you’re evaluations on at least three meeting roles. finding it a little difficult to get the ball rolling • Does your Club have a newsletter or Web site? with your VPE or other Club officers, here are Post a reminder to members to bring their ten quick tips from Toastmasters members that manuals. Also, your Club can post a congratuyou can use to help promote the Competent latory list of those who have completed the CL Leadership manual: Manual.

• At each Club meeting, have one member as• Ask each member who achieves the CL award signed as the CL evaluator. By having an asto mentor a new member in the Manual. signed evaluator, you ensure member progress in the CL Manual.

• Increase member awareness by requiring that These tips will help make the CL Manual a natural and easy part of your Club’s meetings. When members bring their Competent Leadership the CL Manual is Manuals to every Club meeting. second nature to • Does your Club have a sample copy of the the members of Competent Leadership Manual on display at your Club, you’ll be every meeting? Keeping an extra copy on hand pleasantly and easmeans you’ll have one available for guests to ily learning leaderperuse or for new members to borrow. ship skills that help • Make sure that you recognize your members you everyday. when they participate in the CL Manual.

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Club Opportunities

Win Awards

D47 MORE MEMBER PROGRAM Recruit 6 NEW members from January 15 – March 18 and win a 4 PACK CC MANUALS and a NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION KIT! KIT

The TOP 10 Clubs with the most NEW members between January 15 – March 18 will be entered in a drawing to WIN one FULL SET of the

Leadership Excellence Series!

TALK UP TOASTMASTERS Clubs that recruit 5 NEW members between February 1 – March 31 will receive a ribbon for your banner from Toastmasters International

NEW CLUBS Clubs chartered BEFORE June 30th will receive a CUSTOMIZED BANNER and BANNER BAG!

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Your Club Name HERE

Compassionate Conversation March is Women’s History Month and that rethe Spring Conference! minds me of one of my favorite women in his…and we will all again realize how small the tory, the courageous Amelia Earhart, who disapworld is. peared in her 1937 flight around the world.

See you at the conference!

Her flight began in Oakland, California and she stopped at Fortaleza, Brazil; Gao, Mali; Calcutta, India; Kupang, Indonesia and Darwin, Aus- If you know of the birth of a child, passing of a fellow Toastmaster, a tralia. She made 28 more stops before she dis“big” birthday or similar occasion, appeared over the Pacific Ocean. please send a note to our CompasWow! Can you image her passport? This loved sionate Mailbox using this link on the and admired woman met many people of differ- District 47 website http://toastmastersd47.org ent lands in her international journeys.

The District 47 Spring Conference theme is Let us know the name, which Club and address ‘International’. Fellow Toastmasters will be where we can send the card. celebrating their home county by wearing traditional costumes and exhibiting their country flags. This conference provides us with an opportunity to appreciate the diversity of our Cathy Koyanagi members in District 47.

Compassionate Communicator

At the spring conference, you will be able to fill your personal passport by making new friends.

We do not have to travel the world, just attend

Important Update tact for their Club; this address can only be used by members of the club. Ex: AnyToastmasters@freetoasthost.info .

Is Your Club’s Contact Information Making You Lose Guests?

When is the last time that your Club checked its contact information on the Toastmasters International website? How can you hope to get guests to your meeting if the information is wrong? This is the information used when someone presses the “find a club” button on the TI website.

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Three (3) Open Clubs did not list any email address at all!

To test your Club’s email address, go to http://www.toastmasters.org and press the “Find” button at the left side of the screen.

Enter your Club number in the box beneath A recent test of only the email addresses for “Club Number Search” and press “Find”.

Clubs in District 47 uncovered the following Then click on the “Click here to email club” link and check the email address that has problems: been filled in for you in the “To” field of the • Eight (8) Clubs had email addresses which email message. bounced back as being invalid.

While you’re there, be sure to also check • Two (2) Clubs used their Freetoasthost the address and phone number listed for “members only” email address as the conyour Club!

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Club Anniversaries Congratulations to these clubs celebrating anniversaries in March!

In Division B, Area 23, Weston Area Toastmasters Club,

#5758,

Chartered March 1, 1985

In Division B, Area 22, First Edition Club,

#639107, Chartered March 2, 2004

In Division C, Area 34, Carrollwood Toastmasters,

#5083,

In Division C, Area 33, South Shore Toastmasters Club,

#619417, Chartered March 19, 2004

In Division C, Area 32, County Center Toastmasters,

#646888, Chartered March 31, 2004

In Division C, Area 35, T. Rowe Toasters Club,

#763878, Chartered March 1, 2005

In Division C, Area 30, Metlife Motivators Club,

#771864, Chartered March 23, 2005

In Division C, Area 34, HDR Tampa Toastmasters,

#1159751, Chartered March 28, 2008

In Division C, Area 36, Kforce Kommunicators,

#1297618, Chartered March 6, 2009

In Division D, Area 42, Freddy's Forum Toastmasters Club,

#5173,

Chartered March 1, 1996

In Division E, Area 50, Daybreak Toastmasters Club,

#5754,

Chartered March 1, 1985

In Division E, Area 51, Universal Toastmasters Club,

#7653,

Chartered March 1, 1990

In Division E, Area 54, Middle Keys Toastmasters Club,

#704393, Chartered March 17, 2005

In Division E, Area 54, Ocean Reef Toastmasters Club,

#1298657, Chartered March 13, 2009

In Division F, Area 60, Sarasota W.C.R. Toastmasters Club,

#7327,

In Division F, Area 62, Z-Speakeasy Club,

#646899, Chartered March 29, 2004

In Division F, Area 62, Herald-Tribune Media Group Advanced Club,

#1307407, Chartered March 27, 2009

In Division G,Area 75, Real Talkers Club,

#7306,

Chartered March 1, 1989

In Division G,Area 70, Toast Of The Bay Toastmasters Club,

#4145,

Chartered March 1, 1991

In Division G,Area 73, Tech Data Club,

#2923,

Chartered March 26, 2001

In Division G,Area 73, Money Talks,

#1006065, Chartered March 1, 2007

In Division G,Area 73, JABIL TOASTMASTERS,

#1310937, Chartered March 31, 2009

In Division I, Area 82, Club Landfall,

#1009227, Chartered March 5, 2007

In Division I, Area 82, RBC Legends,

#1305066, Chartered March 24, 2009

Chartered March 21, 2001

Chartered March 1, 1989

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District 47 Calendar We’re adding our District 47 Calendar to the Sunshiner. Each month we’ll show you what’s happening in your District 47 at several levels: You can see that our District Leaders keep very busy behind the scenes to ensure District 47 runs smoothly and stays on target to become #1 in the world!

The same is true at the Club level, it takes dedication to ensure your Club achieves Distinguished or better before June 30.

We invite you to check the District Calendar on a regular basis so you can plan ahead. Please contact your Area Governor with any questions you may have about events or reminders listed here.

Club level reminders and events are indicated in blue.

District level activities are indicated in white Training opportunities are indicated in green

March 2010 March

Conduct Division International Speech and Table Topics Contests

March

Continue to collect 2nd Round Club dues – Dues to be submitted before April

6-Mar

District Executive Committee Meeting & Training (DEC) in Ft. Myers

7-Mar

Deadline for EARLY BIRD Registration for the Spring Conference

15-Mar

Proxies for International Convention mailed from WHQ to Club Officers

25-Mar

Last day before Conference Registration will include LATE FEE

31-Mar

End of the Talk Up Toastmasters! Membership Award Program – add 5 new members

31-Mar

Last day for Area Governors to visit Clubs for 2nd round

31-Mar

Deadline to submit Club Dues to World Headquarters (0.5 DCP points)

April 2010 1-Apr

DEADLINE to purchase and submit an ad for the Conference Memorabilia Book

12-Apr

ABSOLUTE last day to register for the Spring Conference, unless it's already sold out

Apr 16-18

District 47 Spring Conference at Embassy Suites, Fort Lauderdale, FL

17-Apr

District Executive Council Meeting – Fort Lauderdale, FL

17-Apr

Excellent workshops available for all Toastmasters at Spring Conference

17-Apr

Adoption of realignment of Clubs within Divisions and Areas

17-Apr

Election of 2010-2011 District Officers

18-Apr

District Executive Committee Meeting – Fort Lauderdale, FL

18-Apr

BONUS session with 2007 World Champion Vikas Jhingran at Embassy Suites, Ft. Lauderdale

30-Apr

Report new District Officers to World Headquarters

30-Apr

Area Governors must submit 2nd Round Area Report of Club Visit forms Page 15

Educational Awards Congratulations to these Toastmasters who started the New Year on the right path by earning Educational Awards in the month of February.

Competent Communicator

Advanced Communicator Bronze

Green, Barbara H.

Club# 619417

Correa, Elizabeth R

Club# 6745

Clark, Karon E.

Club# 1216688

Muldoon, Declan

Club# 2225

Humphries, Colleen A

Club# 5701

Pattberg, Martha A.

Club# 4207

Young, Deborah D.

Club# 933001

Reckley, Glennette

Club# 829842

Elliott, Bruanne

Club# 3596

LaTerza, Kathy

Club# 6587

Ferro, Nisermy

Club# 760344

Gaertner, Kathryn

Club# 9628

DeDeugd, Marianne J.

Club# 8956

Hamilton, Christopher

Club# 748133

Gardiner, Sandradee I.

Club# 1340647

Montjoy, Anita

Club# 695546

Wong, Nadia M.

Club# 2437

Pagani, Michael K

Club# 7362

Francis, Eva Mae

Club# 2096

Tarbuck, Jim

Club# 4272

Rodgers, Elizabeth L.

Club# 933001

Kedziora, Patrick G.

Club# 2283

Cooper, Wendy B.

Club# 7923

Woodside-Major, Linda

Club# 1227605

Shankariah, Sundara Moorthi

Club# 587295

Brown, Andrew Jeffrey

Club# 4207

Woodside, Daniel

Club# 2437

Longo, J. Carson

Club# 1307407

Jenkins, Katrice M.

Club# 646888

McNeil, Charles E.

Club# 1395623

Kokku, Raghu

Club# 6745

Chippa, Radha Krishna

Club# 6745

Ritchie, Cindy

Club# 2449

Alvarez, Cesar

Club# 1978

Dickson, Andrew

Club# 1249370

Mcphee, Leshanda G.

Club# 829842

Rowsey, J. James

Club# 1958

Ciko, Sherri L.

Club# 7362

Romano, David C.

Club# 1702

Advanced Communicator Silver Hart, Sioux

Club# 1039583

Vigil, Steve T.

Club# 1810

Payne, Mack Warren

Club# 1269043

Abrams, Herschel G.

Club# 4698

Keriakedes, Mario

Club# 2166

Kessler Quinones, Ann K.

Club# 1249370

Sidersky, Phyllis S.

Club# 5222

Warner, Aaron L.

Club# 5701

Mann, Carolyn J.

Club# 4207

Williams, Collette Wendy

Club# 1425

Goodman, Deidre Rochell

Club# 965175

Advanced Communicator Gold Malette, Michael J.

Club# 589263

Jones, Everette A

Club# 6273

Warner, Aaron L.

Club# 5701

Thorn, Michael E.

Club# 1216633

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Educational Awards Congratulations to these Toastmasters who started the New Year on the right path by earning Educational Awards in the month of February.

Competent Leader Leadbetter, Graham

Club# 969012

Beeram, Harish Kumar

Club# 2652

Ferro, Nisermy

Club# 760344

Adler, Robert

Club# 2903

Chalford, Elan L.

Club# 965840

Richiez, Anthony J.

Club# 1390883

Wilson, Pamela J.

Club# 7923

Williams, Sanchia Kezia Nicole

Club# 1390883

Grant, Andre Alexander

Club# 1342880

Bethel, Kenya Niochee

Club# 1342880

Penn-McIntosh, Anya C.

Club# 1342880

Barker, Samantha

Club# 8720

Lindsay, Charles W

Club# 1187415

Bunnell, Bethany Lee

Club# 4145

Huynh, Hieu H.

Club# 5222

Roberts, Lauren M

Club# 8181

Dilaura, Barbara

Club# 2903

Nguyen, Bonnie

Club# 1095

Kest, Deborah

Club# 590751

Outten, Chato

Club# 1425

Gorham, Claude A.

Club# 1146909

Lewis, Lecia

Club# 1146909

Mcphee, Leshanda G.

Club# 829842

Longo, J. Carson

Club# 777513

Advanced Leader Bronze Bunnell, Bethany Lee

Club# 4145

Wong, Nadia M.

Club# 2437

Abrams, Herschel G.

Club# 4698

Marshall, Vincent

Club# 1425

Clark, Kim M.

Club# 590751

Advanced Leader Silver Clarke, David Brian

Club# 2727

Leader Excellence Brown, Michael Rogero

Club# 9745

Clarke, David Brian

Club# 2727

Johnson, Kirklyn S.

Club# 7178

Martin, Wence

Club# 7178

Congratulations Distinguished Toastmasters Clarke, David Brian

Club# 2727

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