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May 4 is the date of our
election of Club Officers for the 2004-05 year. Officer positions to
be elected for a one-year term beginning July 1 are: President,
Vice-President Education, Vice-President Membership,
Vice-President Public Relations, Secretary, Treasurer and
Sergeant-at-Arms. Training will be provided by the District in the
June-August period. Over the past few club meetings, we have had
lessons from each of our current officers explaining the
responsibilities of each position.
Consider taking on a leadership
role in the club. Toastmasters is about Communications and
Leadership; in much the same way as we learn to become
better speakers by doing, so too do we learn to become better
leaders by doing. A term as a club officer is the major requirement
for achieving the CL (Competent Leader) designation in
Toastmsaters.
JOE VANDERKOOI is this
year's nominations chair for the club. Let him know if you
are interested in this avenue of personal growth.
District 60's Spring 2004 Conference was held on the
weekend of April 23-25 at the Doubletree International Plaza Hotel
on the Toronto airport strip. Hundreds of Toastmasters from across
Ontario and beyond gathered together for educational workshops, the
District business meeting with elections of 2004-05 District
officers, the District International and Evaluation speech contests,
and some fun as well. Mississauga Valley's ERIC MATTO and
MARILYN COCHRANE attended the entire conference, and MIRKO
MANOJLOVIC was there for part of it. Both Eric and Marilyn served on
the conference organizing committee, and Eric was also one of the
workshop presenters.
 Last year MIRKO MANOJLOVIC
received his DTM (Distinguished Toastmasters level, our highest
award), but he was unable to attend the fall conference to
receive recognition from the District. Mirko was able to attend
this time, and he received his DTM medallion from District 60
Governor JEAN MCALLISTER and Toastmasters International President
TED CORCORAN. This was a very special honour for Mirko since the
International President only visits a District once every 7-8
years.
L to
R: Mirko, Jean, Ted
A few former members of Mississauga Valley
Toastmasters were in attendance at this conference as well: JOAN
BINETTI, who was elected as District 60 Governor for 2004-05; BETTY
MONTGOMERY, who was the conference chair; NINA FERNANDES, who served
on the conference committee; and finally Past International Director
CHRIS FORD (who now lives in District 61 in Ottawa) who is a
candidate for Third Vice-President of Toastmasters
International. It seems that Mississauga Valley is a club that
builds leaders in Toastmasters!
If you missed this conference, don't worry. The next
conference will be in the fall, from November 12-14, 2004 at
Toronto's Inn on the Park Hotel.
Toastmasters
International started sending a new Communications and
Leadership manual to new members a few months ago, and some of the
speeches are different!
This may be confusing, since some
members are still working from the old manual while newer members
have the new manual. Here's a summary of the differences between the
two manuals:
# Old
manual New
manual
1 Icebreaker
No
change
2
Sincerity Organize
3
Organize
Get to the point (was Sincerity)
4 Body
movement How to say
it (was Work with words)
5 Vocal
variety Your
body speaks
6 Work with
words Vocal
variety
7 Apply your
skills Research your
topic (same speech)
8 Visual
aids
No change
9
Persuasion
No change
10
Inspire
No change
Essentially, #2 and #3 were swapped, and within #4,
#5 and #6, "Work with
words" was moved before body language and
vocal variety.
For more on the new manual, see the March
2004 Toastmaster magazine (pages 9-11) for an outline of each
project.
 No, not the boats, the speeches - as in the first
speech of the Basic C&L manual, the first speech that everyone
gives when they first join Toastmasters. You know the one -
introduce yourself to the club as well as to public speaking, in 4
to 6 minutes.
An icebreaker (the boat) breaks through the
obstacle of ice to get to its destination. An icebreaker (the
speech) breaks through the obstacle of fear so that the speaker can
get to his or goal of improved communications and leadership
skills.
At Mississauga Valley we have had 5
icebreaker speeches in the past few weeks, from SHARON KEOWN, PETER
KIMANDO, ALEX VON DONAT, CARLA INOQUE and DONNAMARIA DECAIRES. In
those speeches, we found out some interesting facts about our newest
members. We learned that Sharon likes to travel; Peter grew up in
Kenya; Alex is a widower raising two teenage children; Carla was
inspired to succeed in her goal of becoming a chiropractor by her
parents and a couple of teachers; Donnamaria ("the Portuguese
goddess") has visited 30 countries and had 21 different employers in
her life.
Club Officer Elections for 2004-05
year - May 4, 2004
End of Toastmasters Year
- June 30, 2004.
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| Club Progress
in Distinguished Club
Program |
- PTwo
CTMs (Chen,
Matto)
- Two More CTMs
- POne ATM Bronze,
Silver or Gold
(Crouse)
- One More ATM Bronze, Silver or Gold
- POne CL, AL or
DTM
(Matto)
- One More CL, AL or DTM
- PFour New
Members (Varma,
Schroeder, von Donat, Gaynor)
- PFour More New Members
(Nagy, Sung, Keown, Inoque)
- PMinimum 4
Officers Trained in Summer and Minimum 4 Officers
Trained in Winter
- POne Semi-Annual Dues
Report Submitted on Time and One Club Officer List Submitted on
Time
and End the Year with 20
members or Net Growth of 5 Members.
Goals achieved so
far: 7
out of 10
Need 5 goals for Distinguished, 7 for
Select Distinguished, 9 for Presidents Distinguished (plus
membership goal)
The Distinguished Club Program is
Toastmasters International's way of measuring and rewarding
excellence in its clubs. We will be showing our progress every
month as above. As a partial goal is reached, that line will be
highlighted; when the goal is accomplished then it will hightlighted
in red. Awards will be given based on results as of June 30,
2004.
March
30:
Best Speaker - CAROL CROUSE
Best Evaluator -
BRIAN DAVIES
Best Table Topics - JOE VANDERKOOI
April 6:
Best
Speaker - FERNANDO PEREZ
Best Evaluator - CAROL CROUSE
Best
Table Topics - tie, CAROL CROUSE and LISA NAGY
April
13:
Best Speaker - PETER KIMANDO
Best Evaluator -
ROBERT POPE
Best Table Topics - CAROL
CROUSE
April
20:
Best Speaker - CARLA INOQUE
Best Evaluator -
CAROL CROUSE
Best Table Topics - ERIC MATTO
We are pleased to welcome three more
new members to our club: HUGH DOUGLAS, JACKSON KUNG'U
and GRANT FISHER. Welcome, gentlemen! It has been a great year
for new members at Mississauga Valley, and there are still over 2
months to go before the end of the club year.
ERIC MATTO is planning to do some
more speaking engagements outside of our club. He has
been invited to be a guest speaker at Brampton's Hershaw club,
the District 30 Spring 2004 Conference in Chicago (his former
District, where he served as District Governor in 2001-02), and the
Region V Conference in Milwaukee.
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| Beyond
the Club - Around the Area, Division,
District |
A report on the recent District 60
Spring 2004 Conference is elsewhere in this newsletter. Here are a
couple more items of interest to our club. TIM FUCHS of our sister
club Trillium finished second in the District International Speech
Contest. Another club in our Area, Port Credit TM, also did well in
the contests with SAFAR ALI winning 3rd place in the Evaluation
Contest. MICHAEL JOHNSON was elected as the new Division P Governor,
taking over from ROSELYN BROWN as of July 1.
Speaking of Roselyn, she was recently
interviewed on the Rogers Cable 10 Mississauga program
"Dufferin-Peel Living" talking about Toastmasters. Who knows, maybe
our club will get some more guests as a result of this
exposure.
CLUB:
President -
CAROL CROUSE
VP Education - EVELIN DEMELLO
VP Membership
- WINSTON ALLEN
VP Public Relations - ERIC
MATTO
Secretary - MEG MOCHIZUKI
Treasurer
- BRIAN DAVIES
Sergeant at Arms
- vacant
DISTRICT:
Area
22 Governor - LORI-ANN JAKEL
Division "P" Governor - ROSELYN
BROWN
District 60 Governor - JEAN
MCALLISTER
Mississauga Valley Toastmasters Club is a member club
of Toastmasters International, the world's largest non-profit
organization devoted to improving communication skills.
We meet every Tuesday evening from
7:30pm-9:30pm in one of the 2nd floor committee
rooms at Mississauga City Hall, 300 City Centre Dr. in
Mississauga, Ontario. Membership in the club is open to anyone 18
years of age or over. Members may join at any time of the year, and
guests are always welcome. Club dues are $155 per year, plus a
one-time new member fee of $35.
The mission of a Toastmasters Club is to
provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in
which every member has the opportunity to develop and practice
communication and leadership skills which in turn foster
self-confidence and personal growth.
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