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Swamp Talk Newsletter Sept 2012

This document provides information about the Okefenokee Toastmasters Club, including their mission, meeting times and location, membership details, upcoming events, and officer information for the 2012-2013 year. It also lists topics ideas for speeches, recognizes winners of a recent speech contest, and provides information on how to connect with the club online. The document concludes by listing the charter members when the club was founded in 1991.

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Swamp Talk Newsletter Sept 2012

This document provides information about the Okefenokee Toastmasters Club, including their mission, meeting times and location, membership details, upcoming events, and officer information for the 2012-2013 year. It also lists topics ideas for speeches, recognizes winners of a recent speech contest, and provides information on how to connect with the club online. The document concludes by listing the charter members when the club was founded in 1991.

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Swamp TALK

Okefenokee Toastmasters Club #8269, District 14, Area 11B

Volume 4 Issue 9 September 2012

Chartered in 1991

Mission: The mission of a Toastmasters club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth. Meetings: We meet every Wednesday morning at 7:00am at Quality Inn, 1725 Memorial Drive, Waycross. Membership: Open to anyone 18 years old and over.
Toastmasters by the Numbers 88 - Toastmasters International will celebrate its 88th year on October 22, 2012. 21 - The number of years that Okefenokee Toastmasters Club has been in existence. 10 - The number of goals we aim to achieve by June 30, 2013 to fulfill the Club Success Plan. 4 - The number of Competent Communicators needed to achieve goals 1 and 2 of the Club Success Plan. - The number of new members needed to achieve goals 6 and 7 of the Club Success Plan.

. Officers for Okefenokee

Toastmasters 2012-2013 President: Kathy Odam VP Education: Bud Montero VP Membership: John Conger VP Public Relations: Janice Williams Treasurer: Addie Crews Secretary: Sharon Vickers Sergeant of Arms: Larry Kearson
Upcoming Event Fall Conference: October 5-6, 2012, Augusta Marriott Convention Center, Augusta, Ga.

GRAMMARIANS CORNER

Social Networking
Toastmasters are networking on Tumblr. Tumblr is yet another micro-blogging platform where bloggers post text, links, quotes, audio clips, videos, and images to a community of followers. The posts may be liked just as with Facebook or reblogged and followed similar to the retweet and follow features on Twitter. Posts made by other Tumblrs show up on a dashboard. Apparently Tumblr falls between Twitter and the traditional blogs such as Blogspot and WordPress.

20 - The required number of members for a Toastmasters club or a net growth of 5 new members.

Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have completely different meanings. The usual examples are flower/flour, pore/ pour/poor, bear/bare, and I/ aye/eye. There is a long history of confusion with these two words: grizzly, meaning grey or grey haired, and grisly, meaning gruesome.

Topic Ideas
Need ideas for speeches at club meetings? Borrow from the professionals. Toastmasters who register with the Georgia Toastmasters Speakers Bureau, accept speaking engagements on a range of topics: 1. Business Skills 2. Leadership 3. Humor in the Work Place 4. Physical Fitness 5. Starting Over 6. Goal Setting 7. Time Management 8. Volunteerism 9. Self Improvement 10. Team Building 11. Physical Fitness 12. Public Relations To be a member of the Georgia Toastmasters Speakers Bureau, you need to be a Toastmaster in good standing, have obtained the Competent Communicator Award, and have at least two 15 minute speeches from the available topics list.

Photo: Standing left to right Ricardo Vielmas, Blaise Dismer, Sharon Vickers, Jeff Carr and Christine LeClercScherling.

Toastmasters from various South Georgia clubs were in Waycross on Saturday, August 25th to compete in a Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest at the Quality Inn. Blaise Dismer was the winner of the humorous speech section with his hilarious anecdotes about forgetting his lines when he was a child acting in school plays. The opening and the closing of his 5 to 7 minute speech were brilliant. Also competing were Ricardo Vielmas from Valdosta and Jeff Carr from our Okefenokee Toastmasters club. Jeff once dealt with a caller who wanted to make restitution to a bank that he robbed some years before but the bank was no longer at the same location. Seriously. Sharon Vickers, an Okefenokee Toastmaster, was the winner of the speech evaluation section of the contest while Christine LeClerc-Sherling, from a Valdosta club, placed second. Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. The winners from this event will compete against other Georgia Toastmasters at the Division level at this same location, Quality Inn, 10:00am on September 8th.

Quality Meetings = Quality Clubs = Quality Leaders Connect with Us


Follow Okefenokee Toastmasters on Twitter: http://twitter.com/oketoast Check the clubs website: http://okefenokee.toastmstersclubs.org Follow Georgia District 14 Toastmasters on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/D14Toastmasters

CHARTER MEMBERS: John Penland (Sponsor), Andrew Slocum, Joe Gant, Harry D. Dixon, Jr., Carolyn Morton (Akins), Phil Wysong, C.J. Broome, Paul OCain, James C. Bunch, W.F. Stephens, Jeanette Stipe, Tom Strickland, Fred Barber, John Karew, Reuben Flanders, E. Nash Williams, Jerri Davis, Doris Germano, Andy Spivey, Audrey West, and Margaret Park. Edited by Janice Williams

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