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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1953)
But for these men banded to gether in some 1,000 local clubs. this acting foolish has a purpose. They w ant to learn to speak well, Some interest is being shown and they have determ ined th at in forming a T oastm asters Club the best way to do it is to make locally, by men who wish to im th eir m istakes among themselves prove them selves in the a rt of and to teach each other. speech and leadership, as a means In a T oastm asters Club th a t is of increasing th eir usefulness in exactly what happens. No experts business, social and civic relation come around to talk about enun ships. ciation, gesticulation and modu Do you feel like a fool when lation. The T oastm asters simply you get up to m ake a speech ? climb shakily to th eir feet and More than 27,000 men in this let loose. Their fellow m em bers country claim they have the solu are their critics as well as their tion. They say there is no safer ; applauders. place in the world for a m an to The neophyte o rato r first goes act foolish than a m eeting of a through what is known as basic T oastm asters Club. I training, which includes 12 speak- Toastmasters Club May Form Here mg assignm ents over 12 to 18 m onths of club mem bership. A fter Brcx^kings I larbor Pilot that he can take a 16-assignment THVRSDAY, JULY 16. 1953 course called "beyond basic tra in ing.” O r he m ay go into oth er The N orth Lincoln Agate So exhibitors, and will include not projects planned to advance his ciety will hold its eleventh annual only agates and m inerals from speaking ability. agate show S aturday and Sunday Lincoln County (teaches but also A club is limited to 30 active specimens from all over the m em bers and 10 inactive ones. Its July 25 and 26, in the Delake world. Members of other ag a te Grade school on Highway 101 ju st halt dozen officers ro tate every and m ineral societies throughout six m onths to give as many m em 1 north of D river in Delake. Ore. the N orthw est have been invited Doors will be open on Saturday bers as possible a chance to serve, to bi ing displays. from 10 a m until 10 p.m. and on Costs vary w ith the club. F o r All the steps of polishing agates each member, the central organi Sunday from 10 a m until 5 p.m. will he dem onstrated continuous Every visitor will receive fret' zation collects $6 a year, which ly throughout the show. buys the m onthly magazine, the a beach agate as a souvenir of the 1953 show. training m anual, and ream s and Reach that buyer through a The show will featu re collec ream s ot litera tu re on speaking. tions of a m ateu r and comm ercial Pilot Classified A dvertisem ent. The learning process works lik > this: A new m em ber first gets some indoctrination from the c lu b s educational chairm an. He is then assigned his first speech. Just like that. His training m anual suggests that he talk about himself in that first one. and tells him m ore or less how. The main object is to see w hether he can live through the ordeal. It he does, he proceeds through the other 11 assignm ents as his turn comes up. Each talk is de signed to teach him some funda m ental ot good speaking. For in WE WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY, JULY 18 stance, earnestness is the goal in 7:00 P.M speech No. 2, good organization of m aterial in No. 3, proper use COMPLETELY RENOVATED | of the hands in No. 4, voice m odulation in No. 5, and so on • PIN SE T T E R S W ANTED • Meanwhile, each m em ber is getting a lot of other speech training. At every m eeting some one designated as "table topics chairm an” for the day thinks up some subject or other, and gets each m em ber to give a 90-second extem poraneous talk on it. M embers ere also assigned o u t side speeches. The clubs offer their m em bers’ services to the lo cal Com m unity Chest drive, the Red Cross fund-raising cam paign PH I ICO and other sim ilar projects that F ax to r y S u p e r v is a d Phone come along. Service All this time, club members are P. O Box 1 W harf St serving as critics of each speak BROOKINGS, ORE. er. A fter every talk, certain a p T E L E V IS IO N pointed ’’ev alu ato rs” take the sfieaker’s efforts ap art in con u / / / i f ? lauA&li c& it OR R A D IO structive fashion, and their com m ents are w ritten into his m anual for him to brood over later. A fter a m em ber has completed his 12 assignm ents in a m anner satisfactory to his critics the home office at S an ta Ana sends him a ’’certificate of m erit” a t testing to his achievem ent. (If he wishes, headquarters will pass the word along to his boss.) And then w h at? Well, then he goes right on ^peaking and stu d y ing through the advanced courses. As m em bers like to say, "The only thing that graduates from I oast m asters is your conceit.” / t U - S C c c t l i c B IL T -IN W A L L Annual Agate Show a t DeLake 3 Best Wishes To "CHUCK” GRAY'S NOW! You Can Say CHARGi /T f a HERE'S ALL YOU DO Present any Nationally Recognized Credit Card or Charge Plate. No credit information needed. No red tajx*—No Delay! IUST SAY "CHARGE IT” Flying A Service Station ¿¿tr/ar Canes FOR EXPERT S E R V IC E 6U Z WHITE Appliance Co. 2891 CHARGÍI I - ÖSf NAÎIOMILT RfCOGNI/EO CREOlT CARBS MOORE'S VARIETY AND APPARII SHOP Turn iintmtTtirmifftffrfn ntrr nr m TiH u r j g ig n h t TH; /¡ a n f á r . 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