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
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All this time, club members are
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er. A fter every talk, certain a p
T
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L
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V
IS
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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.”
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