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TOASTMASTERS MEETINGS
Toastmasters is a great place to sharpen your communications and leadership skills.
Progress at your own pace to hone your listening, speaking and leading abilities.
South Shore Toastmasters meets twice monthly - the 2nd and 4th Thursday, 9:30 am to 10:45 a.m.,
at The Alleys at Southshore - 10221 Big Bend Rd. Riverview, FL 33578
Visitors are encouraged; no reservation required. Club contact is 813--641-0816.
KUDOS
William N. Hodges, co-founder of South Shore Toastmasters, received the prestigious
Presidential Citation at the 77th Annual Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in August.
The award was presented by International President, Chris Ford, DTM, in recognition of Bill's
outstanding achievements toward the goals and ideals of Toastmasters International. The
award is one of Toastmasters' highest honors. Congratulations Bill! We're proud to have
you as a member and leader of our club.
South Shore Toastmasters has once again attained the highly regarded President's Distinguised Club Award. This award is
given to clubs which reach specified goals. Only 10% of the International Clubs reach this status. Our young club
(only 4 years old) has reached this goal a third time! Quite an accomplishment! We're very proud of this achievement.
TOASTMASTERS REACH GOALS
Four South Shore Toastmasters were recognized during a recent club meeting for achieving
milestones. The awards earned were: Jeanette Doyle, Competent Toastmaster;
Phyllis Hodges and Francine Webb, Competent Leader and Advanced Communicator;
and Jan Diehl, Advanced Communicator.
The Competent Toastmaster award required completion of the basic 10-speech program;
the Advanced Communicator award required completion of two advanced programs of five
speeches each. To earn the Competent Leader award, members completed a leadership
training program which involved serving in various roles at club meetings.
From left to right: Jan Diehl, Phyllis Hodges, Jeanette Doyle, Francine Webb.
Russ Kevala receives reward for Best Table Topics Response
Emily Drenburg, Toastmaster International Area 33 Governor presents Russ Kevala, our Toastmasters
SouthShore Club V.P. of Education, the Runner's Up Award for Best Table Topic Response at the Annual
Area 33 Spring Speech and Table Topic Contest held March 23nd, 2011 at Progressive Insurance facility
in Brandon. The next level is the Divison C Contest being held at the Progressive Insurance facility
April 2nd at 8:30am.
SOUTH SHORE TOASTMASTERS CELEBRATES 5TH ANNIVERSARY
South Shore Toastmasters celebrated its five-year anniversary with a special meeting
March 24. Shown are Russ Kevala, president, with guest speakers Bill Hodges (L),
co-founder of the club, and John (Woody) Nelson (R), a past president.
Russ Kevala and Gloria Harris WIN AWARDS Russ for Humor Speech and Gloria for Evaluator
Annually members compete with other clubs in the best humor speech and best evaluator.
Gloria and Russ represented our club and brought back awards in both catagories.
Jeanette presented the awards at the meeting in November.
Frances Webb Achieves ABS Advanced Communicator Bronze
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Southshore Toastmasters Booth at the semi annual "Hi- neighbor affair" at Sun City Center October 2010
