Okefenokee Toastmasters

Club #8269, Area 74,

Division G, District 14. Volume 9 Issue 7 July 2017 Chartered Club since 1991
East.

Lunch Hour Meetings: Okefenokee Toastmasters meet at Okefenokee Toastmasters Club

South Georgia State College, Waycross Campus, James Dye Officers 2017-2018
Student Services Building in Room 108 on Wednesdays at President: Dennis OConnor
noon.
VP Education: Kathy Odam
Mission: We provide a supportive and positive learning ex-
VP Membership: Michael-Angelo
perience in which members are empowered to develop com- James
munication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-
VP Public Relations: Janice Williams
confidence and personal growth.
Treasurer: Linda Zechmann
Secretary: Steve Pearce
Retweets @Oketoast
Sergeant at Arms: Bud Montero

@WritingReader
Event
Write to be understood,
speak to be heard, read Toastmasters Interna-
to grow.- Lawrence
Clark Powell tional Convention: August
23-26, Vancouver, Canada
@MartinCrousPhD
How do we achieve our
goals? One word
Word Power
ACTION! We need to
remember that success One role of the Grammarian at a
is the action steps we Toastmasters meeting is to
take daily, not in a day.
bring a Word of the Week and
@DrDostalDW
Quote of the Month listen for its usage. Here are
Daily Word: Success some words that we have used at
The 5 Second Rule our club meetings this year:
does not depend upon
the brilliance of your The moment you have an in- confabulate (v.) = talk
plan, but upon the con-
sistency of your actions. stinct to act on a goal you encourager (n.) = supporter
must [count]
@MonaChristens equanimity (n.) = calmness
Many have dreams and 5..4..3..2..1.. fatuous (adj.) = idiotic
potential that are not
fulfilled. Why not go for and physically move or giddy (adj.) = lightheaded
it? If you dont even try, your brain will stop you. irascible (adj.) = easily angered
how could it ever be?
The 5 Second Rule by Mel Rob- ruminate (v.) = think deeply,
bins. Page 35. contemplate,
 Okefenokee Toastmasters club congratulates club president 2016-
2017, Wayne Caffarel (left), who has completed Toastmasters In-
ternational's Competent Communicator manual for the second time.
All individual awards assisted the club in achieving the goal of Pres-
idents Distinguished Club for 2016-2017. Wayne has been a mem-
ber of Toastmasters for 4 years and has achieved the levels of Ad-
vanced Communicator Gold and Advanced Leader Bronze. He
serves as Sergeant-at-Arms for Friendly City Toastmasters in Tifton
and also as Toastmasters Ambassador for a new Toastmasters edu-
cation program which will be implemented in our region in 2018.
In photo below, Wayne inducted the new club officers for 2017 2018
on June 21st. From left to right are new president, Dennis OCon-
nor; VP Education, Kathy Odam; VP Membership, Michael-
Angelo James; and VP Public Relations, Janice Williams.
Other club officers absent from the photo are Bud Montero, Linda
Zechmann and Steve Pearce.

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Recruit, recruit, recruit. Members are the lifeblood of the club.

Michael Lum, DTM, Toastmaster magazine, April 2017, p.18

CHARTER MEMBERS: John Penland 1926-2015 (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. Compiled by Janice Williams.