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Officer List:
President:
Zhuo Li
VP Education:
Aneeza Halaam
VP Members:
Peter Geissler
VP Public Relations:
Brian Smith
Secretary:
B.B. Kwok
Treasurer:
Victor Huang
Sergeant At Arms:
Melissa Kew
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Welcome!
This is the Lake Ave Toastmasters Homepage.
Our club # 8360 is part of Area B-2, (Founders District) of Toastmasters International.
We would like to welcome you to our website and invite you to visit one of our meetings. Meetings are open and we welcome guests anytime! The benefits of participating in Toastmasters are improved Speaking, Listening, and Leadership skills.
Sweaty Palms, Butterflies in Your Stomach, Dry Mouth...let us help you!
Come to one of our meetings
If this is you...We can help!!!
Question: Who needs Toastmasters?
Answer: Anyone who would like to communicate more effectively. Or, phrased another way, "Almost everyone."
Question: I'm afraid of speaking in public. Does Toastmasters help with this?
Answer: Absolutely! Did you know that most people fear public speaking more than they fear dying? In any case, our Toastmasters club meets in a totally non-threatening environment where you can get useful feedback that will change your life...and possibly enhance your success!
Through its member Clubs, Toastmasters International
helps men and women learn the arts of speaking,
listening, and thinking - vital skills that promote self-
actualization, enhance leadership potential, foster
human understanding, and contribute to the
betterment of mankind.
It is basic to this mission that Toastmasters
International continually expand its worldwide network
of Clubs, thereby offering ever-greater numbers of
people the opportunity to benefit from its programs.
Toastmasters International is the leading movement
devoted to making effective oral communications a
worldwide reality.
Congratulations To Our New Officers
President: Zhuo Li, CC
V.P. of Education: Aneeza Halaam, CC
V.P. of Membership: Peter Geissler, DTM/PDG
V.P. of Public Relations: Brian Smith
Secretary: B.B. Kwok
Treasurer: Victor Huang
Sergeant at Arms: Melissa Kew
Since Toastmasters began, more than three million men and women have benefited from the organization’s communication and leadership programs.
In October 1924, a group of men assembled by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley met in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., forming a club “to afford practice and training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings, and to promote sociability and good fellowship among its members.” The group took the name “Toastmasters.” Soon men in other communities and states asked for permission and help to start their own Toastmasters clubs. By 1930, a federation was necessary to coordinate activities of the many clubs and to provide a standard program. When a speaking club in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, expressed interest in forming a Toastmasters club, the group became known as Toastmasters International
For many years the “Home Office” of Toastmasters International was based in a series of rented office spaces. In 1962, the Toastmasters International staff moved to its first World Headquarters building in Santa Ana, California, not far from where the first club began. By the late 1980s, however, this building could no longer adequately house the increased staff needed to provide services to the growing number of Toastmasters. In 1990 World Headquarters relocated to a new building in Rancho Santa Margarita, approximately 20 miles south of Santa Ana, designed to accommodate Toastmasters International’s expected growth well into the 21st century.
Toastmasters International’s success and growth is due in large part to the continued development of its educational programs. The organization has come a long way since the first speech manual, Basic Training, was developed more than 50 years ago. The current manual, now called the Communication and Leadership Program, was most recently updated in 2003. After members of Toastmasters complete all 10 speech projects in that manual, they may apply for their Competent Communicator (CC) award and then choose from any combination of 15 advanced manuals.
Additional educational materials include the Success/Leadership and Success/Communication Series, The Better Speaker Series, and the High Performance Leadership Program. Toastmasters International’s education system includes both a communication track and a leadership track. The communication track award progression features the CC, Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS) and Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG); the leadership track award progression includes Competent Leader (CL), Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) and Advanced Leader Silver (ALS). Once you have achieved Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG) and Advanced Leader Silver (ALS), you will be awarded the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) designation, which remains the highest award.
In addition to the various educational materials available through the Toastmasters International Supply Catalog, members receive the monthly publication, The Toastmaster magazine. Club and district officers receive a bimonthly publication, TIPS, and district officers receive District Newsletter each month. Toastmasters International enters the new century as the undisputed world leader in public speaking training, with over 10,000 clubs and more than 195,000 members in approximately 80 countries. In the years to come, more people than ever will benefit from Toastmasters leadership and education.
