Page 18 - 2018 September Voices

LEANNA LISTENS

Meet Club Growth Director

Cate Arnold, DTM

Leanna Lindquist, DTM

Cate is the oldest of 7 children which meant she learned to talk loud and eat fast. In the 80’s, with an
undergrad degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance, she worked on programming business systems
for companies before the internet and application software existed. She met her husband through her work

and moved from Texas to Oregon in 1984. Her 3 children are grown. This leaves her free to focus on her
work for the Beaverton City Council and Toastmasters. Her home club is Silicon Forest.

What brought you to Toastmasters? our world through Toastmasters. We don’t realize

I joined in 2003 after a Toastmaster spoke it, but our interconnected trade, monetary, and
at a Beaverton Committee I was serving on. I information systems make us a global tribe,
improved as a speaker and team member. I quit which we ignore at our own peril. I have loved

in 2008. I realized in 2013 that I was getting rusty the opportunity to learn from people around the
and I rejoined. world in Toastmasters, to support one another
as we learn to communicate, and work in teams.
If I were to say to a bunch of people who I dream of creating impeccable standards for

know you, give me three adjectives that speaking, where our intentions are to leave
best describe you, what would I hear? our listeners with take-aways that are positive,
Geeky, funny, inspired. healthy, and helpful in any Toastmasters training
Geeky: I was a girl nerd before there was we find ourselves in. That’s how we can all change

such a designation. As a kid, I used to lie in bed the world in better ways.
at night figuring out interesting ways to solve
math problems. What is one thing people would be surprised
Funny: I often say that the God I know has to know about you?

quite the sense of humor. A recent example was I want people to let me be old. I am 60, an
when I broke my ankle while doing a Toastmaster aspiring WOW (Wise Old Woman). At this point
Director training in Bend. On my wall at home is in my life, with my kids raised and the ability to
a framed card with the prayer of St. Francis, Seek choose what I do, my constant question is what

first to understand. Where was I when I broke my am I leaving? How can I make the lives of my
ankle? In front of the St. Francis McMenamins children and my communities better by how I
Pub. spend the time I have left? To me, it’s not morbid,
Inspired: I think we have the ability to change it is comfortingly realistic.

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