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LEANNA LISTENS









      Meet Lonnie Fuller



      Leanna Lindquist, DTM








      Lonnie Fuller is the Club President of Buckaroo Toastmasters


      Tell us about Lonnie

          I was born in Portland and raised in SE
      Portland and Beavercreek. I have been married          and open the floor to any questions the audience
      to Mary for 37 years. After 30 years working for       might have. It is sometimes a very stressful

      the City of Portland I retired as Fire Captain. I      version of Table Topics.
      retired as a Major after 3 years on active duty in
      the Army and 23 years in the National Guard            What’s it like to be in a small club in a
      and Army Reserve. I studied Theology at                small town

      Oxford University. I founded a youth Christian            I’ve been a member of a large club that caters
      apologetics ministry in order to teach young           to government and corporate workers and one
      people how to answer tough questions about             that is much more intimate and feels like family.
      their faith.                                           They are both wonderful clubs.

                                                                At Buckaroo Toastmasters we have the
      What brought you to Toastmasters?                      opportunity to speak much more often because

          I was originally a member of Portlandia            the membership is smaller. By the way, if anyone
      Toastmasters Club in downtown Portland when            is having trouble getting scheduled to speak at

      I worked for the Portland Office of Emergency          their larger club, you are welcome to contact
      Management. My captain felt that it would be a         Buckaroo Toastmasters and schedule with us.
      good idea to get public speaking training because      We’ve had a few Toastmasters do this over the
      we often made presentations in front of high           past year. It may be a bit of a drive to Molalla

      level local government officials.                      but it is worth it.
                                                                Our major challenge at Buckaroo
      How do you apply your Toastmaster                      Toastmasters is recruitment. We were recently
      skills outside your club?                              assigned a coach and he has brought us some

          I rejoined Toastmasters after I founded my         great ideas for increasing our membership.
      ministry because I need to be professional,            We’re looking forward to working with him in
      relaxed and concise in my ministry presentations.      the coming year.
      After each presentation, I conduct a Q &A session




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