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get started in Pathways we are
implementing a new officer
role called the Vice President

of Pathways. This person will
be the primary resource for
Club members who have
questions and need help

getting started in Pathways.
You will hear more about this
from Eldred Brown, our D7
Program Quality Director.

What incentives and

recognition are you
planning for the year?

As the new Trio develops
recently been laid off and started attending
our plans for the year, I have shared with them
meetings of Cleon’s Friday afternoon Job Finders
my strategy that has helped my home Club be
Support Group. Cleon recommended that I try
President’s Distinguished for the past 15 years
Toastmasters as a way to improve my ability to
in a row – plan to complete the Distinguished
present myself well in the job interview. After
Club Program goals by April 1st. If you make
trying three different Monday night clubs,
it, great! If not, that leaves all of April, May and
I joined the At the River’s Edge Club near
June to figure out how to fix it. With that in
downtown Portland. Though the club was small,
mind, we plan to “front-load” the incentives to
I was impressed by the quality of speakers there,
encourage Clubs to plan and implement their
the way they invited me to come back for the next
programs early in the year. We are also talking
meeting, and frequent speaking opportunities.
about incentives at all levels, including Area and

Division Directors, to encourage them to be
What has been your greatest Aha! Moment
proactive in helping their Clubs be successful.
in your Toastmasters journey so far? Why?
At the end of the year, we want everyone to be
There have been a lot of Aha! Moments
rewarded and feel good about everything they
in my Toastmasters journey, but the first big
accomplished.
one is still the one I remember most. This was
Eldred Brown, DTM when Jerry Kleffner suggested that I should put
myself forward to serve as an Area Governor.

An experienced Toastmasters leader—Jerry had
Why did you join Toastmasters?
recently finished his term as Downtown Division
I joined Toastmasters in May of 2009. I had
Governor—saw that I had the budding leadership

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