Upon receipt of that form, you and a guest of your choice will then be eligible to attend a screening of Speak the Movie for free.
District 4 will host two screening of the movie one in the valley and one in San Francisco. Dates to be announced shortly.
Its just that simple!
Well see you at the movies!
Win Tickets for Two to See Speak: the Movie! To win two tickets:
Bring a guest to your club, have them join your club, and send us a copy of that new members application form with the sponsor portion on the back filled out with your name. Email the form to .
D4TM All Stars Training Camp -
Create New Clubs
Ready to share your expertise as a Toastmaster Club Leader, but not sure what options are available? Want to turn to the next page on your Leadership educationals? Could you be a key player in the Million Dollar Marketing Team? If any these resonate for you, then attend the next D4TM All Stars Training Camp on how to start a new club.
This workshop will cover:
How to share your expertise to help people create their own clubs
How to develop leads for a new club in your community or company
Planning the first meeting
The In's & Out's of the charter paperwork
Recognizing and recruiting a team to help you create and keep a new club strong
Thursday May 31
6:30 - 8:00 pm (arrive by 6:15 pm)
Light refreshments and loads of fun promised!
Yahoo! Sunnyvale Bldg D
701 First Ave
Sunnyvale CA 94089
RSVP: Atul Nayak
Phone: 408.833.8945
Love Your Club, But Wondering About
Advanced or Specialty Clubs in District 4?
Great Specialty and Advanced Clubs Abound in District 4
Advanced Clubs include:
Evening Stars in San Francisco
Next Step in Santa Clara
Pacific Speakers Association in Aptos
Specialty Clubs include:
Agile Articulators Debate Club
Point of Order Parliamentary Procedures Club
SF JET Japanese English Toastmasters in San Francisco
Peninsula Pros in Monterey
Pro Toasties in San Mateo
Surf City in Santa Cruz
SV JET Japanese English Toastmasters in San Jose
SV MET Mandarin English Toastmasters in Santa Clara
Vakpatugalu Kannada Club
and many more Have an Idea for a Club? Create It!
Contact Lieutenant Governor Marketing Rita Barber at for help and information on how to build a new Advanced or Specialty Club
Spring 2012 Conference Results
Congratulations to contest and award recipients. Many thanks to the conference team for putting on another great District 4 conference. Table Topics Speech Speech Contest Winners
1st Place Scott Goering, San Francisco Club
2nd Place Chris Yonge, Santa Cruz Downtown
3rd Place Patty Tijerina, Classy Toasters International Speech Contest Winners
1st Place Nancy Coulter, Fair Oaks Toastmasters
2nd Place Cecile Arsan, Now You Are Talk[In]
3rd Place Jason Nelson, Aptos Club
Toastmaster of the Year
Mehrnaz Mehr, CC, CL, Saratoga Toastmasters
New Club All Stars
Mandarin English Toastmasters Silicon Valley
Platinum Page Award for Best Club Website
Rainbow Toastmasters
Golden Quill Award for Best Newsletter
LSI Speaks
Diamond Director Award for Best Club Video
San Francisco Club
Golden Gate Award
Ken Cawley, DTM, PID
Scott Goering and Nancy Coulter
Winning Diamond Director Video
Club Ambassador Program
It's easy to get started in the Club Ambassador Program. Become a guest, a representative and a future leader, simply by stepping outside your club and visiting another club.
Benefits to Toastmasters who participate in the Club Ambassador Program include:
Bringing new ideas to your club
Completing Communication and Leadership Educationals
Earning District Recognition
Add vitality to club meetings
Meet new friends
To participate, simply attend a meeting outside your club, complete the Club Ambassador form making note of three unique observations during the visit, and the form to CAP Director, Vaishali
Sirkay.
See the Club Ambassador Program page for the current list of ambassadors.
D4TM New Clubs All Stars Contest Congratulations to Mandarin English Toastmasters Silicon Valley for Sponsoring the Most New Club
Demo Meetings
The club received
$l00 Toastmasters Gift Certificate
Reserved Seating and Recognition at the Spring Conference
Custom Workshop/Speaking Event for Their Club
Contact Lt Governor Marketing Rita Barber at for more details
District Leader Nominations and Applications
We are now accepting nominations for appointed District Officer
positions. For role descriptions and qualifications, refer to this Call for Nominations.
Candidates for appointed positions - District Secretary, Treasurer, and
Area Governors - must submit their nomination form (download Word doc) and
release by
May 18th. Appointments will be made by the newly-elected District Governor
in early June.
Candidates for elected positions (Top 4 officers and Division Governors)
attended Nominating Committee interviews on Saturday March 17th.
Elections were held at the Spring Conference on May
12.
Mandatory District Leader training will be held on June 23 and July 21
- please plan to attend both dates if you are applying!
Newly Adopted Clubs!
KT Talkers Club
Adopted by Jennifer Hao & Fang-Szu Huang (aka Sonia)
Talking Heads Toastmasters
Adopted by Christopher Lipp
United We Speak
Adopted by James Louie
Toastmasters Has Made It Easier for Your Club to Excel!
Did you know the complete Better Speaker Series is available as a free
download? Present a module to help
your club members become better speakers while having a
presentation ready to fill in for a last-minute speaker cancellation.
Note that the Successful Club
and Leadership Excellence
Series are also available for free download.
Modules from these three series fulfill
goals for the Advanced Leader Bronze and Advanced Communicator Silver
awards.
Ready to Do Your HPL Project? Join the Club Fitness Program!
Along with the Club Ambassador Program comes another new District 4
offering: The Club Fitness Program. This program steps in to help fortify
clubs with 13 to 20 members grow beyond.
How do you benefit? If you want to do an HPL (High Performance Leadership), but dont have a project then this is the one for you! You can put your great skills as a Toastmaster to work and help a club on building
and promoting their club by becoming a Club Fitness Leader. If your club
needs a little extra help to grow, contact LGM Rita Barber and shell get you connected with a Club Fitness Leader. Its a win/win for everyone!
District 4's Beacons of Excellence
Congratulations to the following Toastmasters for reaching one or more of their educational goals in March.
Will we see YOUR name up here next?
Achievements not shown here can be found on the Toastmasters International Educational Achievements report.
See the "Beacons" page for additional examples of excellence within District 4.
Competent Communicator (CC)
Barenkabavi, Supraja
Bhaidasna, Praful
Bullock, Jennifer R
Bunch, Roger B
Caggiano, Frank J
Daniels Kurz, Katharine Victoria
Doddaballapur, Venkatachalam
Ginsburg, Tom
Hall, Ellie
Hanlon, Jennifer B.
Horowitz, Jonathan D
Hou, Fu-Lin
Kasiviswanathan, Karthick
Kojnok, Miriam
Lakshminarayanan, Kartik
Mauro, David
Meehan, Barry T
Miller, Henry O.
Nancy, Johnson J
Nayak, Atul
Niles, Reginald E.
Obregon, Josue Kuri
Risk, Alicia
Salim, Sijith
Schwartz, Thomas M.
Shatzer, Ryan Hamilton
Thogulua, Rajvignesh
Wang, Meiji
Winters, Jan M
Virtual Speak Toastmasters Club
Toast Twisters Toastmasters Club
Speakeasy Club
Santa Cruz Orators (SCO) Club
Early Risers Club
Naval Postgraduate School Club
TAC-Talks Toastmasters Club
Santa Cruz Downtown Toastmasters
Salesforce Toastmasters
Intuitively Speaking Toastmasters Club
Evening Toastmasters Club
Juniper Jabbers Club
Optical Orators
Agile Articulators - Speech and Debate
Salesforce Toastmasters
Jetstream Toastmasters Club
SWAN Toastmasters Club
Surf City Advanced Club
Chamber Speakers Circle Club
Agile Articulators - Speech and Debate
Loudspeakers Club
Optical Orators
Golden Gate Toastmasters Club
North Valley Toastmasters
OracleDirect Toastmasters - RWS
Toast of the Bay
SynapTalks
Early Risers Club
Silver Tongued Cats Club
Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB)
Ambler, Renee Patricia
Gierman, Richard
Khosraviani, Pari
Kirubakaran, Periyannan
Lipp, Christopher
Mar, Richard Eugene
Schaniel, Stephen E.
Taylor, Chris
Wong, John
Toast of the Bay
B.L.T. Club
Almaden Valley Orators Club
Vanguard Toastmasters
Lee Emerson Bassett Club
Daly City Toastmasters
Dedupe This
Silver Tongued Cats Club
Toastmasters DX
Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS)
Kushida, Kazunori
Miller, Henry O.
Roy, Jean-Francois B.
Silicon Valley JETS (Japanese-English)
Surf City Advanced Club
San Francisco Club
Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG)
Kohls, David G.
Lee Emerson Bassett Club
Competent Leader (CL)
Bhardwaj, Parul
Chavez, Marie C.
Damle, Amod
Ginsburg, Tom
Grewal, Darshan
Juan, Emily W.
Kasiviswanathan, Karthick
Kleinberg, Mike
Ko, Peggy W
Leone, Maria
Miller, Henry O.
Moegelhoej, Andreas
Ramamurthy, Pratap
Salinas, Mark A.
Stonard, Peter J.
Tobisch, M. Kathryn
Wong, Indigo
Excalibur Toastmasters Club
McKesson Toastmasters Club
Optical Orators
Santa Cruz Downtown Toastmasters
LSI Speaks Club
Silicon Valley Toastmasters
Optical Orators
Pacifica PM Club
Genentech Toastmasters Club
Techmasters Club
Surf City Advanced Club
Lee Emerson Bassett Club
Toast Twisters Toastmasters Club
Talk the Line
Silver Tongued Cats Club
Surf City Advanced Club
Securely Speaking
Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB)
Bean, Thomas Alan
Kleinberg, Mike
Rein, Teresa V.
Dedupe This
Pacifica PM Club
Santa Cruz Orators (SCO) Club
District 4 - The Golden Gate District
Serving the Greater Bay Area Since 1937
Club Officer Elections
Clubs should be electing officers for the term which begins July 1 and submitting the new club officer list to Toastmasters International before the June 30 deadline.
Training for club officers will be conducted throughout District 4 beginning in June. Information about the trainings and TLIs will be posted on the Training Schedule page soon.
Our next episode will tape on Monday, May 14, audience arrives at 7 pm.
Speakers 4 StageTime!
Request speakers for your Toastmaster club meetings. SF Speakers4Stagetime: San Francisco Speakers4Stagetime: Peninsula/South Bay
More about Speakers 4 StageTime.
Faces of Four
Elaine Lung is the District 4 Conference Chair. Get to know her better and see what she has to say about the 'Take the E Train' Spring Conference!
read more...
Rewards & Recognition
Every Toastmasters club is encouraged to actively work towards achieving the goals
in the Distinguished Club Program (DCP).
The District will reward and recognize
clubs that meet a milestone as they work towards becoming Distinguished.
See the Rewards & Recognition page for details.
Toastmasters PSA
The names "Toastmasters International,"
"Toastmasters," and the Toastmasters
International emblem are trademarks protected in the United States, Canada,
and other countries where Toastmasters Clubs exist. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
The information on this web site is for the sole use of Toastmaster members, for Toastmaster business only. It is not to be used for solicitation and distribution of non-Toastmasters materials or information.
Scott Goering and Nancy Coulter
Ready to Do Your HPL Project?
