by Chris Raneri, DTM, Club Growth Director District 25 is blessed with an abundance of wonderful and dedicated district leaders – both former and current. It is not often that I get the pleasure of spending time with special leaders outside of our district. Recently, I was able to spend some valuable time with the…
by Greg Pick, DTM, Immediate Past District Director, District Leadership Chair For over 90 years the Toastmasters program has demonstrated its ability to develop and improve communication and leadership skills. In addition to club officer positions, there are numerous leadership opportunities within Toastmasters once you venture outside your club. The various positions will improve skills…
by Diana Patton, Past District Governor 2011-2012 Fall 2010 DTM Ceremony Ever since our 2010-2011 Toastmaster year, someone who has never been a Toastmaster has been adding that extra special touch to our Distinguished Toastmaster ceremony at conferences and now our first Summit. Annaclaire Taitt has graciously created those little velvet pouches personalized with the…
by Susan Gardner, DTM Travel by Map. What an adventurous sounding way to learn, lead, and excel! That is exactly what we will be doing on November 10 during the inaugural District 25 Summit. Are you going to be there? Let me let you in on a little secret … we are led by the…
Elizabeth Gray was born in Missouri but has lived in Texas most of her life. She is currently serving as the District 25 Chief Judge, which is a long way from where she started with Toastmasters in September 2016. Her first experience with Toastmasters was being asked to be the club secretary to help charter…
by Diana Patton, DTM Past District Governor Thanks to everyone that takes pictures of a special club, area, division, and district events and provides them to me for creating a photo album for each event. Years ago a friend of my daughter who was a college exchange student from England would say over and over…
by Robi Ley, District Director District 25 wants to recognize those individuals who go above and beyond for our members. Our September Outstanding Member is Charlie Bowles. Charlie is a repeat Toastmaster; he first joined back in 1990 in Lewisville. He stepped away after 10 years but returned to us in 2013. We are so…
“INVITE FAMILY”. So states our D25 Public Relations Manager Steven Timmons. He has experience in this: his parents were in Toastmasters in Oklahoma, but never invited him to a meeting. Thankfully for D25, in June 2010 Steven and his wife Rose walked into an Afterburners meeting and haven’t looked back. Both Steven and Rose have…
yy Terry Mencke, ACS, ALB On our way to dinner, my husband (Chuck) and I were talking about Toastmasters, including the differences between Pathways and the traditional program. Chuck is on Pathways. I am still working the traditional program. All I really know about how it works I learned from the ambassador visits. I recently…
