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The Sunshiner
www.toastmastersd47.org February 2011
Inside this Issue
Rick Furbush, District Governor Update 2
Pamela Rolle, LGET Update
January 2011 TLI & Officer Training
2011 Spring Conference
Realignment Update
Communicator Wanted
Roxanne Birney
Communication and Love
I Love Contests
Club Contest
December/January Achievements
Let the World Know
Bonus Page
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Update from Rick Furbush, District Governor
Carpe Diem
“One of the opening scenes in the movie “The Dead Poet’s Society” has the young prepschool teacher huddling his starry eyed students in the school reception. He has them
looking at pictures of groups of students on the wall from years gone by.
He says “Peruse some of the faces from the past. You’ve walked by them many times, but
I don’t know if you’ve really seen them. They’re not that much different from you.
“Full of hormones … just like you
“Invincible … just like you feel.
“The world is their oyster.
“They believe they’re destined for great things … just like many of you.
“Their eyes are full of hope … just like you.
“Did they wait till it was too late to make their lives even one iota of what they were capa-ble of? “If you’re real quiet you can hear them speak … Carpe Diem … Carpe Diem . ..
Seize the moment.”
Have you seized your moment?
As your District Governor I am working with your District leaders to help you achieve yourgoals. Last July, when the Toastmaster year began, what were your dreams and goals? Are
you reaching them? Are you on target?
If not … can we help?
Our old friend, the late Distinguished Toastmaster, Joseph Miller, was one who really“sucked the marrow out of life”. He not only found his voice, but he made a tremendous
difference in so many lives. He never missed a chance to “Seize the Moment”.
Take this opportunity to reexamine your goals and dreams, pour some coals on your pas-
sion and make a difference in the world.
Rick Furbush, DTM
District 47 Governor
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BRING OUT THE BESTRecently, I was asked to speak with a group of Managers and Supervisors about the importance of Coaching
and Mentoring in the workplace. During the presentation, many comments surfaced about the ongoing chal-
lenges they faced in their respective organizations. Some doubted whether they would see a change in the
near future. The group appeared convinced that nothing they said or did would change their circumstances.
Have you ever stopped to think about the people that made a difference in your life? Think about the school
teacher who believed in your potential or the boss who gave you a chance to show you were the best em-
ployee to get the job done. In every instance, there was someone who believed in you. Now is our opportu-
nity to create a pivotal moment in someone’s life. Make a special effort to Coach or Mentor a member and
believe in their abilities. This will ultimately bring out the best skills, the best speeches, the best talents.
Many members will be participating in the Table Topics and International Speech Contests within their re-
spective Clubs, Areas and Divisions. The winners of each Club contest will advance to the Area contest and
Area contest winners will advance to the Division contest. Division contest winners will advance to the Dis-
trict contest to compete for the top prize.
On April 29 – May 1, our District Spring Conference will be held in Tampa, Florida at the Airport Marriott. The
District 47 International Speech Contest winner will represent the District at the semi finals at Toastmasters
International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Please log on to our District website
www.toastmastersd47.org for more details.
Let’s bring out the best in our members!
If you are a Club Officer and have not yet attended the midyear training, please contact your Area and Divi-
sion Governors for makeup training opportunities. Take advantage of sessions that will help to bring out the
best in your leadership. The most important thing to us is you, so let’s bring out the best in each other!
All the best to you in the upcoming months and I wish you great success for the remaining half of the year.
Kindest regards,
Pamela D. Rolle
Update from Pamela Rolle, Lt. Governor Education & Training
Pamela D. Rolle, DTM
Lt. Governor Education & Training
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The Key to a Distinguished Club— Leadership
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Toastmasters Leadership Institute and Club Officer Training Program– January 2011
Dawnna St. Louis and Guest Speaker Ed TateOrly Amor, Chairperson
There may be 1,000s of ways to cross
a room, but there is only one way to
get great Toastmasters’ officer
training—TLI!
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REFORMATION UPDATEAt the District Council meeting held on November 6th, 2010 at the Miami Hilton Downtown, the Council unani-mously voted to reform the District as presented by the Reformation Committee.
A Reformation Proposal was sent to Toastmasters and the International Board approved the proposal duringtheir meeting in February, 2011.
The Council voted to accept the reformation with an East/West divide with current Divisions A, F, C, G & Hcreating the new West District and Divisions E, B, D & I make up the East. It was also voted unanimously thatthe number 47 will stay with the East side, while we have a verbal agreement from WHQ to get number 48 forthe new West District.
We will now move forward and elect 5 District Officers at the Spring Conference in April in Tampa. We willelect one District Governor, two Lt. Governor Education & Training (one for East and one for West) and twoLt. Governor Marketing (one for East and one for West). As a team of 5, they will lead our joint District 47for the term 2011-2012. At the Spring Conference in 2012, we will vote for two sets of separate District Offi-cers and we will be officially reformed on July 1, 2012.
NOMINATING COMMITTEEIt’s that time of the year again! Anyone interested in serving the District as a Division Governor, LGM, LGETor District Governor – LISTEN UP!
On March 12, 2011, the Nominating Committee will interview everyone interested in running for office.
For further details, please visit the District 47 website at www.toastmastersd47.org . You can nominate your-self or someone you believe will be a good servant leader for our members.
The deadline to submit application forms will be February 25th.
Let’s make sure that we get the best available team out there to serve our District. Put your thinking cap on– WHO would you nominate to serve as your Division Governor or as one of our top District Officer?
REALIGNMENTEvery year the Realignment Committee reviews the borders of all Areas and Divisions. Where there is a needto shift, create new, modify any Area/Divisions, it will be presented and voted on at the Council meeting atthe Spring Conference.
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For questions on any of the above, contact IPDG Kristina Kihlberg at [email protected]
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COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATOR WANTED
District 47 is looking for a “Compassionate Communicator”
to help us reach out to our members who experience a life
changing event.
Whether it is a celebration of a birth or milestone birthday,
a job promotion or award,
from Competent Communicator to Distinguished Toastmaster,
we would like to have a dedicated Toastmaster to reach out and
send congratulations or expressions of condolence.
If you or a Toastmaster you know are interested in serving the district as
Compassionate Communicator,
please contact District Governor Rick Furbush at
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How many people do you meet who are two-time cancer survivorsthe first bout 25 years ago. And remember when the “Big C” was astigma you carried like a scarlet A?
Roxanne Birney, a bubbly and gregarious 54-year-old, has those memories burned into her brain.
She can flash back to when people were afraid to come near her or talk about her diagnosis — Hodgkins disease —and when, as a young girl of 24, she felt like a leper or an AIDS patient of a few years back.
Discrimination. Fear. She was shunned. Even her parents couldn’t deal with the diagnosis, despite her aunt havingsuffered the same condition.
I, too, remember when cancer was a dirty word, when the fear was so overwhelming and the uncertainty so strongthat people didn’t know how to react in the presence of someone with that diagnosis.
Yet, Birney survived a horrendous year of chemotherapy and radiation in her youth with the same positive outlookshe displays today. “I knew my cancer was curable,” she says between bites of a gourmet salad at the Palm BeachYacht Club where her husband, Kevin, is dining room captain and assistant maitre d’.
At one point during her first cancer battle, she lived in a “House of Hope” with 79 other cancer patients. She is, tothe best of her knowledge, the only survivor of the group. When she was hit with her second cancer diagnosis 10years ago — a tumor on a vocal chord that felt like a knife when she spoke — she just knew she wasn’t going to die.“I knew in my heart there must be a purpose, why I was the only survivor of 80 people. It gives you a purpose-drivenlife. I couldn’t talk about it until five years ago without crying.”
Part of that purpose is to tell her story, to excel at public speaking as an active member of several Toastmastersclubs, and to help children have the confidence to speak publicly. “A lot of children aren’t speaking anymore. I tellthem to stop texting and start speaking. Literacy is what I’m into.”
It is this passion that led her to self-publish a book. But it’s not about her battles with cancer. It’s about her daughter,Johannah, and her challenges with a “lazy eye” — amblyopia — when the 20-year-old was about six.
“When she was two, her eyes started crossing,” Birney remembers. “I recognized it right away, since my younger sis-ter had it. Johannah went through surgery and wore special glasses.”
The child was OK with the glasses, but like many youngsters, being different didn’t go unnoticed. Classmates, maybecurious about her or maybe just vicious, would pull her glasses off her face, sometimes breaking them and hurtingJohannah in the process.
This prompted Birney to write a child’s book about being different and how other children should cultivate compas-sion for those who are. Johannah’s Lazy Eye (which is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com) is filledwith colorful drawings of young children learning this lesson. Birney’s writing and baking — her carrot cake is nowavailable at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket — helped her during the period after her tumor surgery when shecouldn’t talk comfortably. “I had to reinvent myself,” she says simply.
And she is doing that with the energy that a person who has gotten reprieves from cancer is fueled by. There is an-other upside: Johannah can now see that, like her mother, suffering through illness or disability can make youstronger. “It helped me develop a strong personality and confidence because I had to let rude and hurtful remarksand actions roll off me,” she says.
And being positive in the face of cancer and strong in the face of bullying are strengths worth sharing.
DAUGHTER’S AMBLYOPIA PROMPTS CANCER
SURVIVOR TO WRITE BOOK
ARTICLE FROM THE PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS
By Carolyn Susman
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Communication is an important part of love. How so? Well, when you
meet the love of your life for the first time you had better know how to
at least tell them your name. After that, communication skills are critical
in presenting your best side so as to win the heart of your beloved.
Let’s say you are successful in doing this and you both make it official
that you want to spend the rest of your lives together. Does the commu-
nication end? Hopefully not!
February 14th was Valentine’s Day! It’s a day that is designed to make it
easy to tell that special someone how you really feel about them.
What about the other 364 days of the year?
For those days you will have no extra help and will have to rely on your
communication skills. That’s where Toastmasters comes to the rescue. At
Toastmasters we learn the art of speaking with sincerity, confidence and
“vocal-variety”.
Love is no easy topic to speak about, but none the less it is an essential
part of the fabric of society. Imagine what the world would be like if eve-
ryone could communicate love clearly and did so regularly. Toastmasters
empowers us to be better lovers by being better communicators of love.
As better communicators of love we not only improve our
relationships but we help to make the world a better place.
Communication and Love
By Alex Dennis
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I Love Contests! – Diann Hitzel
I love contests! I love watching them. I love participating in them and I love seeing others grow throughthem. I’m not so much into the competition of the event as I am into the forum for stretching skills. Con-tests cause us to reach into new internal realms which in turn cause us to grow. They cause us to try harder,reach farther.
I'll never forget Morgan McArthur, the World Champion of Public Speaking in the mid-1990s. His speech,“Stuck on a Bucket,” still reverberates in my mind. The first time he entered the International Speech con-test, he came in second. When he won the next year, an interviewer asked him how he felt about his secondplace finish the year before. His answer was as memorable as his speech. He said, “He was grateful for com-ing in second because the year that followed had offered him the learning opportunities he otherwise would-n't have had.”
So, how can we reap the benefits of the contest season now upon us? Here are the Top 10 Ways:
10. Be an audience member. Attend every contest you can at every level. You’ll learn what to do and whatnot to do.
9. Be a Sergeant at Arms. You'll have the absolute best perspective on what speakers go through to producetheir contest winning (and not winning) results.
8. Be a timer. You’ll learn what 5 – 7 minutes really feels like and just how concise these contest speechesneed to be.
7. Be a ballot counter. My favorite supporting team role is ballot counter. Not only do you hear who the win-ners are before everyone else, you witness the dynamics of judging, always a fascinating study.
6. Be a judge. Judging is not evaluating. It is discerning the best speakers. The role requires a specific way ofwatching and listening. Attend judges training to get the very best perspective on this important role.
5. Be the Chief Judge. In this role, you get the best feel for the rules and requirements of each contest. Youoversee the judging and ballot counting processes. It is heavy responsibility, but one that provides the mostintense learning, short of competing.
4. Be the Contest Toastmaster. The TM is the ring leader of the show. He or she sets the stage for the event,ensuring the program's success. Once you've been the TM, you'll understand what contests are really allabout.
3. Be the Contest Chairman. If you're into planning and orchestrating, this role is for you. Perfect your lead-ership skills as you execute the event in cooperation with the Club Educational VP or the Area or DivisionGovernor.
2.Attend Judges Training. Whether you want to know how to judge, how to fill one of the roles above, orwhat the judges are looking for if you're competing, go and learn from others who've done it all!
And the Number 1 way to reap the benefits of the contest season: Compete. By all means, sign up to be acontest speaker or a judge. Even if you're the test speaker for the evaluation contest, you'll learn by doing.Don’t let another contest season go by without stepping out and being a contestant. Let the journey be-gin. As Morgan McArthur would advise, don’t get stuck on a bucket, but change!
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FIRST PLACE:
•Ribbon for Club Banner “District 47 Club of the Year”
•Pins for members of the Club
•Certificate of Recognition for the Club
•Recognition at the Fall Conference
•Advanced Manual Set
•Darren LaCroix Package
•Lance Miller Club Series
SECOND PLACE:
•Lance Miller Club Series
•The Successful Club Series (11 manuals)
•The Better Speaker Series (10 manuals)
THIRD PLACE:
•Lance Miller Club Series
•The Successful Club Series (11 manuals)
For more details visit
www.toastmastersd47.org
How to win?
Earn points for each item.
For example, if your Club
earns 20 CCs during the year
(July 1, 2010 through June
30, 2011), you would have
15,000 points!
A District 47 contest
ITEM POINTS
CCs 750
ACS 600
CL/AL/HPL 500
DTM 500
Deliver a Success Leadership 150
Deliver a Youth Leadership 150
Deliver a Speechcraft 250
New Members 200
District Officers Member of Club 100
Officer Training - Fall 300
Officer Training - Spring 300
Total Members (100 per member) 100
Octobert Renewal 200
April Renewal 200
Officer List Submitted on time 300
Proxies 50
#1 Club in the District
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The Triple Crown Award is recognition for District 47 Toastmasters
who earn three or more Toastmaster awards within one TM year
(Jul 1 - Jun 30).
For example, if you earn a CC, CL and ACB (paperwork sent in and
approved by TI) before June 30, 2011, you will be awarded the Tri-
ple Crown Award.
The Triple
Crown Award
Have you earned….
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Advanced Leader Bronze
Leadership Excellence
Congratulations to our Distinguished
Toastmasters
Advanced Leader Silver
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The SunshinerThe Sunshiner——January/February 2011January/February 2011
Publisher Rick Furbush, DTM
Editor Brooke Samples
District 47 Executive Officers
for 2010-2011
DG Rick Furbush
LGET Pamela Rolle
LGM Matt Kinsey
PRO Myrna Brooks
Secretary Lori Stephens
Treasurer Jim Ellis
IPDG Kristina Kihlberg
District 47 Leaders
District Org Officer Kathy Furbush
Parliamentarian
SAA Ron Rice
Webmaster Jeanine Kinsey
Division A Governor Robert Rizzo
Division B Governor Francis Molina
Division C Governor Tatanisha Bennett
Division D Governor Hieu Huynh
Division E Governor Mitch McGinnis
Division F Governor Steve Zeris
Division G Governor Vicki Wayne
Division H Governor Jenelle Taylor
Division I Governor Demekas Foster
The Mission of the District is to enhance
the performance and extend the network
of clubs, thereby offering greater num-
bers of people the opportunity to benefit
from the Toastmasters educational pro-
gram by:
Focusing on the critical success factors
as specified by the district educational
and membership goals
Ensuring that each club effectively ful-
fills its responsibilities to its members
Providing effective training and leader-
ship development opportunities for club
and district officers
The Sunshiner is a publication of District
47 Toastmasters. Reproduction of arti-
cles is strictly prohibited without the
express permission of the District 47
Governor. Toastmasters International
and Toastmasters International emblems
are trademarks of Toastmasters Interna-
tional registered in the United States,
Canada and many other countries.
Share your Stories and Pictures!
This page doesn’t have to be blank. If you have a Toast-masters’ story you want to share, please send it Myrna Brooks [email protected] or to Brooke Samples at [email protected] . Brooke Samples, Editor
Let your happy stories be your umbrella.
Share what makes your club special by
submitting an article for the Sunshiner.
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