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Coming Events

Darren LaCroix

Rob Christeson, DTM
District Governor

Here is a list of coming events. All events are open to all members of District 22.

Train the Trainer - December 17 we will hold our first Super Saturday in the KC Metro. Part of the Success/Communication Series, this educational workshop teaches participants how to develop and present training programs – it’s a great program for anyone presenting training sessions, and for everyone training at our winter TLIs!! This session will be presented from 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Shawnee Library, 13811 Johnson Dr. Shawnee, KS 66216. Please RSVP to David Antalick at dantalick@gmail.com so he knows you’ll be there.

World Champion Event – January 5, 2012 we will host 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking Darren LaCroix. Darren is in town for some other events, and has offered to present one of his popular session for us. Details wil be finalized shortly, and we will update this post then.

Toastmaster Leadership Instituteschedule

Saturday, January 14 – Topeka
Saturday, January 21 – Wichita
Saturday, January 21 – Salina (“TLI Lite”)
Monday, January 23 – Liberty (Snow Date: Monday, January 30)
Saturday, February 4 – KC Metro
Special Guest Presenter: Lark Doley, DTM, PID – Regional Adviser-Marketing for Region 3
Saturday, February 18 – Springfield

Full details for the TLIs available here.

Working in the Team Environment - Februrary 11 we will hold our next Super Saturday, and the first in Topeka. Part of the Success/Leadership Series, this workshop helps participants learn to use leadership skills as they pertain to working with and leading teams – it’s a great program for anyone leading teams in a volunteer envirnment, or at work. Detail on the location will be avaiolable soon.

Future Super Saturdays

February 25 – Characteristics of Effective Leaders
March 17 – From Speaker to Trainer
May 12 – Developing your Leadership Skills

Toastmasters Hat Tricks To Date

Since July 1, four Toastmasters have earned District 22′s Hat Trick recognition, having completed three different Toastmasters educational awards in the same track.

The recognition for achieving this milestone during the Toastmasters year is…a hat! Each Toastmaster who completes a “Toastmasters Hat Trick” will receive the Toastmasters ball cap pictured above (one award per Toastmaster per year).

This year’s Hat Trick winners so far are:

• Patricia A. Barrett: ALS (7/2/11), DTM (7/2/11), CL (11/17/11)
• Rhonda Florence Green: ALS (7/5/11), DTM (7/14/11), CL (7/15/11)
• Sharon Mulroy: CL (7/1/11), ALS (7/1/11), DTM (7/1/11)
• Lan Nguyen Strickland: ALS (8/1/11), DTM (8/11/11), CL (11/29/11)

Congratulations to our winners! We look forward to adding your name to this list!

Information based on Educational Achievements Report, as updated on December 2, 2011

Triple Crown Winners To Date

Since July 1, seven Toastmasters in District 22 have earned Triple Crown pins, having completed three different Toastmasters educational awards. Each Toastmaster who completes three different awards will receive the beautiful pin pictured above, designed by our own Lieutenant Governor-Marketing, Martha Hoffman. Up to three pins can be earned by a Toastmaster during the year (completion of a HPL project counts as the ninth “award,” but only when earning your third pin).

This year’s Triple Crown winners so far are:

• Patricia A. Barrett: ALS (7/2/11), DTM (7/2/11), CC (10/8/11)
• Rhonda Florence Green: ALS (7/5/11), CC (7/6/11), DTM (7/14/11)
• Paul David McDonald: CL (9/30/11), ALB (10/11/11), CC (10/11/11)
• John Mulroy: ACS (9/13/11), CC (10/16/11), CL (11/2/11)
• Sharon Mulroy: CL (7/1/11), ALS (7/1/11), DTM (7/1/11)
• Lan Nguyen Strickland: ALS (8/1/11), DTM (8/11/11), CL (11/29/11)
• Kent R. Thomas: ACG (9/7/11), ALS (12/1/11), DTM (12/1/11)

Congratulations to our winners! We look forward to adding your name to this list!

Information based on Educational Achievements Report, as updated on December 7, 2011

Individual Goal Getters To Date

As of Friday, December 2, 120 Toastmasters in District 22 have completed a total of 161 educational awards. Each of these Toastmasters will be recognized during our upcoming Winter Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) sessions as an individual Goal Getter, and will be presented with a Goal Getter ribbon to attach to their Toastmasters badge.

To qualify for your own Goal Getter ribbon, you just need to complete one or more Toastmasters educational awards, and make sure your Vice President-Education submits it to TI on or before January 10, 2012 (in order to appear on the next day’s Educational Achievements Report, which is available on TI’s District Performance Reports page).

In addition, seven members have completed HPL Projects so far this year.

Here are the Toastmasters who have completed awards, along with the award(s) each member has completed:

• Anab Abdulahi: CC
• Jeanette Kay Allen: ACG
• Gene E Amick: CL
• Patricia A. Barrett: Two (2) CCs, CL, ALS, DTM
• Diane Marie Bechmann: CC
• Suzanne Emily Berkey: CC
• Heather Bertics: CC
• Bruce E. Brinkman: ACS
• John A. Brower: CC, CL
• Constance A Brown: CC
• Arlen J Busenitz: CL
• Robert S. Christeson: Two (2) CCs
• James R Christine: CC
• Robert C. Clark: CC
• Patty Cooper: CC
• Steve Counts: CC
• Evie Curtis: ALS, DTM
• Chayan Dasgupta: ACB
• Roger L Davis: CC
• Linda J. Decker: CC
• Paul C. Devlin: CC
• Terry L. Dicken: CC
• John J. DiLeo: CC
• Bob J. Driskill: CC
• Jeannette K. Earles: CC
• Cathy Elliott: CC
• Jean E Estabine: CC
• Brian A. File: CL
• Shelly M. Fisher: ALB
• Kathleen S. Flowers: CL
• Charles L. Frost: ACS
• Helen Fu: CL
• Jacquelyn Gates: CL
• Martha Carolina Gil: CC
• Sarah Goodin: CC
• William P. Graf: CL
• Rhonda Florence Green: Two (2) CCs, ACB, CL, ALS, DTM
• Barbara S. Grigsby: CC
• Lucinda Dixon Grove: ACB
• Fred W. Gruhn: CC, CL
• Jeffery R. Gunnels: ALB
• Peter L Hampton: CC
• Lois J. Harger: CC
• Shawn Harper: ACB
• Melissa A. Harrington: CC
• Keith Hart: CC
• Steve Hassler: ALB
• April M. Hendrickson: CL, ALB
• Michael D Hobbs: ACS
• Martha Hoffman: ACG, DTM
• Tim Jansen: ACB
• Melody M Jones: CC
• Sherzod F Kadirov: CC
• John H. Kartsonis: ACB
• Barbara Kelly: CL
• Traci Ketchum: CL
• Gregg Gerald Knepley: ALB
• Lakshmi Komatreddy: CC, CL
• Lynnette G. Lattimore: CC, CL
• Richard A. Ley: CC
• Liliana M. Mandigo: ALB
• Clarice Ella Maseberg: CL
• Paul David McDonald: CC, CL, Two (2) ALBs
• Martin J. McInerney: CC
• Christie Bernice Mendoza: CL
• Jeff Meredith: CC, CL
• Merrill R. Mitchell: CC
• Erin J. Mohr: CC, CL
• Mark W. Moran: CC
• Crystal M. Morton: CC
• John Mulroy: CC, ACS, CL, ALB
• Sharon Mulroy: CC, Two (2) CLs, ALS, DTM
• Kimberly Lynne Myers: CC, ALB
• Gilbert M. Napoleon: ACB
• Kathleen O’Dowd: CL
• Ronald J. Orcutt: CC
• Vishrut Hrushikesh Patel: CC
• Venkoba Sah Pawar Narayana Sah: CL
• Rex Leon Pawlak: CC
• Kent Payne: CL
• David Patrick Peal: CC
• Evelyn L. Peterson: CL
• Benjamin T. Petry: CC
• Randy J. Phifer: ACB
• Joe D. Piedimonte: CL
• Susie Orr Prosser: CL, ALB
• Linda K. Puls: CC
• Cynthia A. Rains: CC
• Kevin M. Reddy: CL
• Dustin L. Riley: CC
• G. Dan Roberts: CC
• Jennifer L. Rose-Long: CC, CL
• Kevin Michael Ross: ACS
• Barbara Samuels: ACB
• Gene Schreiner: ALB
• Deanna D Schwarz: CL
• Gordon W. Shaw: CC
• James Shaw: ACB
• Matthew T. Shull: CC
• Sriram Sivaramakrishnan: CC
• Melvin Keith Smith: CC
• Tom Spurgeon: ACG
• Nadine S. Stannard: ALS, DTM
• Brittany A. Stiffler: CC
• James B. Stotler: CC, CL
• Lan Nguyen Strickland: CL, ALS, DTM
• Susan E. Swanson: ACB
• Michael Swoyer: CC
• Dilip Tammana: CC
• Dianne B. Terry: ACB
• Kent R. Thomas: ACG, ALS
• Marty Tietjen: CC, CL
• Patrick Tuttle: ACB
• Booma Venkataraman: ACS
• Al Emil Vopata: CC
• Randy Vroom: CC
• William H. Wallace: CC, CL
• Gary E. Walton: CC
• Bryan A. Wohlgemuth: ACB
• Richard Allen Woodruff: CL
• Jeffrey N. Ziegelmann: ALB

Keep up the great work!

Information based on Educational Achievements Report, as updated on December 2, 2011

Goal Getter Clubs To Date

So far, the following nine (9) clubs in District 22 have qualified to receive a Goal Getter club ribbon, by completing five (5) or more Distinguished Club Program (DCP) goals. Ribbons will be presented during the Winter 2012 Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI), to be held in January and February:

• Club #361 – Heartland Club, Area T12 (5 goals completed)
• Club #3990 – Boeing Achievers Toastmasters Club, Area A21 (7 goals completed)
• Club #1543 – West Wichita Toastmasters Club, Area A22 (5 goals completed)
• Club #363291 – Top Box Toasters Club, Area L32 (7 goals completed)
• Club #8825 – Masters Club, Area K42 (5 goals completed)
• Club #518 – AgMasters Club, Area R61 (5 goals completed)
• Club #4750 – Spirit of Liberty Toastmasters Club, Area R62 (5 goals completed)
• Club #735666 – Greater Joplin Toastmasters Club, Area S72 (5 goals completed)
• Club #527 – Springfield Toastmasters Club, Area S73 (5 goals completed)

In addition, the following 14 clubs are “on the bubble,” having completed four DCP goals so far:

• Club #193 – Haworth-Wichita Club, Area A23
• Club #3710 – Semi Pro Toastmasters Club, Area A23
• Club #3352 – Jam’N Club, Area A24
• Club #3785 – Building Speakers Club, Area L32
• Club #983436 – Energizing Voices, Area L32
• Club #625236 – Don’t Stop Talking at DST, Area L33
• Club #8591 – Professionally Speaking Toastmasters Club, Area L34
• Club #1928 – Early Bird Toastmasters Club, Area K41
• Club #1115808 – Insuring Success, Area K43
• Club #4664 – Plaza Toastmasters Club, Area R63
• Club #1042018 – Cerner Innovative Toastmasters, Area R64
• Club #5664 – Que Masters Club, Area S71
• Club #643915 – Yes We Can Toast Toastmasters Club, Area S71
• Club #1461977 – Lionsgate Toastmasters Club, Area S75

To qualify for the Goal Getter ribbon, your club needs to complete five (5) or more DCP goals and make all required submissions to TI on or before January 10, 2012 (in order to appear on that week’s Distinguished Club Report, which is available on TI’s District Performance Reports page).

Information based on Distinguished Club Report, as updated on November 24, 2011

New Training Incentive

We’re happy to announce that a new training incentive will be offered during the coming months.

Each club that has all seven officers trained during both the Winter 2012 (January 14-February 18) and Summer 2012 (June 2 – 25) TLI “seasons” will receive a complete Club Officer Pin Set (Toastmasters Item 5801Z).

To qualify for this valuable incentive, officers must attend one of the regularly scheduled TLI sessions in Wichita, Topeka, Springfield, or the Kansas City metro area, or the “TLI Lite” in Salina. Attendance at make-up training events will not qualify for this incentive.

So…make sure all of your club officer positions are filled for this year and next, and remind each officer to plan on attending at least one TLI session each time.