Swamp TALK

Okefenokee Toastmasters
Club #8269, Area 74,
Division G, District 14 East.

Volume 7 Issue 4

April 2015

Mission: We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication
and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.

Chartered in 1991

Officers for Okefenokee

Toastmasters 2014-2015
President: Rodney Hooks

Lunch Hour Meetings: We meet at South Georgia State College, Waycross Campus, James Dye Student Services Building ,
Room 108 on Wednesdays at noon

VP Education: Kathy Odam

Membership: Open to anyone 18 years old and older.

Treasurer/Secretary: Bud Montero

Sergeant of Arms/VP Membership: Wayne Caffarel

Tweets @Oketoast
@LeadershipCures
The best leaders are
those who are filled with
a fire-in-the-belly enthusiasm for what they do.
Jeffrey A. Krames, Jack
Welsh and the 4Es of
Leadership.
@ManagersDiary
"Let a man lose everything else in the world
but his enthusiasm and
he will come through
again to success." H. W.
Arnold.
@Kamper Enthusiasm
is the way you trigger
other people's emotions
so they instinctively help
and support you. Paul
Meyer.
@InspowerBooks You
can do anything if you
have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that
makes your hopes rise to
the stars. Henry Ford.

VP of Public Relations: Janice

Williams

Upcoming Event
Georgia Toastmasters Spring
Conference: April 24-25, 2015 at
Callaway Gardens.

Quote of the Month

In personal intercommunication, we
aim for a response in some form or
other...A good communicator conveys
a message, ideas, information and
intentions, clearly and concisely,
while - as a reciprocal interaction
listening, hearing, and evaluating
the comments, interests and feelings
on the other side. Whether dealing
with child, spouse, neighbor or boss,
our goal is to understand them and to
have them understand us as well. by
George W. Fotis in Improving Personal Effectiveness. p. 58.

Word Power
One role of the Grammarian at a
Toastmasters club is to listen and
give feedback on the usage of the
English language and bring a word
of the day. These are some words
we have used recently:
Channel (verb): guide, direct
Discursive (adj.): digressive, rambling
Irascible (adj.): becoming angry
very easily
Natty (adj.): well dressed, debonair

In the Spotlight
Linda Zechmann, former state
school board member, has been
appointed the new chairman of
the Pierce County Board of Education.
For the first time ever, Wayne
Caffarel was the Contest Chair,
Debbie and Steve Pearce were
the Contest Masters, and Bud
Montero was Chief Judge at the
Georgia Toastmasters Area 74
speech contests held in Valdosta
in March.

All nine contestants in the Table Topics section of

the Area 74 speech contests.

Bud Montero intends to achieve

Distinguished Toastmasters
(DTM) status this year. He is now
working on a project using guidelines in the High Performance
Leadership manual.
Connect with Us
Email us:
oketoast8269@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/oketoast
Check out our club website:
http://okefenokee.toastmastersclu
bs.org

Contest Masters Debbie and Steve with Rodney,

club President and Table Topics contestant.

Why pay thousands of dollars for

a seminar or class when you can
join a Toastmasters club for a
fraction of the cost and have fun
in the process?

CHARTER MEMBERS: John Penland (Sponsor), Andrew Slocum, Joe Gant, Harry D. Dixon, Jr., Carolyn Morton (Akins), Phil Wysong, C.J. Broome, Paul OCain, James C. Bunch,
W.F. Stephens, Jeanette Stipe, Tom Strickland, Fred Barber, John Karew, Reuben Flanders,
E. Nash Williams, Jerri Davis, Doris Germano, Andy Spivey, Audrey West, and Margaret
Park. Compiled by Janice Williams.