News From the International Conference
As you may know if you read your Toastmasters Magazine the annual international conference has just occurred in Mashantucket USA. The purpose of the conference is firstly to run the finals of the International Speech Contest. That’s the one that started back in April in every club and builds to the world final. The winner this year was Mark Hunter from Queensland in Australia. This is the first time an Australian has ever won the contest. Details here including a transcript of the speech:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,27574,25943219-3102,00.html
The other purpose of conference is to take care of Toastmasters business and administration. Again if you read your magazine you will know that there was a proposal for a complete overhaul of the organisational structure of Toastmasters International. It takes much of the representation at high level out of the US and spreads it around the world. Making Toastmasters truly international. I can report that this resolution was passed.
This won’t really change anything for us on a week to week level, we’re still the greatest club in the world no matter what happens. At some point our district [District 71, UK and Ireland] will become part of a Region. The Toastmasters International website is www.toastmasters.org. There will no doubt be further reports and information on it in the near future.
