Category: Speechcraft & Youth Leadership

South County Toastmasters recently completed a Youth Leadership program led by Jim Salih and sponsored by Optimist International, represented by Michael Boles. For the past 8 weeks, youth ages 8 to 16 met weekly to learn about public speaking and the basics of Toastmasters meetings. To celebrate their completion of the program, a graduation ceremony … Continue reading Youth Leadership Graduation, November 11, 2025

South County Toastmasters sponsored a Youth Leadership program led by Jim Salih.  For the past 8 weeks, youth between the ages of 8 through 16 met each week to learn about public speaking and the basics of Toastmaster meetings.  In recognition of their achievement of completing the program, a graduation was held on Wednesday, November … Continue reading Youth Leadership Graduation, November 20, 2019

The members of South County Toastmasters sponsored an 8 week Youth Leadership program for students up to the age of 18.  Brandon Bennett gave a speech at the December 12, 2018 meeting and received his Certificate of Completion of the Youth Leadership Program.  The members also voted for Brandon as the "Most Improved" for the … Continue reading Brandon Bennett Completes Youth Leadership Program

The members of South County Toastmasters sponsored an 8 week Youth Leadership program for students up to the age of 18.  Graduation was held on November 14, 2018.  Shown below in row one:  Alex Puskarich; Allison Puskarich; Lexie Collier; Jessie Jiang; and Ethan Jiang.  Program leaders in row two:  Mary K. Spencer and Jim Salih.  … Continue reading Youth Leadership Graduation

Graduations ceremonies for the Youth Leadership program took place at the SCTM meeting on April 25, 2018.  Each of the five student gave full length speeches followed by a commencement speech presented by Alan Kirby.  Each student was then presented with an official South County Toastmaster Certificate of Completion. The meeting room was packed with … Continue reading Graduation of the spring 2018 Youth Leadership class sponsored by SCTM

Congratulation to the new graduates from the Speechcraft Program sponsored by SCTM.  Pictured are Adila Zafer, Janet Bold and John Fetter holding their Certificate of Completion. They just finished the 6 week Speechcraft Program organized by Jim Salih and Carl Hendrickson.

Our club will be sponsoring a Youth Leadership Program stating this March 6 and continuing for 8 weeks.   It is a fantastic program.   Attached is a flyer on the program that we can distribute to your family and friends.  Here are a few details: South County Toastmasters is hosting an 8-week Youth Leadership program to … Continue reading Youth Leadership Program

      Congratulations to our Youth Leadership graduates! John Paul Angeli, Mary Grace Angeli, Claire Croxton and Eileen Croxton (from left to right) participated in the 8 week Toastmasters Youth Leadership Program, which culminated in them getting the opportunity to use what they learned by writing and delivering their "ice breaker speech" at a … Continue reading Youth Leadership Graduation

Jim Salih, Victor Mattison, Brent Stewart, Stacy Duncan and Phil Gawlak lead a Youth Leadership meeting. This was the second of 8 weekly meetings. This was the groups first opportunity to present a prepared speech, "The Ice Breaker" and to try their hand at the art of the speech evaluation. The Youth Leadership Program is … Continue reading Youth Leadership Program

 Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our organization has more than 352,000 memberships. Members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 16,400 clubs in 141 countries that make up our global network of meeting locations. Learn more about Toastmasters here: Toastmasters.org  The Youth Leadership Program is a concentrated … Continue reading Youth Leadership

Above are the judges and leader of the Fourth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Competition. Four Toastmasters were part of the team held at Brittany Woods Middle School in University City. From left to right are, Regina Dennis-Nana - judge, Greg Philips - leader of the program, Wynn Miller - judge, Richard Johnson - … Continue reading Youth Leadership – 2016

Congratulations to our 2009 Speechcraft class. Pictured from left to right are Mary Wilson, Paula West, Patty Thompson, Joe Hendrickson, Mark Tilman, Clay Gillette, Arnel Karabegovic, Norma Lauber, Lisa Ashley, John Bartemus, James Perez, Joyce Pumm, Cynthia Grega, and Brenda Wohlschlaeger. Participants in the program not pictured are Scott Bethel, Don Clair, Brooke and Jordan … Continue reading Speechcrafters Graduation Picture