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Club #9854 · District 59 · Division D · Area 2

ISSUE 01 June 2009

INSIDE
WELCOME TO NEW TIMES
• Word of President Fellow memmbers, dear readers, an educational article from our
• About Times welcome to the new Times. VP Edu. There is a report from
• New Webpages Finally we have managed to Area D2 conference, which I
• Word of VP Education release new issue. I hope you find attractive for both our club
• Area D2 Conference will find many interesting members and other
report with photos information. For these who are Toastmasters.
• About Toastmasters not familiar with the Whole newsletter has been re-
• Mission of TM Toastmasters International an designed and now uses style
• Quiz explanation can be found on the similar to the one of the
last page. If you are a member Toastmaster magazine. I want
of Pardubice Toastmasters there to encourage you to write
is the word of our president and articles for next issues. All

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WHO ARE WE? newsletter!
Toastmasters International is ~ Robin Pokorný, VPPR
a leader in helping people
become more competent and
comfortable in front of an
audience. The nonprofit
WORD OF
organization now has nearly
235,000 members in 12,000
PRESIDENT
Photo by Brittany Randolph

clubs. There is no instructor; Štěpán Stehlík, President of our

participants practice and club, wrote his word named
learn skills by preparing a 'What do green apples, proud
speech or serving as a leader horses and experienced
in a role. matadors have in common?'
More info on the last page. Read on the page 2.
WHAT DO GREEN APPLES, PROUD HORSES AND
EXPERIENCED MATADORS HAVE IN COMMON?
Once upon time during
drinking my afternoon tea, I
was thinking why our
toastmaster club is so
pleasant place to meet,
where every member can
feel warm and pleasant
atmosphere and
why we have not
got serious problems
with lack of members
as the other clubs. I
have many times
realized what
problems might be
sometimes in society
between young and old
generations. Young people
are often denoted as
hotheaded youngsters with
lack of experience and with
excessive self-confidence.
On the other hand, the elders
are mostly viewed as slow
thinking, hesitant and boring
people who should stay at
home and rather do not
influence public events…
As well as any society also
in our club we have some
age-structure of our
members stretching from the
young green apples over the
middle aged proud horses to
the oldest, well experienced
matadors. Despite of the
society stereotypes, we are
very happy that our age-
structure is so rich and we
can only profit from it! In
our club we do not know
the inter-generational
conflicts, which I
had sketched out in
the introduction.
Our toastmastering
connects us firmly,
the younger members
enriches the older ones and
vice versa. Younger green
apples profit from the
well experienced, wise
matadors, and the
enthusiasm and
creativity of the
young members
enrich the
matadors. Middle
aged proud horses at
the same time give the final
shape to our club
environment. Our club is
bottom-less pot of boiling
ideas, thoughts, inventions
and kindness which is
provided to everyone, who
cares for it and needs it. That
is why our club is so nice
place to meet, where
everyone feels good and it is
also illustration how initially
incompatible green apples,
proud horses and wise
matadors make sense
together if you visit
Pardubice enthusiasts.
At the bottom line I would
like to thank all of you, the
members, the green apples,
the proud horses and the
matadors for great effort you
put every Monday, every
week, every month and
every year to keep our
club running. In spite
of our difficult
personal lives, I
admire your
infinitive will and
natural buoyancy.
This makes our club unique!
~ Štěpán Stehlík, President

NEW WEB PAGES

Our web pages had not been updated for a long
time. So long that it was decided not to just
make an actualization. They have been
replaced with totally new web pages. You can
expect new modern design, and functionality.
Visit and enjoy them on
http://www.toastmasters.cz/pardubice/
Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
AREA D2 SPRING CONFERENCE PRAGUE
Report from conference held on Saturday April 25 2009 in hotel Josef
Prague Speakers Club were hosting club of
Area D2 Speech and Evaluation Contests.
They took this task seriously and chose
very nice place in the middle of Prague in
well-designed hotel Josef. Sandy Hu and
her club fellows prepared well-timing
program that included two EDU lessons
given David Talacko – A story within a
story and Anthony Achmat – Impress me.
4 contestants of evaluation contest, Vera
Orac, Stepan Stehlik, Anezka Nowak and
Tom Karger evaluated the speech
performed by Ivan Vasyuk “How to
manage the crisis”. Anezka Nowak was the
most constructive and effective evaluator The same number of contestants competed in the
and won. Vera Orac was the second. speech contest – Vera Orac, Judi Challiner, Robin
Pokorny and Geoff Nowak. The best speech was
given by Judi Challiner, the second place was
occupied by Robin Pokorny.
The well done conference was finished in the
pub Hastalsky Dedek. While the participants
were having dinner, they are going on talking
and having fun.
The winners on the first and second position
proceed to Division Contest which is held in
Nuremberg May 9, 2009
~ Marie Bibrova, Area Governor

▲► Evaluation contest participans

(Anezka, Tom, Stepan, and Vera)
▲ Winners of the speech contest
(Robin and Judi)
► In Hastalsky Dedek pub

WORD OF VP EDUCATION
When I joined the club and
received my New Member
Kit I remember that I just
read the title of the two
manuals – Competent
Communicator and
Competent Leader – and put
the second aside. That´s not
for me, I said to myself.
Now I regret it because
working on Competent
Leader does so much for
you if you are a newcomer :
it helps you to orient in all
meeting roles and officer
positions – what to do?
how? why? But it is not just
a “guide”, it enables you to
participate on meetings and
fullfill more difficult roles
such as an Evaluator, or a
Grammarian from the very
beginning.
And what if you are an
experienced Toastmaster? It
is never too late to start. You
can use your knowledge and
experience, and you may
realize that to be a leader has
been waiting for you for
years!
No matter in which stage of
your Toastmaster life you
are, try it! Just bring your
CL manual to every meeting
and you will be surprised
how quickly you will
proceed. Or study it in
advance and then sign
yourself for a role for next
meeting. You will have each
role evaluated by a fellow
Toastmaster. And remember
that the skills you will learn -
listening, planning,
motivating, organising, and
positive thinking - can be
applied (also) outside
Toastmasters.
~ Hana Pozdílková, VPE
MISSION OF TM
To provide a mutually supportive
and positive learning environment to
improve public speaking, listening
and generally communication and
leadership skills, which in turn foster
self-confidence and personal growth.
Toastmasters International is the
leading movement devoted to
making effective oral
communication a worldwide reality.
Through its members Toastmasters
International Clubs help men and
women learn the art of speaking,
listening, and thinking - vital skills
that promote self-actualization,
enhance leadership potential, foster
human understanding, and
contribute to the betterment of
mankind.
It is basic to this mission that
Toastmasters International
continually expand its worldwide
network of clubs thereby offering
ever-greater numbers of people the
opportunity to benefit from its
programmes.

Where was the What is included in Which fruit was

Q U I Z

Division Contest held? New Member Kit? mentioned in this issue?

a) Nuremberg a) All advanced manuals a) Oranges
b) Dusseldorf b) Personal nametag b) Apples
c) Prague c) Competent Leader manual c) Bananas
d) Vienna d) Winning lottery ticket d) Carrot

Answers: 1a, 2c, 3b

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Editor: Robin Pokorný (robin@medvedi.eu); President: Štěpán Stehlík (stevek@seznam.cz)