Four Seasons Toastmasters celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2016 at its physical location.
Stan Coss was the 2015-2017 Four Seasons Toastmasters president and was an adjunct instructor of speech at Blue Ridge
Community College in 2018-22. He continues membership in two Toastmasters' Clubs to continue his growth as a speaker.
It is more grand to preside over a club in person in a venue like the Lake Pointe Landing Auditorium than it is to head up a Zoom. But flexibility is important. The current FSTM club, and is the FSTM president-elect in the hybrid club that meets on an 8 AM Friday Zoom and in person at Trinity Presbyterian.
Youth Toastmasters Classes were sponsored by the Four Seasons Toastmasters Club
There were three different sets of sessions in the spring of 2014, the fall of 2014, and the spring of 2015. Each session had eight to 12 classes of about 75 minutes each. The first session had 17 students, the second 10, and the third 8, all from home-schooled students. FSTM member Stan Coss led the sessions; the first was in the Lake Pointe Chapel, and the second and third were in a classroom at First Baptist Church in Hendersonville. All sessions concluded with the Youth Toastmasters running a meeting at FSTM, filling all the roles in support of their own prepared speeches. Past FSTM President Richard Day is here greeting the YT’s and their parents at one of these “commencement” sessions
Youth Toastmasters:
Two Assigned Speeches,
Meeting Roles,
Plus a Surprise
The Youth Toastmasters program is run like a Toastmaster (TM) meeting in alternate sessions. There is instruction on the ice-breaker speech and on the research speech and practice in the roles of the TM meeting.
Both speeches take on this format in this order: Attention-grabber; Audience relation; Thesis; Preview; Main Point One; Extenders; Main Point Two; Extenders; Review; Clincher.
The ice-breaker will introduce two interests or hobbies or aspects of the speaker by having one summary or description and one personal story.
The research speech will include oral citings from two sources and inform us on two aspects or points of an interesting topic.
The Toastmaster roles to be practiced are the following: Toastmaster/emcee; joke master; grammarian; timer; speech evaluator; ah-counter; table topics master.
The surprise is that for every meeting there would be some table topic prompts that speakers would respond to impromptu for 40 to 60 seconds.
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