Celebrate 90 years of Toastmasters history. Presentation prepared to help Toastmasters clubs in celebration and sharing.

1. Prepared by Remigijus Gineitis, ACS, ALB
Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers' Club, 2014

2. 1924
4The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died
4The Winter Olympics debuted in France
4Calvin Coolidge became the first USA president to
deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
4Ralph Smedley started a Toastmasters club in the
basement of a YMCA (Young Men's Christian
Association), in Santa Ana, California

3. The first official Toastmasters club,
YMCA Toastmasters Club – later Smedley No. 1
circa December 1924

4. YMCA, Santa Ana, California,
home to first Toastmasters club

5. 1928
4The first manual of Toastmasters
Clubs was copyrighted in October

6. 1933
4The first issue of 'Toastmaster' magazine
was released in April

7. International Convention,
Philadelphia, October 27, 1951

8. 1960: Smedley (center) meets with U.S.
Vice President Richard Nixon (left) and
California State Representative James Utt
in Washington, D.C.
California Governor Ronald Reagan
signs a Toastmasters Week proclamation,
as International President Earl Potter (1968–69)
and District 39 Governor James Hansen look on.

9. 1973
4Membership opens
to women in August

10. 2011
4First time in history, Toastmasters re-
freshed its brand and unveiled a new
tagline ”Where Leaders are Made”

11. 2014

13. Celebrate the 90th anniversary
October 2014-2015
4Get FREE resources at
toastmasters.org/90thAnniversary
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