100 Years of Confident Voices: a mostly thoughtful documentary video about Toastmasters International with a brief segment that should have been edited out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a 46-minute centennial documentary video about Toastmasters International titled 100 Years of Confident Voices that you can watch here on YouTube. And there is a pdf file with a Discussion Guide. The video has a lot of interesting history:

 

1938 Inter-Club Speech contest – 11:13

 

1938 Toastmistress clubs begin – 12:35

 

1940s first educational manual Basic Training for Toastmasters – 13:27

 

1950 Advanced manual, Beyond Basic Training – 13:58

 

1959 Golden Gavel Award - 17:43

 

1962 moves into its own building - 18:38

 

1970 Distinguished Toastmaster award begins - 21:54      

 

1973 Convention, women can join - 24:08

 

1978 clubs cannot restrict gender - 24:50

 

1980 74,000 members - 33:09

 

1981 Accredited Speaker Program - 29:50      

 

1985 Helen Blanchard first female president - 25:40

 

1989 New headquarters building in Rancho Santa Margarita - 35:02

 

2017 Pathways learning experience is entirely online - 38:21 

 

2018 World Headquarters moves to Englewood Colorado (south of Denver) - 39:40 

 

From 2010 to 2019 membership goes from 260,000 to 360,000 - 37:21

 

But back at 6:18 there is a brief segment from the 2019-2020 President, Deepak Menon, that should have been edited out:

 

“Toastmasters is international and should be international because it benefits all mankind. It’s not just one set of people who should be benefiting from Toastmasters. It is the entire universe that can get the benefits of Toastmasters.”

 

All mankind and the word International cover the world. The universe is way too overblown – it is beyond both the solar system and the galaxy.

 

Images of a business world and galaxy were adapted from Openclipart.