World Renowned Grand Prairie Toastmasters hosted two recent open houses on June 9 and June 30.The first open house was June 9 and featured guest speaker Ed Archangel, first place winner of this year's District 25 Spring International Speech Contest.
The second open house on June 30 featured a Fourth of July Celebration. Long-time club member Bob Conrad presented a humorous history of how Grand Prairie Toastmasters became "World Renowned. "Back in the mists of time in some foggy bottom on a grand prairie, were some folks called BABBLE-onians, for they babbled on without form and no purpose of communication function. There arose from this flat, foggy prairie a man with a vision--a man with a stentorian voice and a sartorial demeanor. His name was Ron Smith; he transformed the BABBLE-onians. Ron had them join Toastmasters, and lo, the babble took form and had function . . . it had become COMMUNICATION! And Toastmasters said, 'This was good.' "
At the end of the June 30 Open House, three new members joined World Renowned Grand Prairie Toastmasters, bringing membership to 20 members. WRGP ended the Toastmaster year with a BANG with the club once again achieving the President's Distinguished Club status for the 2014-2015 Toastmasters year.
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Natalie Burden
