I am excited to announce that our program has earned two special awards from Toastmasters: the Online Ovation/Education Award and the Consistency Award and the Membership Consistency/Resilience Award. In addition, we are well on our way to more awards for both the program and the members!
Online Ovation/Education Award
Toastmasters International offered this award to programs meeting two criteria by June 30, 2020.
- Allowed online attendance between January 1 and June 30, 2020.
- Gold award: achieved 6 educational awards based on the Distinguished Club Program (DCP)
Spirited Speech Masters went online in March 2020 and ended the year with 11 educational awards awarded for the year. Nine were in Pathways and two in the traditional program.
Membership Consistency/Resiliency Award
Based on a club’s membership base as calculated on July 1, 2019, the Consistency award was presented to any club that experienced no net member loss; the Resiliency award was presented to any club that experienced a net member gain by June 30, 2020.
In June 2020, our base membership increased from 20 to 21.
Outstanding Club Officer Nomination Form
It is time to nominate outstanding club officers for the 2020-2021 Toastmasters year. If there is an officer who has done an outstanding job, please consider submitting a nomination for that person. It takes multiple nominations for an officer to win this award. For that reason, SSM has only recognized one of our many outstanding officers at the district level, Jo Idoux, President for 2016-2017. Let’s do it again for this year!! The nomination form may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ceMDR6ygVOjitY1o-nBqN7Lv66VPpq64/view.