Timberline Toastmasters Club

31/05/2024

Timberline Toastmasters is not an active club.
Please go to Empire Toastmasters or Early Risers Toastmasters for clubs in the same area.

16/10/2019

New word to learn: depolymerization

The process being used is called depolymerization. It enables lower grade plastics to be broken down and reformed, stripped of its impurities, then rebuilt as good as new into materials used to create food-grade quality PET plastic. Before this process was figured out, lower-grade, non-transparent and colored plastics could not be “upcycled” into bottles.

Thanks to a groundbreaking process called depolymerization, low-grade plastic scooped up from the ocean is being "upcycled" into bottles!

26/04/2019

How cool is this!
"Proving that a sigh is not just a sigh, scientists conducted a statistical analysis of listener responses to more than 2,000 nonverbal exclamations known as “vocal bursts” and found they convey at least 24 kinds of emotion. Previous studies of vocal bursts set the number of recognizable emotions closer to 13."

Researchers created an interactive map of all the emotional sounds that humans make.

18/04/2019

Something new to think about!

I just looked this up, it's actually a thing. Now I must find more kangaroo words.

17/03/2019

Congratulations to Thursday night’s winners!
Best Speaker - Ron
Best Evaluator - Jack
Best Table Topic Speaker - Jeff

If you would like to improve your public speaking skills and have fun doing it, join us on the 2nd and 4th Thursday every month at 6:00pm!

26/01/2019

Wonderful opportunity to meet with the International President elect of Toastmasters, Deepak Menon!
He presented us with very useful and insightful information about Toastmasters in New Delhi, India.

16/11/2018

Tonight’s winners! Ron gave an excellent speech tonight. Gale was our Table Topics favorite and Jack’s evaluations are always appreciated!

02/11/2018

Fun Theme night at Penn Valley Toastmasters! Thanks to our Toastmaster of the evening, Ron Egenes for getting us to dress up. We had a wizard (Ron), a logger (Jodi Davis), a werewolf...or something (Jack Meeks), two toastmasters (Summer Brown & Robert Brown...no relation), and two Medieval lords (Gale Corby Pylman & Jeff Pylman).

02/11/2018

Way to go, Summer Brown!
Great speech! You made your audience see the project you described, with just words and hand motions.
From starting out less than a year ago, afraid to stand up and even introduce yourself, to presenting a well thought out speech of 5 - 7 minutes!! Such growth!
I'm very proud of you!

12/10/2018

Congratulations to the winners of the evening!
Ron Egenes, Jack Meeks and Ceasar Salas