Canton Observer for May 11, 1995 - Canton Public Library

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THURSDAY, MAY 11,1995
FAMKV ROOM
KAREN MEIER
What's right
with America 9
y featured guest today is Jean CogilL
She's a retired middle school teacher
who for 34 year* led near-teens and new
teens through mathematics (like long division,
long story problems, that sort of thing) and science
(the periodic table of elements, chemical experiments
requiring beakers and bubbling).
She'd devoted herself to teaching tough subjects
to a tough crowd. Jean also devoted herself
to her work at home, that of being a wife and
mother (She's been a wife to the same man for
almost 41 years — that's devoted!)
But now that her teaching days are over and
her mothering duties have eased s bit, she's become
a world traveler. And I suspect that if time
travel were possible, she'd do that, too, especially
if the itinerary included a stop in 1920, the year
women won the right to vote — "suffrage" as it
was known in the language of the 19th Amendment
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COMMUNITY LIFE
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Editorials, Page 20A ~
Page 13A
Club takes edge off public speaking
• There are those who
handle it well and then
there are those who all but
faint at the prospect But
with the help of Toastmasters,
many folks are finding
they can get up and
speak before a crowd and
actually eojoy it.
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HUDSON'S
It feels like butterflies
gathering
in the stomach for
an annual migration.
Palms perspire.
Shortness of
breath occurs in s
non-smoking,
physical fitness guru with a 100 percent
lung capacity.
They're ail indicators that someone
is about to give a public speech.
"People say there are two fears in
life, death and public speaking,"
said Christine Phillips, past president
and now vice president for public
relations of the Oral Msjority
Toastmasters Club in Plymouth.
Phillips, a public health nurse employed
by the State Department of
Public Health, joined Toastmasters
four years ago. Her job involved giving
presentations to groups of doctors
and other health care professionals.
"1 had to learn how to design a presentation,"
said the Livonia resident.
Qood words: John Elbe of Westland's Holy Smokermasters Toastmasters congratulates the
winners of Plymouth Oral Majority Toastmasters speech evaluation contest — Christine
Phillips (left), second place, Christine O'Rourke (second from right), first, and Vickie Belue,
third.
"I knew the technical material that I
had to cover but Td been to enough of
those that were so deadly boring."
Phillips learned how to get her
information across ud add humor
to hold the interest of her audience.
The expertise gained through Toastmasters
has been invaluable; she is
now involved with presentations at
national meetings with the Centers
for Disease Control.
Toastmasters was founded 70.
years ago by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley
because of his strong conviction that
"the ability to communicate is a
God-given talent, which ought to be
used by all for the good of all."
'Hie first club was started in Santa
Ana, Calif., and grew out of the
need of a group of individuals to improve
their communication skills.
There are now more than 8,000 dubs
aindrops on Ptoses...
Thirty Years