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From the Editor’s desk...This special edition of Southern Cross has been printed and mailedto all club Presidents so they can ensure that all their membersget to know what’s happening in our vibrant District, even ifthey’re not online. It can also encourage your members to read themonthly online news in Southern Cross throughout 2009.International President Jana Barnhill is visiting Australia and District73 in May. Past District Governor Edmund Breen is inviting you tomeet Jana on page 3.If your club is having a recruitment problem, see the easy andpractical tips on page 5.Maybe recruiting isn’t the primary issue for you. Maybe retainingyour long term members is a concern. If so, more practical adviceis on page 6.Remember you can get more good ideas from attending ClubOfficer Training. It also counts towards your District Club Award.Remember, contributions for Southern Cross are required by thelast day of each month, for publication the following month.Text should not include pictures or graphics and should beunformatted. Photographs and graphics can be supplied asjpeg, eps or tiff format files and be no larger that 1MB.Until next month, happy Toastmastering!Michellenewsletter@d73.toastmasters.org.auThe views expressed in Southern Cross are not necessarily those of the Editor,the District Executive, District 73 or Toastmasters International.Editor: Michelle Monaghan DTMPO Box 115, Sandringham, Victoria 3191(03) 9533 1206newsletter@d73.toastmasters.org.auPublisher: Bernard Marmion ACG(03) 9877 4825districtgovernor@d73.toastmasters.org.auContributions are required by the last day of each month forpublication in the following month’s edition. Text should not includepictures or graphics and should be unformatted. Photographs and graphicscan be supplied as jpeg, eps or tiff format and be no larger than 1 megabyte.In this Issue...Click on an item below to go to that page3 Toastmasters International President to Visit D733 Did You Know?4 District 73 Split – Latest Developments4 COT Dates – Victoria5 How Healthy is Your Club Website5 How to Start a Club Website in 8 Easy Steps6 Club Coaches –Helping a Club Get Back on Track6 Look After the Oldies Too7 Welcome to Toastmasters7 Congratulations8 Williamstown’s Toastmaster of the Yeard73.toastmasters.org.auEdition 54 • February 20092
Toastmasters International Presidentto Visit District 73 by Edmund BreenToastmasters International President Jana BarnhillDTM AS, is coming to District 73 in May 2009.This will present a rare opportunity for manyToastmasters in District 73 to meet an InternationalPresident face to face. There will be many opportunitiesfor you as a Toastmaster to come and talk tothe International President.Jana Barnhill may be an extraordinary person butlike all of us started her career in Toastmasters at anordinary Toastmasters meeting wishing to improveher speaking skills. Today she is the leader of over235,000 Toastmasters in 90 countries.I implore all Toastmasters to make an effort to comeand meet Jana Barnhill. I met Jana back in 1993 and Ican assure you she is one of the most approachablepeople you will ever get the opportunity to meet. Wecan all learn from Jana’s experience in Toastmastersand life – she is one of the most inspirational speakersI have ever heard (and I have heard a lot). She wasrunner up in the World Championship of PublicSpeaking (can’t remember the year, old age!!!) with aspeech “Is your lamp lit?” That speech still sticks in mymind more than a decade later.Jana’s visit will mainly be centred around Melbourneand at our annual convention in Hahndorf in theAdelaide Hills. At this stage we are still putting togetherthe program for Jana’s visit and we hope to give youmore details in the next edition of Southern Cross.Being Toastmasters we are open to any suggestionsyou may have for Jana’s visit. There is certain protocolattached to Jana’s visit and as much as we would like herto just drop by every club in the District it wouldn’t be aneffective use of her time. So why not drop me an emailedmundbreen@gmail.com with your suggestions.I will try and respond to the hundreds of emails Iwill get.While I would dearly love to bring Jana to Tasmania(my home state) and Western Australia it wouldbe physically exhausting to take Jana to all parts ofour vast District. So for those of you in Tasmania orWestern Australia why not come to the convention inHahndorf, meet Jana and have a wonderful time atthe convention at the same time.Who is Edmund Breen (a bit like the James Boagsadvert)? I’m a Past District Governor of District 73(1993-94) and I have been given the job of organisingthe International President’s visit. Some people whohave been around Toastmasters for a while mayremember me. I took some time out and have nowcome back with a renewed enthusiasm. So it is withgreat excitement that I have taken on this role oforganising Jana’s visit and renewing my acquaintancewith her. I look forward to catching up with a fewold faces during the visit and meeting a lot of newfriends.So until we meet again keep talking, keep listeningand keep expanding your horizons.Did you know?A camel can shut its nostrils in a sandstorm.A newborn crocodile is three times the size ofthe egg it is hatched from.Canberra and Nevada are two varieties ofcauliflower.It takes a week to make jelly beans.The Statue of Liberty is wearing sandals 7.6 metreslong. That means her shoe size is 879.The first recorded game of golf was in Scotland in1456. The ball was made of wood.Bees kill more people every year than snakes.There are more registered gun dealers in the U.S.than there are petrol stations.On the Hawaiian island of Maui, 30 000 peoplesigned a petition to change its name to Gilligan’sIsland.As part of his fee for appearing in Terminator 2,Arnold Schwarzenegger was given a jet.Birmingham U.K. has more canals than Venice.d73.toastmasters.org.auEdition 54 • February 20093
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