The Roadrunner -
volume 25, No.3 - Roadrunner Silver Anniversary Year. District 3 Toastmasters
Quarterly Newsletter
P.S
Virginia Trudeazi of Vat Cat and Pueblo Orators still going strong
on educational accomplishment..
Joel weldon to receive the honored Golden Cave? Award at International
Conference. p.7
Don't get shut out!
Watch for the International Convention registration forms in upcoming
Toastmaster magazine issues. Admission to the International Speech Contest
(last year's attendance. 2100) will be by numbered ticket only. Register
early, and don't get shut out! (See article in this issue and upcoming
Toastmaster magazines for further details on the convention.)
Outstanding
they were
Outstanding they remain
By Karen Burr, ATM Roadrunner Editor
For Dan O'Mahony it's been fifteen years. Fifteen years since he put on a burst of speed that bested chief competitor Juris Kursulis to win the 1974 District 3 Outstanding Toastmaster Award. Yet Dan's Kachina club fellow members know they can still count on his presence, his experience and his intelligence. The qualities that made him outstand-ing in 1974 have kept him outstanding through all the intervening years. And if he isn't quite as active outside the club as he was for many years, you can only blame the quadruple bypass surgery (nature's little way of warning you to slow down) he had not too long ago.
What about Dan's 1974 competitor, Juris Kursulis? Juris showed the stern stuff he's made of. He came back and captured the 1975 Outstanding Toastmaster trophy. And became District Governor. And remains actively involved in District 3 activities, chairing a committee here, running a project there, participating in his Voice of Motorola meetings, speaking well in his club, in competition and for the Speaker's Bureau. Always, still, an Outstanding Toastmaster.
There's a "pair" of them down in Tucson. The Outstanding Toastmaster Couple, we might call them: Deane Erickson, 1981 Outstanding Toastmaster and Bob Erickson, 1983 Outstanding Toastmaster. Eyeopeners counts on them, and heaven knows the Dis-trict does! They have for some time now run telephone referral for the south, one of the jobs most crucial to the district's very survival, to say nothing of its growth. You can count on seeing them at every state conference, adding warmth and polish to the proceedings. Outstanding? Of course.
(photo) Still crazy (about each other) after all these years
Bob Erickson, District S 1983 Outstanding Toastmaster salutes Deane
Erickson, 1981