Meet Ralph Smedley, the Toastmasters Founder Toastmasters celebrates its 90th aniversary!  Cause for a time travel in our Table Topics: Ineke impersonated Toastmasters Founder Ralph Smedley and explained, that (s)he intended to make young men more eloquent to improve communication between men and women. Kumar, assuming the role of a guest on a 1954 international…

You are welcome at our stand Members of our club represent the Munich Prostmasters at the ‘Expat in the City an international fair‘ at Alte Kongresshalle, Theresienhöhe 15, Munich on the 22nd March 2015, 10.00 – 17.00. Toastmasters at the stand and demo-meeting Munich Prostmasters is one of six Toastmaster clubs at the expat fair.…

Special Munich Prostmasters’ meeting on March 4th: International Speech and Evaluation Club Contest. Following the funny jokes from Samuel, the first part of the evening started with a target speech given by our experienced speaker Carlo. It was absolutly amazing to experience how differently the five contestants (Ranjith, Ineke, Hervé, Kumar and Armin) focused on…

An international affair: 14 countries represented Over 14 different nationalities were represented at our last Prostmaster meeting! It was a huge turnout. People from South Africa, Malta, Afghanistan, Ireland, India, USA, China, Portugal, Spain, Nigeria, Georgia, Russia and Germany. The mix of nations was a guarantee for a lot of fun! Not only did we…

Lately, it has become difficult for me to leave my home in the evening. It is not only due to the exhaustion I feel after chasing a toddler all day long, but also because of all the things that could happen while I am away, like an earthquake, fire and other evils. The only event…

Ineke Vermeulen Remember-remember, the fifth of November… With these words, the Prostmasters meeting of November fifth was opened. For those of you that weren’t there or never heard this rhyme: on the fifth of November 1605, Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London and ever since, the fifth of November has been known as…

Yawwwp!!!…Munich Prostmasters! Yawp! With a startling roar that spread like shockwaves throughout the room, we heard Christian quote Walt Whitman and introduce the word of the day. Yawp! the Barbarian war cry that exults courage and instills fear in your opponent, like the All Blacks rugby team performing a haka! the cathartic scream clearly resonated…

by Armin So last Wednesday was the second time I have been a guest at the Postmasters. And that’s already a lie because: Just before the start of the show, I signed up for membership. A few minutes later I kinda wished I hadn’t when Toastmaster Of The Evening presented the audience with his idea…