Martha Tinker, DTM
Second Year International Director

Judy Southwick , DTM
First Year International Director

To the Toastmasters of Region IV:

After a long, hard winter everyone is looking forward to Spring – to green grass, blooming flowers, a walk in the park AND a last burst of energy in Toastmasters to be Distinguished.

Yes, folks, now is the time to ensure you are doing everything possible to make it to the stage in Calgary.

• Membership: Encourage clubs with rewards, prizes, contests – anyway possible to get new members. Sometimes all it takes is to ask – on a face-to-face basis.
  
• Clubs: What about clubs that have STILL not paid Oct. dues? Appoint some one to call these clubs weekly. It’s not too late to have one last club building contest.
  
• CC’s and AC’s: Don’t wait until June! Any member who is only 2-3 speeches away from one of these designations should be on the schedule to finish by June.
  

The numbers show everyone can be Distinguished – let’s make it happen!

All of you should have a received a summary of the February Board Meeting. Just to highlight a few things:

• We have listened to your comments and realized there is much work to be done. Therefore, a membership vote of the Governance Re-Structure has been put off until August, 2009.
  
• We will have 14 Regions worldwide and not 15 as originally proposed. It appears Region 4 will now include Districts 15 and 26, although this is not final. District 15 is Utah, southern Idaho and a small part of Nevada and Oregon. District 26 is Colorado and Wyoming.
  
• Regional Conferences will focus on training and speech contests (not educational sessions). There would be the possibility of combining Regions at a Conference.
  
• Nominees for 3rd. Vice President are John Lau from Malaysia (DNAR) and Michael Notaro from Region I.
  
• Jana Barnhill’s theme for 2008-09 is “Toastmasters: The Courage to Conquer”.
  

Don’t forget the Regional Conference in Rapid City, SD on June 27-28. You can find Registration and Hotel information on this website. More information will be posted as it becomes available

Judy will be providing each of you a Region IV directory at the TI Convention in Calgary. She will be contacting all the LGET'S to get conference dates, your theme for 2008/2009 and new leadership assignments. She wants to start collecting the information now so it's ready in August.

Region IV will also be roasting 2nd year Director Martha Tinker in Calgary. Be thinking of those humorous stories and anecdotes because each District team will want to roast Martha. Judy will serve as Roast Master.

Have a good month,

Martha and Judy