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Saturday AM #7735 / Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that helps members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Saturday AM is a charter club of Toastmasters International, which was founded in 1924 by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley. Founded in 1990, (Saturday AM ) is located in Columbia, South Carolina and meets every Saturday between 10am and 11:45am at the Cooper Branch Library's meeting room. Saturday AM #7735 is one of the premier open clubs in Toastmasters International District 58, having been recognized President's Distinguished Club ten years consecutively and having coached three toastmasters –– Douglas Wilson, Chakisse Newton, and Henry Flowers IV –– to international speech competition. ==Club history== Saturday AM was chartered in 1990 by twenty dedicated toastmaster members, but by 1994 the club had slipped drastically to a membership of six. It had become more of a social club than an educational organization in which it was chartered as, only four years prior. The club's morale was suffering greatly: Out of its six members, one was a twelve-year-old non-member, and its three-term President was no longer attending club meetings regularly. Saturday AM was teetering on becoming defunct. Then on a routine visit, a Toastmaster Area Governor, representing District 58, discovered the disaster that had become Saturday AM. Raymond Hill (DTM), believing he could turn the club around, promptly joined the club and subsequently recruited his wife, Patricia, to serve as the club specialist (now titled: club coach). Together, the husband and wife team developed a four-part success plan. First, to get the club back on the educational track, Ray and Patricia recruited a past-District 58 Governor to serve as the club's vice president education (VPE); then, to boost the club's spirit, the couple planned several breakfast meetings to make Saturday morning club meetings more appealing; next, to grow the club's membership they kicked off a public relations campaign to promote the club; and then, to add a personal touch, Ray frequently called guests and members –– thanking guest for attending and asking them to visit again, and telling missing members how much he missed them and got a promise that they would return. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saturday AM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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