For the best experience, join us IN PERSON,

and come to

Keller Plaza Apartments

Community Room

5321 Telegraph Avenue

(North) Oakland, CA 94609

(Security gate code: #0123)

Our meetings are held hybrid-style. This means you can attend in person, or if you can't make it in person, you can attend online!

Our hybrid-style meetings allow those attending in person to see those attending on line (via the TV screen on the wall) and those attending online to see those in the room.

If you are unable to make it in person, join us online! Everybody learns and has a good time - whether they attend in person or online!

Here are the A B C Ds of our Zoom login information:

A. Go to Zoom.us

B. Click "Join Meeting"

C. Enter Meeting ID: 862 0004 1201

D. Password will be required!

(To obtain the password call (877) 260-8357 ext. 807)

Theme for our Speech Marathon: 

"I Just Came By To Tell You... "

Word of the Day: interminable (adj)

Definition: having or seeming to have no end

Use in a sentence: The speech felt interminable as the unprepared speaker rambled on and on.

About Us...

ARPB Toastmasters Club #8933 was founded over 30 years ago by Mr. Ernest Clark, who at the time was President of Associated Real Property Brokers (ARPB), and believed real estate professionals in the organization needed to optimize their communications and leadership skills to best be able to serve their clients. Mr. Clark saw the programs and skills training offered by Toastmasters, International, as the perfect way to gain these skills, and so he obtained a charter to establish a club within the ARPB organization.

Over time, ARPB Toastmasters evolved from being a club primarily for real estate professionals, to being a club that serves the entire community. Our membership is now comprised of not only those from the real estate community, but also many other professions, as well as retirees & homemakers, and we welcome any one who wants to improve their communication and leadership skills in a fun, supportive, and culturally diverse atmosphere. We continue our tradition of excellence, and today, we are designated as a President's Distinguished Club - the highest possible achievement for Toastmasters clubs worldwide.

We encourage you to come and check us out for yourself!

Our hybrid meetings are SO CONVENIENT that people have been able to attend, not only from all over the Oakland/SF bay area, but from all over the country - even all over the world! Come enjoy the incomparable ARPB Toastmasters experience for yourself!

If you have any questions, please contact our VPPR, Karen Davis, at 510-407-1327.

Word-Sense

(expand your vocabulary!)

Percipient (pronounced "pur-SIP-ee-ant") (adj)

Definition: Having a good understanding of things; perceptive

Sentence usage: Bryant is a quiet but percipient kind of guy.

Lugubrious (pronounced "loo-GOO-bree-us") (adj)

Definition: Looking or sounding sad and dismal

Sentence usage: Although he wears a lugubrious expression most of the time, he's really a very happy fellow.

Mark your calendar & plan accordingly

Our next club executive board meeting is scheduled for 2/7/2023, 7:20pm. In consideration, the regular meeting will end at 7:15. All members who are not officers are requested to leave immediately after the club meeting to allow the board meeting to begin on time. Officers, in addition to your reports, establishing the a dates in January & February for our speech marathons and club speech and evaluation contests will be on the agenda!

D57 Toastmasters Leadership Training Must Be Taken by ALL CLub Officers!! If you did not attend TLI, please register and attend one of the make up sessions below: (click it to register)

Thursday, February 1, 2024, 6:30-8:30pm

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 7-8:30 pm

When you attend training, it will help our club retain our Presidents Distinguished status, and it will provide you best practices tips for performing the duties of your office!

JUST DO IT!!

Members - Please schedule your speeches & sign up to fill the roles at future meetings. Thanks to Debo Sarkar for making it easy and convenient to do so with a Google sheet! Please complete the speeches scheduled for your selected path, rather than pocket speeches, so we can earn points to become a distinguished club again. To schedule yourself, click here!

ARPB Toastmasters International Speech & Evaluation Contests 2/28/2024 6pm

The winners of our club contests will go on to represent our club in competition against other clubs in our Area, D30, on March 14, 2024. Start brushing up on that speech everybody told you would be a great contest speech NOW and, practice your evaluation skills, and you may be our next winner!

Small print: The 1st place winners of our club contests will each receive a certificate for a 3 day 2 night hotel stay with their choice of destinations, compliments of KittyMat Travel Enterprises!

Our Area D-30 International Speech and Evaluation Contests will occur on March 14, 2024. 

ARPB Toastmasters International Speech & Evaluation Contests will occur on February 28, 2024 at 6pm PT. In order to be eligible for the contest, members must have completed a minimum of 2 levels in the Pathways learning system. 

Members - Please be sure we have your updated membership information on our club website: www.arpbToastmasters.com

If you have never logged in there before, there are instructions for logging in the first time. Then click on "private member directory" , upload your picture and check to be sure your bio and contact information are updated. Thank you!

District 57 You Tube Channel Has Launched! Our District 57 PR Team Video Chair, Hans Thoma, has really stepped up the district's visibility with a slew of new edits of recent, and even some classic reels from District 57 events. Watch the endless speeches, meeting proceedings, and master classes for being a better Toastmaster and getting the most out of Toastmasters. D-57 playlists include Speech Contest videos, Meeting proceedings, Training videos, Candidate statements, Officer Trainings, Masterclass videos, and more. Subscribe to the District 57 Toastmasters Youtube Channel when you enter the channel HERE.

IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!! 

Be sure you get credit for your speeches!

The Pathways learning experience is moving to a new Learning Management System (LMS) in the first half of next year. Toastmasters, Int'l is preparing to transfer your education data from the existing LMS to the new one well in advance of the transition to support a successful launch.

To ensure that your education achievements transition to the new LMS correctly, you need to confirm that they are submitted on Base Camp and reflected on your Education Awards page on your Toastmasters profile.

To be sure your information transfers properly, take the following steps:

1. In My Home, find the “Education and Achievements” section.
2. Review your education awards on the Achievement Board. These are the awards you received recognition for from Toastmasters International.
3. Now compare to your achievements on Base Camp by navigating to the Paths and Learning page in your curriculum.
4. If a path is not complete, verify each level completion by opening the path.
5. For completed paths, navigate to the “Completed Paths” section.

If you discover any achievements submitted on Club Central but not Base Camp (or vice versa), ask the club VP Education to make the needed submission on your behalf. To see a video demonstration of the process, click here.

Other District 57 Toastmasters events:  

Here are some other events for District 57. To view in more detail, register and attend the D-57 events, click here. 

We look forward to meeting you, greeting you, and showing you how beneficial and fun it is to be a part of our ARPB Toastmasters family at our Speech Marathon #2 on Wednesday, January 31 2024!

Sincerely,

Jesse Lucas

President

ARPB Toastmasters Club 8933