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COVER STORY

Interview with the District Trio

Phyllis Harmon, DTM

Each year we elect new leaders to manage District 7 affairs.
Most members don’t know them well. For this issue, each

Trio member was given two questions. What follows are
their responses.

Eldred Brown, DTM - District 7 Director

As District Director, please share with the members your

vision for the coming year
Like all other Districts in the USA, District 7 Toastmasters

was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. We lost a lot of
members and a lot of clubs. Those members and clubs who
stayed in Toastmasters had to learn how to conduct meetings
and give speeches online. We District leaders have learned

how to present training and run speech contests online.
With three different COVID vaccines now being
distributed to the American people our nation has gained
control over the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

We are experiencing a reopening of many avenues of social
interaction that were closed to us for over a year. We in
District 7 are now in a prime position to take advantage of this
reopening. I don’t envision us ever returning to exactly the

way things were before the pandemic, nor do I even think this
a worthwhile goal. Rather, I envision District 7 incorporating
all the lessons we learned about online meetings during the
pandemic into the way we did Toastmasters pre-COVID to

create a new model of participation in Toastmasters. I will
work with our 2021-2022 Trio and District leaders to take

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