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successful, that they are working with the prison’s Toastmasters help other people.
Latino Club to charter a new Spanish Language
Toastmasters club inside the prison. That club While Ralph Smedley started Toastmasters with-
should be chartered by the time you are reading in the YMCA, I know that he would be gratified
this. The members are so excited to get started, to see how much of a difference it is making for
that I was able to obtain the Pathways Level 1 members who are incarcerated. We currently have
projects in Spanish for them to begin completing four Toastmasters clubs within prisons in District
Level 1 even before the club is chartered. Another 7. Capital Toastmasters at Oregon State Peniten-
new club, Beyond the Wall Toastmasters, should tiary in Salem, Rose City Toasters at Columbia
also be chartered by the time you read this. River Correctional Institution in Portland, Auda-
cious Orators at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
We have seen many people who are involved in (Oregon’s only prison for women) in Wilsonville,
Toastmasters inside prison say “I will definitely and Spirit Trackers at Deer Ridge Correctional In-
join Toastmasters when I get out” but then too stitution in Madras. District 9 to our east has High
many of them don’t. We have identified several Desert Toastmasters at Two Rivers Correctional In-
reasons why this happens, and Beyond the Wall stitution in Umatilla. Oh yeah, and by the time you
Toastmasters is specifically designed to help those are reading this we should also have the newly
members transition to the outside world within a chartered Spanish language Toastmasters club in
Toastmasters club. This club is designed by and for the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.
these members to help them transition out. Club
President Mario Reyes expressed his desire to I strongly encourage all Toastmasters to make
build this club while he was still incarcerated. He it a point to visit a Toastmasters club that is in a
did much of the groundwork to prepare the club prison. You will see in action the original purpose
even before he was released. Reyes and many that Ralph Smedley had in mind when he started
others know that a key to success is to continue bringing people together to learn and practice
their journey of self-improvement through the presentation skills to help them build their lives.
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