Local Toastmasters Club Member Earns Distinguished Toastmaster Award

East Providence, RI, October 16, 2014—The East Bay Toastmasters Club, on behalf of Toastmasters International, awarded club member Ken Wadland with the prestigious Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award at the club’s October 16 meeting held at Linn Healthcare Center in East Providence. Toastmasters International bestows the DTM award to members as its highest award in recognition of both communication and leadership skills. To be eligible for this award, a member must have achieved an increasingly challenging series of seven communication and leadership awards including an Advanced Communication Gold award and Advanced Leader Silver award.

“One Distinguished Toastmaster award is not the end of the line. I’m already working on my second one,” said Mr. Wadland who joined East Bay Toastmasters Club in January 2013 and is involved in several clubs throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

Toastmasters International has recognized East Bay Toastmasters Club as a President’s Distinguished Club for the past five years in recognition of the club’s achievement of 10 goals across the areas of education, training, and administration. Awards such as DTM contribute to the club earning President’s Distinguished Club status.

East Bay Toastmasters Club (Toastmasters International club #9556) meets at 5:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at Linn Healthcare Center, 30 Alexander Avenue, East Providence, RI. For more information, go to http://9556.toastmastersclubs.org/.

About Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, the organization’s membership exceeds 313,000 members and over 14,650 clubs in 126 countries. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped people of all backgrounds become more confident in front of an audience. For information about local Toastmasters clubs, please visit www.toastmasters.org. Follow @Toastmasters on Twitter.

Photo: East Bay Toastmasters Club VP of Education Mitch Krzyzek (left) presented the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award to Ken Wadland (right) at the club’s Oct. 16, 2014 meeting. Photo taken by club member Anna Silva.