{"id":238,"date":"2017-07-12T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2017-07-13T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T21:06:01","slug":"club-spotlight-midtown-toastmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/club-spotlight-midtown-toastmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Spotlight: Midtown Toastmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><em>It\u2019s easy to think of Toastmasters as one giant homogeneous organization. As any Toastmaster will tell you, that is far from the truth. Each club has a unique personality. Club Spotlight seeks to help current and future members find the right club(s) for their Toastmasters goals. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o-1200x589.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19221880_1408177549263044_1607276487532793029_o.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/header>\n<h3><strong>Club: Midtown Toastmasters (4722)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Charter Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;September 1, 1981<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Basking Ridge, NJ<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Awards:<\/strong> President\u2019s Distinguished Club for 10 consecutive years.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The club was created over 35 years ago at Verizon\u2019s headquarters in NYC. The headquarters has since moved, but it kept its Midtown name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Club members in their own words:<\/h3>\n<p>The Midtown Toastmasters is a fun-loving, motivated, and supportive group of individuals, who meet twice a month in Basking Ridge to work on communication and leadership skills.&nbsp;Members get to know one another on a deeper level by sharing personal stories, struggles, and victories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome anyone to visit our club, and check out what the Toastmasters have to offer. It\u2019s always exciting to have a new member join and see them grow right before our eyes.- Tezeta Roro<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email Jennifer Burns at <a href=\"mailto:jennifer.burns@verizonwireless.com\">jennifer.burns@verizonwireless.com<\/a> or just stop by and check out the next meeting.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to think of Toastmasters as one giant homogeneous organization. As any Toastmaster will tell you, that is far from the truth. Each club has a unique personality. Club Spotlight seeks to help current and future members find the right club(s) for their Toastmasters goals. Club: Midtown Toastmasters (4722) Charter Date:&nbsp;September 1, 1981 Location: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/club-spotlight-midtown-toastmasters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Club Spotlight: Midtown Toastmasters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,50],"tags":[62,80,81,7,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tm83.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}