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The Founder of Toastmasters
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Learn about the man that started the Toastmasters program. Who was Dr. Ralph C. Smedley and why did he start our organization?
Toastmasters was the brainchild of a Midwesterner named Ralph C. Smedley. In 1903, after graduating from Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, Smedley took a job as director of education for the local Young Men's Christian Association. Realizing that the older boys who visited the YMCA needed training in communication, he began a public speaking club
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