Outstanding Vice President of Public Relations of the Year

What does your community know about your Club? If they know nothing, then how can they find you? Although it is every member's responsibility to spread the word about Toastmasters, your club's Vice President of Public Relations has the challenge of preparing various media to promote your club. For the 2010-2011 term, District 84's Public Relations Officer, Nancy Hoehn, DTM presented many challenges to all VPPRs, including club poster design, preparing a newsletter, participating in social media websites, press releases, holding an open house, completing 3 of 17 projects to promote your club and attending Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI).

Nancy Hoehn & Gloria Grehl

Many of our District's 200 clubs actively participated in the challenges, yet one in particular truly stood out. The discretionary award created for 2010-2011 to recognize the Outstanding Vice President of Public Relations of the Year, was awarded to Gloria Grehl, DTM, a member of Vista Toastmasters Club.

Gloria's relentless pursuit of excellence while showing sincere pride in her club was evident in the quality of her club's newsletter and her many postings to Facebook, Twitter and her club's website. In addition, because of her eye for detail, Gloria was selected to proof our District's newsletter “The SunTalker.”

2010-2011 PRO Nancy Hoehn presented Gloria the District's award at the Vista Club's Holiday party held at “Put a Cork In It” restaurant in December 2011. Congratulations Gloria for your dedicated contributions to your club and our District!