Speaking Keystone

Episode 6 will be marking the final chapter of the early career of Ralph Smedley. It is important to note that the majority of this episode will be focused on his transition from San Jose to Santa Ana in California and the days leading to the major career shift in his life.

The extraordinary life of the founder of Toastmasters, Ralph C. Smedley will be celebrated again today, with an episode that will cover a few instances. Once again, I will cover 3 years of the life of Mr. Smedley, from 1918 until 1920. Even though I thought that it was challenging to find information on the previous years, the following three years lacked resources even more than the ones before.

This will be another exciting episode dedicated to the life of Ralph C. Smedley, founder of Toastmasters International. In this episode, we will cover 3 years in life of Ralph Smedley, 1915 to 1917. I will feature events from his involvement with YMCA and Toastmasters, his dedicated work in the church and 2 major events in his personal life.

Welcome to Speaking Keystone! A podcast dedicated to preserving the origins of public speaking. Each episode will bring you valuable insights and information about influential people and events from the history of public speaking. In this episode, we will kick things off in 1909, when Ralph Smedley moved to Rock Island, Illinois to serve as a General Secretary of the local YMCA. His term officially started on August 15, 1909.

Welcome to Speaking Keystone!

Welcome to Speaking Keystone!

A podcast dedicated to preserving the origins of public speaking. Each episode will bring you valuable insights and information about influential people and events from the history of public speaking.

Since February 22 marks the birthday of the founder of Toastmasters International, Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, it would be most suitable that we start off the series with his life’s history.