District 46 Toastmasters | New York City, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk

Have fun, meet new people, share the Toastmaster's experience.

The Traveling Gavel starts its journey at the home club of the District Governor. From there, it's up to you and your fellow Toastmasters to help it wend its way throughout the District.

The Traveling Gavel currently resides with S&P Effective Communicators Club #5487, New York, NY, captured on January 19, 2010

Five members from the S&P Effective Communicators Club (FX Charpentier, Christine Navigante, Harry Aneziris, Jaya Rudrabhatla and Gouri Seetharam) went to the NYSSA Toastmasters club in Times Square (New York City) on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 evening. We had a lot of fun attending the NYSSA Toastmasters meeting and learnt a lot from them. Our hosts were really gracious and made us all feel very welcome. A special thank you to NYSSA Toastmasters members for being so great. We are thrilled to have grabbed the "Traveling Gavel" from them and look forward to another club visiting us and doing the same.

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The Objectives

• Encourage joint Toastmaster Club meetings
• Share talents and knowledge of communication and leadership
• Extend the fellowship of Toastmasters

The Process

1. Three (or more) Toastmaster members, from the same club, visit the target club that currently holds the Traveling Gavel. Please call ahead to announce your intent to visit and offer to help with the program. Click to view meeting and contact information for this club.
2. The visiting Toastmasters must participate in the target club’s meeting in some way.
3. The visiting Toastmasters ‘Capture’ the Traveling Gavel at the end of the meeting. They sign and date the Gavel Log, and take the captured Traveling Gavel and Gavel Log for display at their home club's next meeting.
4. As soon as the Traveling Gavel is captured, the visiting Toastmasters must announce the Gavel’s new place of residence on this website. Click this link to complete the Record of Capture
5. The Traveling Gavel and Gavel Log will be displayed at each subsequent club meeting, or until it is captured by visiting Toastmasters from another club.
6. Clubs may capture the gavel more than once, but a club may not capture the gavel right back from the club that captured it from them.

The Reward

A $10 Gift Certificate, good for purchases from the Toastmasters International catalog, will be awarded to each club that captures the Traveling Gavel. A club will receive only one $10 Gift Certificate per Toastmaster’s year, even if that club captures the gavel more than once.