| When people hear the word ‘basement’ they are more likely to picture mold and spiders than the birth place of a global communication and leadership training organization. But a basement in a YMCA in Santa Ana, California, is exactly where, in 1924, Ralph C. Smedley held the first meeting of what would eventually becone Toastmasters International.
Smedley began working as Director of Education for a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) after he graduated from college. He observed that many of the young patrons needed training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings and smedley wanted to help them. He decided the training format would be similar to a social club. During the early 1900s the word ‘Toastmaster’reffered to a person who proposed the toasts and introduced the speakers at a banquet. Smedley named his group ‘The Toastmasters Club’ because he thought it suggesteda pleasant, social atmosphere appealing to young men.
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