By Daleth Quintanilla |Staff Writer| CSUSB Toastmasters empowers members to develop communication and leadership skills. Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization founded by Ralph C. Smedley in 1945. Meetings start with impromptu table talks and guests are both welcomed and encouraged to speak. Toastmasters meetings are an hour long and consist of workshops where members give speeches in a no-pressure atmosphere. Members are given a week to prepare speeches. Approximately half the meeting time is dedicated to speeches alone. There is no instructor in Toastmasters meetings, but there is a President (Rusty Palmer), Vice President of Education (Erika Samperio), Vice … [Read more...] about Speech development for Coyotes