HomeMy WebLinkAbout65-155RESOLUTION 65-155 HONORING THE MEMORY OF
DR. RALPH C. SMEDLEY AND EXPRESSING THE
APPRECIATION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE SCATT~-RED
GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THAT HAVE BEEN
INFLUENCED BY THIS GREAT MAN
WHEREAS, DR. RALPH C. SMEDLEY, as Secretary of the Santa Ana
YMCA, started a public speaking group of young men in 1924 to keep
them off the streets and to improve their ability to express
themselves, which group prospered and grew so that the following
year DR. SMEDLEY started a second group in the City of Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, his able leadership and the central validity of the
organizational idea were so good that Toastmasters grew rapidly so
that by 1938 there were one hundred individual clubs; and
WHEREAS, after World War II the growth of Toastmasters
continually amazed DR. SMRDLEY, it became Toastmasters International
and spread throughout the world as an organization conceived by this
great man and dedicated to "Better Listening, Thinking, Speaking",
so that today there are more than 3,500 groups throughout the free
world, and community, business, political, and industrial leaders
have been and are increasingly being trained in the important art of
communication, the use of man's greatest invention, language; and
WHEREAS, DR. SMEDLEY was granted a full life, he had the
privilege of contributing an organizational idea that has benefited
and is benefiting people in nearly every part of the free world,
which has grown into Toastmasters International, now headquartered
in Santa Ana, California, and thereby created his own enduring
monummnt of public and individual service.
NOW, THEREFORE, BITIT RESOLVED: That the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana expresses for the City, the citizens of the City,
the United States of America, and those people throughout the free
world who have been influenced by the Toastmasters organization,
their complete respect, appreciation, and thanks to DR. RALPH C.
SMEDLEY for having been a part of our life and a growing beneficial
influence wherever men are free to express their ideas.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its regular meeting held on the 20th day of September, 1965.
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CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, DORIS M. BROWN, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution
was regularly introduced to said Council at its regular meeting held
on the 20th day of September, 1965, and was at said meeting regularly
passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
Gilmore, Brooks, Burk, Herrin,
McMichael, Harvey
None
Markel
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL