by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
The words “To mentor is to touch a life forever” encapsulates an aspect of Merryl’s leadership style that will remain with us as part of her legacy. She was a fellow Toastmaster, District 74 Director, a true leader, a mentor and a friend of many in Toastmasters...
by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
Death be not proud! District Director Merryl Jubber was a dedicated, committed and visionary Toastmasters. MHBSRIP. The picture above makes me remember when she welcomed me as Division E Director at Cape Town COT in 2019. She thanked me wholeheartedly for...
by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
My leader Merryl, because of you I was inspired enough to serve; serve with a heart of a servant leader. You showed us how to care by practicing this each time you sent us congratulatory messages when we made progress in our educationals. You taught us how to sell the...
by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
When I met Merryl Jubber, she was not yet 23. She and I both attended JRA Toastmasters on a Thursday night and since we were both in our 20s, we would go to a late night restaurant after the meetings and drink the kinds of sweet alcohol that only people in their early...
by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
While I forget exactly when I first met Merryl, I will never forget Merryl. Merryl was such a passionate, determined and driven individual. You could always count on her to do what needed to be done. She engaged wholeheartedly and you could equally count on her...
by excellence | May 15, 2021 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 May 2021 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
Where do I start writing a tribute to a leader and a friend that is far larger than any mere words that I can string together could ever hope to encompass? Yet this I must do as an era has come to a close within District 74 and it can not pass unremarked and...