Members introduce prospective visitors to Toastmasters with pre-PowerPoint visual aids, such as this three-sided display.

Dr. Ralph Smedley meets with then-United States Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Washington D.C. in 1960.

Members and guests at the “Hi-Jinks Luncheon,” 18th annual Toastmasters International Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, August 1949.

Ralph Smedley and Toastmasters from Los Angeles, CA, including Club #141, celebrate the organization’s growth, circa 1957.

Toastmasters founder Ralph Smedley poses at his desk in Santa Ana, California.

A young Ralph C. Smedley.