...Linings" was the topic with which Dr. Helen Longfellow won top honors in the first annual Speech Contest of the Brainerd Toastmistress Club held last Monday night. 60 years ago (1940) Phillip Roth left Sunday for Redwood Falls, where he will be...

...franchise in Brainerd in 1967 30 years ago (1970) Mrs. Louis Jelacie was judged first place winner in the Brainerd Toastmistress Club's annual speech contest held at Van's Cafe. 40 years ago (1960) At last night's meeting of the Baxter...

...eat, $2.75, Tank's Club. 40 years ago (1967) Mrs. Sybil Whitney, speech contest chairman of the Brainerd Toastmistress Club, announced that the annual speech contest will be held at Van's Cafe at 6:30 p.m. March 27. 60 years...

...years ago (1970) Mrs. Herman Molin was voted the trophy for the most improved speaker at the meeting of the Brainerd Toastmistress Club Thursday. In keeping with the theme for the month, "Our problem, the State of Minnesota," Mrs. Molin...

20 years ago (1983) Veronica Besmehn, vice president and program chairman of the Brainerd Toastmistress Club, was recently awarded second place in the Council 1 speech contest held at the American Association of the University of Minnesota...

...member of St. Christopher's Church in Nisswa and St. Francis Church in Brainerd, a charter member of the Brainerd Toastmistress Club, a member of Women of the Orchestra, a co-founder of the Crow Wing County Mental Health Association, serving...