Speaker's Bureau
Do you need to find a speaker? Well, you've come to the right place! This is a great resource for quality speakers for your club. These speakers are all recommended by other clubs in our district. If you need the password to the District Directory please contact your club president or secretary. If they have forgotten you can contact me Mike Fischnaller.
Please send the name and contact information of speakers that you have enjoyed to Rick Francona and we will post them below.
2008 Outbound (Argentina) GSE Team - Emily Francona, Team Leader
Emily
2008 GSE Team Adventures in Argentina
If you missed the team’s spellbinding presentation at our district conference in Eugene or need a motivational program on the benefits of the Rotary Foundation, this is the program for you. View team bios and read about some of their adventures in Rotary District 4790 on their blog, then contact team leader Emily and/or one of the team members to schedule a presentation to your club.
Emily Francona, RC Port Orford
Melissa Weinblatt, Port Orford
Kelly Talbert, Eugene
Lisa Cortes, Roseburg
Heather Linnemeyer, Grants Pass
Visit the Teams Blog for information: http://www.district5110gse2008.org/
or Click here for Emily's contact info
Vinnie McNeil
Will speak about DVD on the Friendship Exchange Program in our District. She also has a DVD on the exchanges with England and Australia. "I was a team member. Will work for food!"
Home Town: Scott Valley
George Lewis -- Clean Water for Guatemala
Clean water for isolated poor subsistence farmers is almost non existence. As much as 60% have no source of approved or clean water. This was especially critical after recent massive hurricanes. A solution is to have reasonable cost on site filters with in a family unit. Guatemala Sur Rotary has available a water filter system using a cleanable ceramic filter in series with two five gallon plastic containers that can be placed in remote rural homes for $50 a filter unit. The filter comes with instructions for care and maintenance.
Home Town: Florence
Click here for contact information - George
Ralph Christensen
Will speak about WCS projects in general and one that is being completed in Togo, Africa. Can also speak to other projects in Africa as well, and how travel there is accomplished. No funds will be solicited. Will talk about the good the bad, the ugly, the fun, the life changing experience a project can be for those who participate. Comes with pictures and a real fun, fast paced talk. Can do anything from 20 to 40 minutes, so let ‘er rip.
Home Town: Eugene
Click here for contact information - Ralph
Devian Aguirre is President of Sage Development Group, based in Ashland Oregon.
Ms. Aguirre is brilliant, insightful, funny and very committed to environmental concerns and Eco-friendly building options. If you would like to put Devian Aguirre on your schedule, call her secretary, Michelle Taylor, at 541-488-4849
PDG Judi Beard Strubing - Zone 23 Membership Coordinator
The Rotary Foundation, Rotaplast in Bolivia, Polio Eradication and Membership Development
Home town: Eugene
Click here for contact information - Judi
Tom Collier -
The Rotary Foundation Permanent Fund -- Leaving a Legacy
Rotary Friendship Exchange
Home Town: Bend
Click here for contact information - Tom
Helen Lucas - District Membership and Retention Chair
The Membership and Retention Committee is committed to promoting membership growth in District 5110 and for providing assistance to all clubs in initiating and implementing membership development programs with a special emphasis on retention.
Bert Morris - The Rotary Foundation - District Director
The Rotary Foundation Committee promotes The Rotary Foundation in District 5110 and for overall management of foundation programs including, but not limited to Ambassadorial Scholarships, Group Study Exchange, Foundation Alumni, World Peace Fellowships, Rotary Volunteers and Humanitarian Grants.
Click here for contact information - Bert
DGN Claire Little - TRF District Polio Chair
Polio Eradication - National Immunization Days in India
Home Town: Newport
Click here for contact information - Claire
Sara Marvin - Chair RYLA
Sara and her husband Rob have spent part of the last several years in India doing Eye Clinics. Sara can speak not only on those eye clinics but also on RYLA and Rotaract.
Home Town: Eugene
Click here for contact information - Sara
Carol Wythe - Rotary First Harvest
Carol initiated the Rotary First Harvest Program in Southern Oregon and has been a strong advocate for the program.
Home Town: Medford
Click here for contact information - Carol
Platon Mantheakis -- Water Project in Tanzania
Your speaker, Platon Mantheakis, was born and raised in Tanzania to the oldest European settler family. He provides a unique cultural insight to East African life as he presents the Rotary Club of Jacksonville-Applegate clean water project in Tanzania.
Find out about an amazing gravity fed system that has brought clean water to almost 30,000 Tanzanians. No funds will be solicited. DVD / PPT presentation. Contact Platon Mantheakis or Molly Parish, Club Secretary.
Home Town: Jacksonville
Click here for contact information - Platon
David Klindt, District TRF Annual Giving Co-Chair
Learn about Our Rotary Foundation and how your contributions to the annual giving fund promote world peace and understanding. David also led a GSE team to Brazil in 2004 -2005.
Home Town: Eugene
Click here for contact information - David
Sharon Parks - Rotary First Harvest
Seeing bananas being thrown away in a major Klamath Falls grocery, Sharon Parks, a Klamath County Rotarian sought more information about food utilization, recovery and salvage. During this quest, she discovered Rotary First Harvest in Seattle. She and her club soon learned that Oregon is the most “food insecure” state in the nation. Sharon initiated RFH in District 5110.
Home Town: Klamath Falls
Click here for contact information - Sharon
Emily Francona -- Demystifying Intelligence
Emily
Emily Francona is a retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer with service throughout the U.S. intelligence community in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Latin America. Emily is passionate about educating citizens on intelligence issues and countering frequently sensationalized and often inaccurate media reporting. She believes that citizens need to be better informed about the capabilities, limitations, and costs of intelligence – and the impact of intelligence on national security and foreign policy decisions. Her audiences have included the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Civilian-Military Relations, Portland State University's International Affairs Department, Willamette University's Institute for Continued Learning, and the Argentine Ministry of Defense.
Home Town: Port Orford
Click Here for Emily's web site and to contact her
Nancy Hughes -- Guatemala Stove Project
Nancy
Nancy started a project in memory of her late husband, to address the root causes of debilitating respiratory, eye and skin diseases, upper respiratory infections and tragic burns in the indigenous population of Guatemala. These preventable problems, caused by smoky open fires in rural homes, are the leading cause of death among local children.
Home Town: Eugene
Click here for contact information - Nancy
Click here to Visit the Stove Team Web Site
Patty Davis -- Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Central Oregon
I am the Marketing & Special Events Coordinator for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Oregon located here in Bend. Our Executive Director, Zak Boone, and I are both professional speakers with a strong background in stage and radio performance.We always welcome the opportunity to share the amazing and inspiring Ronald McDonald House story, a story that began with a Philadelphia Eagle's football player's very ill child, and continues today, more than 30 years later with more than 270 Ronald McDonald Houses serving families in need worldwide.
Home Town: Bend
Patty Davis
Work: 541-318-4950 Cell: 541-948-9114 pdavis@bendbroadband.com
Jack Selway - Rotary Global History Fellowship Founder
Jack Selway, the founder of Rotary Global History Fellowship has experience in Zone, PETS, and regional Rotary meetings since 1982, also a performer at the 1990 and 1991 International Conventions. Topics are intended to increase member retention and TRF contributions.
1976 Outstanding Jaycee Speaker in California Additional background at http://www.selwaybio.com
Jack Selway
Founder and Executive Vice President
Rotary Global History Fellowship
231 Dittmer Avenue, Pueblo, CO 81004
719-369-2305
email Jack
Subject: Rotary History, most any topic in that area Experience listed at http://www.historyspeakers.org And, http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/historians/selway.htm
Travel Expense Requested.
Jerry Cochran / Nancy English - The Permanent Fund of The Rotary Foundation
We serve as Co-Chairs for the District and both are willing to travel anywhere in the District to present a club program.
Contacts:
Jerry Cochran 741-673-5472 or 302-9477 jerryrco@aol.com
Nancy English (H) 741-484-2468 (O)547-302-9477 english@rio.com
