District 5110 Speakers 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.

Know a good speaker? Are you a speaker? Please send the name and contact information of speakers that you have enjoyed to Rick Francona and we will post them here.





Topics

The Rotary Foundation (TRF)

Polio Plus

World Community Service

Group Study Exchange

Membership and Retention

Rotaplast - Rotaplast in Bolivia

RYLA

Rotaract

Rotary First Harvest

Friendship Exchange Program

Non-Rotary

Speakers


Crater Lake, Oregon's Only National Park

Crater Lake - History of Crater Lake, Oregon's only National Park, as told by Ranger Steve Marks. Steve is a former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (Australia 1985, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ashland). Contact Steve at steve_mark@nps.gov.



"The Important and Lasting Impact of Dads" - Bob Hazleton


Bob Hazleton is author of Dads Matter and a member of the Corvallis After Five Rotary. After numerous interventions Bob and his wife Sherry sent their second son Jesse to a program for troubled teens. This led Bob to leave his engineering job and conduct personal growth seminars for troubled and at-risk teens. Bob talks about how much dads, or lack thereof, affected these teens. Bob talks about his inspiration for writing Dads Matter and how Rotary has assisted Bob in helping families. More at: www.dadsmatter.com Contact: Bob Hazleton, Rotary Club of Corvallis After Five, at dadsmatter@comcast.net or call 541-753-6825.




Norm Malmberg

"WCS in a Small Club and The Power of One"

Norm Malmberg, a member of the District 5110 WCS Executive Committee, spends about 30-40 minutes taking your club through this interesting facet of Rotary service. Norm needs a digital projector and screen, a small (4') table and a two easel stands. Contact: Norm Malmberg, Rotary Club of Scott Valley, at pandn42@sisqtel.net, or call 530-467-5740.





"Nha Trang, Vietnam - a new hospital for the hopeless and forgotten"


Drake Travis

Drake Travis talks about a new hospital in Vietnam - he is a partmer with the lead surgeon who founded the project. Contact: Drake Travis, Rotary Club of Scott Valley, at draketravis7@yahoo.com, or call 530-925-5241.



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 Team Blog for information: http://d5110gse2008.blogspot.com/

Demystifying Intelligence

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. Requires digital projector and screen.

Home Town: Port Orford

Click Here for Emily's web site and to contact her

Click here for Emily's contact info



Friendship Exchange Program

Vinnie McNeil will speak about 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

Email Vinnie



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

Guatemala Slide Show

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 - Gift Advisor

Tom is the Zone 25 (Districts 5090, 5100, 5110) TRF Gift Advisor

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

Polio Eradication - National Immunization Days in India

Home Town: Newport

Click here for contact information - Claire



Harriett Schloer - TRF District Polio Eradication Chair

Polio Plus Efforts in District 5110

Home Town: Bend

Click here for contact information - Harriett




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



Pete Gribskov, 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.

Home Town: Eugene

Click here for contact information - Pete



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




Nancy Hughes -- Stove Team International


Nancy Hughes

Nancy Hughes was working as a volunteer in the kitchen with the Cascade Medical Team in Solola, Guatemala in the spring of 2004. One evening, a patient came into the kitchen of the public hospital where she was working and asked to delay the meal so she could say a few words to the team. This beautiful, eighteen-year-old indigenous woman had fallen onto a kitchen fire at age two and lost the use of her hands. For sixteen years she had prayed to use her hands. She told the doctors that they were the answer to her prayers. It was at that point when Nancy thought, "We need to do something to prevent burns rather than treat them."

When she returned to Eugene, Oregon, she asked her Rotary club, the Southtowne Rotary Club in Eugene, about sponsoring a grant to provide safer, fuel-efficient stoves to the people in Central America. They encouraged her to write the grant proposal, and she not only wrote that grant but went on to apply for grants from Carlos Santana’s Milagro Foundation and Synchronicity Foundation. Those initial grants helped create Stove Team International, an organization that addresses preventable problems caused by smoky open fires in rural homes. These problems include debilitating upper respiratory, eye and skin diseases, tragic burns and untreated hernias caused by carrying heavy loads of firewood.

The team now works in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua!

Home Town: Eugene

Click here for Nancy's contact information

Information about our Major Matching Grants and our projects is available on the StoveTeam International 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



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



Eloquence Communication

Michelle Franco speaks on:

  • Authentic Speaking
  • Championing Your Business
  • The Eloquent Entrepreneur

Eloquence Communication 541-280-7968