Club Resources - Speakers/Programs

Speakers available to the Rotary Clubs of District 5870

512-943-1277 Judge Ken Anderson, Georgetown Rotary Past President and a former Williamson County DA, wrote a fascinating book about former Texas Governor Dan Moody.

512-680-0468 Paul Baffes explains “work-life balance” to keep high levels of productivity at work and in your personal life.

512-499-4915 Austin Rotarian Gaines Bagby led our GSE team to Australia.

512-921-1625 Margine Beamon, Rotary’s border health initiative

212-963-7710 Vivian Bernstean & Lilli Schindler coordinate the United Nations Speakers Program. Contact one of them directly to arrange a UN speaker. More info is available at http://www.rotary.org/Rldocuments/en_pdf/un_rotary_outreach_pgroamme_en.pdf

888-598-5566 Lionel Betancourt has a daughter in the Austin area and would welcome an invitation to come to Central Texas to spend 20 minutes telling your club about “Adoption Awareness,” a project of the Rotary Club of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley.

512-477-4586 Austin Rotarian Jack Brannon was a UT James Michener Fellow in Poetry.

512-339-9297 Tim Buckley – Ghana National Immunization Day Team member (polio vaccine)

512-261-5786 Buzz Buzzard offers 3 programs: (1) Nigeria National Immunization Day Team member (polio vaccine), (2) Native American Flute (part music, part history), and (3) Native Americans of the Southwest (includes artifacts).

512-261-5786 Joan Buzzard, Heifer International helps people become independent.

979-535-4538 Carl Cunnins on Boy Scouts

512-346-0511 PDG Barry Curlee. Having sponsored 43 men & women into Rotary, Barry's strong suit is Rotary Recruiting and Retention.

512-496-5967 Gene Davenport: Ghana National Immunization Day Team (polio vaccine)

979-777-1340 Carol Davis was a member of D-5890’s GSE to South Africa last year.

512-255-5805 Beenu Deuja, West African Project & Nigeria National Immunization Day

512-328-0747 after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer Mike Dewey began a fund to award a billion dollars to the first person to discover a cure for breast cancer. Is his incentive speeding research? It’s a fascinating story told with the passion of a man in a hurry.

319-607-3392 Lauren Dreyer (McGregor Rotary Club) is a business development engineer; she speaks about the rocket engines tested in McGregor – yes, this is rocket science

254-298-5707 Judy Duer coordinates Rotary Youth Exchange

512-261-4940 Jim Gentil speaks on the power of positive people

512-299-9640 T. Getterman: Hebrew History

512-585-9035 Mindy Gomillion, is Capital Area director of “Reach Out and Read” (preschool literacy)

512-236-6155 Rotarian Richard Halpin is CEO/Founder of American YouthWorks, a nonprofit that that helps at-risk youth finish high school and enter college or the workforce.

512-799-7499 Clint Harbor was a Rotary scholar in South Africa. He is now a lawyer in the Texas Attorney General’s office.

800-616-4335 C. H. Harvey (Brenham Rotary Club) got a Rotary scholarship so he could afford college, now he owns 3 companies and tells the story “What Rotary did for me”

512-360-5075 James Hazlerig, a former champion storyteller and college instructor opens up the power of the imagination as a tool to produce real changes in the world. See: www.HarmonyHyponsis.net.

254-750-8631 hear stories from Texas Ranger hall of fame and museum director Byron Johnson.

512-451-7800 Kent Johnson speaks on Extreme Rotary to enhance fellowship opportunities.

512-527-0024 Sandra Jones – our Rotary border health initiative.

512-322-6123 Mark Kapner, strategic planner for Austin Energy, shares his vision for future energy needs and innovative sources.

512-451-0227 Northeast Austin Rotarian Ghassan “Gus” Karim, a native of Lebanon, gives us his perspective on the Middle East situation.

512-767-4098 Changyoung Kim is a multiyear Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at UT. His field is Civil Architectural & Environmental Engineering. He will be on campus until July 2009.

512-869-8377 Sun City Rotarian David E. Leas has taught in third world countries and former Soviet states; also “Why Rotary?”

512-476-9805 Rotarian Lisa Madry gives the Inconvenient Truth talk on Global Warming.

512-251-4025 Trudy Marshall go to www.librariesoflove.org to view her project.

512-989-SING Amy Mathews-Muttwill is a classical singer.

254-947-1111 Jeff McClure, Rotary Club of Salado, talks about Texas history.

512-836-2525 Ellen Miller is a professional speaker on team building.

512-420-0555 Joe Milner is a professional mediator and past president of a Rotary club

512-345-1980 Ron Mullen - former Austin mayor & past Rotary president: “Ethics”

254-778-6744x2408 Chris Mucha with the state Department of Health Services can talk about either “How a business can be prepared for pandemic influenza,” or “Personal Preparedness for an emergency/disaster.”

512-848-8044 Jen Ohlson “Every Town Needs a Trail,” the story of famous and ordinary people who enjoy the trails along Lady Bird Lake. Jen is an Austin-based TV sports personality.

210-288-6140 Dr. Randall Parr of the San Antonio Northeast Rotary Club speaks about the new Rotary Early Act FirstKnight program (see www.EAFK.org), a character education program for K-8 school children bringing the idea of Rotary service into the classroom.

361-865-9309 Kirk Pate explains Camp RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award)

512-328-5224 Colonel Ladd Pattillo speaks about his experiences in Iraq

830-613-8812 Scott Payne speaks for the Central Texas Children's Home near Buda

409-770-6535 Phillip Perry represents the flagship (Galveston) of the Shrine Burn Hospitals recognized throughout the world as the cutting-edge in burn treatment.

512-863-8217 Norm Peters of the Georgetown Sun City Rotary Club is founder of MEDICO Foundation which has mounted over 115 humanitarian medical, dental and optometric teams to Central America since 1990.

432-940-8673 Loredia Potts, VP/Communications for Friends of Big Bend National Park, provides your club with fascinating facts and photos about this extraordinary park.

254-778-4425 Rob & Pat Smith – “Signs of Rotary Everywhere” – in our world travels we see the work of Rotary in many unexpected places; “Guatemala and the Mayans today” – observations on our 3 mission trips to the Rio Dulce in Guatemala; “CPR Anytime-Teaching CPR to families” – a community wide project in the Temple area to teach families how to save lives using an AHA at home learning kit.

512-472-2700 Public Policy Foundation Education Analyst Jamie Story, Miss Texas 2004

512-569-4926 Chris Tapken, a motivational speaker and business consultant has three presentations in demand: 6 steps to a WOW Experience; Transform your Life and Career: Live in the Zone!; & People, People, People: How to recruit, hire, and retain the Top Performers.

512-477-3796 x 208 – Sandy Wilder was a charter member of our East Austin Rotary Club. She has a club program for you about HAND (Helping the Aging, Needy & Disabled) and about aging and disability issues.

512-828-6756 Dr. Roger Williamson, an Austin Rotarian, has spent the past 40 years in space exploration research. He is currently a consultant to NASA and other space related organizations.

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