• Please save the motel soaps or similar size for the 'Days for Girls' program which is a program for sending sanitation products in a wash bag for teenage girls overseas. Give them to Judith. Thanks to the members who have already given me some. RC Monash was delighted on Wednesday morning!
• Also save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight!
• Foreign coins are being collected in a container at the desk
• RC Nunawading members are rostered on to attend the Whitehorse Rotaract Club on 2^nd and 4^th Wednesday - 7:15 for 7:30 pm - at Melbourne Baseball Club Surrey Drive, Box Hill. Opposite Aqualink Box Hill.

I am pleased to announce that PDG Jenny Coburn will be joining our office on  the 18^th  February, 2015 . She will replace Joy Walker as Manager of the Club and District Support section in my office.

Jenny comes to us with a lot of business experience applicable to the role and  21 years of  Rotary experience . Jenny was District Governor of District 9810 ( Victoria, Australia) in 2003-04  and is an experienced management professional in the areas of Finance and Governance. Jenny has served in the public service as well as the private sector in her own business.

Currently Jenny is acting CEO of the RDU regional  Rotary magazine and will  handover that role when selection for the new CEO of RDU is made.

Frank Pezzimenti

International Office Manager

South Pacific & Philippines Office

Introducing a guest speaker

1. Know the speaker's name and how to pronounce it.
2. Know the speaker's title or position. Do not turn and ask the speaker "Is it Associate or Assistant Professor?"
3. Be brief. Aim for between 45 seconds and two minutes. Five minutes is too long.
4. Smile and be enthusiastic in tone, gesture and choice of words.
5. Know enough about the subject to sound knowledgeable. Do not turn to the speaker and ask if the topic is epidemiology, epistemology or episiotomy.
6. Announce the speech title as given to you by the speaker. If you have any questions about it, ask the speaker before the introduction. Many speakers select specific titles for a reason or for a pun. If the speaker is not using a title, make sure that your description matches the speaker’s.
7. Introductions are no place to use slides, overheads or presentation software.
8. < > are good but should pertain to the subject and be in harmony with the mood of the presentation. Avoid using canned jokes.
   If the credentials of the speaker are so outstanding that they must be shared with the audience or if there are publications the audience will want to know about, insert them in the program or prepare a separate commemorative handout.
9. Never use the old cliché that the speaker needs no introduction. If the introduction ties the speaker to the audience and the topic then each introduction is unique, plus there is always something new about every speaker. There may be audience members who don’t know the guest.
10. You are the catalyst, not the performer. Do not try to upstage the speaker with your knowledge of the subject. Do not dwell on your relationship with the speaker, even though he or she is your boss, relative or significant other.
     
    Thanking a guest speaker
11. Be brief.  Do not repeat the speech.
12. Again, you are the catalyst, not the performer. Do not try to upstage the speaker with your knowledge of the subject.
13. If there is a presentation do not say this is a ‘small token of our appreciation’.
    Rather ‘We would like you to accept this gift in appreciation of your time spent with us this evening.’
14. Ask the audience to thank the speaker with acclamation.

More barbecue action at bunnings!

• Accommodation will be for Friday 15 and Sat 16 March 2015
• One keynote speaker is Ken Lay, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police
• A Club member dinner will be organised for the Friday night.
• The Gala Dinner for the Conference will be on the Saturday night at the Ballarat Lodge.
• The theme for the Evening is “Beneath the Southern Cross”
• We have to find some idea to fit the dress theme.
• The Conference will finish with a boxed lunch on Sunday.
   
  Conference Registration
• Each member must book their own registration. $325 / person, the full Conference fee. Youth Exc $160
• This can be done on-line with a credit card at  http//2015conference.9810rotary.org.au/  
• I am available to assist, if required
• Manual booking by forms are available from myself or the above website.
• These must be return to Steve Fisher with Credit card details or Cheque c/- P. O Box 823 Templestowe 3106.
• Please advise me by email or phone, when you have booked
• I will be visiting Ballarat Friday 12/12 to finalise the accommodation and a Club dinner venue.
  Harvey 

To our members that are not well at present we hope you are up and about and back with us very soon!