• Ask Col Taylor about his crank angle sensor! Very expensive to be replaced!!
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• District Assembly is on Sunday May 17. All 2015-2016 Board members should be prepared to go.
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• The Tiwi Island Project with Tintern will not be happening again. We need to find another partnership.
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• Antiques, Retro and Collectables Fair Mont Albert Primary School Saturday 30th Sunday 31st May , Mont Albert Primary School RC MASH  Market appraisals on Sunday only.
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• Peter Koens is trying to work magic to keep his Cath Lab going in Sri Lanka. He has kept it going 3 years longer than predicted!!
• Silvio is a grandfather again!

• Also save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight!
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• 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.

Carina is participating in the "Ride for Research" an Australian Rotary Health fundraising event that started at morning tea on Sunday at the Ballarat Conference. It's not too late to spnsor her. Let Graeme Moorfoot know.

The ride goes from Ballarat to Ballarat via Colac, Great Ocean Road, Port Fairy Fairy and Horsham. The riders will ride between 75kms and 125kms a day depending on their group.

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.

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