• Please pay for your 50th Anniversary luncheon  at

  Bank:  Bendigo Bank Blackburn South

  A/C Name:  Rotary Club of Nunawading Special Account

  BSB: 633-000

  A/C: 138002654   Please add your family name

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• Katerina Balis from PLC gave us a wonderful presentation of her time at the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra. It really is a life-changing program for the 'science nerds'.
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• John Lynch has kindly agreed to be Bulletin Editor for the next two weeks! Contributions to him please.
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• 1st April Easter Partners' Night
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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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• School interviews at Blackburn High School 6th May.
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• Don't forget your social group activity!

• 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 managed to ride up to 100 kms over four days but on Thursday took a tumble off her bike going down a hill at 45 kmh!

She is battered and bruised but still smiling! She had a great time!!

Thanks everyone for your donations to Australian Rotary Health!

Cluster presentation at Handbrake Turn in Dandenong.

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!