There is an old saying within the Rotary Folklore that stipulates that in order to have a great Rotary meeting, 3 things are required:
A Nice Venue
Good Food
A Great Speaker
Of those 3, the greatest challenge for a Club Service committee is consistently coming up with great speakers for every meeting. Speakers that are interesting, relevant and meaningful for your club members that speak on topics that will expand Rotary member horizons are not always easy to find week in and week out. And, it is for that reason that the District 5790 District Services team has instituted a Speakers Bureau. We have a list of 71 tried and true speakers that have spoken at Rotary meetings just like yours. The list was assembled from recommendations from Rotary members that have heard them speak. This list is updated periodically to add folks you have recommended and delete folks that are no longer available to speak. The Dec 1, 2016 update is now available on the District 5790 Website. Click here to view. Please feel free to contact Speakers Bureau chair Derrick Kinney with suggestions for this list.
Here is a list of the most recent speakers that were added to the bureau:
Jon Bullock "Wheelchairs for Costa Rica"
Jon Bullock "Polio Immunization in India"
Terry Sutton - "The Mental Illness of Hoarding"
Jeff Whitfield, Rotary Peace Fellow - "Rotary's Peace Initiatives"
Jim Rosenthal, Historian - "Ashbel Smith - The Most Famous Texan You've Never Heard Of"
Susie Stonecipher, "Payday Lending Practices in Texas"
Joe Moore, "Trail System between Ft. Worth and Dallas"
Rachel Vogel Marker, "Survivor of the Gilliam-Barr Disease"
Mark Johnson - "The Lewis & Clark Expedition"
Randy Clinton, President - Community Enrichment Center of NRH randy@thecec.org
Mary Louise Garcia, Tarrant County - County Clerk JMMosteller@tarrantcounty.com
Sandy Prindle - "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"
Shonda Schaefer - GRACE (Grapevine Relief agency) sschaefer@gracegrapevine.org
Don Shisler, Union Gospel Mission- Fort Worth dshisler@ugm-tc.org
Debra Fantz, ShelterBox, 682-465-4468
Nina Dacko, Mosquito Expert with the Tarrant County Health Dept nmdacko@TarrantCounty.com
John Harvey, Economics Professor - TCU; "The Final Explanation of Supply Side Economics"
John Harvey, Economics Professor - TCU; "Don't worry about Social Security"
Brian Murnahan, The Future of Rail for North Texas bmurnahan@the-t.com
Ross Paterson - The Story of the first Rotary Club of Afghanistan hannah@xmperformance.com
David Bentz "Responsibilities of a United States Secret Service Agent"
Dr. Jerry Burkett - public school advocate drjerryburkett@gmail.com
General (Retired) Carl Franklin - Turmoil in the Middle East Genfrankln@aol.com