Club Resources - Speakers/Programs

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

956-568-5566 Lionel Betancourt has a daughter in the Austin area and would welcome an invitation to spend a day in central Texas 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 Cummins on Boy Scouts

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”

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

512-451-7800 Kent Johnson added 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.

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.

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 Mayan’s today” – observations on our 3 mission trips to the Rio Dulce in Guatemala; “Rotary Fellowships – Alive and Well” – a little known Rotary opportunity.

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

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.