Dane County Service Clubs Speakers Bank

LARRY GOTTLEIB, 608-271-5279, Email: gottleib@gmail.com

Topic: Diabetes

Larry can gear his program to focus on diabetes for those who have the disease or discuss with your group the complications of the disease and how to possibly avoid it. Larry is a diabetic.

Updated 4/09

Donna M. Gray, co-owner and president of Total Awards & Promotions / AwardsMall.com. Phone: 833-1716. Email: Donna.Gray@awardsmall.com.

Topics include: It's Never Too Late To Begin Again; My Life as a Late Bloomer; Just For Fun - Give Yourself Permission To Have A Good Time With Life; David's Story - To Give is to Receive; It's All Relative - the story of many family businesses; Power Networking; Guerrilla Marketing; Hiring and Keeping Good Workers; Marketing on a Shoestring; It Is My Department! - Customer Service for All Business; Never Quit - The Ups and Downs of Running A Family Business; Street Smart Marketing; Street Smart Customer Service; Taking Control - Time Managment Secrets.

Updated 4/09

JIM GREENWALD, Board of Directors and the newsletter editor of Compassion & Choices of Wisconsin. Phone: 233-7867. E-mail: cantlongreenwald@tds.net

Topic: Physician assisted suicide.

Compassion & Choices is a nation-wide organization and the successor to the Hemlock Society. The purpose of our organization is to offer support to individuals facing end-of-life choices, to educate the public about the option of physician aid in dying for the terminally ill and to advocate for the legalization of physician aid in dying.

In the past years I have personally addressed service clubs, labor groups and university classes on the topic of physician aid in dying for the terminally ill.

Updated 4/09

JOHN L. HASLAM, Owner, Wilson Law Group, LLC. Phone: 608-833-4001 Email: jhaslam@wilsonlawgroup.com Website: www.wilsonlawgroup.com

Topics: The Dirty Dozen Mistakes in Estate Planning, How to Settle an Estate (Trust Administration or Probate), Paying For Nursing Home Care, Coordinating IRAs With Your Estate Plan, Maximizing Inheritance Value With a Stretch IRA, Planning For Farmers, Planning For Beneficiaries With Special Needs, Asset Protection Planning

Updated 06/2009

JENNIFER HEERHOLD, Associate Manager of the American Diabetes Association. Phone: 608-833-1060. E-mail: JHeerhold@diabetes.org; Website: www.diabetes.org

The American Diabetes Association is an organization that strives to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Topics include: What is diabetes? How can diabetes be prevented? How to lead a healthy lifestyle. Needs: It would be helpful to have a projector, screen and power outlets for a Powerpoint presentation.

Updated 4/06

CINDY HERBST, Executive Director of Restoring Hope Transplant House. Phone: 608/831-1726. Cell: 608/516-3318. www.restoringhope.org, restoringhope@tds.net.

Cindy takes you on the adventure of birthing Restoring Hope Transplant House, a "home-away-from-home for patients and their families coming to the Madison area for organ and other medical transplants. Having dealt with transplant in her own family coupled with the life experience of being in the hotel business and care of sick and dying people, Cindy gives a presentation filled with information, the joys and challenges of this adventure and the humor and awareness to know this healing house is long over due. Program can be adapted to the audience.

Updated 01/07

ISABEL HUBBARD, Phone: 608-836-3381. E-Mail: ihubbard@merr.com.

"Sequestered Jury Duty " is a 30 minute presentation followed with Q&A. Isabel shares her impressions and observations following duty on the Vang trial of Sept. 2005 in Hayward, WI. where the jury was sequestered for 10 days.

Isabel is a retired Madison Elementary Education teacher.

Updated 4/07

LAURA JENNINGS, Director of Community Outreach (608)327-7192; laura.jennings@hospicecareinc.com or Jennifer Tiedemann (608) 327-7201, Community Outreach Coordinator; jennifer.tiedemann@hospicecareinc.com.

HospiceCare Inc. is a nonprofit, community-based hospice dedicated to providing physical, emotional and spiritual support ot patients and families dealing with life-limiting illnesses. HospicCare serves residents in Dane, Rock, Walworth, Green and Jefferson counties.

Laura, Jennifer and other HospiceCare speakers are available to present on "The Gift of HospiceCare" " A Gift to Your Family: Advance Care Planning" and several grief topics including "Grief in the Workplace","Communicating and Working with Grieving Clients" and "Caregiving in the Workplace".

Updated 5/09

(Contact John Kanvik @ 608-245-1868 or email: jkanvik@att.net for questions, suggestions, additions.)