Dear Dale,
Thank you so much for agreeing to be the speaker at the meeting of
the Rutland Regional Parkinson's Support Group on Thursday, March 12. We
meet in
the libary of Trinity Episcopal Church, 85 West Street in downtown
Rutland.
The meeting is scheduled to go from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, and you are to
kick it off at 2:00.
Ou r meetings are truly informal. Rather than set speeches, we
are looking for leaders who cover their subjects in a relaxed
way,
evoking interest snd questions as they proceed and thus creating
interactive
discussions that are exciting, challenging and informative for speaker
and
audience alike. Depending on the subject, this sometimes requires the
speaker to be deliberately provocative, but I can assure you that
our's is an intelligent, knowledgeable group of men and women who are
not afraid to speak up and who can keep even the most erudite
speakers on their toes!
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Given this approach, we can be and are extremely flexible in the way
we
run our meetings. The standard format is an hour for our guest to cover
the announced subject followed by an hour for refreshments and
off-the-record
networking. We don't like to truncate the networking hour; in the short
life of
the Group (five months) these one-on-one and sma11-group discourses
have
proven very popular and have already
