Speakers Bureau thrives
By Alice Tallmadge
and Cynthia Whitfield
Of the Emerald
It's been four years since injuries from a serious
bicycle accident led George Beres to leave his hectic job
as University sports information director to head what
is now the quickly growing Speakers Bureau.
Beres needed a change of pace while recuperating
from the accident, and at the suggestion of Curt Simic,
former vice president of University relations, he moved
from sports to his present position as Speakers Bureau
director. He is also editor of the faculty staff newsletter
and “tip sheet” — a capsule of University-related
stories distributed to the media.
“I had been working in sports (here and at other
Universities) for 20 years,” says the Chicago-born
Beres. "I went back to work before I had recuperated
and found the stress level in sports hard to deal with.
“I still love sports, but now, because of the
Speakers Bureau, f’ve found out there’s areas of the
University that are just as exciting,” Beres says.
The Speakers Bureau is housed in Johnson Hall’s
campus public relations department, the News and In
formation Services. Beres noted the department did not
have a "comprehensive” system for handling requests
from the community for University speakers. “I became
interested in building it (the Speakers Bureau) into
something."
After Beres compiled a directory of University
faculty and staff willing to speak on a variety of topics
George Beres
to groups in me fcugene-apnngneia area, ne wrote ana distributed
a brochure describing the project throughout the area. The purpose
was to better establish the Speakers Bureau as an intermediary bet
ween the informational needs of the community and the resources
of University faculty and staff, Beres says. I
“We now have a directory of some 300 topics and 200 pro- Z
fessors. and we keep adding to our file-card list. Next year, 1 expect
at least 500 topic listings," he says.
Until recently, the University had no organized outreach pro
gram into the community involving personal appearances by facul
ty and staff. The absence of a well-defined public identity led some
people to think of the University as a “cloistered area of eggheads,
activists and extremists,” Beres says.
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