27th August 2007

Dear Don,

BLAST 2007 was a wonderful day filled with inspiration and motivation. We have received fantastic feedback and achieved our objective of fostering professional development through education, motivation and experience.

We were thrilled to have you involved in BLAST- you have a great story and your open and honest approach, along with your strategies certainly hit a chord with the audience. Thank you for taking the time out of your very busy schedule and congratulations on the
Rich List. I'm sure you will be hearing from a Rotorua student in 10 years or so...

The organizing committee would like to thank you for your contribution in making BLAST the success it was. We hope you feel the same satisfaction as we do in being associated with such a worthwhile event and we look forward to your continued support for future BLAST events. Let people know about BLAST!

BLAST 2008 will be a challenge to improve on BLAST 2007. Once again thank you for making it the great day it was.

Please pass on my thanks to Deidre for organizing your end of the arrangements and also thanks for bringing your team down. I hope they enjoyed the day.

Kind regards,

Melanie East
BLAST 2007 - Project Manager

On behalf of the BLAST organizing committee