I would recommend exactly what you're planning and this is what I tend 
to do myself. People don't want you just reading a slide or two they 
could read on their own. I'd detail her accomplishments on a slide or 
two and then highlight the ones you want to point out with your speech 
and embellish them with your personal reflections. I think that is what 
people are going to want to hear you talk to the most anyway.

On 03/02/2015 04:25 PM, Amy Bower wrote:
> Hi all – later this week, I have to introduce a colleague at a big
> function in Washington, DC. My colleague is an academic like me, and the
> introduction should include a summary of her many academic
> accomplishments. She is also a personal friend, so I plan to include
> personal reflections as well. My whole introduction will be 5-7 minutes.
> I’m looking for advice on how people give presentations like this. It
> will be very formal (at the Smithsonian). The hard part is that there is
> a long list of accolades that I should mention, but there is no way I
> can memorize them, and I don’t read braille (my bad). Usually when I
> give presentations (and much longer than this) it is about my own work
> so all the information is easier for me to bring up in my memory, plus I
> use my own laptop with Jaws and PowerPoint.  I’m wondering if anyone has
> tips or tricks for recalling a set of bullet points and speaking about
> them. I’ve heard about using the VR Stream as a audio teleprompter. I
> haven’t tried that yet and feel it might need practice, time for which I
> don’t have this week. I think my best idea is to have one or two
> PowerPoint slides with the list of detailed accomplishments on it so
> people can read that and fill in the blanks of what I forget to mention,
> and just hit the highlights with my verbal presentation. Would really
> like to hear how others do this kind of thing though.
>
> -Amy.
>
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