*Please contact Laurie (lemcleod@aeriepfg.com) or Toni (TPabon@Pacific-Cycle.com) with questions.
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU NEED A SUBSTITUTE OR TRADE, YOU MUST CONTACT THEM YOURSELF TO ARRANGE : THE BULLETIN WILL NOT REFLECT CHANGES (YOU NEED TO REMEMBER).
Date
Treasurer's Assistant
Greeter 1
Greeter 2
Reflection
Jul 18
Carl Bolstad
Mary Feldt
David Cush
Jim Langdon
Jul 25
Cory Recknor
Lynne Goldsmith
Stuart Herro
Larry Pincombe
Aug 01
Michael Maass
Matthew Loch
Laurie Logan
Lynne Spielman
Aug 08
Daniel Fose
Mary Ruth Marks
Lorelle Micklitz
Marie Udulutch
Aug 15
John Olsen
Peder Moren
Svein Morner
Dean Ryerson
Aug 22
Rich Cooper
OFF SITE MEETING
OFF SITE MEETING
James Wartinbee
Aug 29
Carl Bolstad
William Mowbray
James Olmsted
Jim Langdon
Sep 05
Michael Maass
Rachael See
Terry Siebert
Larry Pincombe
Sep 12
Daniel Fose
Connie Smith
Johanna Young
Lynne Spielman
Sep 19
John Olsen
OFF SITE MEETING
OFF SITE MEETING
Marie Udulutch
Sep 26
Rich Cooper
Greg Blum
Roxanne Brazeau
Dean Ryerson
Oct 03
Carl Bolstad
Charlene Breunig
Anthony Burns
James Wartinbee
Oct 10
Michael Maass
Nathan Considine
David Cush
Jim Langdon
Oct 17
Daniel Fose
Debra Dieter
Ruth Domack
Larry Pincombe
Oct 24
John Olsen
Leo Edelstein
Michael Faulhaber
Lynne Spielman
Oct 31
Rich Cooper
Mary Feldt
Lynne Goldsmith
Marie Udulutch
Nov 07
Carl Bolstad
Stuart Herro
Matthew Loch
Dean Ryerson
Nov 14
Michael Maass
Laurie Logan
Mary Ruth Marks
James Wartinbee
Nov 21
Daniel Fose
Lorelle Micklitz
Peder Moren
Jim Langdon
Nov 28
NO MEETING
NO MEETING
NO MEETING
NO MEETING
Dec 05
Daniel Fose
Svein Morner
William Mowbray
Lynne Spielman
Dec 12
John Olsen
James Olmsted
Paul Patenaude
Marie Udulutch
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The McAdow Miles for Rotary Fundraiser has begun! This is our 4th year in raising funds for Madison West Towne-Middleton Rotary Foundation. Our foundation supports our annual projects. This year we want to highlight our YOUTH PROGRAMS. Below are four programs that our club supports financially.
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). We send 5 students to RYLA each year. RYLA is a 3 day camp at Camp Upham Woods in Wisconsin Dells.
Established as a Rotary Structured Program in 1971, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is Rotary's leadership training program for young people.
The Rotary District 6250 RYLA program is a camp designed to build future leaders and Rotarians who exemplify the four way test.
Rotary Youth Exchange. The most powerful force in the promotion of international understanding and peace is exposure to different cultures. The world becomes a smaller, friendlier place when we learn that all people — regardless of nationality — desire the same basic things: a safe, comfortable environment that allows for a rich and satisfying life for our children and ourselves. Rotary Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
Our Club hosts one international high school student each year.
Our Club also sponsors 1-2 outbound American students to study abroad each year.
High School Scholarships. The goal of this project is to help continue the education of six high school seniors, two students from James Madison Memorial High School, two students from Middleton High School, two students from Edgewood High School, and two students from Wisconsin Heights High School, by awarding each student a $500 OR a $1,000 scholarship. Each school's counselor chooses a seniors for the scholarships based on community services, academics, extracurricular activities, regardless whether the student wishes to attend a trade school, a two-year college, or a four-year college.
Academic Decathlon. WIAD is an outstanding non-profit extra-curricular program entering its 32nd season of providing a rigorous curriculum and academic challenges to the public and private high school students of our state. WIAD provides opportunities for students to experience the challenges of rigorous team and individual competition. It is designed to:
develop a greater respect for knowledge
promote inter-school academic competition
emphasize the need for increased communication skills
stimulate intellectual growth and achievement and development of team efforts
We kicked off this year's fundraiser last week and so far we received $1,650 in pledges! This is a great start. Jerry McAdow's mileage goal for 2014 is 3,500 miles. Please PLEDGE NOW! We are trying to raise $6,000 this year to help support our Youth Programs.
To follow Jerry on his rides, visit: www.mcadowmiles.org or like us on Facebook!
The Crown Victoria Association is having a car show starting July 28th at the Madison Marriott West in Middleton. The cars will be on display in the hotel parking lot all week ("54, '55 & '56 Fords, Meteors, Mercurys, Monarchs and Pickups). Click here for more details about the event.
Who is Leo? Leo Edelstein is a man on a mission, joining rotary in 2003, and determined to make a difference and give back to the community. He sees the challenge before him, and recognizes the balance between work and family and serving his community as a formidable task. In order to do this, he tries to keep the important things top of mind, constantly trying to stay engaged.
Leo has been married to Marcia, his wife of 35 years, and has raised two children who work in education and the restaurant business. Growing up in Milwaukee, Leo met his future wife and soon there were job changes that moved the family around quite a bit. While living in Racine, WI, Leo began his career in Radio Advertising, at a local ad agency. As his career progresses, Leo really sees himself as a problem solver, and continually asks "how has rotary helped?" He believes Rotary helps him "do this better," and keeps him on task with a positive attitude. He says he is so thankful of all the Rotarians who give their time and energy for humanity.
Service is first in Leo's view, and he champions Rotary for helping him remember that service is first and the most important at this stage in his life. When asked about a favorite childhood memory, he recalls sitting in Milwaukee County Stadium watching the Dodgers vs Braves game with his father, and Eddie Matthews was hitting!
STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEXT INSTALLMENT OF: GET TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW ROTARIANS!
..Ms. Lisa Johnson, horticulture educator at the UW extension, presented the Master Gardener program June 27th at the Rotary Club of Madison West Towne Middleton. Http://dane.uwex.edu
Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended. The convention of the Rotary Clubs of America was held in Rotary’s birthplace, Chicago, in 1910.
Ever wonder why the Rotary year begins 1 July? The international convention initially played a key role in determining the start date of our fiscal and administrative year.
Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended, on 18 August 1910. The 1911-12 fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning with the first day of the 1911 convention on 21 August.
At its August 1912 meeting, the Board of Directors ordered an audit of the International Association of Rotary Clubs' finances. The auditors recommended that the organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to give the secretary and treasurer time to prepare a financial statement for the convention and board, and determine the proper number of club delegates to the convention.
The executive committee concurred, and at its April 1913 meeting, designated 30 June as the end of the fiscal year. This also allowed for changes to the schedule for reporting club membership and payments. Even The Rotarian changed its volume numbering system to correspond to the fiscal year (beginning with vol. 5, July 1914).
Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in July or August until 1917. Delegates to the 1916 event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution to hold future conventions in June, mainly because of the heat in cities where most of them occurred. The next one was held 17-21 June in Atlanta, Georgia.
The term "Rotary year" has been used to signify Rotary's annual administrative period since at least 1913. An article in The Rotarian that July noted, "The Rotary year that is rapidly drawing to a close has been signalized by several highly successful joint meetings of Clubs that are so situated as to assemble together easily and conveniently."
Since the executive committee's decision in 1913, the end of the Rotary year has remained 30 June.
Please contact Laurie Ellis-McLeod at 556-5411 or lemcleod@AERIEpfg.com to arrange a time to meet during July and August. The interview scheduling will be ongoing until all members have been interviewed and featured! Thank you for your enthusiasm and support of this project!!
Laurie will be contacting each person to interview you and then will print a brief feature story about each of our members-- Please contact her if you'd like to name a specific time that works best for you!
Humanitarian Rick Burns, a retired civil affairs officer in the U.S. Army, has been helping people in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan and Iraq since 2003. He's seen a lot of good, but he's also seen what happens when good intentions go awry.
Take the fertile grounds of Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan, for example. Burns recalls an initiative to help fruit exporters become profitable again after the war. Cold storage facilities were built, but because no one considered the country's spotty electricity, the facilities ended up being too expensive to maintain.
"We really want to make...
Keith Harris is pedaling for a purpose.
At the tender age of 50, he's set out on an eight-week, 4,400-mile bike ride across the U.S. to raise $25,000 for The Rotary Foundation. He's also hoping to raise an additional $2,500 for Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where a few years ago he was treated for a life-threatening heart condition.
"The trip is sort of my midlife crisis," he admits but it's not the first time he's pedaled across the country. He made the trek about 20 years ago, before he married his wife, Christina.
Harris has been a Rotary member for 18 years. He's...
At the age of 17, Jennifer was sleeping on the streets of Atlanta.
She'd felt abandoned most of her life, unprotected from her brothers and her mother's boyfriends, who physically and sexually abused her since she was five. And now, kicked out of her house, Jennifer - whose last name is withheld for privacy - was alone and vulnerable. She was soon lured into sex trafficking and was unable to escape for two years. Then she found Covenant House.
"Studies have shown that if a young person ends up on the street, within 48 hours someone is going to approach them with the intention of exploiting...
About 300 miles south of Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexico's most dangerous cities, is the small town of Guerrero in central Chihuahua. The community is home to the Guerrero Clinic, which has weathered neighboring drug wars and financial setbacks to treat the poor since 1980.
Walter Branson, a member of the Rotary Club of Brazosport, Texas, in the United States, has been involved with the clinic since 1983. Branson says the governor of Chihuahua credits the clinic with providing 60 percent of indigent care in the state.
The drug wars in Mexico, which began in 2006, initially scared away U.S....
Ron Burton has made the world his office.
Over the past year, the Rotary International president has traveled more than half-a-million miles across 50 countries, to inspire and motivate Rotary's 1.2 million members. Although many encouraged him to use cheaper, virtual alternatives, he believes it takes face-to-face engagement.
"I was the first president to have a Google Hangout and have done Facebook chats," Burton says, reflecting on his term, which ends at midnight 30 June. "But I asked Rotarians this year to Engage Rotary, Change Lives, so I needed to live that as well, by sitting at...
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