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WEEKLY BULLETIN FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Bulletin Editor
Jack Ferreri
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WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
DATE
ASSISTANT
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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MINUTE
ROTARY
MINUTE
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TICKETS
2/14/2020 RECKNOR HUMPHREY MCADOW FINK MARKS MOEHRING
2/21/2020 NO MEETING NO MEETING NO MEETING NO MEETING NO MEETING NO MEETING
2/28/2020 RYERSON MORAN MOREN PATENAUDE MORNER MOWBRAY
3/6/2020 FOSE MURRAY NILLES MURRAY OLMSTED PACE
3/13/2020 LOCH REES ROBERG LOCH SIEBERT SMITH
3/20/2020 PATENAUDE TUBESING VALENTA COMELLO VAN HOUT WIEGAND
3/27/2020 OLSEN ZITNAK AUNE SMITH SUNDAR COMELLO
4/3/2020 RECKNOR DIETER EDELSTEIN DIETER EMERICK FAULHBER
4/10/2020 RYERSON FELDT FINK MORAN GEROLD GOLDSMITH
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Last Week’s Speaker:

Ed Mani, Burkhalter Travel - European River

Cruises
Posted on Feb 14, 2020
Ed Mani, Burkhalter Travel on European River Cruises. We heard about the joys of cruising Europe’s river system, with stops at a range of cities in France, Germany, and Eastern Europe. Lots of time to relax, with a pace more relaxed aboard smaller ships, holding about 150. Member Terry Siebert has taken three of these cruises and was enthusiastic in his endorsement.  
 
This Week’s Speaker: Rotary at Work: Club Committee Worktime

Future weeks
Posted on Feb 14, 2020
Feb 21NO MEETING - CLUB SOCIAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2020
Feb 28Mary Beth Growney-Selene on the Golf Outing
Mar 6Madison  Artist Jerry Butler will speak on painting murals with troubled and disadvantaged youth
Mar 13Rotary at Work: Club Committee Worktime
Mar 20Patrick Ready will discuss attracting birds to your backyard
Mar 27Rotary District 6450 Membership Chair John Loch will discuss the state of our District
Apr 3Dane County Executive Joe Parisi on county budget initiatives
Apr 10No Meeting Good Friday
Apr 17Rotary at Work: Committee Worktime
Arp 24LTC Daniel Statz Commander of the Wisconsin Air National Guard on fighter jets at Truax
May 1Former member Nate Considine on handling stress and fatigue with posture and exercise
May 8Friends of the Pheasant Branch Conservancy
May 15Rotary at Work: Club Committee Worktime
May 22No Meeting Memorial Day
 

Birthdays, Anniversaries, Join Dates
Posted on Feb 07, 2020
Birthdays
Jan 25Steve Aune                               
Jan 31Dan Fose
Feb 10Peder Moren
Feb 22John Gerold
Feb 22Jim Olmsted
 
Anniversaries
Feb 9     Sundar Baladhandapani  24 years
 
Join Date
Jan 21    Lynn Goldsmith                 9 years
Feb 1Rod Nilles 33 years
Feb 1 John Olsen32 years
Feb 8Matt Loch7 years
Feb 12Mary Ruth Marks9 years
Feb 14Connie Smith6 years

Our Middleton High School Interact Club Delivers the Butterburgers!
Posted on Feb 14, 2020
Members of the Club helped out Wednesday night at Culver’s in Middleton, getting some exposure and putting some money in their treasury.
 

Rotary Golf Outing
Posted on Dec 13, 2019
Mary Beth Growney-Selene is our Golf Czar and has some HOT OFF THE PRESS info: 
  • June 29, 2020
  • Pleasant View Country Club
  • 9:30 Shotgun Start
  • Goal of 124 golfers
  • $125/golfer
  • Silence Auction, Raffle Prizes, game
REQUESTING 100% PARTICIPATING IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER FOR OUR CLUB’S LARGEST FUNDRAISING EVENT (expect to be asked to help!)

Basketball Slam Ticket Fundraiser
Posted on Jan 31, 2020
Tickets for our annual fundraiser “Basketball Slam” have arrived.  You can pick up a pack of 10 tickets at our weekly meeting.  Each membership ticket is sold for $10.00, the pack is $100.00. There are instruction sheets in each pack.
 
You check out a pack and then return the stubs with names written legibly on them and money to match each stub to Deb Dieter by March 20, 2020.
    
If you sell someone two tickets, they can get a free third ticket by registering online (do not give them one of your tickets!!)
    
How does someone win? There is a scratch-off area on each ticket.  Below that area are the codes for 4 NCAA basketball teams (see the back of the ticket for team names). The total score of your teams in all their games is the score for your card. The highest score wins $200; 2nd highest $100; 3rd highest $75.00; 4th highest $50; and the lowest score $75.
    
Checks should be made out to the Rotary Club of MWT-M Foundation.
    
Winners will be posted following the Championship game on April 9, 2020. Prizes will be emailed.

Become a 2020-2021 Host Family!
Posted on Jan 24, 2020
Our Club is in need of one more host family for the 2020-2021 school year.  Your help in recruiting a family within the Memorial High School district is greatly appreciated.  Please have the family contact Donna Brendemuehl, Youth Exchange Officer! dbrendemuehl@yahoo.com
 
Hosting an inbound exchange student can be incredibly rewarding for your family, bringing an international experience directly into your home.  You do not have to be a Rotarian to participate in the RotaryYouth exchange program. Host families provide room and board and share their lives with exchange students, involving them in family, community, and cultural activities. All host families are screened and trained.  Because Rotary’s goal is to give our inbound students a diverse cultural experience, families (or couples or even individuals) typically host a student for only a few months. The local Rotary Club covers the cost of school lunches, basic cell phone and a modest monthly stipend to the student for pocket money.
 

Club Social Date Set: Mark Your Calendar!
Posted on Feb 07, 2020
 
WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND TIME WITH YOUR ROTARY FRIENDS!
PLEASE RSVP ON THE EVITE OR EMAIL JENNIE HUMPHREY BY FEBRUARY 10.
SEE YOU THERE!!

RI International Convention 2020
Posted on Feb 07, 2020
 
For more information, go to riconvention.org

Our Next Slate of Officer Candidates -- UPDATED
Posted on Jan 30, 2020
President-Elect Steve Aune has rounded up a superb list of officer candidates for the Club’s July 2020June 2021 Rotary Year …
  • President Steve Aune
  • President-Elect Connie Smith
  • Secretary Jack Ferreri
  • Treasurer Rich Cooper
  • Club Service Kevin Moran & new Dean Ryerson
  • International Ed Fink & new Kathy Roberg
  • Vocational Denny Zitnak & new Roxanne Brazeau
  • Community Service Barry Pace & new Abby Benbow
The Club will be voting on this slate shortly.

 

Wisconsin Academic Decathlon 
Posted on Jan 31, 2020
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE 
State Competition 
                  Thursday & Friday, March 12-13, 2020                          Glacier Canyon Conference Center    
                                               Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells                                   
 
Twenty top teams will compete at the 37th Annual WIAD State Competition held in Wisconsin Dells. 
Volunteers will receive e-mailed instructions prior to the event. 
Note:  All assignments take place in Wisconsin Dells* — except for Essay reading.   
Over 100 volunteers are needed  
 
Speech Judges:  15 Pairs of judges (30 total judges needed from 4:00—8:40 P.M. on March 12).   
Listen, critique and grade the students’ prepared and impromptu speeches.   A Judges’ Handbook is provided online, along with a brief, on-site orientation on the day of the event.   A background in public speaking or affiliation with Toastmasters is a plus.   Dinner included.    
   
Speech Timers:  Stationed in each speech room (15 needed from 4:00—8:40 P.M. on March 12).   Monitor and time each student’s speech.   Timer directions are provided online and a brief orientation takes place on the day of the event.   Comfort with a stopwatch is necessary.   Dinner included.   
 
Interview Judges:  15 Pairs of judges (30 total judges needed from 4:00—8:40 P.M. on March 12).    Jointly interview students; guidelines and sample questions are provided, in addition to an online Judges’ Handbook and a brief orientation on the day of the event.   A background in Human Resources is a plus.  Dinner included.    
 
Essay Judges:  Essay rubric is outlined in the online Judges’ Handbook.   20 volunteers will read and critique essays written prior to the State Event — Judges will gather at CESA 7 in Green Bay (March 3, starting at 8:30AM).  English, or editing background preferred.  Refreshments provided.  
 
Test Proctors:  Six room monitors are responsible for distributing, collecting and monitoring the testing process at State from 12:30—3:30 P.M. on March 12 (Day 1 of two-day event), and 9:30—11:25 A.M.  
on March 13 (Day 2).   A proctor’s Orientation Handbook is provided; leadership skills necessary.   Lunch
included on Friday only.    
 
Super Quiz Volunteers:  10 assistants needed from 12:15—2:30 P.M. on March 13.  Varied assignments include:  score verifier, runners, ushers, etc. at the last event of the competition.  Lunch included.     
 
If interested in volunteering, please contact:
Janelle Bailey, State Director jbailey@cesa7.org 920-617-5617
 
  We meet
  FRIDAYS  at 12:12 pm
  downstairs at the        
  Zor Shrine Temple         
  575 Zor Shrine Place          
  Madison, WI 53719 
        
 
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Middleton • WI 53562 • USA
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