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WEEKLY BULLETIN FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Bulletin Editor
Jack Ferreri
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WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
DATE
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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MINUTE
ROTARY
MINUTE
 & RAFFLE
TICKETS
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
If you can’t make your assignment, reach out to someone else to fill in for you. No need to let the Secretary know of the switch.
 

Last Week’s Speaker
Posted on Feb 28, 2020

Last Week’s Speaker: No Meeting: Club Social  

This Week’s Speaker: Mary Beth Growney-Selene on the Golf Outing

 

Future weeks
Posted on Feb 28, 2020
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 28, 2020
Birthdays
Feb 26Dawn Frank                              
Mar 17Stuart Herro
 
Anniversaries
APR 12Rich Cooper33 years
 
Join Date
Mar 1Mick Faulhaber38 years
Mar 1Sevin Morner17 years
Mar 9Terry Siebert30 years

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!)

Rotary Social
Posted on Feb 28, 2020
Congratulations to Deb Dieter for being recognized for her commitment to Serve Above Self.  
She helps make our Club successful in so many projects.  
    
Deb Dieter with her well-deserved Paul Harris Recognition
 
Terry Siebert outdid himself in keeping all of us thinking to answer the trivia questions.  There was lots of lively discussion as the teams vied to win the most points.  
 
  
Trivia fun
 
Trivia Contest winners
  
Many thanks to Mary Beth Growney-Selene, Jenny Humphreys, Mary Ruth Marks, Kevin Moran, Terry Siebert and Mary Van Hout for organizing the first-rate vent for the Coolest Rotary Club in the World!!
One of our two Birthday Boys appears just a bit more excited than the other!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!  from Jim Olmsted and John A. Gerold
Posted on Feb 28, 2020
Thanks to those attending the Rotary Annual Social and Paul Harris Recognition Event, Saturday night at the Town of Verona, Town Hall, $121.05 was raised from the raffling of the two cherry pies, for the Madison West Towne-Middleton Rotary Foundation.  P.S.  Not sure how the extra nickel ended up there but we will take it.  
 
Also, thanks for the wonderful singing of “Happy Birthday” to both of us.

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.
 

CANOPOLY a New Club Project
Our Club will be sponsoring and participating in MOM’s 10th annual CANstruction food drive and fundraising event. This year the theme is ‘Canopoly’. We are partnering with the Middleton HS Interact Club to build a structure in the West Towne Mall on April 8. Food for the structure will be paid for at wholesale pricing by our Club and the MHS Interact Club will conduct a food drive to fill it up. 
 
Team structures will be on display through April 19. For more info, go to https://canstructionmadison.org/event/. 
 
If you want to be involved or donate food, contact Todd Wiegand, twiegs2@gmail.com.  MHS Interact Club website
 

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

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 
        
 
Rotary Club of Madison West Towne-Middleton          
P.O. BOX 620312
Middleton • WI 53562 • USA
We are self-anointed 'Coolest Rotary Club in the World'
MADISON WEST TOWNE-MIDDLETON  
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