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WEEKLY BULLETIN March 13, 2020
Bulletin Editor
Jack Ferreri
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WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
DATE
ASSISTANT
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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MINUTE
ROTARY
MINUTE
 & RAFFLE
TICKETS
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 NO MEETING GOOD FRIDAY
4/17/2020 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: Madison Artist Jerry Butler
Posted on Mar 13, 2020
 
 
 
Madison Artist Jerry Butler spoke to us on painting murals with troubled and disadvantaged youth. Born in Mississippi, but a long-time Madison resident, Jerry started as an art teacher at Lincoln Middle School and eventually began working with young people at the Juvenile Detention Center. Takes on projects across the US. Lots of eye-catching murals around the country, four of them in Madison.
 
 
 
 
 
This Week’s Speaker: Rotary at Work: Club Committee Worktime

Future weeks
Posted on Feb 28, 2020
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!)

Become a 2020-2021 Host Family!
Posted on Mar 13, 2020
Our Club is in need of one more host family for the 2020-2021 school year.  Your help recruiting a family within the Memorial High School district is greatly appreciated.  Please have the family contact 
Robert Dent
715-281-6656
 
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 Youth 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 cash.

CANOPOLY a New Club Project
Posted on Feb 28, 2020
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 
        
 
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P.O. BOX 620312
Middleton • WI 53562 • USA
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