Dan Smith, Left, author of John Powless: A Life Well Played. John has had a long history related to Badger athletics, beyond being a world-class senior tennis player himself. He
coached Badger tennis and basketball and was a color commentator on it after he retired from coaching.
He got his start at the Frog Island Tennis Club. He was state high school tennis champ in Illinois in 1950-52, played at the US Open for the first time at age 18. He was a college tennis All-American at Murray State.
Over the years, he’s been ranked #1 in every five-year age category from 35 on up. He’s doubled with George HW Bush, played Santa with Lady Diana as Mrs. Santa and enjoyed a friendship with Bobby Knight and the late Al McGuire. Colorful guy, colorful speaker.
Next Meeting’s Speaker: Madison Newspaper Reporter Barry Adams on Traveling the State
Jan 18 Peggy Halloran on Housing Programs at Road Home Dane County
Jan 25 Susan Lampert Smith: Cancer Research Feb 1 Hydrologist Jim Bachhuber on stormwater Feb 8 Jess Charles: Bringing the Stones Home – Restoring Gravestones to the Old Dane County Asylum and Poor Farm Feb 15 Randy Sproule with Jerry Apps’ Limping Through Life video about his life with polio Feb 22 Terry Lickel from Middleton Travel Agency on Dream Vacations Mar 1 Tom Gross & Lou Ann Novak on The Ice Age Trail
Mar 8 Dr. Zorba Pastor on tuberculosis in Tibet Mar 15 Larry Graves on Veterans’ Benefits
Mar 22 Terry Lickel from Middleton Travel on Dream Vacations
Basketball Cards have arrived. Your Board of Directors would like 100%
participation. One packet is $100.00. A suggested buyout is $75.00.
Here is how it works: $10.00, buys a person one "membership card”. If they buy two, they can get a third card free on the www.basketballsweeps.com/FREE site.
Each card contains 4 NCAA Basketball teams below the scratch-off area. If you have a team that does not make the event, there will be a replacement team announced prior to the tournament. These teams are your teams for the duration of the tournament. You total all of the scores of your 4 teams to find your total for the event. The highest score wins $200.00, 2nd place $100, 3rd place $75.00, 4th place $50.00 and the lowest score wins $75.00.
Checks for winners will be distributed following the final game. There are 700 tickets available for sale. Ticket stubs must be retained and turned in with your money to Deb Dieter by March 22, 2019.
Deb Dieter runs this project. Questions, kudos, or gripes, email Deb at debragdieter@gmail.com
Jim Olmsted has taken over scheduling speakers for our Club. If you have some specific program suggestions or topics you’d like to hear about, contact Jim at jolmsted7562@gmail.com.
Please let me know of any events or special situations in our fellow Rotarians' lives where a card, flowers, or a plant would be appropriate for their situation.
Applications are being accepted through February 1, 2019, for the upcoming Summer High School Exchange program. The Rotary Short Term Exchange Program, known as STEP, is a Family-to-Family exchange for students ages 15 to 18. This is a great program for students not interested in our one-year exchange program.
Students submit their application indicating their top 3 country choices and a match is established with an international family. The U.S. student spends 3-5 weeks abroad with their host family. During the same summer, the U.S. student hosts his/her brother/sister in the U.S. Exact dates are determined by the two families. There is no academic component of this exchange. Some of the countries available in the Rotary STEP: Brazil, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. For more detailed information, go to www.rotary6260.org/STEP or email: Rotary6250.summerexchange@gmail.com / 608-577-6395, coordinator Janine O’Rourke
Folks please pay a visit to ClubRunner and check that your anniversary and partner are listed in your entry. If you don’t know how to access ClubRunner, drop me an email.
If you have something you think should go into our weekly Bulletin, please send it to me at the email address on top of this Bulletin. Please include the phrase ‘FOR THE BULLETIN’ in your subject line.
At our November foundation board of directors meeting we reviewed our funding and commitments. For fiscal year 2018-2019 we funded all approved projects and still had a total of $5,635 available. In one instance we did not receive a district matching grant for Jefferson Middle School. Further, we did not have approved projects to use all the community service funding. Due to high demand all district matching grant funds have been committed already. In keeping with our mission, we would like to find a way to best utilize these undesignated funds.
We will accept applications for such undesignated funds no later than December 31,
2018. If anyone from the club has a project that requires funding, they should complete the Undesignated Funds Request (available on Club Runner) and submit it to the appropriate Avenue of Service Chair as follows:
• Community – Kevin Welton
• International – Steve Aune
• Vocational – Roxanne Brazeau
I attached the Undesignated Funding Request form to the email carrying this Bulletin. Funding requests will be reviewed by the chair, who will make final recommendations to the board of directors. The board will review all recommended projects and vote to approve any such projects at the regularly scheduled board meeting on January 15, 2019. Applicants will be notified of the board decision shortly thereafter. If you have any questions, contact Matt Loch at matthewloch26@gmail.com.
If anyone has current emails for Jerry Smith and Dick Meister, please pass them along to me. My Bulletin emails to them are not getting through.
Adam Schaller has submitted his resignation from the Club on Dec 17. Adam is taking on a volunteer commitment with the American Family Children’s Hospital, and with a young family and a full-time job, he can’t keep up his Rotary obligations. We will miss him.
Our incoming slate of officers, starting July 1:
President Dawn Frank
President-Elect Steve Aune
President-Elect Nominee Ruth Domack
Secretary Jack Ferreri
Treasurer Rich Cooper
Sergeant-at-Arms Jeannine Desautels
Club Service Year 2 Mary Ruth Marks
Club Service Year 1 Kevin Moran
Community Service Year 2 Patrick Rees
Community Service Year 1 Barry Pace
International Service Year 2 Dick Murray
International Service Year 1 Sundar Baladhandapani
Vocational Service Year 2 Deb Dieter
Vocational Service Year 1 Dennis Zitnak
Our April 26th meeting will be a luncheon at Jefferson Middle School. Many of our members have supported Club activities on behalf of JMS. Now we get to enjoy lunch there and see the facility.
Note that the Minutes from our November Board Meeting are attached to this Bulletin email. Review them and look behind the scenes on how your Club works its magic.
Rotary Fellowships consist of members who share a common interest in recreational activities, sports, hobbies, or professions. These groups help expand skills, foster vocational development and enhance the Rotary experience by exploring interests while developing connections around the world. Below is a sampling of fellowships for you to explore. Each listing is a live link (hold the control key and click on the link) See more information on the Rotary.org website.
Feb 7, 2019. Club Socializing Gather-Round at Cowboy Jack’s starting at 430.
Feb. 16. 6-9 pm at the Jefferson Area Business Center/Woolen Mills. The Jefferson Rotary Club is having its Annual Beer & Wine Tasting Fundraiser, Craft Beers, Area Wineries, Heavy Appetizers, DJ, Photo Booth and LOTS of GREAT Silent Auction items for you to bid on (including signed Green Bay Packer 2017 Football, autographed Bears photo, tickets to area sports and more to come!) Tickets are $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Tix: Deb McCoolCloute at dmccool-cloute@badgerbank.bank.
February 23. Club Social, Details to come.
March 7. Academic Decathlon, Wisconsin Dells. Details to come.
May 17-19 2019. RYLA at Upham Woods, Wisconsin Dells.
Dan Smith, Left, author of John Powless: A Life Well Played. John has had a long history related to Badger athletics, beyond being a world-class senior tennis player himself. He
Matt Loch has escaped the work corral and is now galloping free on the open range. His new email is 
