Birthdays recently: Paul Shoemaker 12.5, Kyle Morris 12.4, Jerry Schuetz 12.7 and Dennis Beggs on 12.17. Happy birthday, all!
Anniversaries: Sue and Dave Boettcher , 44 yrs, and Nancy and Bob Kimball, 53 yrs. Happy anniversary!
We had our 2017-17 Board Elections today. Votes were tallied during the meeting, and our current Board will remain in place for another year. Thank you for your service, and to those that stepped up to run for Board service.
Note on your Calendars: No meetings will be held on 12.26 and 1.2.
It is recommended that you car pool and arrive by 11:30 for the Joint Service Club meeting next Monday. There will be 163 people attending.
Mick Gilbertson announced that there will be a Camp Rotamer meeting after our regular meeting on 12.19. Please stay and get involved if you'd like.
MariVi : Cookie baking, snow, and Sushi were her favorite things from this past week.
December is Rotary Foundation Endowment Month. You should have received a letter from the Committee- please read it and learn more about what our Endowment supports and how you can help our local Foundation. Talk to anyone on the Committee if you have questions.
Raffle: Tracey P won the daily pot ($21) and JP of $48 rolls over
Charles Clark, Southwestern Regional Executive Dean with U Wisconsin Colleges, explained some of the restructuring that took place last year when drastic funding cuts required personnel restructuring (100 jobs eliminated) throughout the system. Wisconsin has 13 two year campuses in 4 districts, with more than 10,800 students. Students have a 72% graduation rate based on a 6 year metric, which is very high, and carry less student loan. The Mission Statement for U WI Colleges is:
The University of Wisconsin Colleges is a multi-campus institution committed to high quality educational programs, preparing students for success at the baccalaureate level of education, providing the first two years of a liberal arts general education that is accessible and affordable, providing a single baccalaureate degree that meets local and individual needs, and advancing the Wisconsin Idea by bringing the resources of the University to the people of the state and the communities that provide and support its campuses. For more information, please visit http://uwc.edu/, or http://rock.uwc.edu/
Dawson Babcock, accompanied by his parents Heather and Dave Jr, and proudly supported by grandparents Milly and Dave, is a Senior at Parker. He has been an officer in DECCA for 2 years, Secretary of SHS, and a member of NHS, Key Club, FCA, and a Link officer. He plays on the drum line in the marching band. His sports involvement includes Golf, and 4 years playing Soccer and being named All Conference. He is a Captain for Rock Soccer (5 yrs). He will attend UW Whitewater and major in Music Education.
Erin Seichter, also from Parker, is Secretary for the Key Club, SHS Treasurer, a member of the green Squad, Link Crew, and the Robotics Club. She plays in Band. She has 80 hours of volunteer service at Cedar Crest. She will be attending UWM Twin Cities and major in Computer Science for Computer Programming.
Michael Scieszinski, with proud Mom Abigail looking on, attends Craig. He helps his parents businesses doing some grounds work, and has a Brother and Sister. He has played 3 sports at Varsity level: Track, Hockey and Football. His Club activity includes Treasurer with the V Club, and DECCA. He'll be attending UW Madison to major in Computer or Environmental Sciences.
Today we officially welcomed Tracy Pierner and Joseph Shere into our Club as they told is about themselves.
Tracy grew up in Green Bay. After serving in the Army, he attended UW MSN and obtained an electrical degree. He and his wife Laura have 3 daughters. They lived in Appleton for a time while he worked at Rockwell, and then 'stumbled into his vocation' en route to starting a consulting business- the path to 'faculty member' makes sense when he tells it! - after falling in love with instruction. He was a Dean for 7 years in SC, then Michigan, before coming to BTC last year.
Joseph Shere was raised here in a family of 7 and attended UW Whitewater where he played Baseball and majored in finance. He has been in banking for 16 years and currently is VP of Business Lending at Wisconsin River Bank. His wife Carrie gave birth to their twins at 30 weeks, so their induction into parenthood included 4-7 weeks in the Neonatal ICU in Madison. They added a hefty 8 lb Boy and now supervise 3 kids under the age of 3! Joseph has joined the Endowment Committee and you'll be hearing from him this week about that.
We welcome you both to Janesville Noon Rotary! We're glad you've joined us
Though Atlanta has seen its share of violence and inequity over time, today it brims with reminders that there is another way. Get inspired while you’re visiting for the 2017 Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June.
Take a short walk from the convention center to the Center for Civil and Human Rights. There, you can see the handwritten notes, speeches, and sermons of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., experience an interactive 1960s-era lunch counter “sit-in,” and learn more about persecuted groups all over the world.
A streetcar will take you to the Martin Luther King Jr...
CNBC has ranked The Rotary Foundation No. 3 in its annual list of Top 10 Charities Changing the World in 2016. The list includes some of the largest and highest-rated charities that help women, children, the poor, and the environment throughout the world, according to Charity Navigator, and that maintain high standards of financial health, accountability, and transparency of reporting.
The Foundation was noted for connecting 1.2 million members from more than 200 geographic areas to tackle the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges, including projects that focus on disease prevention,...
Parts of Rotary.org will be unavailable 3-5 December, beginning at 05:00 Chicago time (UTC-6), while we upgrade our membership database.
During this time, areas that require sign-in (convention registration, club and district administration, grant application, giving, Rotary Club Central, etc.) and Club Finder will be unavailable.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Some Rotarians have reported receiving a scam email asking them to click a link to update names and contact information in a directory.
The email, which stems from a gmail account, is not from Rotary.
Rotary members in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, celebrated 100 years of The Rotary Foundation on 23 October with a banquet and a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra that have so far raised more than $2.1 million for the Foundation's next century of good work.
Arch Klumph, a Cleveland Rotarian, planted the seed for The Rotary Foundation in 1917, with his idea of having an endowment fund dedicated to "doing good in the world." Today's District 6630 leaders thought that a concert was a fitting way to honor Klumph and mark the centennial because of Klumph's love of music. Klumph performed in several...
