Program: Brandon Bullock - HNI
Recap from the December 2, 2019 Club Meeting:
Visitors: we had 29 Muscatine High School students join us - all 3.5+ GPA's. They sat at tables with Rotarians that had careers in the fields that they are interested in.
Happy News: Erika Cox was happy that her daughter Sydney Cox was at the meeting with the 3.5+ GPA high school seniors. Paul Fitzpatrick spent Thanksgiving with 24 family members and was also happy that the Hawkeyes won. Karen Diercks had a good 'small business day' on Saturday. Mike Ruby is leading the Salvation Army's red kettle drive in Muscatine. The goal is collect $180,000 this year. Please go to registertoring.com or call the Salvation Army office to be a bell ringer.
Cow Bell Ringing: Jessica Wittman rang the bell - our club has already reached the $1000 in donations to the Salvation Army - we have an anonymous donor that is matching $1000 to Salvation Army and another $1000 to the Rotary Polio Fund. Congrats - but we can raise more, keep on giving if you can!!! Bell was also rang for us raising $455 for our club through the holiday floral fundraiser.
Club Business: Sal LoBianco was presented with his 3rd Paul Harris pin. Congratulations.
Program: Our program was Jen Von Kaenel with Junior Achievement (JA). JA in celebrating its 100 year; for a century it has been committed to making our young people 100% ready for their future. JA does this by providing students in kindergarten through high school with knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work-readiness and entrepreneurship. JA started in Muscatine in 1985 with four middle school classes. Jen shared a video with us titled "Empower the Future", it highlighted the power of JA. The second video she shared with us was a moving testimonial of an adult and how JA changed his life. Jen also shared many statistics of JA - JA alumni make 20% higher income than the general population, 1 in 3 JA alumni credit JA for influencing their career decision, 88% are satisfied with their career, 67% more likely to have an advanced degree, 30% more likely to have a bachelor's degree. If you would like to be a JA volunteer, please go to www.jaheartland.org. Thank you Jen.
Our next meeting will be noon on Monday, December 9, 2019 at the Rendezvous.