The Rotary Club of Madison has 2 meetings: Thursday morning 7:30 am, Madison Area YMCA, 111 Kings Road, Madison, NJ and Thursday afternoon 12:15 pm, Madison Hotel, One Convent Road, Convent Station, NJ. Members and guests may attend either meeting.
The Rotary Club of Madison has an enthusiastic and engaged network of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to serve humanity in our local and global communities. We have 88 members and are inviting like-minded individuals to join our successful and vibrant club. President Jeannie Tsukamoto encourages you to come learn about Rotary by attending a club meeting as our guest. You have your choice of three weekly meetings: Thursdays, 7:47 am breakfast at the YMCA, 12:15 pm lunch at the Madison Hotel and 6:30 pm hors d'oeuvres at EAT.alian at 90 Park Avenue. To attend, please stopy by at one of the meetings. For questions or additional information, contact Barry Kroll, Membership Development Chair, at barrykroll@aol.com or 973-476-2772.
Fellow Madison Rotarians – it’s time for a spring cleanup in the borough!!! The May Day event is a great way for us to show our appreciation for the borough – we need volunteers for Saturday May 6th. Madison Rotary adopted the Library as our annual cleanup project during the May Day event. Read below to see the details and benefit of May Day for the borough.
We will meet at 8:30am at the Madison Library located between Keep St. and Belmont. Wear gardening clothes, bring gloves if you have them and anyone with a Wheel Barrow – we need these to move mulch!!!
The sponsors of the event (including Madison Rotary), supply all the volunteers with shirts which is a great fashion item to wear around town all summer!!
Please everyone consider helping out that morning. Come for 3 hours or one hour – whatever you can fit in. We need 25-30 volunteers to make the event go quickly and do the best job making the Library gardens look great.
Confirm back to Tom Haralampoudis that you will come and advise your shirt size. thomas@lancasales.com
Pictured above are the 2017-2018 Madison High School Interact Club Officers along with Club President, Jeannie Tsukamoto and Faculty Advisor Luis Largo. The entire club enjoyed breakfast with the students on May 25th and learned of the activities and services performed by the Interact Club throughout the year.. A special thank your to Cathie Coultas and Bill Van Ryzin for organizing the breakfast.
19 new members have become part of Madison Rotary this year. Many of you are still working with prospective members and hopefully they will join before the end of the Rotary year, June 30th. To help in the process, the Membership Committee is hosting an Open House Ice Cream social at the YMCA on May 25th for 6:30 to 8:00 pm. This is an excellent opportunity for you to bring any prospective members you are working with to learn more about Madison Rotary. In addition we are inviting 350 of the volunteers who helped with End Hunger 3.6 to thank them for their efforts and explore options for further involvement with our club.
Madison Rotary has an active new member mentor program designed to help new members become acclimated to Madison Rotary. A special thank you to all of the mentors involved in the program. Nancy Adamczyk, Jim Allison, Michel Belt, Tom Bintinger, Dave Carson, Cathie Coultas, Dave Farrell, Hermann Fickenscher, Ray Freaney, Shant Harootunian, Marty Horn, Ed Kalinka, Jeff Kraft, Barry Kroll, Hal Moeller, Carmela Moeller, Brigitte Richter-Hajduk, Joe Smith, Deb Starker, Jeannie Tuskamoto, Marsh Ann Zimmerman. If you would like to become a mentor contact mentor Chair Tom Bintinger at tbintinger@aol.com.
Was Paul Harris the first president of a Rotary Club? No. Was Paul Harris the first president of Rotary International? Yes.
There is an easy explanation to this apparent contradiction. Although Paul Harris was the founder and organizer of the first Rotary club in Chicago in 1905, the man selected to be the first president was one of the other founding members, Silvester Schiele.
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