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Happy Thanksgiving
Club Meeting Information

There will be no meeting this Friday (11/24).  Happy Thanksgiving!

Our next regular meeting will be Friday (12/1) at Newcastle Place - 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI  53092.

The greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything they would like to start off the day positive.

Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:

  • Fr. Mike Shay (12/1)
  • Ajay Singh (12/8)
  • Lynn Streeter (12/15)
  • Elizabeth Suran (12/22)

Note: If you are unable to to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.

Visit our website at mtsunriserotary.org.

This Teacher’s Story Will MAKE Your Thanksgiving

By Readers Digest Editors

Some of the most moving lessons are taught by your students.

When Mrs. Klein told her first graders to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little these children, who lived in a deteriorating neighborhood, actually had to be thankful for. She knew that most of the class would draw pictures of turkeys or of bountifully laden Thanksgiving tables. That was what they believed was expected of them.

What took Mrs. Klein aback was Douglas’s picture. Douglas was so forlorn and likely to be found close in her shadow as they went outside for recess. Douglas’s drawing was simply this:

A hand, obviously, but whose hand? The class was captivated by his image. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one student.

“A farmer,” said another, “because they grow the turkeys.”

“It looks more like a policeman, and they protect us.” “I think,” said Lavinia, who was always so serious, “that it is supposed to be all the hands that help us, but Douglas could only draw one of them.”

Mrs. Klein had almost forgotten Douglas in her pleasure at finding the class so responsive. When she had the others at work on another project, she bent over his desk and asked whose hand it was.

Douglas mumbled, “It’s yours, Teacher.”

Then Mrs. Klein recalled that she had taken Douglas by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But that it should have meant so much to Douglas …

Perhaps, she reflected, this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody’s Thanksgiving—not the material things given unto us, but the small ways that we give something to others.

A Rotary LOL Moment

The Duplex By Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy

An action packed meeting

Friday's action packed meeting included classification talks by new members Bruce Carter (top left) and Jeff Kim (top right). Bee Janssen is presented our first "Guest" classification badge by Fr. Mike Shay (club Secretary). Photos by Bob Blazich.

Thought of the Week

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” ― Erma Bombeck

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