Dave Schlageter needs help lining up speakers for our meetings, so please send him your ideas for interesting programs.
We are about to start a new year for Rotary. We are always looking for speakers. There are no set rules for the speakers, and we welcome a diverse group of people. If you have anyone in mind, please contact me via e-mail, and we will work to invite them to a meeting.
Where: We meet at the Mequon Public Market, 6300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092. (The Entrance is in the rear.)
Next scheduled meeting 7/19/2024
At our meetings, the Greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything with which they would like to start off the day positive.
Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:
Lynn Streeter (7/19/2024)
Monica Smith (7/26/2024)
Note: If you cannot act as an "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled, please arrange for your replacement.
Board Meeting immediately after the regular meeting.
You can see we have added all the committees on for reporting but I just realized I missed two - Youth and Club Operations. So we will add that to the reports.
Technically, all committee chairs are now part of the Board according to the bylaws. I do understand there is some history and maybe a lack of certainty as to whether these positions are voting positions. We will sort that out at some point. But all committee chairs are invited and welcome to participate in the meeting.
If you are unable to make the board meeting, you are welcome to submit a brief written report,. or to just tell us " No report." For example, I would expect this to be the situation at least from Youth since we just re-formed the committee!
Sure, most members of our club know I’m a Catholic priest, but not everyone knows things about me that usually don’t accompany such a profession.
Born/raised in Wichita, Kansas. Trained in lithographic photography at MATC, 1959. Cook and baker for 40 people for a year in Iowa. Full-service hand bookkeeper 10 years, and in computer applications for 11 years. First and only male student and graduate in the 100+ year history of an all-girls college (I put the “co” in “co-ed.”) Provincial Superior of the USA Province of my religious Order, and CFO for it for three years. FCC General Class ham radio operator 7 years. Taught and called Square Dance eight years in three states as full member of International Callers Association (Callerlab). Won blue ribbon at Elko County (NV) Fair for baking cookie bars. Officer or board member of organizations dealing with drug and alcohol abuse, home health, domestic violence, and mental health. Taught English as a Second Language in Alabama to Asian immigrants. This summer celebrating Golden anniversary of Ordination. Proudest accomplishment: with one other person, reducing the youth suicide rate in Elko County, Nevada from the highest in the nation (at that time) to zero in 18 months. (Long story.) Elko County Citizen of the year 1986, and cited by Nevada Governor Bryan. Twenty-three years as a Rotarian in four states. Now adjunct chaplain at Alexian Village.
Caitlin Steinberg is a third generation Cedarburg resident, historian, award winning journalist, and an EMT/soon-to-be Firefighter at the Cedarburg Fire Department. Specializing in American Military History, Steinberg has dedicated her life to preserving and highlighting the histories of American service members in museums, educational curriculum, and entertainment productions. She has worked at the USS Arizona Memorial as a Staff Historian, served as historian and archivist to the indigenous Ts’msyen tribe of Annette Islands Reservation in Alaska, and founded Operation Green Faces, a 501(C)3 research nonprofit preserving the history of the earliest United States Navy SEALs.
After 16 years, Steinberg moved home to live closer to family and continue her research by creating the first community Veterans Oral History Program for Ozaukee County, showcasing the efficacy of community-based oral history programs engineered to simultaneously provide mental health services, public engagement, and provide museum content as well as district-wide educational materials. This will be the first program of its kind in the nation and its culmination will coincide with America’s 250th Anniversary in 2026.
She is proud member of the Society of American Archivists, the Oral History Association, the American Association of State and Local History and the Cedarburg Artists Guild.
Additionally, her work as a Naval Special Warfare historian is providing her the honor of writing “Dundee: The First Native American Navy SEAL,” a narrative nonfiction book about Ts’msyen and Tlingit elder, Solomon D. Atkinson. Born in 1938, Atkinson’s life on the first SEAL Team, working with NASA’s Apollo program, Jacques Cousteau, the CIA, the earliest atomic bomb testing has become that of legends; spanning the jungles of Vietnam to the Pentagon, White House, and soon to be the 7 seas. Atkinson's book release will coincide with the Navy's commission of a new Navajo-Class ship after Atkinson in 2028.”
Rotary Action Groups are independent, international, Rotary-affiliated groups whose members are involved in particular fields such as economic development, the environment, disease prevention, clean water, or other areas. I think a number of the Rotary Action Groups, possibly all, involve a modest fee to join.
To learn more about Rotary Action Groups and get involved, you can read the attached flyer, or you can click here: https://my.rotary.org/en/take-action/empower-leaders/rotary-action-groups
Rotary Fellowships are interest groups of members who share a common passion. The categories span various interests from bird-watching to MetalHead to Corporate social responsibility. If you don't find a fellowship that speaks to you, you can start one of your own! The format of the groups varies - for example, the Photography group is a Facebook group where you just have to ask to join. Francophonie on the other hand, involves the payment of dues and reading the entire page en francais.
To learn more about Rotary Fellowships, read the attached flyer or click here: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/more-fellowships
If you join a Rotary Action Group or a Fellowship, please let me know so we can track your progress toward our goals.
Also, because I do believe I thought Fellowships were something else, I am adjusting our goal upward on that one since I think there are plenty of club members who would want to join!
The Declaration of Independence, 1776 - By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. And so began the America we enjoy today. Between then and now, men and women in your military service have offered themselves to protect that independence so we can keep it.
With that in mind - while your enjoying day(s) off, the parades, the BBQ’s, and the fireworks displays please keep in mind and appreciate that some of your fellow citizens have stepped up to protect that independence for all of us to continue to enjoy. In that perspective, everyday is military appreciation day.
