Looks like winter has arrived a month early! Luck Us! Please remember to give yourself a little extra time to travel to Rotary meetings and other destinations throughout your week, snowy and icy roads are brand new to folks with short term memory loss, so watch out for them!
At our Board meeting on Nov 7th, the BOD voted and approved a plan to move our Board meeting time to 8:05am-9am on the first Friday of the month. That means we will hold full-schedule Club meetings on those Fridays again beginning Dec 5th. Please expect Board members to exist just after meeting adjournment on those Fridays as well as any other members who wish to attend the BOD meetings. Space is not always available at CUW after 8am, so meeting locations will be determined on a month-by-month basis.
Upcoming Events:
MTSR Holiday party - details forthcoming from Tom M
Reminder - Get your children's gifts in by the Dec 5th meeting.
Reminder - we will not be meeting Friday Nov 28th - Happy Thanksgiving
The schedule for Greeter, Thought of the Day and Rotary minute is on the website. Go to My Club Runner and click on the "View Club Documents" , If you are scheduled for one of these duties and are unable to attend, please arrange for someone to complete it in your stead. You will also find new folders on thew web site with notes from Roundtable discussions and Avenues of Service goals. To view the schedule click here.
This week’s at MTSR:
November 21- This week we will be meeting in the Friends of Concordia Room Concordia. | Speaker: Fred Garza - Concordia University - Military Service Coordination at CUW.
Dr. David C. Birner - CUW
Executive Director of International Education
- See more at: http://mtsunriserotary.org/Speakers/83ab5f2e-7097-47e1-9753-6b277d557837#sthash.YdyCt77i.dpuf
We, the members of the Mequon Thiensville Sunrise Rotary are collecting food to donate to an area food pantry. We will collect during the meetings on November 21 and December 5 and we chose to donate to St. Martin de Poores food pantry.
St. Martin de Porres located on 3114 n 2nd Street (2nd and Burleigh provides a food pantry for those who reside within the boundaries of Capital Drive; 20th Street; North Avenue and the lake. Although some of the food is donated through the Hunger Task Force another strong source is donations from various citizens through their clubs and churches.
This year for the first time ever, the food pantry at St. Martin de Porres was out of food. Their shelves were empty and they had to turn people down.
We are inviting the members of the Satellite section, North Shore, and Thiensville-Mequon Rotary clubs to join us and collect food to be delivered to the pantry of their choice.
Most needed food: Cereal • Tuna • Macaroni and Cheese • Soup • Milk (power or can)
Homestead honored for AP test results
Nov. 19, 2014 - Mequon Now
Mequon — The Mequon-Thiensville School District has been named to the College Board's fifth annual AP District Honor Roll.
This is the second consecutive year the district has been recognized as a leader for Homestead High School's increased AP test participation while simultaneously maintaining or increasing student performance on the AP exams.
Students experienced substantial gains in AP test performance and success over the past three years. The last year of Homestead's semester schedule was 2012. The high school switched to a trimester schedule in 2013.
In 2012, the high school had 283 test takers, 239 of whom scored 3 or more on one of the exams (84 percent). The school had 40.9 percent of seniors who had scored a 3 or more on an AP exam during high school.
In 2013, Homestead had 362 test takers, 324 of whom scored 3 or more on one of the exams (90 percent). The school had 50.1 percent of seniors who had scored a 3 or more on an AP exam during high school.
In 2014, the high school had 371 test takers, 334 of whom scored 3 or more on one of the exams (90 percent). The school had 52.5 percent of seniors who had scored a 3 or more on an AP exam during high school.
Homestead High School offers 22 AP courses, up from 14 in 2011-12.
"It is a privilege to be honored for the hard work put forth daily by Homestead teachers, students and faculty," Homestead Principal Brett Bowers said. "Homestead High School is committed to giving students the tools they need to succeed in academically rigorous coursework."
MTSD is one of 547 districts across the United States and Canada placed on the AP District Honor Roll.
By Jerry Venters, a member of the Rotary Club of Kansas City Plaza
I’ve been a member of Rotary since 1989, and I have never heard of or participated in a changing of the guard ceremony like the one held in District 6040, Missouri, USA, this year. It had more energy and enthusiasm, participation, and fun than any I’ve attended!
The district governor for 2014-15, Cassy Venters (full disclosure here: my wife) began thinking two years earlier about how she could make the event different and uphold the Rotary ideal of Service Above Self. She chose to make it a service project with our local food bank, Harvesters – The Community Food Network.
As is usually the case, the event doubled as the installation ceremony for the governor’s home club, in this case the Kansas City Plaza Rotary Club, led by 2014-15 President Bob Merrigan. Most of these events are long, drawn-out affairs held in a hotel or banquet facility. Cassy dared to be different.
After months of promotion, we had 140 Rotarians, Rotaractors, and family members pack 4,600 lunches in 90 mintues for the children served by Harvesters. Four of our granddaughters, ages 8 to 19, along with our daughter and son-in-law, came from Des Moines, Iowa, to take part in the event. We had Rotarians from almost a dozen clubs around the district participate, and some brought their children, too. Nine Rotaractors were there, and I’ve never seen Rotaractors take part in a district installation ceremony! Read More ...
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I’ve been a member of Rotary since 1989, and I have never heard of or participated in a changing of the guard ceremony like the one held in District 6040, Missouri, USA, this year. It had more energy and enthusiasm, participation, and fun than any I’ve attended!