Our next meeting will be Friday (7/20) at Newcastle Place, 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI 53092.
The program Friday will feature Ariam Kesete - Owner of AK Development. Ariam will speak on Rotary Scholarships.
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:
Dick Larson (7/20)
Steve Lettau (7/27)
Tom Martin (8/3)
Kimberly Metz (8/10)
Note: If you are unable to to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
Richard (Dick) Larson is a newer member of our Rotary Club but has been a member for over 50 years with clubs in West Bend, Naples Florida and Madison Downtown.
After graduation from the University of Wisconsin he was commissioned a regular officer in the United States Air Force and planned to make the Air Force his career. After a year in Korea during the war and a Pentagon assignment he resigned his commission as a major to become a bank president in West Bend.
Retiring as CEO in 1993 he continued as Board Chairman until 2005. After retirement in 1993 Dick and his wife, Gail, became Florida residents but bought a home in Madison where they spent the summers. They sold their Bonita Beach home and became permanent Madison residents in 2013. They moved to the independent living facility of Newcastle in 2017.
During his banking career Dick served on a number of advisory boards including the Federal Reserve Advisory Board and the Freddie Mac Advisory Board in Washington D.C. and as a director and vice chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago for several years and is a past chairman of the Wisconsin Banking Association. He also served several years as chairman of the Washington County Republican Party and is a past vice chairman of the State Republican Party.
GERMANTOWN - At the end of every baseball season, Homestead head coach Ernie Millard goes down the line, hugging each of his players one-by-one.
He expected it to be a bit harder, a bit more bittersweet to make the trip down the row this season. He didn’t expect it to be this hard.
One of the longest-tenured summer baseball coaches in the state, Millard saw his career at the helm of the Highlanders end Monday, when Germantown senior Colin Sackett’s walk-off single in the eighth inning downed Homestead, 8-7, in a sectional semifinal. Earlier in the year Millard announced that this would be his final season as the Highlanders head coach, retiring after 26 years on the job.
“I thought I had prepared myself for it, but it was very, very difficult,” Millard said of the postgame tradition. “The one thing I did a little differently this time was I hugged my seniors first. Normally I hug my sophomores and my juniors because I’m going to get to see them next year. But it hit me that I won’t be coaching any of them next year.”
As the public address announcer at Germantown thanked Millard for his years of service, a fan from behind the Homestead dugout said what was on the minds of many:
“All class, all the way through the very end, Ernie.”
Our Rotary exchange student, Elisabeth Burschel, arrives on August 5th from Germany! I've started to put together a welcome basket for her on behalf of our Rotary Club. I'm reaching out to see if you'd like to contribute to it. I have yogurt raisins and popcorn in it so far. I am looking for the following items:
Hair ties
Nail polish
Tea of all kinds (this is what she likes to drink the most)
Reusable water bottle
Healthy snacks like dried fruit, raisins, etc. She does not, however, like nuts of any kind.
Razors (and all other personal toiletries)
Blank cards & envelopes for writing home
Lip gloss/chapstick
Gum, mints, candy (gummy bears are her favorite), chocolate, etc.
Gift cards to local places like Starbucks, Culver's, McDonald's, Target, etc.
iTunes gift cards
Body wash & lotion (she likes flowery scents)
Any other items a 16 year old girl would find useful or enjoyable for her visit to the USA!
Perhaps you might already have some of these items at your house, or feel free to pick up something small on your next shopping trip. I'll collect items (or money if you prefer) at our Friday Rotary meeting the next 3 weeks.
Additionally, I'll be sending out another plea shortly for Rotarians to take Elisabeth out/participate in family activities throughout the month of August and beyond. Please contact me with any dates in particular that you have in mind so I can add that to her schedule.
As schoolteachers, Charles and Rachel Uihlein were frustrated that the educational experiences taught to inner-city teens in Milwaukee were not fully preparing them for careers in the real world.
So, in 2014, they founded Teens Grow Greens Inc., a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization to fill in the educational gaps they were seeing first-hand.
“As teachers, we saw a lack of avenues for success for a lot of high school students and a lack of the soft skills needed for the 21st-century workplace. Our end goal was to build an internship that developed those skills through experience and provided connections to future employment and/or education,” said Charles Uihlein, who is executive director of the organization. “Also, we found that it is important for teenagers to have employment experience because those teenagers are more likely to graduate from high school, be employed within the following year and earn more money over their lifetimes.”
After graduation from the University of Wisconsin he was commissioned a regular officer in the United States Air Force and planned to make the Air Force his career. After a year in Korea during the war and a Pentagon assignment he resigned his commission as a major to become a bank president in West Bend. 
