DAWN DOBERSTEIN’S INDUCTION (ROAST)

This past year, we have been led by a man so soft spoken that we could not hear him and so short that we could not see him.  It was the year of the invisible presidency.  That, fellow Rotarians, is about to change.  Dawn is a presence to contend with.  She describes herself as having been a perfectly normal teenage girl:  a cheerleader, a girl who liked to party and have fun.  She enrolled in U. W. Oshkosh hoping to find bigger and better parties and managed to get through two years of classes before getting married and dropping out of school to have babies.  After giving birth to the third of her four children, Dawn had an “aha” moment.  While at Hardy’s, she looked around at the frazzled moms chasing after their toddlers with ketchup stains and baby drool and realized that was what her future was going to be like if she did not go back to college.  She then earned her degree in accounting, secured a job at Grant Thorton, passed her CPA exam and Dawn and her husband divorced.  She was hired away from Grant Thorton to work for M&I Bank by Dan Nisler.  She was recruited to take a position in commercial loans at American National Bank by Dan Nisler as well.  Dan either holds her work in high regard or she has some amazing dirt on him that she has leveraged into two jobs and the Rotary presidency.  Dawn is the grandma to a two year old grandson demonstrating that it is possible to be both a grandma and smoking hot.  If a Rotarian returns from a trip bearing a gift, he/she is now required to address her as “President Smoking-Hot Dawn”.  Dawn has had substantial experience in international relations.  She has engaged in diplomacy over beers in Germany, Austria and Ireland and a talent for margarita diplomacy in Mexico.  A reputable psychotherapist has diagnosed Dawn as a “serial dater”.  She is rarely without a gentleman on her arm, but if you blink your eyes or look away for a minute it is likely to be a different gentleman.  Her friends believed that she ditched men so quickly because her standards were so extraordinarily high that no man could maintain them for more than 90 seconds.  Her standards in men are a teensy bit lower these days.  Dawn drives a pick up truck even though she has never hauled anything heavier than a bag of potting soil.  This is because she does not want to eliminate men with mullets named Billy-Bob from her potential dating pool.  As president, she will require every Rotarian who is male and single to date her at least twice.  Dawn uses these terms to describe herself:  silly, impatient, demanding and goal oriented.  The Stunts Committee polled a random group of her co-workers who described her as “high maintenance”.  There you have it, fellow Rotarians!  We give you your new, silly, impatient, demanding, serial-dating, pick-up driving, high maintenance leader:  President Smoking Hot Dawn.  President Dawn then presented Past President Dan with a Past President’s pin and introduced the following officers and directors for the 2012-2013 Rotary year:

Immediate Past President               Dan Nisler

President                                           Dawn Doberstein

President Elect                                 Peter Kelly

Secretary                                           Deborah Wetter

Treasurer                                           John Fuller

Sergeant at Arms                              Paul Hillmer

One year term board                        Two year term board members

Greg Linnemanstons                        Caroline Lasecki

Rich Redman                                     Trey Neher

Susan Stockton                                 Mary Schmidt

Jennifer Wanke                                 Robb Waugus