Membership Drive

During the month of November, we will be holding a membership drive.  A member of the Membership Committee will be at the sign in table to give free lunch cards and member packets to prospective members.  If you were to leave the club, think about who would replace you. 

Stunts Committee

The Stunts Committee presented “A Day at the Improv”.  Robb Waugus begin with some jokes about the state of Iowa then Chad Hershner, Marta Weldon, Deborah Wetter, Ruth Ann Heeter and Robb Waugus did a skit using the scene “Home for the Holidays”.   Each table then formed a team and everyone was part of a scene they created.  Teams had 2 minutes to look in prop boxes the Stunts Committee got from Goodwill Industries.  Each team was then selected to perform their skit.  Some of the scene suggestions were a golf tournament, climbing a mountain, spies and going for a walk with friends. Alyce Dumke, Mary Harp-Jirschele, Carolyn Lasecki, Trish Huizenga, John Mielke, Dan Nisler and Tom Williams did a skit on golf etiquette.  Ron Altenburg, Steve Andrysczyk, Paul Hillmer and Shipra Seefeldt did golfing in Africa.  Karen Dorn, Jay Drzewiecki, Alan Blake and Hugh Begy did the ideal job.  Dawn Doberstein, Peter Kelly, Robb Waugus, Kathy Dreyer and John Fuller did enchanted kingdom.  Sonia Barham, Nora Schulz, Jeff Schulz and Donna Kidder did one on Green Bay Packer fans.  The team performing the ideal job won and were given make-ups. 

Thanks to the Stunts Committee for putting this program together:  Chad Hershner, Marta Weldon, Robb Waugus, Debra Wetter and Ruth Ann Heeter.

Giving to the Appleton Rotary Foundation

Curt Detjen, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, discussed how giving to the Appleton Rotary Foundation is not just for Rotarians who support what the goals and objectives of the Club.  Anyone can make a tax deductible contribution.  Contributions can be made at any time, in any amount and through a variety of types of gifts.  Typically, member’s make out a check to make their donations to the various funds in the Appleton Rotary Foundation:  Arts Scholarship Fund, Community Service Fund, Paul and Elaine Groth World Service Fund, Charles Heeter Fund, Helen Thom Roemer Fund and the Scholarship Fund.  The Community Foundation can guide you through these other choices:  securities (stocks, bonds or mutual funds), business interests (closely held corporations, partnerships and limited liability entities), personal property (fine art, antiques, jewelry, rare books or almost any items of significant value), real estate or life insurance.  Contributions can be made by credit card or setting up an automatic deduction from a checking or saving account.  A relative of Helen Thom Roemer makes a yearly contribution to the fund.  We have a relative of Paul Groth who gives a monthly contribution through automatic deduction.  The Helen Thom Roemer Fund also received a $50,000 donation from Sylvia Cohodas, in memory of her husband, Arnold who was a member of our club from 1957-1981 and an active member of the Children with Disabilities Committee.  Think about the options you may have in front of you to leave something behind so Rotary can continue to do its good work.  

HAPPY HOUR - OCTOBER 18

The next Rotary Happy Hour, sponsored by the Family of Rotary Committee, is:

                                   

Thursday, October 18^th from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

CopperLeaf Hotel-300 W. College Ave., Appleton

Cash Bar and appetizers to purchase

Bring a spouse, significant other, friend, potential Rotarian – and join us.  See old friends, meet new ones and generally relax and enjoy the camaraderie and conversation.  It’s a great chance to get to know each other better and you also get a make up.

SAMP PACKING - OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Sharing Around (the World) Medical Project will pack on Tuesday, October 30.  The Family of Rotary Committee is sponsoring a pizza dinner from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and then packing from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Come see which costume Tony Gonzalez will be wearing:  Super Hero or Little Boo Peep.

ROTARY ART SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT

Lee Mothes has always loved to draw.  He has owned and operated Oceans and Dreams Art Studio since 1990, primarily working in watercolor and acrylic on canvas.  His work has been exhibited in art centers and museums throughout Wisconsin and he has won numerous awards.  Lee has also been creating a series of what he calls narrative paintings or pictures along with stories, road maps and a book length documentary of an imaginary island called New Island.  Nine years ago, he wrote a guidebook titled The New Island Relocation Guide, and he is currently expanding this into a full-color art book with a story line.  This project involves creating characters, developing a plot, then moving the story as an illustration work of fiction, using about 200 paintings, imagined maps and rewritten text from the original Guide as the background.  To help make this narrative paintings and this book more compelling, Lee wanted to get help from a master in writing fiction.  For creating realistic characters, a well developed plot and sharp, compelling sentences, he found the perfect writing course offered at The Clearing in Ellison Bay for a week long intensive course June 24-30, 2012 called Wring Well – A Workshop For Fiction and Memoir writers by Margaret Hawkins.  Lee received a scholarship from the Arts Scholarship Fund to attend this course.  

ARTISTS AS ENTREPRENEURS

Jan Smith, Executive Director of the Bergstrom Mahler Museum, explained how Harvey Littleton was a professor at U. W. Madison in the ceramics department.  He had a passion to explore glass as an art form.  His father was chief physicist at Corning Glass and inventor.  In 1962, Harvey Littleton set out to change the art world by making it feasible for artists to blow glass in studios and use it in educational programs.  Students have progressed in this art form from blowing glass to sculpting, carving and making things out of 800 lbs. of cast glass.  The Legacy of Harvey Littleton and his Students (50^th Anniversary of Studio Glass 1962-2012) is being featured at the Bergstrom Mahler Museum September 14, 2012 through February 24, 2013.  The exhibition features the work of Harvey Littleton and his early students who have carried on his legacy by further developing and sharing glass as a studio art.  Some featured artists include:  Christopher Ries, Dale Chihuly, David Huchthausen, Tom McGlauchlin, Audrey Handler, Gary Beecham, Fritz Dreisbach, Michael Taylor and Marvin Lipofsky.