Rotary Club of Appleton Accomplishments for 2012-2013

President Dawn wanted to reflect upon some noteworthy Club accomplishments for just a few minutes, as a way to say thank you to everyone.

We began this year with a survey, asking you to shape the direction for our Club.

The Youth Services and Education Awards Committee awarded 10 Bright Future Awards, 10 Outstanding Junior Awards and 11 Outstanding Senior Awards.  Valley New School was added to the list of recipients.  The committee also awarded 6 Bright Future Scholarships.  Each student received $466. 

The Recognitions Committee awarded 6 Charles and Adele Heeter Outstanding Community Leadership Awards. 

The Membership Committee held 2 membership drives and 19 members were inducted. 

The Courtesy Awards Committee awarded 6 awards for exceptional service in our community.

The Program Theme Committee presented 4 programs on water. 

The Family of Rotary Committee held a SAMP packing event for new board members in fall 2012, organized a family night at the Timber Rattler stadium, held a kick ball event, coordinated the annual Holiday Celebration, held quarterly Happy Hours and coordinated a community event for Rotary families at the Gardens of the Fox Cities. 

The Children with Disabilities Committee distributed $22,284.59 to area organizations. 

The Arts and Arts Awards Committee awarded $1,968 in arts scholarships. 

The World Service Committee granted $2,931.82 to the Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity to purchase and ship eyeglasses for a mission trip to Nicaragua.

The Community Service Committee granted $3039 to the Community Clothes closet.

The Scholarship Committee changed their criteria to more need based scholarships and awarded 2 - $5,000 scholarships.

The Visitation Committee renamed itself to the Rotary Friendship Committee and formed three subcommittees – transportation, hospitality and illness and bereavement. 

The Rotary Ambassadors held a collection drive for St. Joe’s Food Pantry, the Emergency Shelter and the Mooring House.

Rotary was on the Road at Boldt Construction, Boy’s and Girl’s Club of the Fox Valley, the Outagamie County Museum, the Outagamie County Jail and the Salvation Army. 

Our Club hosted a Rotary Youth Exchange student from Brazil – Flora Prada.  Elinor Bell was our outbound student who will be returning from Hungary.  Levi Cross was selected to be an outbound student who will go to Brazil August. 

Rotary Leadership Awards Committee sent 6 students to Camp Manito-wish YMCA in Boulder Junction. 

The Sharing Around (the World) Medical Project collected, packed and sent 3 shipments to Pakistan. 

Rotary Shines was a fun event held again on Friday night at the OuterEdge and raised $26,973.62 with $5,000 going to PolioPlus, $8,617.00 to the Fox Valley Memory Project and $13,356.62 to the water projects.   

Our Club hosted the GSE delegation from Australia in early May. 

Ruth Ann Heeter and Jay Drzewiecki were presented with Rotarian of the Year Awards.

Our club received the Presidential Citation for its accomplishments during the 2012-2013 Rotary year