ROTARIANS OF THE YEAR

Our Club has been recognizing a Rotarian of the Year for the past 17 years.  The individual being considered for this should have demonstrated outstanding service as a Rotarian during the past year.  We may also consider a member who, over the course of more than one Rotary year, has demonstrated exceptional dedicated service to the community and club.  This year's honoree qualifies in both categories. Our recipient was inducted in February, 2003.  In 2010 he became a Paul Harris Fellow.  He has served on the Community Services, Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center, Rotary Ambassadors, Greeters and Fundraising committee.  He participates in many Club activities such as Habitat for Humanity build, Rebuilding Together, packing food and packing medical supplies with SAMP. In 2004, he became chair of the Sports and Social Committee. If you are still wondering who this mystery man is, here is a final clue... the Sports and Social Committee changed its name to the Family of Rotary Committee in 2007 and our honoree still serves as its chair. Yes, Tony Gonzalez is a very dedicated Club member.  He always looks for ways to provide service to our club and our community.  Tony works to involve everyone, but will step up and do whatever needs to be done if someone else cannot. The Rotary Club of Appleton is pleased to honor Tony Gonzalez as our Rotarian of the Year.

The Rotary also wanted to recognize an Honorary Rotarian of the Year.  Yes she is not a card carrying Rotarian, but she makes sure all of us are.  In her sixteen years as our Administrative Assistant Kathy Dreyer has attended nearly 800 Tuesday lunch meetings.  During her time with the Rotary Club of Appleton, Kathy has been at and taken the minutes for nearly 192 board meetings, I am not even counting the executive committee, Rotary Foundation and various club committee meetings she has attended all in the spirit of making our club work smoothly.  For all those that served this club as president, we were grateful to have Kathy navigate the journey.  She makes sure we pay our dues and sees that our bills are paid.  As Kathy's last job duty we have asked her to order herself a plaque as she has done for so many others for the past sixteen years.