ROTARY CLUB OF APPLETON

Service Above Self GUSTO

April 15, 2008 Upcoming Programs April 22 Empire Room African Adventure – Don Herrling Thought of the Day – Beth Schnorr April 29 Empire Room Outagamie County Sheriff’s Dept. – Brad Gehring Thought of the Day – Jim Perry Officers 2007-2008 President Jeff Schulz Vice President Shipra Seefeldt Past President Jeff Werner Secretary Curt Detjen Treasurer Tom Berkedal Directors Ron Altenburg Dawn Doberstein Gail Enke Peter Kelly Dan Nisler Gail Popp Matt Rehbein Dave Willems Sergeant-At-Arms Dave Aardappel RYE Student Alek Kozak - 830-7939 Rejoice Ngesi - 830-1119 Admin. Assistant Kathy Dreyer Phone/Fax 731-4427 kdreyer1@juno.com Rotarians of the Year Mark Harris/Gail Popp Downtown Gusto Kathy Dreyer, Editor Dist. 6220, Club 2656 P. O. Box 703 Appleton, WI 54912 www.appletonrotary.org Meets Tuesday Noon Radisson Paper Valley

BRIGHT FUTURE AWARDS The Bright Future Award recognizes students from the Appleton schools who have risen above challenging circumstances in their lives to move towards a future filled with hope and promise. Each school selects students for this award. Award winners have also demonstrated most or all of the following Markedly improved school attendance with few absences. 2. Increased his/her grade point average of one or more points. Exhibited a positive attitude about school, teachers and fellow students. Showed responsibility by completing work on time and being dependable. Exhibited positive, productive relationships with acceptable conflict resolution activities. Successfully involved in a part-time job, co-curricular activities or volunteer community work. Has realistic future plans and goals. The Youth Service and Education Awards Committee presented several area high school students with a Bright Future Award. This year's recipients were: Appleton Central High School Chaivi Xioing Michelle Noel Appleton East High School Amanda Iles Cedric Warfield Appleton North High School Samantha Bond Beth Anne Roe Teng Lee Appleton West High School Jesus Ortega Ryan Smith Fox Valley Lutheran High School Ben Haertl Steven Wellhoefer

MEETING NOTICES · The Children with Disabilities Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 22 at 11:15 a.m. · The Arts and Arts Awards Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 22 at 11:00 a.m. THUMBNAIL: DEBORAH WETTER Deborah feels she has come full circle from her birth in California, a short time in Massachusetts to Wausau, WI where her father became president of Wausau Insurance. Her claim to prom fame was to be the 5-year-old candy queen for selling salt water taffy for Wausau High School. To this day she cannot face taffy. She studied cello into her 20s taking weekly lessons at Lawrence University. She went on to Radcliff, the women’s Harvard she says, where she had more dates than she could imagine and left after a year to work in Boston. She came back to Radcliff for her MBA, married and took a job in Charlottesville, SC to start up a bus company. Her enjoyment of the business took her to several bus companies in management. She later divorced, remarried and she and her husband adopted his baby grandson. She moved to San Jose CA where she introduced light rail and got into Rotary and trouble. While on a club project removing graffiti, she operated a spray gun. A Rotarian asked a question, and without turning the gun off she turned to answer coating her accomplice with beige. After San Jose she went on to work for BART and then to Am Track in New Orleans for eight years. From there she moved to a private rail company in Chicago and left private sector to come to Appleton where she manages our transit authority GUESTS, VISITORS AND MAKE-UPS Guests today were Mary Charles with Fran Raley; Renee Boldt with Marta Weldon; Mary Kay Easty at the piano; Sandy Friem with Trish Huizenga, and Joyce Benson with Donna Stammer Visiting us today was – no one. Making up this week was Mark Logeman at undisclosed location.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

· The Family of Rotary Committee is planning a number of activities to involve families and build better friendships. The committee is coordinating and encouraging members of our downtown club to attend Appleton West Rotary's annual golf outing. It will be held Tuesday, May 20 at Butte Des Morts Country Club. Singles, twosomes, foursomes are all welcome! For details, please e-mail Joe Pankratz at joe@avenuejewelers.com. This would count as a meeting make-up and help build better friendships and camaraderie! On Tuesday, May 27, a pizza party is being planned prior to packing for SAMP. Children need to be at least 12 years of age to pack. On Saturday, June 14, the committee is getting members and their families together for the All American Outdoor Concert at the Fox Cities Stadium at 7:30 p.m.

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REVERSE RAFFLE

The Reverse Raffle will be held on Tuesday, May 13 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at Fox Valley Technical College. The proceeds of the 2008 Reverse Raffle will benefit the Etta Project, the 2007/2008 and the 2008/2009 Every Rotarian Every Year campaign, the Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center, SAMP and the Community Service Fund. Tickets cost $100 which admits 2 adults and will be available at next week’s meeting. We are in need of silent auction items (please contact Nancy Johnshoy)). Items have included Packer items, event tickets, time shares/vacation homes, art, jewelry, professional/personal services and unique experiences. The Seasons and Lemon Grass Restaurants have volunteered to be our bingo sponsors and friend sponsors include Schenck, Virchow Krause, Fox Valley Technical College, SECURA, M&I Wealth Management, Nicolet National Bank, U. S. Oil and Affinity Health. In kind sponsors include Fast Signs, Fox Valley Technical College and Willems Marketing. We are still looking for more corporate/individual sponsors (please contact JoEllen Wollangk/Tonya Dedering). Let’s help make this year’s Reverse Raffle a success!