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December 4, 2018
According to the November issue of The Rotarian, where will the 110th annual Rotary International Convention in June of 2019 be held?
 
December 11, 2018
According to the November issue of The Rotarian, what does “The Future of Peace” describe?
 
December 18, 2018
According to the November issue of The Rotarian, what is the best way to improve your golf game?
 
December 25, 2018
No regular meeting - Merry Christmas!
 
January 1, 2019
No regular meeting - Happy New Year!
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2018 WPRC  Christmas Art & Craft Fair
Whitnall Park Rotary Club hosted its annual Christmas Art & Crafts Fair on December 1, 2018, at Whitnall High School. The event was a huge success with 1,958 guests offering a $3 entrance donation at the doors. More than 160 crafters displayed and sold their items to this huge crowd. WPRC members, their family members, and other recruits did an awesome job of team work and expended great effort to ensure success. Thanks to all, and congratulations, on a job excellently done!
 
Laura Bray To Speak at WPRC
Laura Bray, Vice President of College Advancement and External Communications for Milwaukee Area Technical College, will address the Whitnall Park Rotary Club on December 11 to share the transformative work that MATC is doing in the community. She directs the MATC Foundation and leads the college’s Communications and Events Department. She also oversees MATC’s Office of Workforce Solutions, which provides customized training for area businesses, and the Office of Grants Development. Laura will share the college priorities, programs, and opportunities. Join WPRC at noon for lunch and hear this interesting briefing.
WPRC November 2018 Students of the Month
"Students of the Month" for November 2018 were Mary Jensik and Charley Riegg, both seniors at Whitnall High School. The Student of the Month program offers area high school seniors the opportunity to learn about Rotary and to share their own aspirations and pursuits. Congratulations, Mary & Charley, for being selected as Student of the Month!
 
Satellite Club Jingles on Janesville
Members of the newly formed WPRC Satellite Club of Muskego participated in the first annual "Jingle on Janesville" on Saturday, November 24. Purpose of the event was to highlight the businesses and service organizations of the city. The new satellite club is an after-hours club that meets on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month at the Muskego Circle, a community center hosted by Lakepoint Church. Location is S63W13694 W. Janesville Road. Contact the club president, Dr. Kelly Thompson (kelly.thompson@muskegonorway.org), to express your interest in this new satellite and to receive information on dates, times, & locations of all activities.
 
 
Vincent Rocco "mans" the display table for the
WPRC Satellite Club of Muskego After Hours
at Jingles on Janesvile
Rotary Involvement in District 3650
Larry Myers, WPRC President for 2018-2019, continues his involvement in the clubs of District 3650 during his deployment to the Republic of Korea. On Monday, November 26, they visited the Sae HanYang Rotary Club of Seoul at an art gallery, which is managed by a club member, and enjoyed a Korean feast with club members at a nearby restaurant. They also enjoyed sitting across the dinner table from, and chatting with, a charter member of the club, Mr. Yun Sang-Koo, who is currently serving as a Trustee (2018-2022) for The Rotary Foundation. His father, Yun Bo-Seon, was the President (1960-62) of the Second Republic of Korea, between Rhee Syng-Man and Park Chung-Hee.
Visit with Sae HanYang Rotary Club of Seoul
 
WPRC President Larry Myers &
Son Christoph in front of private residence
of Yun Sang-Koo, TRF Trustee (2018-2022)
Providing Vision to Change Futures

On Tuesday, November 27, representatives of SKYGEN International Foundation, presented a program to WPRC entitled, “Providing Vision to Change Futures” (Tanzania, Africa). Reps included Lisa Sweeney, Executive Director; Emanuel Kitoi, Project Coordinator; & Brett Bennett, Director of Vision.

SKYGEN International Foundation, Inc. brings the power of SKYGEN USA’s innovations in technology and digital capabilities to bear on a global issue, which is an overall lack of access to healthcare. Their vision is to find cost effective ways to improve healthcare in underserved parts of the world by using emerging technologies. The Foundation works to deliver life-changing healthcare benefits to those without them due to cost and/or lack of access to care and technology. Their current initiative is to help provide prescription eyeglasses to the people of Tanzania. Worldwide, it’s estimated that there are approximately 2.5 billion people who need glasses, but in developing countries like Tanzania, there’s a critical shortage of eye doctors. With eyeglasses and the ability to see clearly, the lives of adults and children can be transformed.

More Korean Rotary Connections
WPRC President Larry Myers continues to engage Rotary in the Republic of Korea. He and his son Christoph, who is visiting him for three weeks, assisted in two service projects during the week of the U.S. National Day of Thanksgiving. On Monday, November 19, they assisted the Rotary Club of Seoul in feeding 400+ homeless in downtown Seoul. On Tuesday, November 20, they assisted the Sae HanYang Rotary Club, Seoul, in unloading 500+ Chinese cabbages and 200+ Korean radishes (in preparation for making kimchi) at the Ganghwado Urimaul in Incheon, a residential training and employment program for the developmentally disabled. On the evening of that same day they participated in the gala 91st Anniversary of the Rotary Club of Seoul. The Rotary Club of Seoul is an English-speaking club founded in 1927 that is the oldest Rotary club in Korea.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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All Hands Boatworks
WPRC guest speaker for November 20 was Bill Nimke of All Hands Boatworks. All Hands Boatworks (AHB) inspires young people, especially those challenged by socio-economic and/or educational hurdles to develop skills, determination, and confidence to discover their talents.  Youth work together to build wooden boats, gain valuable work experiences, and row their boats on our rivers for recreation and education.  At AHB, it’s about building more than a boat. AHB is a member of the Teaching with Small Boats Alliance, a professional network of more than 60 organizations and programs in the United States and Canada. AHB is a certified Building to Teach educational provider. All Hands Boatworks, Inc., was founded in 2013.  AHB is a Wisconsin 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Thanks to WPRC Director Tim Dittloff for engaging this guest presentation so that members might hear about this interesting service organization.
 
WPRC President in Korea
2018-2019 WPRC President Larry Myers, who is deployed to South Korea for three months, continues to make connections with Rotary in the Republic of Korea. On November 12 he attended the luncheon and program of the Rotary Club of Sae HanYang, Seoul. Club President Lee Sei-Jin and President Myers effected the traditional flag exchange on behalf of their respective clubs. Rotary is an international fellowship in which ready-made friends are available wherever one travels or works.
 
The Benefits of Volunteering
 
According to the National Council for Aging Care, volunteering has many benefits which the senior population may not realize. As most are likely to be retired, elderly people simply have more time on their hands than almost every other age demographic. Despite this, they don’t have the highest percentage of the population who volunteer—that belongs to those aged 35 to 54 who are also at the height of their working days.
 
Benefits of volunteering include social engagement, giving back to the community, physical engagement, and learning something new. All of these can actually extend one's life expectancy. Learn more about the benefits of volunteerism by accessing Aging in Place's "How to Volunteer as a Senior" (click here).
 
And, while you're at it, pop in at a Whitnall Park Rotary Club luncheon some Tuesday noon at Klemmer's Banquet Center and learn about all the great things that WPRC is doing for both local communities and the world at large through Rotary projects. "Be the Inspiration!"
 
 
 
 
Rotary Satellite Club of Whitnall Park Muskego After Hours
WPRC’s satellite club in Muskego is off and running. Spearheaded by Dr. Kelly Thompson, Superintendent of the Muskego Norway School District, the satellite club meets periodically at the Muskego Circle, a community center hosted by Lakepoint Church. Location is S63W13694 W. Janesville Road. The minimum number 0f members to establish a satellite club has been met with ten member applications being submitted together with the official satellite club application. Within several weeks the "Rotary Satellite Club of Whitnall Park Muskego After Hours" will be "official." Members of the new club have been invited to join the sponsor club, Whitnall Park Rotary, at the annual Holiday Party on December 4. Contact Dr. Thompson (kelly.thompson@muskegonorway.org) to express your interest and to receive information on dates, times, & locations of meetings.
 
District 6270 Global Grant Scholar
 
 
Ciara McHugh, 2018-2020 Global Grant Scholar from Rotary District 6270, has begun her PhD. program at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She describes her program in her own words:  "Over the next few years, through the support of LINCS (Leverhulme Interdisiplinary Network for Cyber Security) and the Rotary Foundation's Global Grant Scholarship, I'll be exploring how police and communities interact around the world. I'm interested in looking at tensions between minority groups and police forces, and how we might rethink relationships between the two." Follow Ciara's progress and adventures via her blog:  https://ciarajmchugh.weebly.com
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Nicholas Albert
Luke Baryenbruch
John Bennett
Kent Bieganski
Michael Breitbach
Dan Christianson
Roger Clark
Terri Delke
Tim Dittloff
Kevin Drury
Larry Feinstein
Gilbert Frenn
James Helminski
Jeremiah Johnson
Larry Myers
Michael Nietzke #
Robert Nolan
Lisa Olson
Robert Petri
Paul Sackmann
Scott Schenke
Michelle Tate
James Thorsen
Dan Weber#
Judy Weiss
Thomas Weiss
Scott Weyda
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Whitnall High School
Dec 01, 2018
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Holiday Party
4260 S 76th Street
Dec 04, 2018
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WPRC Board of Directors
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Dec 19, 2018
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
 
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