January 2025 Rotary Students Manon Gilles and Nola Gilmore.

January 2025 Rotary Students
The Mount Horeb Rotary year started on a great note with the arrival of the January Students of the Month, Manon Gilles and Nola Gilmore.
Both seniors are active in a dizzying array of activities, and serve at the village and school level. Gilles is the student member of the Safety Review Task force that was formed after the May 1 shooting near school, and serves on the school board’s education committee and the village Sustainability and Natural Resources Committee. Gilmore is the student representative on the school board.
Gilmore has been in band for seven years, playing tuba and French horn, and has played viola in orchestra for nine years. She’s the principal tuba player in the state honors orchestra, as well as playing in the fiddle band and the jazz band.
Gilmore’s activities include Book Club, and Ecology Club and volunteering more than 160 hours as a tutor. She works at the Academy of Little Vikings Childcare. In her spare time, she loves reading, writing, playing music and making jewelry.
Gillmore helped found the high school debate club and serves as its president. Debate Club fits right into one of her favorite activities.
“I love to talk about philosophy and rhetorical questions,’’ Gilmore says. “I’m always eager to learn something new.”
Gilmore, the daughter of Darren and Asha Gilmore and the sister of Jurrien and Quentin, hopes to major in political sciences with a goal of a career in politics, law or secondary education.
If you were lucky enough to attend “Guys and Dolls,” the most recent high school musical, you saw Manon Gilles as Sarah Brown, the female lead who falls in love with the gambler Sky Masterson. The year before she was Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family. She was in the ensemble her other two years in high school, as well as singing in seven choral groups, serving as vice president of the choir board and as co-president of the Drama Club.
Gilles has been in the Student Council for four years and currently serves as president. She has been active in DECA throughout high school, winning at the state level twice and placing second at an international competition. She’s currently DECA’s executive vice president of competitive excellence.
In the community, Gilles volunteers at the Driftless Historium and at Squashington Farm, and has volunteered at the Intermediate Center and at the Madison Waldorf School. She is currently employed at Campo di Bella, and previously worked at HyLee Farms.
Gilles, the daughter of Charles Gilles and Anastasia Warpinski, and the sister of Romain and Ines, hopes to attend college to study mathematics and education, with the goal of being a high school teacher.
In her free time, Gilles sews, paints and plays the piano, and runs a philosophy book club called “The Reflecting Rascals”. She’s currently training for a half marathon this spring.