Norsk News 2/15
Happy Bucks:
Peggy: For Liz for help with setting up her presentation. Sad for the theft of her nephew’s car and recovery, but there is happy ending that the car was recovered!
Susan Smith: Blue mounds meeting results partnership with MHTC to get high speed internet grant so whole township has internet access. Mark Rooney’s solar power project was approved.
Tammy: for the students that helped at Super brunch
Steve: happy for students helping as well.
Susan W: for how well the brunch went.
Welcome student rotarians Alexa Ouradnik, Quentin Rosborough, and Rocco Richie.
Guest: Brian Durtschi, our 50/50 winner. Brian donated his winnings to the Optimist Club.
Committees: Shawn: Grant application deadline 3/1 Susan Smith shared status of publicity so far.
Susan W encourages members to participate in our Hybrid Meeting task force. Under consideration:
• If we need it and to resume for our meetings.
• What tech we need.
We are continuing to look for host families.
Super Brunch Recap
More photos are available on our Facebook Group page: https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMHRotary
Steve: 391 people who came through with purchased tickets ~450 came through. Our food count was right on. We received better feedback on syrup station.
Thanks to Miller’s for their service. Everything was perfect.
Steve would like to have a meeting in the future to go over the event. Paul will be president next year so we need to have a replacement for his hole. Steve is looking to have people take over various roles.
Paul: Thank you club members and Interact. It would be fantastic to share the duties he and Steve had and to train new people to take over their roles.
He asks for 2 things:
-Thank our ad sponsors by calling, email, or use one of our Thank You cards.
-Over the next 2 weeks please update the contact information on the ad you sold to our spreadsheet.
(link is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z8FBcI9V11iv5MVceACsFDZp1MtuS5APVaiQERR6rr0/edit?usp=sharing)
We need to have a follow up campaign after the event, and to send out early requests to our sponsors.
If you need help with the shared documents or spreadsheet contact Paul to update the spreadsheet.
Guest Speaker Presentation
Peggy’s Presentation: Reimagining European History; things she learned on her trip. 18 day Trip from Budapest to Amsterdam on Viking Cruise Rhine river cruise. Part of the voyage included stops through 68 locks. Some of the passages were tight with 6” spare room.
The route has existed since the reign of Charlemagne to present. Midpoint is the highest elevation of navigable water for commercial transport in the world.
Rhine river had a section densely populated with 1 castle per mile along the river. Tours coincided with stops at locks. One tour group was there to help teach and preserve german history.
Peggy Learned so much more about European history than what she learned in school. She learned about “the worst of the worst of it.”
Reconstruction from WWII is still in progress.
Prior to the 1990’s history of the holocaust had not been taught in schools.
Meeting adjourned 1:00
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