See a few pictures of The Whitnall Park Rotary Club Christmas present wrapping party for the moms and kids at Sojourner Peace Center. It’s the season of giving! Merry Christmas to all!
WHITNALL PARK ROTARY CLUB
Serving Greendale, Greenfield, Hales Corners, and Muskego, WI since 1975
Serving and enriching our community through leadership and learning
Service Above Self
Home of District 6270 Governor 2013-2014
Welcome to our Club!
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Second Wednesday Food Pantry fund raiser
Feb 10, 2021
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM -
Second Wednesday Food Pantry fund raiser
Mar 10, 2021
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM -
Second Wednesday Food Pantry fund raiser
Apr 14, 2021
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM -
Second Wednesday Food Pantry fund raiser
May 12, 2021
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
President --- James Helminski
Vice President/ President elect --- Robert Petri
Past President --- James Thorsen
Treasurer --- Robert Nolan
Secretary --- Terri Delke
Club Service Director --- Daniel Weber
Community Service Director --- Kristin Murphy
International Service Director --- Alex Yanez
Vocational Service Director --- Thomas Weiss
Youth Service Director --- John Movroydis
A warm congratulations and the best of luck as you plan for the next Rotary year.
Congratulations! Your club has earned the Rotary Citation, the most significant award a Rotary club can achieve, for 2019-20. During a year that was challenging for many Rotarians around the world, your club demonstrated a commitment to achieve its goals, which ultimately helps strengthen Rotary and shape our future.
The Whitnall Park Rotary Club is proud to receive the Bronze Hero Award and a Platinum Citation Award from the International Rotary Foundation.
Whitnall Park Rotary Club has decided to cancel the Rotary Craft Fair that was planned for December 5 due to the continued concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. As there continues to be concerns over gatherings of over 100 people and whether our event can provide adequate social distancing for our crafters and attendees. Also, as a portion of our crafters and our customers are in the high-risk demographic, we feel it is the responsible action to take.
At this time, we have also decided that due to this continued uncertainty, we are going to cancel the Spring Rotary Craft Fair that was planned for April 3, 2021.
The next scheduled Rotary Craft Fair will take place on December 4, 2021. Application for the next show will be available in March on our website, www.whitnallparkrotary.org
District 6270 is pleased to announce that a Global Grant Scholarship in the amount of $30,000 is being offered for matriculation in the Fall 2021 or Spring 2022. The program of studies must be a graduate level program overseas, not in the United States, and must align closely with one of RI’s current six Areas of Focus. The 7th Area of Focus, “Supporting the Environment,” will not come on-line until July 1, 2021
Application deadline is January 15, 2021; interviews, February 6; announcement of grant recipient, February 15. Application form and applicable reference documents are accessible on the District 6270 web site (www.rotary6270.org).
Rotarians, their spouses, children and grandchildren are NOT eligible
Lisa Olson, and Tom and Judy Weiss received a Paul Harris award from Whitnall Park Rotary at the recent Changing of the Guard event.
On June 30 your Whitnall Park Rotary Club celebrated its annual Changing of the Guard.
Three members of Whitnall Park Rotary Club received the Paul Harris Award for their service to the club.
Lisa Olson, outgoing Director of Youth Service, who initiated the Students of the Month program,
Judy Weiss, Sunshine chairperson and Craft Fair coordinating committee,
Tom Weiss, Director of Vocational Service, who created the scholarships for technical/ trade school students.
Whitnall Park Rotary Club spent $1000 to purchase 100 face shields and 500 face masks for the Milwaukee County Emergency Operations Center. The items were delivered to Rotarian Mason Pooler, West Allis Fire Chief and head of the Milwaukee County Emergency Operations Center.
Public is invited to human trafficking community forum at Whitnall High School on February 25th. Whitnall Park Rotary Club is sponsoring the event, featuring a personal story and panel of experts.
We inducted two new members into our club: Alex Yanez and Carolina Yanez.
Brett Bennett, the Director of Vision Care for the Skygen International Foundation, spoke to our Club today about bringing vision tests and glasses to the children and people of Tanzania. Skygen has provided 110,000 eye exams and over provided over 25,000 pairs of glasses to the people of Tanzania in 2018. Each patient receives an exam of the same quality as you would receive at your local eye doctor. While this may seem like elementary care we are speaking about people who don’t have addresses, mail capabilities, phones and only 4 eye doctors per 2,000,000 people. Those statistics may help put this care in perspective.
The Assistant District Governor gave the club an award for our contribution on World Polio Day.
Our speaker for the day was Abigail Bornemeier from the American Diabetes Association. We learned about the growing numbers of people impacted by diabetes and risk factors.
Members of the Whitnall Park Rotary Club took part in a great cause: The Hunger Task Force StockBox build. 16 club members participated and packed 15 pallets of boxes.
Colleen Hansen from Community Projects for Senior spoke to the Club today. Community Projects for Seniors, started in 1986, has over 400 volunteers and provides 4000 meals for Thanksgiving Christmas and Easter for seniors in Southeastern WI. They also provide care packages and parties for seniors throughout the year.
Julie Rome - The President of Dan Jansen Family Fest spoke to the Club about The Moving Wall commemorating the Vietnam War Memorial. She informed us of the work that went into getting The Moving Wall to Greenfield. She also told us stories of the veterans who came to share in The Wall. The stories she told and the tributes she shared were a beautiful testament to the men and women who died in the war as well as the survival and pains of those who survived and came home.
Jim Michlig spoke at our October 1st meeting. He shared how their district is making meaningful connections for students with colleges, careers and the community.
Rotary International District Governor Steen Sanderhoff spoke to the Whitnall Park Rotary Club on Tuesday 9/3/19
On Tuesday July 9th we had the pleasure of hearing from Greenfield Mayor Michael Neitzke.
In response to the WPRC Board of Directors' recommended changes to the weekly meeting time and venue, the entire WPRC membership approved the proposed changes by a vote of 24-2. Currently, the membership of WPRC stands at 27. Thus, 96% of the WPRC membership participated in the decision.
Starting in January 2019, our weekly meeting format will move to the following approach:
Breakfast meeting to be held on the first Tuesday and second Tuesday of the month with a start time of 7:00 a.m. and end time of 8:00 a.m.
After Hours social to be held the third Tuesday of the month with a start time of 5:30 p.m.
Board of Directors will meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month with a start time of 7:00 a.m.
If there is a fifth Tuesday of the month, some sort of hands-on project will occur .
Final details on meeting location(s), any changes in costs, etc., will be released in the next few weeks.
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! WPRC member Kent Bieganski (retired Chief of Police, Hales Corners) has provided some 60 photos from this great event. See the slide show by clicking here.
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
Serving and Enriching Our Community through Leadership and Learning
Greenfield, WI 53228
United States of America