Welcome from President Rob Apel |
 Welcome to Dubuque Rotary Club. We represent one of the most forward thinking service clubs in the Tri-State Area, and we are a leader among Rotary Clubs in our state. This website attests to that. Feel free to explore and learn something about us and consider joining. We meet every Tuesday at noon at the Dubuque Golf & Country Club on Randall Place just off Grandview Avenue (south of US 20). Email me for more information on our club and I would be glad to host you as my personal guest at an upcoming meeting. Start making a difference in our community and world by joining Rotary!
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| Speakers and Programs |
- Apr 08 National Pork Board/The Pork Industry w/Darrell Stitzel
- Apr 15 Village Cooperative of Asbury/Sr Living w/Betty Apelian
- On April 22 the Speaker is Sustainable DBQ Initiatives w/ Cindy Steinhauser and John Gronen.
- Apr 29 Foreign Exchange Diplomats from India W Bob Grieerson
- May 06 Humor as a Stress Relief/Communication/Customer Service w/Jim Jelinske
- May 13 DBQ Rotary Committee Intros w/ Chuck Andrachhio and Rob Apel
- May 20 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship w/Luke Juran
- May 27 DBQ Colts w/Greg Orwoll
- June 17 Big Brothers/Big Sisters w/Joe Mauss (TENTATIVE)
- Oct 14 DBQ Ice Arena w/Bob Woodward
For information regarding schedules of guests, member information, and upcoming events that you would like to post on this website, contact Gary Olsen at golsen@dubuque.k12.ia.us |
Fun & Frolic Schedule per Jim Schilling |
- April 1, 2008 Bob Grierson
- April 8, 2008 Tom Reilly
- April 15, 2008 Ken Snodgrass
- April 22, 2008 Jerry Trimble
- April 29, 2008 Bob Woodward
- May 6, 2008 Pat Donovan
- May 13, 2008 Bob Rudzianski
- May 20, 2008 Jack Schmid
- May 27, 2008 Jim Hollenbeck
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Invocation Speakers |
FOR JANUARY- JUNE 2008
- February 26 Geri Shafer
- March 4 David Solberg
- March 11 Jim Schilling
- March 18 Kevin Lynch
- March 25 Walter Curfman
- April 1 Jeff Nagle April 8 Bob Rudzianski
- April 15 Ken Snodgrass
- April 22 Terry Kouba
- April 29 Bob Woodward
- May 6 Steve Domeyer
- May 13 Tom Reilly
- May 20 Jerry Tremble
- May 27 Ron Schardt
- June 3 David Moessuer
- June 10 Spencer Smith
- June 17 Penny Roeder
- June 14 Bart Kintzinger
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| Let us know what's coming up in our community that requires Rotary Club members to attend. Click here to post your event announcement. |
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| It's a great way to stay connected to Rotary Club on a broader level. Our District Website has comprehensive links to all sorts of important Rotary resources. Click here and visit. |
Remember that photos on this page are linked to printable ones. |
The Membership Roster is Online!
We are testing a new format for our membership listing. Normally a printed membership book would cost the club several hundred dollars. With an online listing, the content never becomes obsolete because it can continually be updated. Members can print the list from their home computer if they want a hard copy. Give it a look. |
Dubuque Rotary Club 5970 of Rotary International, meets at the Dubuque Golf and Country Club 1800 Randall Place (off North Grandview) in Dubuque every Tuesday at Noon. Buffet lunch is served, and prospective members receive a free lunch. |
| The official Rotary Club Dubuque Gateway Project Website. It's filled with artwork, and design notes. You can even download a detailed engineering drawing of the sign construction. |
| Dubuque Rotary Club Hear Here Audio Programs |
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April 15, 2008 Brent Johns introduced Kris Carne abd Paula Trudeau, representing The Village Cooperative, a retirement living facility that is emblemic of a growing trend in this kind of development, especially in our area. |
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April 8, 2008 Illinois Pork Producer, Darrell Stitzel spoke to Dubuque Rotarians on the topic of modern pork production. It was utterly fascinating and one of the best presentations we've had in a long time. |
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April 1, 2008 Greg Yoko, a local entrepreneur and publisher of specialty trade publications, spoke on the topic of sustainable land development. |
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March 25, 2008 Mike Budde introduced Samantha Harnack of the Iowa Marrow Donor Program to speak to Rotarians this week. There is one big myth associated with donating bone marrow, which, by the way, is one of the most popular strategies in treating cancer and diseases of the blood. |
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March 18, 2008 Jerry Enzler, Executive Director of the National Misssissippi River Museum and Aquarium located at the Port of Dubuque, spoke on America's River Phase II that is going into motion as we listen |
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March 11, 2008 Central Alternative High School's Tim Ebeling brought two of his students, Ron Sanders and Tanya Davis, who are involved in a massive project of developing a book and seminar on global terrorism. |
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March 4 , 2008 Veterans & Military Families for Progress with Tom Howe (above) who gave an emotional speech about the state of veterans' affairs in our nation. |
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February 19 , 2008 Three of the most influential non-profit organizational professionals in the Tri-State Area talk about the merger of Area Residential Care and the Hoffman Development Center. |
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February 12, 2008 The Rural Heritage Museum was the topic of this week's Rotary meeting. Dave Schmitz, a farmer from Dubuque, is the sparkplug in this particular engine seeking to raise funds and awareness of this project. |
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January 29, 2008 We learned from Kathy Abba all about how we can now log on to a new website and calculate (approximately) what it will cost to get a knee replaced, a heart valve installed, hernia repaired, you name it, they have a formula for you to figure it out. |
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January 22, 2008 Scouting was the theme of this week's Rotary Club Meeting, and our club's chief scout, Dustin Ferris, brought Eagle Scout Will Neumeister who showed us his photos and video clips from the Scout Jamboree he attended in England. |
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January 15, 2008 Meganne Masko, a certified music therapist currently working for Hospice of Dubuque, entertained us at Rotary Club, and this was one of the best presentations we've ever had. It was utterly touching. |
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January 8 , 2008 Bob Broshous (right) with Brent Johns, our program chair. Bob is a University of Dubuque recruiting officer. He spent some time with us showing how he sells Dubuque, Iowa to overseas students. I |
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December 22, 2007 This is actually a movie not an audio only file. It traces the travels of our Santa Cash Crew as they draw winning numbers and deliver Santa Cash checks to lucky citizens throughout Dubuque. it's funny. |
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December 18, 2007 Video of the Madrigal Singers at Rotary Club Christmas 2007! A magnificent tradition at holiday time. |
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December 11, 2007: David Moessner, a long-time Rotarian, and professor of religion at the University of Dubuque's Seminary, spoke on the topic of Corinth, the ancient city in Greece that was a thriving center of trade, wealth, science, engineering and architecture, and, as we all know, the Corinthians have become part of the legacy of Christian spiritual intellectualism that is chronicled in the Bible. |
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December 4, 2007 Make Mine Wine, a magazine published by Barbara Rasko of Des Moines, was the topic of discussion. Ms Rasko shared some insights on the state of Midwest wine growing and consumption. |
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November 27, 2007 University of Iowa President, Dr. Sally Mason, talks about the legacy and the future that is the University of Iowa. |
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November 20, 2007, a very special presentation by the Dubuque Rescue Mission. You don't want to miss this. It's extremely moving. |
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November 12, 2007 Randy Gehl (City of Dubuque Information Officer), and Gary Olsen (Dubuque Schools), presented the All-America City Video. Click here for the regular business meeting, and click here for the video. |
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The Dubuque Rotary Club is perhaps one of the first and only club in the world to employ Web technology in this fashion. We are providing digital audios of the weekly Rotary Club guest presentations. If you would like to learn more about audio programs featured on our Web page and how to play them, click on the radio. This is where we will accumulate audio files in future weeks, months and years. |
 Need a logo for a sign, a banner or a tee-shirt graphic? Need a logo for a flyer, brochure, or Web page? Introducing our instant logo download page designed for members, businesses, and vendors with whom we do business. Don't cut and paste! Just point the vendor to this page, and let them download the file they need. Click here! --Gary Olsen
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Rotary Club Photos |
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 We have lots of photos are linked to printable enlargements. Just click on the photo to download the enlarged version. If you're looking for a particular photo, it may have been moved to the Front Page Photos Gallery section. Click here.
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More Rotary Photos |
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| Accepting a check on behalf of Tri-State Veterans was Tom Howe (one of our newest Rotarians). Presenting the check is Mike Seyer, our chairman of our Humanitarian Projects Committee. All photos on this page are linked to printable enlargements. Just click on them. |
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| New member inducted this week is Keith Wolff here with his sponsor, Gery Kremer, and President of Rotary, Rob Apel. |
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| Guest this week of Kevin Lynch is Jennifer Moon. |
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| Guest this week of Charlie Miller is Ryan Kilburg. |
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| Guest of Rotary sitting with Charlie Green is Vinod Seth a retired enginneer from John Deere. |
We are the Rotary Club of Dubuque |
 Here's a wonderful incentive to encourage speakers and presenters to consider coming to Rotary Club meetings. This is a lovely one minute timer paper weight that contains the Rotary Club of Dubuque logo and a thank you message inscribed below. It's a beautiful addition to any office, desk den or credenza. Now we ask you: Are we a classy club or what? |
Rotary Club of Dubuque Board of Directors |
Rotary Club of Dubuque
2007-2008 Board of Directors
- President: Rob Apel
- President-Elect: Chuck Andracchio
- President Nominee: Doug Pearce
- Past-President: Guy Gard
- Secretary: Lori Bahl
- Treasurer: Kent Renier
(officer terms are all 1 year) Board Members: (board terms are 3 years)
- Debbie Buol 6/30/08
- Chuck Donnelly 6/30/08
- Jon Luckstead 6/30/08
- Aggie Tauke 6/30/09
- Jerry Trimble 6/30/09
- Bob Woodward 6/30/09
- Tony Zelinskas 6/30/08
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- Doug Stillings 6/30/10
- Geri Shafer 6/30/10
- Gery Kremer 6/30/10
Joining the board in July of 2008 – 6/30/11
- Jim Hallenbeck 6/30/11
- Patrick Donovan 6/30/11
- Kim Tully 6/30/11
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| If you want to see a great Dubuque Web site that features videos and photographs of recent Dubuque events, visit Dubuque365.com. |
accessdubuque.com also promotes Dubuque Rotary Club and our events. |
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| Remember, guests you host at Rotary meeting have lunch free. What a lovely incentive to bring new member prospects into our wonderful world. |
| Rotary Club Human Services Committee |
| Dubuque Rotary Club Grant Requests (C indicates Contingency funding).The Community and Human Development Committee has revamped the request form that people fill out to apply for finances. To download the Microsoft Word file. Click here. Linked to this website is the important grant request summary document (in Microsoft Word completed by people in our community representing organizations who seek funding from Rotary Club. The document is quite thick but interesting since it requests over $50,000 from our organization. This is good news, actually, because it gives us the opportunity to set a goal for our fund raising efforts. After all, this is what we are all about.... raising money for humanitarian projects among other things. Here is the committee who must sift through the requests and decide what we will fund. The chairman is Mike Seyer Mike Seyer
1365 Kane street
Dubuque, Iowa 52001
563-557-9577
Roger Shafer insite41@aol.com
David Moessner dmoessne@dbq.edu
Deborah Buol dbuol@dbq.edu
Jan Powers powersofcomm@mchsi.com
Jim Billmeyer jb10750@aol.com
Tom Reilly reillysevn@aol.com
Jim Schilling jschilling@iowabar.org
Joe Graham btgraham@aol.com
Kathy Schmitt kathy@thebikeshack.com
Kevin Lynch KLynch@net-smart-inc.com
Loras Bleile lorasbleil@aol.com
Mike Loveless mloveless@lovelessins.com
Mike Seyer mike@mtscompany.com
Tony Zelinskas tzelinskas@whks.com
Warren Wick warrington@mymailstation.com
Dan McCarthy dan.mccarthy@finleyhospital.org
Rich Bugalski bugalski@mchsi.com |
| 2007 Rotary Club Humanitarian Grant Awards |
| American Red Cross |
$220.00 |
| Alzheimers Association |
$1,000.00 |
| Ark Advocates |
$1,000.00 |
| Boy Scouts of America |
$2,000.00 |
| Camp Albrecht Acres |
$750.00 |
| Children at Home |
$1,000.00 |
| Dubuque Arts Council, Inc |
$1,000.00 |
| Dubuque Regional Humane Society |
$475.00 |
| Hillcrest |
$1,995.00 |
| Navy League of the United States |
$3,000.00 |
| Operation Empower |
$710.93 |
| Project Linus |
$1,000.00 |
| Stonehill Benevolent Foundation |
$3,000.00 |
| Riverview Center Inc |
$1,000.00 |
| Two By Two |
$1,724.36 |
| St Marks Community Center |
$5,000.00 |
| Dubuque Childrens Zoo Boosters, Story Brook Zoo |
$700.00 |
| Total |
$25,575.29 |
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It's time for the Second annual Rotary Club of Dubuque “Fish Fly Folly.” Dubuque 's largest service club is once again inviting tri-state residents to guess when the first “official” Fish Fly invasion hits the riverfront. For a $5 chance, the person with the time and date closest to the actual “invasion” will win a 50/50 jackpot. Liberty Bank has donated $500 to seed the project, and the grows with every $5 chance purchased. The official “invasion” time will be determined by the Dubuque Police Department and Dept. of Leisure Services when they turn out the lights along the river front to discourage the swarms of smelly creatures who are attracted to lights. Entry deadline is June 1st. Chances are available from any Rotary Club member or at all three Dubuque Hy-Vee Store service counters and at Radio Dubuque, 8th & Bluff. The winner also gets a case of Stone Cliff Wine with the collectible “Fish Fly Wine” label. All proceeds benefit Dubuque's Crescent Community Health Center. More information: Paul Hemmer, Project chairman 563-690-0830 dbqpaul@mchsi.com 
McTavish (Jerry Trimble) is looking for golfers. We've provided you with the signup sheet for the Rotary Golf event on May 14th. Just click on it here to begin the download. Fill it out and get it to the Golf Committee ASAP to realize a substantial discount. Start organizing your foursome today! 
We have had a wonderful time with this event. The food is wonderful, prizes terrific, and the fellowship is a blast. There's more to the annual Rotary Golf outing than golf, of course. There's the food, the prizes (if you would like to donate to the prize pool, that would be great), fun and fellowhip. See you May 14th at Dubuque Golf! Click here. 
