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Latino Focused but not exclusive and English is our language! In the Latino tradition, your children are welcome to attend with you!
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 5:45 PM
Milwaukee Athletic Club
758 N Broadway
Milwaukee, WI  53202
United States
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Tuesday, May 3rd – SOCIAL: Antigua Latin Restaurant - 5823 W Burnham St, West Allis, WI 53219
 
Free event for guests, whether you know Rotary or are interested in learning more.
 
 
Upcoming Meetings - 
 
Tuesday, May 10th – New Member Induction & Talk
Tuesday, May 17th – Sarah Blackwell, Immigration & the 2016 Elections
Tuesday, May 24th – CLUB ASSEMBLY: 2015-16 Rotary Year – “Tie Up Any Loose Ends”
  • (Board Meeting immediately following regular meeting)
Tuesday, May 31st – 5th Tuesday – No Meeting
Tuesday, June 28th - Changing of the Guard - SAVE the DATE
 

RI President's Message - May 2016
 
Some years ago, in the Kano plains of Kenya, a well-meaning development agency took on the task of improving water availability to a rural community. Committees were formed, meetings were held, and the local people were consulted. The main need the community identified was improved delivery of water for irrigation and livestock. A plan to meet this need was created, and the work was soon begun, exactly as the community representatives had requested.
 
Yet once construction began, it was met by immediate protest from groups of community women, who came to the site and physically blocked workers from building diversion channels. Upon further investigation, the agency realized that the water it was diverting for farming came from the only source, for dozens of families, of water for cooking, drinking, and washing. The entire project had to be scrapped.
 
Why? Because it had never occurred to a single member of the all-male team in charge to consult the local women. At every stage, it was assumed that the men knew the needs, spoke for the community, and were able to represent it. Clearly, this was far from the case. The women knew the needs of the community, and its resources, far better – but their opinion was never sought.
We have had women in Rotary for only the last quarter of our history, and it is no coincidence that those years have been by far our most productive. In 1995, only 1 in 20 Rotarians were women; today, that number has risen to 1 in 5. It is progress, but it is not enough. It is only common sense that if we want to represent our communities, we must reflect our communities, and if we want to serve our communities fully, we must be sure that our communities are fully represented in Rotary.
 
Rotary’s policy on gender equality is absolutely clear. Yet nearly one-fifth of our clubs still refuse to admit women, usually by claiming that they simply cannot find women who are qualified for membership. I would say that any Rotarian who makes this argument, or believes it, himself lacks the two most basic qualifications for Rotary membership: honesty and good sense.
 
A club that shuts out women shuts out much more than half the talent, half the ability, and half the connections it should have. It closes out the perspectives that are essential to serving families and communities effectively. It damages not only its own service but our entire organization, by reinforcing the stereotypes that limit us the most. It leads our partners to take us less seriously, and it makes all of Rotary less attractive to potential members, especially the young people who are so crucial to our future.
 
To tolerate discrimination against women is to doom our organization to irrelevance. We cannot pretend that we still live in Paul Harris’ time, nor would he ever want us to. For, as he said, “The story of Rotary will have to be written again and again.” Let us see to it that the story we write in Rotary is one of which he would be proud.
 
K.R. Ravindran
 
President 2015-16
 
 
Learn more about Rotary and how it can help you fulfill YOUR dream!
 
 
 
 
Rotary Amigos:
 
Tuesday, April 26th – CLUB ASSEMBLY: 2015-16 Rotary Year – The Final “Push” - The meeting reviewed goals for our present year, including an update on the grant received to provide leadership opportunities for middle school and high school students.
 
Tuesday, April 19th
Laurel Kashinn:
Going Indie Successfully: How to Write a Strategic Business Plan
 
Rave reviews from those in attendance.  
One member said it was just what they needed at this time in their business. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
April 12th -  Karen Puhl & Pam Schwalbach: Simple Hope - Clean Water Efforts in Tanzania 

There are many ways we can all get involved in clean water, regardless of where in the world it is needed.  This is one program whose focus is in Tanzania.  Working together with all people and faiths to build community and provide hope to those who are compromised in rural Tanzania Africa is the mission of Simple Hope.  The direct mission of Simple Hope is to empower lives through faith, nutritious food, clean water and education of sustainable processes.  Simple Hope is a registered tax deductible organization in the State of Wisconsin USA
 
March 21st - Club Assembly
 
This planning session resulted in a number of actionable items/projects. Duties assigned and planning begun for a community service project with Pan-African Community Association (PACA).
 
Discussed adding "After-work" to the name of our club since we ARE an "After-Work" club.  Everyone was reminded that our club was deliberately chose a time that allowed members to have time to leave work and get to the meeting.  It is also convenient for people who are commuters to meet before heading home or passing by downtown Milwaukee on their commute and still have time after the meeting to have dinner with family or friends, or attend an evening class, or head out to the theater or restaurants after the meeting.  By not including a meal, the time is shortened and the cost of joining Rotary is not an impediment to joining.  It also allows those without flexible work day schedules to participate in Rotary. 
 
It was decided that we will organize a wine tasting event.
 
March 14th - Leonardo Fernandino:Staff Scientist at Medical College of Wisconsin - BRAIN MAPPING
 
It was a VERY interesting program and had a lot of "ah-hah" moments.
 
Leonardo was one of seven authors for 

Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs - click on the title to go to a summary.  Brain & Language  - 2012

The problem of how word meaning is processed in the brain has been a topic of intense investigation in cognitive neuroscience. While considerable correlational evidence exists for the involvement of sensory- motor systems in conceptual processing, it is still unclear whether they play a causal role. We investi- gated this issue by comparing the performance of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) with that of age-matched controls when processing action and abstract verbs. To examine the effects of task demands, we used tasks in which semantic demands were either implicit (lexical decision and priming) or explicit (semantic similarity judgment). In both tasks, PD patients’ performance was selectively impaired for action verbs (relative to controls), indicating that the motor system plays a more central role in the processing of action verbs than in the processing of abstract verbs. These results argue for a causal role of sensory-motor systems in semantic processing.

 

 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Dorothy Krupa
May 20
 
Anniversaries
Dorothy Krupa
June 3
 
Tre Waldren
Cathy Waldren
June 9
 
Join Date
Nestor Godinez
May 27, 2014
2 years
 
Angela Rester Samse
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Citlali Mendieta
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Dorothy Krupa
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Maria Flores
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Russell Hampton
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