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Ice at the North Pole describes the current situation up there. The connection between melting northern ice and sea level rise will be explained.  Illustrations will include satellite photos from the last 30 years, a time-lapse video, and an overview of Earth's other large bodies of ice: Greenland and Antarctica.

The talk is written for a general audience (only two graphs).  

Mr. Day will draw on his extensive reading on this subject, which includes:
• Climate Wars,  by Gwynne Dyer
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet   by Michael Mann
• The Ice at the End of the World,  by Jon Gertner
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,  by Naomi Klein

Tom Day is a retired software engineer with extensive experience in Toastmasters.  He is an experienced public speaker with a broad range of interests.  Widely traveled, he has been to China, India, Russia 3 times, Norway, Zimbabwe, Belize, and Ethiopia. He has spoken at Kiwanis, Lions, and Rotary clubs from San Diego to Ellsworth, Maine.  He and his wife live in Stevenson Ranch, Los Angeles.

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Joe will be sharing information about the Society's activities including a 3-week long exhibit (May 16-28) at The Crosse House on German Immigration to SP.

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The speaker for Tuesday is Alan Klugman, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Madison. He'll be presenting on the federation's mission to the Polish/Ukrainian border in April and their work with Ukrainian refugees.

Our annual picnic is scheduled for 5:00 PM the 29th of June at Orphan Park.  This annual picnic is always a great time and is a family friendly event so please plan to bring your significant other and your entire family.  We will have the pavilion (that Rotary built for Orphan park).

Join us for dinner and an evening of family fun at Orphan Park!

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Eileen will update us on the latest news regarding Badger Honor Flight, including how the organization has adapted to the Covid-19 era. 

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Angela will introduce herself to the club and talk about her journey to her new role with Groundswell. 

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

11:30 am SHOTGUN START

Followed by cocktails, dinner, and silent auction

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Claudia Guy from Dane County Land & Water will present and intorduction to stormwater and stormwater management. 

Provided by John Belken

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Bernie Saunders is a transition coach and leadership consultant, an accomplished photographer, and author of three books, who has worked in the human development field for over forty years. He is passionate about inspiring people to connect more deeply with themselves.

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Madison author David Benjamin, who also spends part of his time in Paris, has lived all over the world. He has called Tokyo and Brussels home as well as Brooklyn and San Francisco.

But Wisconsin is where the author began writing novels –going back to elementary school in Tomah where he began his first novel. Since then, despite his travels, his books reflect his Wisconsin roots. Readers have learned to love the way he tells a story from the perspective of a writer who knows the heartland well.

Benjamin is also a publisher of Last Kid Books (www.lastkidbooks.com) named for his popular memoir. The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked. He’s a newspaper veteran, award-winning editor of the Mansfield (Mass.) News, Tokyo Journal in Japan, and other periodicals.

“The Great Madison Novel”

If you grew up in Wisconsin in the Sixties, as author David Benjamin did, you may remember some Madison landmarks that are permanently etched in the city’s unique sense of place.

You’re in for a nostalgic ride back to the Sixties in They Shot Kennedy, the author’s slightly autobiographical novel, set in Madison. He will be speaking in person at the Sun Prairie Rotary Club at the Colonial Club as well as to Zoom participants.  https://zoom.us/j/964291657   You’re welcome to join the conversation.

Benjamin’s book has been called the quintessential “Great Madison Novel” by combining comic relief and adolescent angst amid the twentieth century’s profoundest presidential tragedy. Benjamin noted, “While the assassination of JFK was a turning point in American history. They Shot Kennedy is a microcosm of how the tragedy affected ordinary people leading their own distracted, self-absorbed and confusing lives.”

Grand Prize Winner

They Shot Kennedy was recently honored with the 2021 Grand Prize for literary/contemporary/historical fiction from the Midwest Book Awards. The book is a work of “microhistory,” a snapshot of people’s lives at a critical moment in history, unrecorded in any history book but vital to understanding how the events of that moment in time affected and altered those people’s lives.

Familiar Madison Landmarks

Among the haunts in Benjamin’s book are Breese Stevens Field, Warner Park, and Langdon Street as these spots were hopping along in the Sixties. Also included are famed bars and eateries like the Kollege Klub, the Edgewater, Leske’s Supper Club, and the Rathskeller.

The author’s entertaining and often surprising results of his research provide a portrait of social norms that were present in Madison as well as throughout the country in 1963.

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Theresa will be presenting on the SPPL Foundation's ongoing capital campaign for the upcoming library expansion. 

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Provided by Rex Owens 

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Join us for this opportunity to hear more from Julia about herself, her family and her home country.

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