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service project was not to pile on more work for you! But, for each Club to evaluate what you are doing, perhaps eliminate something that has not had the same results as in the past, and add something that can give some spark and meaningfulness to your Club. In your reports and newsletters, I see that many of you have done just that. Thank you very much.
We will soon be entering the holiday and Christmas shopping months.
There are some retailers that already look as if Christmas is around the corner. A bit early, maybe? As we enter this heavy retail time period, keep in mind a passive method of giving support to our Foundations. When shopping with online retailers, sometimes a portion of a purchase price may be matched by the retailer and donated to a charity of your choice. For example: Amazon’s giving program is called AmazonSmile and is at smile.amazon.com. In such cases, you can indicate that your charity is your own Club’s Foundation or you can list the Altrusa International Foundation, Inc. It costs you nothing and can help fund a service project!
This summer, your Club President may have completed the Club Annual Report. This report is an important tool for International. The staff and International Board use the information gleaned for evaluation and planning purposes. The Club Annual Report is also used to give the Distinguished Club Award. I am pleased to announce that two of our District Seven Clubs
Governor’s MessageOh my goodness! Here it is the end of October already. Time seems to run faster and faster every month. However, I did get my yard and garden all cleaned up. The flower beds are trimmed and ready for winter. I have always said that in this area of the country, we do a good job of cleaning things up in readiness for the piles of snow that are sure to come!
This issue of the Channel Seven is dedicated towards service. I have asked your District Seven Board to submit a picture and a description of a service project from their Club. It is always fun to see what others are doing! Each Club throughout the District does so much. Lynne Goheen, Service Chair also has an article prompting you to submit your service project for the Mamie L. Bass award.
One of my goals was for each Club to start a new service project. My purpose in asking for a new
Channel Seven Volume 52, Issue 3 November 2016
Published for District Seven Altrusa Clubs in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin
In This Issue...New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Happy Birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Mamie L. Bass Memorial Trivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2About the Mamie L. Bass Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Summary of Sept. District Seven Board Meeting . 4Service Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7Preview of District Seven 2017 Conference . . . . . . 8Preview of Altrusa International 2017 Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9District Seven Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9District Seven Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Judi Lundstrom
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Happy Birthday! We love to celebrate and birthdays are always a delightful celebration!
The following clubs are celebrating birthdays this fall and early winter.
• Fond du Lac – August 1, 1951
• Appleton – October 1, 1949
• Oshkosh – October 1, 1949
• Fargo – October 29, 1949
• Sheboygan – November 1, 1945
• Wausua – December 14, 1942
Congratulations on your combined 403 years of service!
were awarded the Distinguished Club award. These two Clubs are Council Bluffs and Door County. Congratulations on your award!
Thanks also to each one of our District Seven Altrusans for all you do for your Club and your community!
In Altruism, Judi Lundstrom
Welcome New MembersCongratulations to the following new members! Keep up the excellent recruiting. Make it a point to initiate the new members and get them involved in Service projects immediately. Most people do not join Altrusa to sit at a meeting!
Name Club
Bonnie Lueck Fond Du Lac
Gloria Williams Rapid City
Desyl Peterson Rapid City
Mary Bowser Sheboygan
Mimi Berard Wausau
Unusual Fact About Mamie L BassFor the longest time, Mamie L. Bass (November 1879 - April 1962) did not have a grave marker. That changed, however, in 2003 when Altrusans from around the world decided to raise funds to honor their First National President. Subsequently, the Mamie L. Bass Memorial was dedicated at Crown Hill Cemetery on November 4, 2006.
Exerpt from the Tombstone of Mamie Bass
Mamie was a success as a professional woman on her own before she became a pioneer and visionary in Altrusa, the first national organization of business and professional women in the United States.
Mamie’s image is etched on the memorial.
Now is the time – if your club hasn’t done so already- to decide on your award entries. This allows you to collect the information you will need without having the proverbial ‘fire drill’ in February!
Here are the steps to help you prepare:
• Print out the seven-page entry information
• Go to the Altrusa International web site
• Log in as a member
• Click on ‘publications’ – it is towards the right in the blue tabs at the top of the page; scroll down to ‘International Award Forms’, click on ‘Mamie L. Bass’
• Download and save this on your computer, to keep it handy! This is a seven-page ‘pdf ’: you cannot enter and save information in the form (unless you have a program to crack the pdf – most people do not), so follow the directions carefully.
There are four parts to the award entry:
1) The Title Page (page 6 of the pdf) – do a document in your word processing program, entering this EXACT information, and looking like the example Title Page – this is page one of your entry;
2) The Mamie L. Bass Service Award Entry Form (page 7) – simplest is to do a new document again entering the EXACT information, resembling the entry form – this is page two of your entry;
3) Your Project Description, not exceeding 1000 words – start this on page 3 of your entry. A few pictures can be attached. Read the entry preparation information (page 2): this is an outline to follow as you write your project description! Look at the judging criteria (page 4): these are how the judges
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will award points. Hint: judges like when you make it easy for them- so they don’t need to search for information, but it flows in your well-written project description!
4) Your Award Synopsis: 60 words max. Place this on its own page, as it is not part of the judging. This is used to communicate your award entry to International. So although not part of the judging, you will want to compose this well!
Be sure your entry arrives to me – US Post or email are both acceptable – no later than the deadline! When you submit early, if there are obvious errors, I will let you know and you will have time to correct.
As the Chair of this award, I am to select ‘three prominent members of the general public’ to serve as judges. I look for people who can be objective readers of documents, and have some related experience. Perhaps they have either written or awarded grants, may have served on non-profit boards, but also are experienced in evaluating written materials.
Judges for 2017 are already selected for Mamie L. Bass. I have shown them the same seven-page document that you are using. I will send a packet with your full entry, the judging criteria and score sheet to each judge. Invariably, the judges are busy, involved people – I like to give them at least two weeks to judge and return materials. When they return the score sheets to me I add up and rank the entries before conference. There is a tight time frame from entry deadline to conference. Your synopses will be placed in a single document to be shared with International.
Questions? Need help? Don’t hesitate to email or call! Our District has some great projects! Let’s get one of them placed at the Centennial Convention next year! Lynne Goheen: [email protected], 715-573-1699.
About the Mamie L. Bass AwardBy Lynne Goheen, District Seven Mamie L. Bass Awards Chair
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Summary of September 23-25, 2016 Altrusa District Seven Board MeetingThe Altrusa District Seven Board met in Iowa City, IA on Sept. 23-25, 2016. Board members reported on their club visits. Minutes of the District Seven Conference (April 15-16, 2016) and the Post Conference Board meeting (April 17, 2016) were approved. The financial and membership reports were reviewed.
We met with the Iowa City Conference Chairs Barb Womer, Sarah Meiers and Ann Porter. They presented a tentative schedule and budget and we took a tour of the Conference hotel facilities.
Email votes were ratified to grant JoAn Werblow, Omaha and Ann Jerdee, Door Co. Emeritus status. The email vote to give Oshkosh a revitalization grant was ratified. Emeritus status for Helen Cutler, Fond du Lac was also approved.
Much of the time was spent on plans for the District Conference, including finalizing the registration form and registration fee. We worked on the Conference schedule to try to best utilize the time available and also worked on ideas and plans for the Altrusa workshops. Governor Judi gave out board assignments for the Conference and reviewed deadlines for board member reports and award entries. All awards, Mamie L. Bass, Letha H. Brown, Nina Faye Calhoun, and Katie Wenstrand Memorial Lamplighter are due to their respective chairs by March 15, 2017.
Jolene Schauer gave an update from the Governor Elect training and Judi and Jolene commented on the Governors’ Council Teleconference. Mary Clare Lokken gave a report on the progress of the Centennial Celebration to be held at International Convention in Nashville in July 2017. Mary Clare Lokken and Jolene Schauer reported on the District Eight Conference they attended as guests.
We accomplished a lot and had fun while working hard.
Altrusa Service Projects
Fargo Altrusa Club Project Linus
Submitted by Judi Lundstrom
The Fargo Club does a service project after our membership meeting almost every month. This service project was making blankets for the Linus Project. We measured, cut, tied and laughed. It was a great time and the fleece blankets turned out very cute!
Other service projects that the Fargo Club has done this year include: making and serving a meal at the Ronald McDonald House; serving a day at the Great Plains Food Bank; making and donating Blessing Bags and Sweet Dreams pillows for homeless shelters; inventory and shelving of products received at the Make Difference Day Baby Shower fundraiser for the YWCA; “panties in a bunch” The Good Period; Operation Christmas Child; cutting denim shoe soles for Sole Hope; and the Jeremiah Project. As you can see, the projects all are for the well-being of women and children, not only in the Fargo area, but also worldwide.
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Fremont Altrusa Club Habitat for Humanity
Submitted by Jolene Schauer
One of the Fremont Altrusa Club’s service projects is the provision of beverages, fruit, and baked goods for the morning break for the people building the Habitat for Humanity homes. At least three to four times in the month of July, they provide the food items for the Habitat workers. The dates are prearranged with the director of Fremont’s Habitat for Humanity. The club members then take turns providing, delivering, and serving the food items. This project was established several years ago. It has allowed the club members to get to know the families receiving the Habitat Homes. This is an added benefit as club members determine the type and number of books they need for each family member for another service project they conduct at a later date – the bookcase and books donation to each Habitat for Humanity family.
Ames Altrusa Club Corn Shucking Service Project
Mary Mekemson, Service Chair
Submitted by Mary Clare Lokken
Food at First is a free meal program for anyone needing a meal. It started with one-meal-a-week in the First Methodist Church in Ames, IA and quickly grew to providing a meal every day. Volunteers from all over the community join forces to prepare meals which now include mostly food donations from area groceries, restaurants, farms and gardens.
For five years, a farmer has donated truckloads of sweet corn. Volunteers travel to pick it, and about 80 volunteers gather in the back yard of the coordinator of Food at First program. We shuck, boil, chill, cut and package over 500 gallons of sweet corn for the freezer. This is more than enough for the whole year. We have a great time working together and helping others on this project!
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Altrusa Service Projects – cont.
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Omaha Altrusa Club The Stephen Center
Submitted by Kristi Burnett
Twice a year our club collects clothing, shoes, toiletries, toys and books and donates them to the Omaha Stephen Center. The Stephen Center is a temporary shelter and a permanent supportive housing facility for men, women and children. Several of our club members set out all the items in the dining room where the residents can shop the items that are donated. We also donate bookcases and books for the residents to read in the reading centers.
Omaha Altrusa Club The Stephen Center
Submitted by Mary Kay Thieman
The photo is of three of our members preparing for the May Day, Ice Cream Social held at the Stephen
Center for the residents. Altrusa of Omaha, as a service project, holds a monthly event for the families living at the Stephen Center. These events include Super Bowl Viewing, St. Patrick Day event, Halloween Costume Party, Bingo Night, Movie and Popcorn Night. Stephen Center partners with the community, families and individuals to overcome homelessness, addiction and poverty.
Fargo Altrusa Club Share-A-Story: The Race for the Chinese Zodiac
Submitted by Carol Knodle
The Fargo Altrusa club hired a local artist to paint storyboards depicting the legend of “The Race for the Chinese Zodiac” for Share-A-Story, a free, city-wide literacy day sponsored by Prairie Public Television, the Fargo Park Board and United Way. It is held in a local park the first Saturday of June. We assisted the children in reading the story using the story boards. We also gave away bookmarks for each of the signs of the Zodiac. We had coloring pages of the Zodiac animals and let the children pick up gummi worms with chopsticks that they could put in their own take-out container to take home.
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Altrusa Service Projects – cont.
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Altrusa Service Projects – cont.
Oshkosh Altrusa Club Winnebago Literacy Council Learning Folders
Submitted by Ingrid Christianson
Many years ago, the Oshkosh Club started the Winnebago Literacy Council. This year, we are working on a new service project for that same Council. At our meeting, we glued together approximately 50 learning folders for the Winnebago Literacy Council. These folders have paper money, the alphabet in upper and lower case, metric conversion, days of the week and months of the year, equivalent measures, math tables, fractions, clock face review, weights and measures, and ordinal numbers. These folders are given to new Americans who are residents of Winnebago County. Members of the Council use the folders as teaching tools for those people in need of assistance learning our language and culture.
St. Paul Altrusa Club Feed My Starving Children
Submitted by Arlene Roth
We enjoy working each year at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan. There’s a task for every member. Some help fill MannaPacks™ while others label the MannaPack™ bags (sitting down). Each MannaPack™ provides six servings of protein/nutrient added rice for starving children. As Feed My Starving Children puts it: “Our process is simple. Donations given by people just like you fund the meal ingredients. Volunteers hand-pack the meals. Meals are donated to FMSC food partners around the world, where kids are fed and lives are saved!” On Sept. 10, the 11 am FMSC shift, including Altrusa of St. Paul members, packed 134 boxes, holding 28,794 meals. That will feed 80 kids for a year!
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2017 Call to Conference – Preview
The Legacy of
61st AnnualDistrict Seven
ConferenceApril 2829, 2017
SAVE THE DATE!
COME JOIN the Iowa City chapter ofAltrusa as we celebrate 100 years ofAltrusa International, 91 years as achapter, and continuing our "Legacy ofLiteracy."
Coralville Marriott Hotel300 East 9th StreetCoralville, Iowa 52241Phone 3196884000 • Fax 3196884050www.marriott.com/cidic
To reserve a room online: goo.gl/T10yn5
Local AttractionsUNESCO City of LiteratureIowa Avenue Literary WalkIowa River Landing • Coral Ridge MallAntique Car Museum • Old Capital MuseumHerbert Hoover Presidential LibraryAmana Colonies • Kalona Amish CommunityHancher Auditorium • University of Iowa Kinnick StadiumCoralville Lake Recreation AreaIowa Firefighters MemorialUIHC and VA Hospitals
Iowa City/Coralville is:
• Centrally located in the Midwest
• At the intersection of Interstates 80 and 380
• Just a 20minute drive from the Eastern Iowa
Airport or a 45minute drive from the Quad Cities
Airport
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District Seven Board 2015-2017
GovernorJudi Lundstrom 508 23rd Ave S Fargo, ND 58103-5332 701-261-2026 [email protected]
Governor-Elect Jolene Schauer
5020 Waverly Road Lincoln, NE 68514 402-326-1059 [email protected]
First Vice Governor Mary Clare Lokken
2004 Ashmore Drive Ames, IA 50014 515-231-0318 [email protected]
Second Vice Governor Kristi Burnett
2334 South 155th Circle Omaha, NE 68144 402-334-1350 [email protected]
Treasurer MaryKay Thieman
2525 South 160th Court Omaha, NE 68130 402-598-6766 [email protected]
Secretary Carol Knodle
2202 34½ Avenue South Fargo, ND 58104 701-799-9468 [email protected]
Director Ingrid Christianson
1317 Western Street Oshkosh, WI 54901 920-267-1447 [email protected]
2017 Altrusa International Inc. ConventionThe 55th International Convention will be held Friday July 21 through Monday 24, 2017 in Nashville, TN at the Sheraton Music City Hotel (pictured above).
ASTRA
Shirley Urich, Red Oak1300 E Summit St, Red Oak, IA [email protected]
By-Laws, Resolutions, Recommendations (BRR)
Michele Knock, Rapid City6966 Alden Rd, Rapid City, SD [email protected]
Communications
MaryJune Cain, Ames2004 Ashmore Dr, Ames, IA [email protected]
Editor
Arlene Roth, St. Paul32666 County 51 Blvd, Red Wing, MN [email protected]
Finance
Shelly Marquardt, Duluth2005 W 8th St, Duluth, MN [email protected]
Irene Wolfe, Bellevue3902 Birchwood Dr, Bellevue, NE [email protected]
Alice Bartlett, Grand Island4125 Hartford, Grand Island, NE [email protected]
Foundation Liaison
Donna Heide, Omaha9814 Grover St, Omaha, NE [email protected]
Membership
Karen Sedlachek, Oshkosh5136 I Ah Maytah Rd, Oshkosh, WI [email protected]
Literacy
Tertia Holeyfield, Bellevue2917 Parkside Drive, Bellevue, NE [email protected]
Penny Schwertfeger, Oshkosh3101 Elk Ridge Dr, Unit B, Oshkosh, WI [email protected]
New Club Building
Bev Harbold, Council Bluffs 609 Damon Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51503 [email protected]
Service
Lynne Goheen, WausauN4850 Pine Road, Birnamwood, WI [email protected]
Strategic Plan
Lynne Goheen, WausauN4850 Pine Road, Birnamwood, WI [email protected]
Lois Gilliland, Wausau4315 Douglas Lane, Schofield, WI [email protected]
Web
Ingrid Christianson, Oshkosh1317 Western St, Oshkosh, WI [email protected]
2015-2017 District Seven Committee Chairs
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