Passing of the Gavel
On July 10 Amber Kiggens-Leifheit passed the Gavel to incoming President Roxie Wetterau.
Amber will remain on the Board as Past President. Appointed to the board are Ben Bauer as President Elect, Harry Borgman as Treasurer, Carol Willfahrt as Secretary, and Jerry Cleveland as At-Large Director. Avenue Directors include Ben Bauer and Pat Gall, Club Avenue; Darrin Braun, Community Avenue; Jane Wagner and Susan Eaton, International Avenue; and Sara Bloczynski, Vocational Avenue. Erik Borreson and Bob Trussoni were also appointed as Membership and Foundation Directors, respectively. New Sergeants-at-Arms are Teri Wilczek, Sheri Meissner and Darrin Braun. Departing board members are Shari Tieman and David Bluhm, as well as departing Sergeants-at-Arms are Erik Borreson and Ken Forrest. Outgoing officers and directors, as well as all past Sunrise Rotary Presidents, were recognized and thanked for their service to the club, and incoming officers and directors were installed.
2013-2014 new club members, Darrin Braun, Becky Heubner-Leu, Joe Humphrey, Houng McLean, and Matthew Muenster, were recognized. In Roxie’s incoming presidential message she shared her goal of increasing club membership from 60 to 65 in the 2014-2015 Rotary year.
Other recognition included Sunrise Rotary’s 43 Paul Harris Fellows. It was noted that 72% of our club members are Paul Harris Fellows! Can we get to 100%?
Club members were also recognized for their years of perfect attendance as follows:
1 – Ben Bauer, Pat Gall, Darla Leick, Amber Kiggens-Leifheit, Carol Willfahrt
3 – Sara Bloczynski, Harry Borgman, Steve Fuerlinger
5 – Dan Knoeck, Jerry Cleveland
6 – Phil Phillips, Jane Wagner
8 – Erik Borreson
9 – Dale Smith
11 – Darla Leick, Shannon Nienast
12 – Laurel Peterson
13 – Margy Frey
14 – Bob Trussoni
15 – John Wing, Jackie Zoellner
20 – Bob Dux
37 – Tom Wepfer
Amber shared that it was an honor to serve as Marshfield Rotary Sunrise Club President and thanked al Rotarians for “pitching in” to help. Roxie announced the 2014-2015 Rotary year theme of Light Up Rotary and encouraged members to continue to fight against polio and declared that “with the current momentum Rotary is on track to achieve full polio eradication by 2018.”
Passing of the Gavel concluded with the introduction of the 2014-2015 Sergeant-at-Arms team – Teri, Sheri and Darrin – who will help achieve the recently added 5th component of the Four-Way Test, “Is it FUN?”