With a bigger prize purse ~~$500 ~~ than ever, through the generosity of our two sponsors, ANDOVER STATE BANK and STATE FARM AGENT, KEVIN RATHERT, we hope to have our biggest "Battle" yet! Click here to purchase your bracket(s) by Wednesday, March 20, before the Tournament tips off at 11 AM on Thursday, March 21. Kim Hurtig, our club executive, will get notification of your purchase and will email you a link after March 17th's Selection Sunday to complete your bracket! The "Battle of the Brackets" is open to everyone, not just East Wichita Rotarians. I invite you to circulate this around your office, share it with your colleagues, neighbors and family members! Together we can have the biggest "Battle" ever, where the real winner is the Rotary Club of Wichita Foundation and its mission to provide scholarships to local students!
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8501 E. 13th Street
Wichita, KS 67206
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The 2022-2023 Rotary year wrapped up with a "positively" great Changing of the Guard meeting, as our very positive, upbeat and fun president, Dane Estok, passed the gavel to incoming president, Darin Kater. Before the gavel was passed, Dane recognized Larry Hund with the "Service Above Self" Award and presented Tom and Peggy Church with the "Rotarians of the Year" Award. Dane highlighted the achievements and successes of the year and, with his wonderfully positive attitude, put a smile on every member's face with his thanks and appreciation. He presented each of the board members with a Rotary mug (rumor has it that coffee tastes better in a Rotary mug ) Once the gavel was passed to Darin, now-president Kater offered a funny, but positive (are you seeing a theme here?) "roast" of Dane, leaving us all in stitches! The group enjoyed a "summer picnic" themed lunch meeting that was fun -- and yummy --- from start to finish! Of that, we're positive!
Wow! When the tournament tipped on March 16th, who would have thought that this tournament would have so many “firsts” in tournament history, so many upsets and a Final Four that looked nothing like we all would have predicted! Last night Connecticut hoisted the trophy as National Champions, having beaten San Diego State 76 – 59! Connecticut now joins some other blueblood programs that have at least five national championships!
Tammie Rhea, one of our East Wichita Rotarians, won the pool! She had Connecticut making it to the championship game, albeit not winning it. However, she was the only one in the pool who had one of the teams still playing in the final game and, because the points increase as the tournament progresses, she had enough points to overcome Tanner Hearson, adult son of EW Rotarian Denise Hearson, who had Miami, CT’s Final Four opponent, going to the championship game. Besides Tammie and Tanner, the rest of us had all the points we could possibly get after the Sweet 16/Elite 8 weekend. Shucks!
But remember there are still three non-winning bracket members, drawn at random, who win $50. This year, those three winners are …. drum roll please ….. Sean Dennehy, Eileen Kludt (#1), and Jamie Pearson, highlighted on attached standings Many thanks to Rotarian Dave Sproul, who did not have a bracket in the pool, for helping out and drawing the names. He was very impartial and quite a sport to help with the drawing!
The fundraiser has become an annual tradition for East Wichita Rotary! Many of you “bracket buddies” this year were not East Wichita Rotarians, so a special thank you to each of your for saying “yes” to an ask to buy a bracket or two and play! And thank you to EVERYONE, on behalf of the East Wichita Rotary Foundation, for your support in making this the most fun, successful year yet, profiting $2075 for our Foundation, surpassing last year’s profits by 30%! Lastly, many thanks again to EW Rotarian, Shane Pullman, of Nugent-Pullman Realtors, for sponsoring this year’s prize purse.
Until next March, have a great year!
A group of nineteen East Wichita Rotarians, their family and friends, came together for a rewarding service project, filling "food packs" for the underserved children in our community! The 22 volunteers enjoyed fun and fellowship and offered "Service Above Self" at the Kansas Food Bank.
From: The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
204 S. Main, Wichita, KS 67202
204 S. Main, Wichita, KS 67202
An online local history resource available for use October 21
Funded through a Rotary Foundation Grant by the Rotary Club of East Wichita, The Rotary International Foundation, Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum and a gift by J Eric Engstrom
A public reception and short program introducing the new archive was held Thursday, October 20th, at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, a sampling of pictures of which is above.
The funding awarded has enabled Museum to achieve a unique digital publishing initiative, featuring an archive of historic Sedgwick County photographs and images for use by public and private schools, home educators and the general public through a free, open access, web-based resource.
This Rotary year, our Club has moved to a 3-meeting-a-month model, allowing us the opportunity to often have a week available to volunteer in the community, in place of a weekly meeting. This model supports Rotary's mission of "Service Above Self"! For the most part, the first meeting of the month, unless it is a holiday week, is a Wednesday available for lending a hand in the community, whether at a school we support, a local non-profit or at an organization of an individual member's choice. The calendar below shows our meeting dates, indicated by a "sunflower" around the Wednesday date. Come join us at a weekly meeting to enjoy the dynamic speakers we have scheduled, or feel free to lend a hand on a Wednesday we are volunteering in the community! The listing of upcoming speakers is shown below left.
The East Wichita Rotary Foundation has awarded $11,000 in scholarships to 10 Sedgwick County students attending Kansas universities for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year.
New scholarships were awarded to the following students:
Carlos Sosa, South High/Wichita State University (George Fahnestock Scholarship)
Delaney Luann Bradshaw, Garden Plain/Kansas State University
Kimberly Vivan Rader, West High/Wichita State University
Renewal scholarships were granted to the following students:
Brian Alan Stuhlsatz, Kansas State University
Chloe Nicole Brown, Wichita State University
Elda Ivonne Santos-Trevizo, Wichita State University
Fatima Ortiz, Newman University
Heather L. Mills, Kansas State University
Miriam Mangaza, Wichita State University
Niki Wood, Benedictine College
Congratulations to the following scholarship recipients who graduated during the 2021-22 academic year or have decided to continue their studies beyond the Rotary scholarship renewal limits:
Ashok Sharma, Wichita State University
Christopher Burrell, Kansas State University
Kamryn Villa, University of Kansas
Noah Betlach, WSU Tech