The Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown meets at Tessa's Restaurant, located at 16 W. Jefferson Ave., in downtown Naperville. (Click here for a map to Tessa's.)
Use the elevator at the rear of the restaurant or use the staircase at the front entrance of Tessa's.
The Club meets officially from 4:44 to 5:45 p.m. every Wednesday. Make-ups are $20. Light refreshments, libations and fellowship are served up from about 4:35 to 5 p.m., with club announcements, introductions, and a short program immediately following. All programs are scheduled for 20-30 minutes.
Note: For the past meeting schedule, click here.
APRIL 2008
| Date | Time | Description |
| 4/30/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Our own Barb Dwyer will share the spotlight with another surprise guest. As our newest member with longtime Rotary experience, Barb will provide her "Getting to Know You" talk. |
MAY 2008
| Date | Time | Description |
| 5/1/2008 | 7:45AM | Board Meeting Harris Bank Naperville |
| 5/7/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Club Assembly Steve Hyett's Naperville Vintage Postcard Review. Sunrise Rotarian Steve Odden will also introduce us to the Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team from Italy. |
| 5/14/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Neal Cerne will introduce DuPage County historian Rick Carney. Also, Sister Florence will be visiting from Upendo Village and will brief us about the happenings in Kenya. |
| 5/21/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Chuck Corrigan will introduce Bea Peterson from Feed My Starving Children, a hands-on organization that gives families a chance to pack nutritious meals made up of rice, soy, vitamins and dehydrated vegetables, partnering with relief organizations worldwide to distribute these meals to starving children.
Construction is now complete at Feed My Starving Children's Chicagoland
site, located at 555 Exchange Court in Aurora, IL. Volunteers began
packing food at the new site on Monday, April 14. Prior to the site
opening, food packing took place at a temporary location in Naperville,
IL. |
| 5/28/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Jim Boyajian has invited DuPage County Board members Mike Connelly and Jim Healy to provide an overview about how county government works. |
JUNE 2008
| Date | Time | Description |
| 6/4/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Club Assembly Celebrate Club President Stephanie Penick's Last Club Assembly! Approve Community Service Grant allocations. Also, Ed Fey is our host
for a program by Past District Governor Chris Reilly. Chris was very
helpful to Gary Baumgartner when it was time to apply for our new Paul
Harris Fellows. Chris has titled his program: |
| 6/11/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Edward A. Susmilch, Principal of Technology Center of DuPage, will be our featured speaker. TCD, located in Addison, offers Career Acceleration Programs available to high school juniors and seniors in the DuPage County area. Students receive practical, hands-on training in one of today's 20 fastest growing careers. Careers such as television production, graphic communications, electronics, automotive technology, and health care are among the offered course studies. |
| 6/18/2008 | SPECIAL TIME & PLACE! | Club Meeting: Benedictine University, Lisle, IL DUPAGE DRAGONS BASEBALL GAME! Details to come. This evening event will be open to members and guests. We invite other local Rotary Clubs and friends to join us, too. |
| 6/25/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Tessa's 16 W. Jefferson, Naperville, IL Installation of Officers for the new Rotary year. |
For more photos, visit our Fun Photo page, or our Past Programs page!
| Date | Time | Description |
| 4/23/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Dr. Joe Marek from the Midwest Heart Foundation presented a very informative program, "Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Adults / Why Does It Happen and What Can Be Done?" For more info, visit www.midwestheart.com. |
| 4/16/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Dr. Joy Ross and talented singers from WVHS Warriors Reaching Out (Mosaic Choir Ensemble) performed for our group. Fantastic! Also, Liz Zienty and NCHS Interact students told us about their projects. These two groups were the first that benefited from our RCN Downtown Matching Grants. |
| 4/11/2008 | 7:45AM | Board Meeting Harris Bank Naperville |
| 4/9/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Roger Hopkins, President and CEO of Choose DuPage, (20-year member of the Rotary Club of Sycamore!) talked about the current state of economic development in DuPage County, and the plans of Choose DuPage to help improve conditions for development in the county. |
| 4/2/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Club Assembly - Time to regroup / answer questions about grants / inspire and think Spring! |
| 3/26/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Sunrise Rotarian Nicki Scott introduced Elke Kroeger-Radcliffe, who told us her story of creating the Tikondane project in Zambia, Africa. Since arriving in Katete, a small town in the Eastern Province of Zambia, over 13 years ago, Elke has provided a loving attitude and positive outlook to all she encounters. Elke updated us with a presentation about the Rotary Sunrise Water and Education Project that includes the School Building Project in Tikondane. Our club has contributed to Sunrise's first matching RI grant. |
| 3/19/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Club Assembly Ron Nyberg introduced the owner of the DuPage Dragons, a member of the Central Illinois Collegiate League sanctioned by the NCAA and Major League Baseball. The collegiate baseball team finds its home at Benedictine University's 108-acre campus in Lisle to provide college students the opportunity to play amateur ball in the summer with wooden bats in a maximum 50-game schedule. |
| 3/12/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Kent Demuth, a member of the Rotary Club of Naperville, shared his experiences and insights as a volunteer in Bangladesh on behalf of Rotary International's Polio Plus initiative. In December 2007, Kent traveled throughout the South Asian country with Rotarians and volunteers to help immunize children, part of RI's fight to eradicate polio that began in 1988. |
| 3/5/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Maxine Appenbrink, owner of Naperville's first full-sized field indoor sports complex, Players Indoor Sports Center, told us about her plans to open in late March. |
| 2/27/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Lynda Reilly of the RCN/Downtown Scholarship Committee introduced officials from two local junior colleges who helped us establish our RCN/Downtown Scholarship grant program. Our guests were Stacy Rungaitis and Mike Trench from the College of DuPage as well as Katharine Richards and Becky Judd from Waubonsee Community College. They gave us wonderful feedback as to the positive impact that our scholarships will make. |
| 2/20/2008 | 5:55 PM
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Club Meeting: Paul Harris Dinner The Rotary Club of Naperville/Downtown celebrated its 1st Anniversary! District Gov Art Davis presented fourteen new Paul Harris Fellowship Awards! The featured speakers was Naperville Sunrise Rotarian Rick Quackenbush, who recounted his recent trip to Nigeria as part of Rotary's PolioPlus Immunization Day. Also speaking were Pat Merryweather, Vice President of the Rotary Club of Naperville, who updated the club on the Upendo Village, Kenya, project, and Nicki Scott, Vice President of the Rotary Club of Naperville/Sunrise, who gave an overview of her club's educational project in Tikondane, Zambia. Pictures from the evening can be found here. |
| 2/13/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Jim Boyajian led the club during our second Strategic Planning Meeting, reviewing our goals from last year, and measuring our performance against those goals. We also talked about plans for the coming year. |
| 2/6/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Club Member and owner of the Comedy Shrine, Dave Sinker, gave us a few lessons about improv comedy. Some of us are pretty funny! |
| 1/30/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Bill Forssander of CODA Consulting Group, Ltd., presented an enlightening program titled "The New Workforce: Unprecedented Challenges and Opportunities." |
| 1/23/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Susan Greenberg from the Naperville Library told us about the events planned for the Naperville READS program this year. |
| 1/16/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Lynda Reilly introduced Suzanne Garvin of The Dream Foundation, a group that grants final wishes to terminally ill adults. A very moving presentation. Also, the Interact Club at Naperville Central High School visited to tell us about their club, and their fundraising effort of collecting old cell phones, inkjet print cartridges, DVD movies/portable players, digital/DVR cameras, video/MP3 players. If you have upgraded recently and still have any of these items, please let Liz Zienty know, and someone will pick them up from you. |
| 1/9/2008 | 4:44PM | Club Meeting: Jack Shindler of North Central College spoke about NCC's annual International Festival slated for Feb. 10 in Merner Fieldhouse. Jack is a professor of English and the Director of International Programs at NCC. |
| 1/2/2008 | 4:44PM |
Club Meeting: Club Assembly |
To see the meeting schedules for 2006 and 2007, click here.
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