Events

Please join your fellow Rotarians  by marching in the Holiday Parade on Friday, November 25, 2022.  Meet at the Ambulance Corp building on Keep Street at 5:30 pm.   The parade itself will begin at 6:00 pm. Madison Rotary has participated in the Madison Christmas Parade for over 25 years.  Rotarians walk alongside the Santa Claus float and make sure excited children don't run out to greet Santa.  The event is generally over by 6:30 pm.  Immediately after the parade is the lighting of the town Christmas tree at 6:30 pm.  We need about 20 volunteers to help with this service project.

The History of Madison Christmas Tree Sales, And, if your ready, Q&A on whats going on in Madison

Ms. Gasalberti is a graduate of Drew Univerity and Kean College, where she earned a Masters degree in psychology. She is currently serving as a school psychologist at a behavioral school in West Caldwell. She has recently published “Love Your Selfie,” a book about, and promoting, self-esteem in children.

Famous ghosts from Madison's past, rise to tell their stories.

Madison Rotary Holiday Party

Online registration closed - Contact Frank Mangravite to check on space available

Madison Rotary Holiday party and 50/50 raffle drawing will be held December 15th at Madison Community Arts Center at 10 Kings Road, Madison.  You are invited to attend.  The cost is $40.00 per person and includes full catered dinner from Firehouse Pizza.  Plan now to attend and join your fellow Rotary members and guest in attendance.  See first had who will be the lucky winners of this year's Rotary raffle.  Click the link on the left to register.  No online payment is required, you will be billed $40.00 per person for you and your guests.

Any questions, contact Frank Mangravite fmh2ofrank@gmail.com or 201-532-9772

THIS IS A BYOB EVENT

NO REFUNDS AFTER DECEMBER 12, 2022

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Go to the Holiday Party - 50/50 Raffle at Madison Community Arts Center at 6 PM

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

 I could discuss one of the topics I wrote about in my authenticity essay collection such as the purpose of a college education 

At the January 12^th meeting of Madison Rotary, Paul Daly will discuss transportation policy and its impact on a broad range of issues including land use law, economics and our criminal justice system. Mr. Daly, a Rotary member, is a Certified Civil Trial attorney, formerly headed Madison’s Downtown Development Commission and served on its Planning Board, and is currently a member of Madison’s Complete Streets Committee.  

4 years of Air Force Conflict in the Cold War. Exciting times.

The January 19^th meeting of Madison Rotary will feature a talk by Jim Fraser, a Rotary member. Mr. Fraser has a wealth of experience on public policy and national security issues following a long career as a Navy pilot and Pentagon official, as well as serving as a policy advisor to numerous multinational corporations with national security connections. Mr. Fraser is currently President of 262 Strategy, a government relations consulting firm, and lectures at Rutgers and Montclair State Universities on national security issues. On the 19^th Mr. Fraser will address a number of national security issues of interest.  

Florham Park Rotary Plans and Objectives - high interest in Scholarship program

The January 26^th meeting of Madison Rotary will feature a talk by Tom Haverty, a Rotary member.  Dr. Haverty is a physician scientist who spent over 30 years in Pharmaceutical R and D leading to the approval of numerous drugs and biologics. He received a BS from Stanford, an MD from UCSD and trained in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Immunology at Penn prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry.  Dr. Haverty will provide a brief history of vaccines, followed by a description of how the mRNA vaccines work to combat the Covid viruses.

Entitled 'Against the Grain'. Every small act of history is a drama of time, place, and people. Welcome to Jamestown, New Jersey where in 1962-1964, six characters intersect in a conflict of change and complacency. During desegregation battles in the early 1960s, one African American family in a leafy NJ suburb experiences barriers more quiet and hidden than in the South. When the oldest child, Fleur, a high school student, gets an after school job in an upscale store on Main Street, she becomes the catalyst for change no one in her town expects. Some want to help her, others want to impede her, and some end up doing both. Fleur learns the limits of trusting her future to others, while making and defending her own decisions.

Dr, Michael Hart, former president of Westfield Rotary and District Governor will talk about 

Elizabth Semple is the Climate Resilience Manager for the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.

Ms. Semple will speak about marshland preservation and restoration in New Jersey.

RAMP, founded in 2016, is a faith-based, non-profit whose mission is to help vetted, legally admitted refugees from war-torn countries find safety and success in Morris County, New Jersey. In the past six years RAMP teams of volunteers have welcomed and supported eight families from Syria and Afghanistan, now totaling more than 30 people, providing them with everything from housing, furniture, and clothing to educational and employment support. Volunteers provide additional aid navigating medical and social services assistance. RAMP supports families for a year or more. RAMP emphasizes rapid financial self-sufficiency, English language proficiency, and American assimilation. Refugee Assistance Morris Partners is a co-sponsor of refugees with both the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Church World Service (CWS), two of the nine American refugee resettlement agencies. To learn more about RAMP, including how to donate or volunteer, go to www.rampnj.org

Come and join your fellow Rotarians and members of the community

for a Madison Rotary Happy Hour Social. 

We meet and enjoy each others company. 

Everyone invited.  

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He woul like to do a talk about everyday actions we all take and which ones have the greatest impact on our environment.  The reason he likes the idea of developing such a presentation is the answers can be a little surprising.  

Joe Peluso, our Host at Nicky's Firehouse Pizza, will be speaking. He will talk about

1. Whatever he wants.

2. Why Pizza is better than Chili.

3, His new restaurant.

4. Whatever his wife Amanda wants him to say.

Jen Gregory is President of the Board of Trustees of the Madison Education Foundation (MEF). She has been a volunteer and Board member for the organization since 2017, and in her current role, she oversees fundraising, events, public relations, and grantmaking. In 2023, she will lead MEF through its 20th anniversary of grantmaking in Madison Public Schools.

The Madison Education Foundation is a non-profit organization that awards teacher-initiated grants in Madison Public Schools. It funds great ideas that inspire educators and energize the academic and creative lives and social emotional health of students. Since 2003, MEF has awarded more than 600 grants totaling nearly $2 million dollars across all grade levels and curriculum areas.

Ms. Gregory will discuss the MEF’s current activities in support of Madison students.

Madison History - One. Will cover pre revolutionary war- the war years- St Vincents- the ultra wealthy- rose industry- famous madisonians

Come and join your fellow Rotarians and members of the community

for a Madison Rotary Happy Hour Social. 

We meet and enjoy each others company. 

Everyone invited.  

Mr. Driscoll, a Madison resident, will discuss how he and his wife came to be hosting several Ukrainian refugees, including both the challenges and rewards of hosting.

The Rotary Foundation is a non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions.

The foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US$26.50 to more than US$1billion. It has one of the largest and most prestigious international fellowship programs in the world.

Madison's Planning Board:

Overview
The Planning Board functions under the authority of the Municipal Land Use Law of New Jersey. It is authorized to exercise power with regard to:

• Adoption of a Master Plan
• Subdivision control and site plan review for permitted uses
• Recommendations as to the official map of the Borough
• Conditional use applications
• Recommendations as to the zoning ordinance or amendments thereto
• Review of Capital Projects
• Variances under certain circumstances in connection with site plan and subdivision

The biggest battle in recorded history. I don't know what battle this is, but if you email me at halmoeller@aol.com, I'll award the first right answer with a free Madison Rotary lunch.

Madison Housing Authority - Highlights and Projects.

Mission

The Madison Housing Authority provides quality, inclusive, affordable homes to low- and moderate-income individuals and families creating opportunities to build stable, healthy lives and to become a vital part of the Madison community

Come and join your fellow Rotarians and members of the community

for a Madison Rotary Happy Hour Social. 

We meet and enjoy each others company. 

Everyone invited.  

A lifelong resident of Morris County, Anthony M. Bucco has served in the New Jersey Senate since 2019. He previously served in the General Assembly from 2010 to 2019, including as the Republican conference leader for his final two years. He is a partner at the law firm of Murphy McKeon, P.C. specializing in local government law.

He is a founding member of Daytop drug and alcohol center and served on the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse from 1998 to 2009. Bucco has been a commissioner of the Morris County Sheriff's Crime Stoppers program since 1998 and served with the Boonton Volunteer Fire Department since 1980 where he attained the rank of captain.

Senator Bucco will present a resolution commending Madison Rotary for its 100 years of community service. He will also comment on current legislative activity in Trenton.

Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University.  After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.

Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time to the Foundation.

Mr. Fine will make a presentation on the detection and prevention of melanoma, a form of skin cancer that is easily treatable if detected early.

Our speaker is Rotarian Jim Fraser, who will address national security aspects of the Ukraine conflict. Jim has a wealth of experience on public policy and national security issues following a long career as a Navy pilot and Pentagon official.

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Ms. Dempsey is currently the Director of Arts in Community/ Creative Placemaking for the MAYO Theater in Morristown. In addition, with her husband and partner, she is a principal in CORE Creative Placemaking, which designs and directs public art activities and installations, as well as community building events in New Jersey.

Ms. Dempsey will address the creative placemaking process, describe some of the projects that she and her partner have executed and outline the public benefits of a well-designed creative placemaking practice.

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