“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” ― Bob Feller 

 

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ― Maya Angelou 

 

 

Announcements
(notes provided by the crafty and courageous Barb Lintner)

There will be no meeting on November 24 and no meeting on December 29.  We will have an evening Holiday social in December.  Please invite guests to the January 26 meeting when Josh Whitman will be our speaker.

Rob announced that Fruit sales are underway.  Order forms and information have been emailed to club member.  Every member will have about three weeks to sell or donate.  Use your email contacts to make the selling process easier.  Cases are $25 and our profit per case is about $11.  The money from sales and donations this year will go to the Times Center and to our CU Sunrise Foundation to fund scholarships and charitable donations throughout the year.

Our volunteer project this month will be the 5K Race at Crystal Lake Park on November 19.  Volunteers are needed to set up and register runners from 8:30 to 10:00, to man Water Stations, and to clean up afterwards.  Sign up next week or let Todd know if you can help.

See Scott or Darrell  to schedule your opportunity to shine.  Video segments on why you are a Rotarian are being shot now.  Check out our Facebook page to see the progress.

 

Speaker

Maureen Reagan, the Assistant Director of Marketing at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts entertained us with interesting facts and details.  The center, at a cost of $21 million opened in 1969.  It was funded by Herman and Ellnora Krannert to educate through the participation in culture, a needed experience in complex times.   Herman Krannert, head of the Inland Container Corporation, was an engineering graduate of the University of Illinois and his wife, Ellnora held multiple arts degrees.  Max Abramovitz was the architect but the Krannerts were involved in the design as well.  

Today it is funded mostly by private and foundation donations and grants with some state funding and is known as being at the forefront of performance arts though out the world.  Krannert Center is a unit of the University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied arts but was built to integrate the arts across campus and provide a way to enhance the diversity of experiences, spur creativity, and become a center for student self discovery. 

There are five stages at Krannert including the acoustical gem – the Foellinger Great Hall. which is built on three foundations to create sound isolation.  The center is the home to a world renowned guest artist series and is a collaborative in fine arts, theatre, music and dance on campus.   It is a full production facility including classrooms, rehearsal spaces, studios and offices. 130 courses are taught per year, 450 students are employed, and 600 students use the facility daily.  The capacity of the one and a half acre lobby is 4,000 people and it includes a café, bar, and gift shop.  80 professionals are employed to manage over 400 performances and events a year attended by 3000 people. 

The Krannert Center for Performing Arts serves as a classroom, laboratory and public square presenting world class artists, fostering creativity, and preparing students for leadership roles in art.

Some innovative projects at the center include one funded with a Mellon Grant. FA110 is a series of team taught classes across the curriculum involving sciences and other departments as well as the arts with a focus on the creative process.  Another creates residencies to foster the development of new original work.  The Ellnora Guitar Festival which will take place on September 14 – 16 in 2017 brings together local and global artists with a wide variety of styles.  The 50th Anniversary celebration of the center will take place from September 2018 to May of 2020.

There are free tours at 3pm daily and the center has a presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so there are many ways to explore.  Information about the 2017 season will be finalized sometime in January.

 

 

  Nov 17th Nov 24th Dec 1st Dec 8th
Introductions BJ Lytle No  John McDaniel Ben Mast
Invocation Cary Woolard meeting Laura Auteberry Oktay Baran
Greeters BJ Lytle on John McDaniel Ben Mast
Tod Satterthwaite Turkey Michelle Barbey Michelle Barbey
Song Leader Allan Penwell Day Ed Perry Tod Satterthwaite
Notetaker Conforti   Perry Penwell

 

UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

November 17th – Mike Hirschi, Champaign West, will discuss the Foundation (Allan Penwell)

November 24th – Thanksgiving, no AM meeting

December 1st – Club Assembly

December 8th – Janice Jayes, Instructional Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, will discuss the state of ISIS today (Bob)

December 15th – Isak Griffiths, Executive Director, Courage Connections (Laura)

December 22nd – Mitch Davis, Muscular Dystrophy Association (Mary)

December 29th – No AM meeting; evening social instead?

January 5th – Family Meeting? (Phyllis)

January 12th – TBD (Tod)

January 19th – TBD (Tom)

January 26th – Josh Whitman, Athletic Director, UIUC (Bob)

February 2nd – TBD (Laura)

February 9th – TBD (Mary)

February 16th- Nick Osborne, Director, Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education, UIUC (Phyllis)

February 23rd – TBD (Tod)