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	Volume 23 Issue 1


	January 2003


	WORLD ROOTS

Calendar of Events

Jan. 15 Wed. General Meeting. 7:00 p.m. Red Gym

Jan. 25, Sat. Freeze for Food, 10:30 am contact Rick Lackey, 218-8878

Feb. 3 Mon. Slide Show. 7:00 pm. Travel Center, WI Memorial Union. Contact Melissa 249-3545

Feb. 9. Sun. Slide Show Finale. 6:00 pm Potluck, 7:00 pm Slide viewing. Contact Melissa 249-3545

Feb. 13. Thur. Volunteer Abroad and Travel Fair. 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm. WI Memorial Union

Feb. 26. Wed., Calendar Committee Meeting: contact Rochelle Goedken, 243-0298.


	President's Message


	Hello all, I hope the new year finds you in good health and spirit! Lots of plans are in the making for the next couple of months, so be sure to come out. The Freeze for Food is set for January 25th. Volunteers are needed, call Peter Joyce at (608) 245-0626 if you are interested. If you are not volunteering, come out and run! Registration for the runs start at 11:15 am. The 5K run starts at 12 noon (sharp!) and the 10K run at 1 pm (sharp!). Funds raised benefit the Columbia Support Network.


	is February 28th this year. This is a great time to share your Peace Corps experience with others. Marc Brand is calling for volunteers who would like to give a short presentation on their PC experience to his East High School classes. Give him a call at 255-1339. See you soon! Peace, Steven Elmore (President, RPCVs of Wisconsin - Madison)


	Inside this issue:


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	The Calendar Page -submitted by Jenny Guerne

Calendars are for sale at $5.00 each for current group members. They are available at the following peoples' homes:

West side:
Sophie Zermuehlen
Lee Row

East side:
Rose Ann Scott
Prudence Barber
Rochelle Goedken

Central:
Margot Kennard

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Our courageous leader Rochelle Goedken has agreed to help get out the 2004 calendar but by next year she will be DONE as Calendar Committee Chair, and we will need someone to fill her shoes. Could that formidable person be YOU?

NEXT MEETING

The next meeting will be February 26, and from now on calendar meetings will be the fourth Tuesday of each month. The dates for viewing slides for the calendar should appear elsewhere in this month's newsletter.


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	Calendar Committee Meeting Minutes -submitted by Jenny Guerne


	Thank you to Troy Rutter, Rochelle Goedken, Kristy Torres, Richard & Julita Zolnik, Lee & Rick Row, Prudence Barber, Jenny Guerne and Margot Kennard for attending the December calendar meeting. Marketing & Distribution: We have sold 31,162 out of 37,500 calendars, which is really good. We are hoping that we will run out of calendars soon. Alan is requesting that when someone has an urgent order that they only send ONE email to him. If it is urgent, they can also call and leave a message. RoseAnn pointed out that orders MUST go through Richard and Julita, so no one else should be emailing their orders to Alan. This prevents duplication and reduces confusion. Richard and Julita remarked that they would like to know when and order gets shipped. Bar code scanners in retail stores are still scanning calendar prices at $10.95 even though they are marked at 12.95; we need to match the bar code to the marked price. We have sold about 5000 more calendars than we had at the same time in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Production: The deadline for slide submission is 12/31/02. We need to get a quote from Strauss printing, and to ensure


	that the quote includes the cost of shingling since this was an additional cost last year. We decided that it would be a good idea to try to have the first calendar slide show at January's general meeting, because if we wait until February we wouldn't have the first viewing until 2/19. That is too late. If there is no national conference for us to do next year, we won't be in as much of a rush to get the calendars printed by July. It was suggested that we have a showing at the beginning of February, and then a second showing at the meeting that month, but there were concerns about the quality of the screen/surface we would be seeing the large number of slides on if the first showing were not in a place equipped with a screen. It was decided at November's meeting on Day block information that Buck will continue to do all movable and changeable dates, Beth Chance will do the words of the month, and Ron Chance will do the country paragraph. We still need someone to work on the inside back cover, back cover and second to last page; Buck will keep doing the new moons, full moons and holy days on other calendars. This is all very important, and Rochelle


	will try to write up a brief job description telling what doing each of these pages entails so that volunteers can have an idea what they would be doing if they work on this. Doing the rest of the work that Buck has done (the individual Day Block information) is now a matter of trying to update from DOS to a newer format. We need to find a computer that can read double density disks so we can change the info onto high density disks. At some point in January, we will need a work group that can go through all this stuff to identify what needs to be reformatted. We need to update our systems and software more frequently, because RoseAnn is trying to move the database from the old computer to the new one and having trouble getting the old one to communicate with the new one. RoseAnn also went through how many calendars different people have to account for--she turned in all her sales to Richard and Julita, so now they're accounted for. It's really important that they know where a delivery is from when it is from a private home and not from Wieners. Please keep track of sales!


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	You Can Donate $1,000 to a Peace Corps Partnership


	If you are a member of the RPCV of Madison WI you may apply $1,000 of the 2002 calendar money toward a Peace Corps Partnership. Just pick a partnership and let Rose Ann Scott know via phone 608.241.0845, e-mail roseannscott@yahoo.com, or in person. Remember the PCV are waiting,


	always for too long, for funding for their project. If you can't figure out which project go on-line and look in depth at the projects. The projects vary daily and you can see them on-line at www.peacecorps.gov/contribute/index.cfm The projects listed below are from July 28th.


	There are also now 4 special funds you can donate to. The Global Fund distributes your donation evenly across the 6 Peace Corps regions, The Loret Miller Ruppe for the Advancement of Women, The HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Fund and Information and Technology Fund


	Country Project Volunteer State Amount Needed Bolivia Totora School Project K. Morenzi NY $4,905.00 Bulgaria Facilities for Youth Nature Camps R. Davis FL $4,890.00 Bulgaria Women's Weaving & Sewing Coop E. Sloan FL $6,400.00 Burkina Faso Sanitation Improvement Project M. Barnhart PA $3,475.00 Georgia Bakhvi Secondary Sch. Dev. J. O'Donnell OR $2,158.00 Georgia Desks for Kheta's Secondary Sch. R. McGill NY $860.00 Ghana Abetifi Presbyterian Secondary Sch. Science Block Renovation Project R. Pike MA $18,510.00 Ghana Gender & Youth Development Conf. E. Tims NY $5,145.00 Guinea 2003 Regional Girls Conferences M. Pfeifer NY $7,227.93 Moldova Chiscareni Language Center (Edu) A. Sewick MI $4,323.00 Moldova Creation of Computer Laboratory M. Sabo OH $11,600.00 Moldova 2003 Model United Nations C. Ellis TX $2,965.00 Morocco Solar Electricity Project L. Clark WI $7,850.00 Nepal Construction of Water Pump R. Goyal NY $29,580.00 Panama Primary School Computer Center S. Berghorst IL $3,340.00 Philippines Brgy. Santa Cruz Elementary School Mini-Library and Toilet Project S. Clark CA $2,580.00 Philippines Const. of Dimiao Nature Reserve Proj S. Manley WA $4,449.00 Philippines Const. of Sabang Elem. Sch. Library H. Stevens ME $3,404.00 Philippines Earth Day Celebration K. Hoffmann WI $1,500.00 Philippines Livelihood Dev. Training Program C. Ro IL $1,000.00 Philippines Palompon Environmental Ed. Project H. Stevens ME $5,220.00 Philippines Project Wet & Project Learning Tree Environ. Education Training Seminar A. Bhasin TX $500.00 Philippines Sasso Backyard Poultry E. Pacpaco HI $-5,400.00 Philippines Training: Info. & Ed. Campaign E. Pacpaco HI $3,430.00 Romania RWC-Sch. Comp. Lab/Connections K. Morris MN $9,785.00 Romania Student League Fundraising Seminar G. Brown MA $530.00 Ukraine Center of Int'l Communications S. Plageman OH $9,856.00 Ukraine Ukranian Community Action Network K. Jeffers OR $9,685.00


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	MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION


	TREASURER'S REPORT SUBMITTED BY KARL STARK


	Savings account: 110223.06 Checking account: 9078.42 Balance 119301.48 ============================= Calendar 87718.67 Sales 35184.00 Interest 83.08 Phone (23.20) Shipping (545.80) Postage (628.33) Data Entry (1068.23) Newsletter (145.06) Credit Card (122.25) Balance 120452.88 ============================= Group 1704.61 NPCA refund 45.00 Newsletter (145.07) Balance 1604.54 ============================= Senegalese Edu. Fund 1056.75 ============================= Global Education 1996.20 ============================= Annual Projects (5808.89) =============================


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	December General Meeting Minutes -submitted by Alyson Carr


	WHAT'S HAPPENING? 1. Freeze for Food · What: Walk or run 5K or 10K to benefit the Colombia Support Network. Madison's sister city, Apartado, Colombia, receives several refugees who have been victims of the continuing violence that plagues that nation. The money we raise through Freeze for Food buys seeds, tools, and food for these refugees. www.colombiasupport.net · Date: January 25, 2003 · Registration Time: 11:15-11:45 for 5K and 12:00-12:45 for 10K (You can register ahead of time or the day of.) · Starting Time: Noon for 5 K and 1:00 for 10K · Cost: $10.00 · Where: Vilas Park Shelter, Madison · Freebees: Each participant receives a 2003 RPCVs of Madison calendar. · If you participate in both races, you pay the registration fee twice and receive two calendars. · Contact Peter Joyce at 245-0626 or Rick Lackey at 218-8878 or 345-7878 meisa@teeracim.net for information. · Call for volunteers: Please contact Rick if you can help out at Freeze for Food this year. A variety of jobs are available, inside and outside, including registration, handing out food, and as pointers. 2. Viewing Slides for the 2004 Calendar · Both rounds of viewing will take place at the Memorial Union Travel Center (second floor next to the main lounge). All RPCVs and their families are welcome to view and vote on slides. o First round: Monday, February 3, 2003 at 7:00pm o Second round: Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 6:00pm. Pot luck dinner will be followed by slide viewing at 7:00pm. Please bring a dish to pass. · Parking is available in the Memorial Union parking lot, in the Lake Street garage, and on the street. · Contact Melissa Kaltenbach at 249-3545 with any questions 3. Nomination Party · The Minneapolis regional PC recruiters are sponsoring a nomination party for PC nominees. More details to come. · Date: Thursday, February 27, 2003 · Where: Red Gym (tentative) · Contact: Lisa Wandke at 262-1121 peacecorps@cals.wisc.edu for more information. 4. UW Madison PC Plaque Ceremony · The UW Madison will receive a plaque to honor the university for supplying the highest total number of PC recruits over the past 10 years. 123 UW Madison alumni

are currently serving; 2,730 alumni have served; 11 alumni are set to depart next month. More details to come. · Date: Friday, February 28, 2003
· Governor Jim Doyle is anticipated to be present.
· Contact: Lisa Wandke at 262-1121 peacecorps@cals.wisc.edu for more information.
5. Possible Reception for Jim Doyle
· The UW Madison Alumni Association and the RPCVs of Madison propose sponsoring a reception to welcome RPCV Jim Doyle as our next governor. Details are yet to be determined. Tentatively, all RPCVs of WI will be invited, and the UW Madison Alumni Association will contribute costs for food, invitations, and mailings. More details to come. · Contact Melissa Kaltenbach at 249-3545 for more information.
6. Possible Winter Retreat
· In the past we have held the Winter Retreat at Camp Lucerne. However, since we did not have one last year we may have lost our reservation there. It will be looked in to. One alternative location is Kettle Moraine State Park. · It was suggested that we could invite the RPCVs of Chicago or Milwaukee to join us.
· The RPCVs of Chicago hold their own retreat every year, to which we are invited, but it usually falls on the same weekend as Freeze for Food. Details are being investigated. · Contact Mark Brand at 255-1339 brand@madison.k12.wi.us if you are interested in participating in a Winter Retreat this year. If he hears enough interest, he is willing to head setting it up.
· Do you have suggestions for alternative venues?
7. Possible International Children's Fair
· The Travel Committee of the UW Madison Directorate, of which Melissa Kaltenbach is an advisor, sponsors programming that educates the campus on international issues. The idea to hold an international children's fair on the south side of Madison has been proposed. The Boy's and Girl's Club on S. Park St. has volunteered its facilities to host such an event. It is tentatively set for May 2003.
· This project needs a coordinator willing to contribute 5 to 10 hours of time. He/She need not be an RPCV. The coordinator, if a member of the RPCVs of Madison, can then sponsor an application for funds. If not member, the coordinator can contact a member to sponsor an application.
· Contact Melissa Kaltenbach at 249-3545 to volunteer to be coordinator.

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	Meeting Minutes Continued -submitted by Alyson Carr


	Continued from page 7 CAN YOU HELP OUT? 1. Freeze for Food · Contact Rick Lackey at 218-8878 or 345-7878 meisa@teeracim.net if you can help out at Freeze for Food this year. A variety of jobs are available, inside and outside, including registration, handing out food, and as pointers. (More information on Freeze for Food under "WHAT'S HAPPENING?" above.) 2. Two Upcoming Fairs · RPCVs are needed to staff PC table at two fairs on the UW Madison campus. Join Lisa Wandke, the campus PC Recruiter, to answer student questions about the PC and hand out information. Both fairs take place in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, 4^th floor. 1. Multicultural Fair § Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 § Sign up for half hour (or longer) slots from 3:00-6:30 2. Volunteer Abroad and Travel Fair (provides information on travel, work, internship, and study abroad opportunities) § Date: Thursday, February 13, 2003 § Sign up for half our (or longer) slots from 2:30-6:30 · As a participant, you can sign up for give away contests that award a free Eurail trip and a free airline trip on Lufthansa. · Contact: Lisa Wandke at 262-1121 peacecorps@cals.wisc.edu to volunteer. 3. Peace Corps Day at Madison East High School · Each year RPCV and East teacher Mark Brand invites RPCVs to speak to students about their PC experiences. RPCVs speak for 15 minutes each, three RPCVs per hour. Speak during one or two hours. 15-20 RPCVs are needed. · Date: Friday, February 28, 2003 · Bring: Slides, artifacts, costumes, music on tape or CD, videos, stories, and enthusiasm. Notify Mark if you will require a tape player, CD player, or VCR. · Contact Mark Brand at 255-1339 brand@madison.k12.wi.us if you can come and inspire young minds. DID YOU KNOW? 1. Newsletter Publishing Schedule · The deadline for submissions to the newsletter is noon on the Sunday following the general meeting. · Please feel free to submit any information, articles, stories, announcements, and photographs to the newsletter at worldrootsnews@yahoo.com. · Contact Newsletter Editor, John Kaltenbach at 249-3545 for further information.


	2. Calendar Committee Meetings · Calendar committee meetings take place on the fourth Tuesday of every month, except December and January. The next calendar meeting will take place Tuesday, February 25, 2003. · Contact Rochelle Goedken at 234-0298 for more information. 3. Calendars to Schools · We give up to 25 calendars to any teacher that requests them for his or her school. This offer is valid starting in January of that calendar's year, as supplies last. · Contact Rose Ann Scott at 241-0845 to request calendars for your school. 4. Money Available for Sponsoring Projects · Funds from 2002 calendar proceeds are still available in our discretionary funds to sponsor worthy projects. Submit applications for projects you know of that could use some extra funding. · $8,010.00 as of December 13, 2002 remain to go towards PC Partnership programs. Each RPCV member can choose to which PC Partnership project $1,000 of this money can go. o Contact Rose Ann Scott at 241-0845 to tell her towards which PC Partnership program you'd like $1,000 to go to. · The Global Education fund still has funds available to sponsor educational projects. Submit applications for worthy education funds you know of. 5. Possible MATC Student Project · Dean Jefferson, MATC teacher, suggested having his students build and maintain the RPCVs of Madison website. However, Burt Preston has already volunteered to be our new webmaster. Both volunteers are appreciated. Brad Hinkfuss will work with Burt and Dean to come to an arrangement. 6. Airline deals · Suggestion: Try worryfreetravel.com for airline deals 7. UN Association of Dane County · The UNA-USA, Dane County Chapter is the local arm of the United Nations Association of the US. It provides information about the world community and the UN Agencies that deal with problems around the world. The meetings are free and open to the public. · When: Meetings take place the second Monday of every month · Where: CUNA Center, Madison · Recent topic: The relationship between North and South Korea (The leading American experts on Korea are RPCVs who served in Korea.) · www.una-usadanecounty.org


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	Large Project Request, Beekeeping Cooperative


	with AWF's assistance. Support from the calendar sales will provide for first-time and refresher management and technical training, and will support the salaries of the cooperative manager, extension agent, and security agent. Project Contact Person Amy Wiedemann Project Address African Wildlife Foundation 1400 Sixteenth Street, NW, Suite 120 Washington, DC 20036 Project phone: 202.939.3343 If funded please make the check payable to the African Wildlife Foundation and send to the above address. AWF makes monthly, bank-to-bank wire transfers to each of our field offices. Budget Summary Item RPCV Match Total Salaries 4194 4194 Portioned for the Cooperative Manager, Extension and Security Agents Supplies 1000 1600 2600 Office and the purchase of packing Containers for transport. Transportation 1400 1400 Of honey from collection points at an Average of $65/trip and motorcycle Maintenance Training 4000 7000 11000 Financial Management and record Keeping refreshers: harvesting and Handling techniques for 200 farmers. Total 5000 14194 19194


	Possible International Children's Fair


	· The Travel Committee of the UW Madison Directorate, of which Melissa Kaltenbach is an advisor, sponsors programming that educates the campus on international issues. The idea to hold an international children's fair on the south side of Madison has been proposed. The Boy's and Girl's Club on S. Park St. has volunteered its facilities to host such an event. It is tentatively set for May 2003.


	· This project needs a coordinator willing to contribute 5 to 10 hours of time. He/She need not be an RPCV. The coordinator, if a member of the RPCVs of Madison, can then sponsor an application for funds. If not member, the coordinator can contact a member to sponsor an application. · Contact Melissa Kaltenbach at 249-3545 to volunteer to be coordinator.