Events

Advocates of Ozaukee is an agency that provides services for those who may be experiencing domestic or sexual violence.

Learn about when it makes sense for companies to invest in industrial grade 3D printing.

Bob wrote the wording for the informational signs that have been erected at the Town Center Gateway.  The five storyboard topics are Indigenous People, The River, Mequon, Thiensville, and The Town Center.  Together, they offer a good summary of our local history. Bob will give our club a history lesson.  

Jim will share with us everything we didn't even know we should know about daylight savings time.

Learn more about newer member, Jeff McLean, in today's thumbnail sketch.  

The annual National Honor Society Induction Ceremony is back on and in person for 2022!  Our club has a long history of sponsoring this event each year and we need you to attend to help show your support and cheer on Heather Mader as she provides the ceremony's welcoming message. 

Please arrive at 6:40 pm.  We will have a table reserved for Rotarians and the ceremony will start promptly at 7:00 pm. 

Karl Hertz will share his son's experience helping to build a school in Nicaragua

Boy Scout Pack 3852

Todd Rathe, Justin Burgeon and Thomas Stark to give us an update and present the new incoming Cubmaster.

Janette currently serves as the President of the NAACP of Ozaukee County. Additionally, since 2016 she has served as an Ozaukee County Board Supervisor for Ozaukee County. She is the 1st African American to serve in this role. Her responsibilities include but are not limited to representing over 3700 constituents across District 24, setting and approving policies and budgets, and serving on the Public Safety Committee.

In 2011, Janette started Leaders Leaving Legacies, LLC where she pursues her passion of empowering leaders and entrepreneurs through professional coaching, mentoring and helping them launch their businesses from vision planning to marketing and website launch. Janette’s mission is to not only leave a legacy for her children and family, but to serve and give back to the communities in which she works and lives. She empowers others to do the same.

She is the author of 10 Reasons Communication Brings Transformation: Unleash Your Greatness and has published several articles for Forbes and other media platforms. She is also both a public speaker and facilitator; speaking and teaching various topics such as leadership and career development, diversity, equity and inclusion, and effective communication. 

Janette has received several awards and honors for her inspirational community leadership including: Wisconsin’s Top 48 Most Influential Black Leaders (2021), Milwaukee Business Journal’s Power Brokers (2020, 2021), Professional Dimensions Imprint Award (2021), the NAACP Game Changer Award (2019), and the MBJ Woman of Influence Award (2018) and more.

Ellen Censky, PhD
President & CEO

A Cedarburg, Wisconsin native, Dr. Ellen J. Censky began her career at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) in 1977. She went on to serve in other leadership capacities nationally, including at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, where she received national recognition for her work in founding and developing the BioBlitz program, which is now a staple community outreach program at institutions in every U.S. state and in countries around the world.

Dr. Censky continued to expand her leadership skills as the Director of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Director and CEO of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, guiding both institutions through significant expansions and seven-figure capital campaigns. Following successful tenures of leadership across the country, Dr. Censky returned to the Milwaukee Public Museum in 2008 to serve as Senior Vice President and Academic Dean. Today, Dr. Censky is responsible for leading the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Dr. Censky earned her Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and her doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Pittsburgh.

Julie Quinlan Brame
Senior Vice President of Development

Julie Quinlan Brame is thrilled to lead efforts to connect community members to ways they can help the Museum thrive. She is excited to return to MPM in this role after beginning her development career at MPM. 

Prior to returning to the Museum, Quinlan Brame was the Vice President of Advancement at Alverno College, where she led the development, marketing, and alumnae relations teams. Under her leadership, Alverno’s fundraising team increased annual giving from $2.5 million to $12 million and succeeded in a $32 million capital campaign, the largest in the College’s history.  Julie also served as the Vice President of Development for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and worked on the marketing team of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 

She did her master’s degree studies in vocal performance at New England Conservatory of Music and holds a bachelor’s degree of music from UW-Madison. She has been honored with the Scott M. Cutlip Professional Fundraiser Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals—Southeastern Wisconsin,  and was named a 40 Under 40 honoree by The Business Journal Milwaukee. 

Dave, a Marquette alum, is a Wisconsin sports insider at the heart of the state's sports media heritage. Familiar with events as big as the Super Bowl and Final Four, Dave worked at the Milwaukee Brewers, ran stats for Marquette games and final 4 games, and a former former sports journalist with the Associated Press.  

New member Peter Gohsman will present his thumbnail sketch. 

Business Meeting bumped up to this week because no meeting the day after Memorial Day. 

Location TBD

The Friends of the Domes board recently named Christa Beall Diefenbach as its next executive director.  Most recently Beall Diefenbach was a strategic consultant with her own marketing firm, Diefenbach Communications Strategies, which focuses on nonprofit clients. Prior to that, Beall Diefenbach served as vice president of mission engagement for the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance in Kansas City, Missouri, where she oversaw strategy and execution of marketing, fundraising and new product development for the national nonprofit capacity-building organization.

Alicia Bernards, of O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C., will educate us on what to do first when a loved one dies.