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April 2024
Our Medina County Retired Teacher's Association has had a long history of helping university students in their last year or two of preservice.
Amy Panchumarti, Chairman
MCRTA Scholarship Committee
Welcome back from all your winter adventures! We will be gathering soon for our first meeting of the year.
Our $2,000 scholarship is open and we are receiving applications. MCRTA will be awarding one lucky eligible student the $2,000. Our four criteria are:
1. Medina COUNTY high school graduate
2. Major in education
3. Junior or senior status
4. Application and three letters of recommendation due by May 31st.
If you know of anyone who is eligible please tell them to go to our MCRTA website and hit the SCHOLARSHIP tab.
Please support our scholarship fund!! Our red cups
will be on the tables waiting for your kind donations.
Please remember the little red cups make a big difference.
Thanks, friends.
Scroll down for a sneak peak for 2024 meetings!
Save the dates:
April 10, 2024 (one time day change!!)
June 11, 2024
August 13, 2024
October 8, 2024
Programs: Marilyn Buckloh [email protected]
Outreach: Linda Crane [email protected]
News: Carol Klingel [email protected]
Suggestions/ideas: Liz Lapossy-Klocek
[email protected]
Webmaster: Carol Callahan [email protected]
- ***Meeting at Williams on the Lake
***New meeting place at Williams on the
Lake . . . the middle building (second building)
Program: April 10th, Wednesday . . .
WHAT IS YOUR VERDICT??
YOU BE the JUDGE!
“Judge”, Amy Panchumarti, welcomes you into her court
room at the April 10, MCRTA meeting. Can you “Match the Verdict?” The MCRTA players presents their second
interactive performance as defendants in real life court cases.
Make your reservation by April 1, bring a friend and join the fun!
**Sign up for Spin Off activities!
MCRTA opportunities- board openings for 2024: treasurer, sunshine, vice-president (president elect),
public relations (photographer???) Our board has such fun . . . won't you join us???!!!
Menu: April: Chef's Choice Buffet (yummy choices)
Assistance will be available for anyone needing help to access buffet
$$$$$$ Remember our two ongoing fundraisers: the MCRTA Scholarship and the Boomhower Grant. At regular meetings, 1/2 of the money collected from 50/50 raffle ticket sales goes to the Boomhower grant, the other half to the winner, and the red cups on each table collect donations to the scholarship fund. (See more info on our Scholarship page). One of our main reasons for existing is to support future educators and to encourage current educators so that they can continue the profession we all so dearly loved and still care about. If you cannot attend a meeting, you can still send donations for either or both fundraisers to our treasurer: Nancy McNeal 1044 Brimfield Dr. Medina, OH 44256,
Make checks out to MCRTA!
50/50 RAFFLE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
$1 each, $5 – six tickets... proceeds = Boomhower Grants
*****Reminder: Many of you are members of ORTA, but we would love it if you would also join MCRTA each year! Dues are only $10.00/year! This helps pay for prizes, newsletters, stamps, scholarship winner lunches and much more. ORTA dues are also due ($300 for a lifetime membership, or $30/year). Nancy McNeal (treasurer) will be at our meetings looking forward to you joining MCRTA or ORTA.
Our members are special people!
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR DECISION MAKING BOARD? WHAT POSITION WOULD BEST SUIT YOU? secretary treasurer reservations public relations other Name_______________________________________________________________________________ best contact information_______________________________________________________________
April 2024: $50/$50 winner:
Pastry and cookie drawings:
MEETING INFORMATION
When: Our meetings begin at NOON with lunch.
Agenda: Registration, social, lunch following
with a program and our MCRTA business
meeting. Can't make the luncheon? You
can join us around 12:45 PM for any month's program.
**April 10 (WEDNESDAY), 2024
Where: **Williams on The Lake**
787 Lafayette Road, Medina, Ohio
Prospective members are welcome to learn more about us by attending an event. We'd love you to join our Medina County Retired Teachers Association. But you do need a reservation.
Reservation Form: Please complete and send this form along with a check payable to MCRTA for $15.00 per person by April 1, 2024 (so we can call our reservations into Williams on the Lake) to:
JoAnne Zurell
2901 Hamlin Rd
Medina, Ohio 44256
330-723-2364
Name_________________________
Phone No.__________________ e-mail address _______________________
Please reserve ___ spaces
Amount enclosed______
($15.00/person, please do not send cash)
When: Our meetings begin at NOON with lunch.
Agenda: Registration, social, lunch following
with a program and our MCRTA business
meeting. Can't make the luncheon? You
can join us around 12:45 PM for any month's program.
**April 10 (WEDNESDAY), 2024
Where: **Williams on The Lake**
787 Lafayette Road, Medina, Ohio
Prospective members are welcome to learn more about us by attending an event. We'd love you to join our Medina County Retired Teachers Association. But you do need a reservation.
Reservation Form: Please complete and send this form along with a check payable to MCRTA for $15.00 per person by April 1, 2024 (so we can call our reservations into Williams on the Lake) to:
JoAnne Zurell
2901 Hamlin Rd
Medina, Ohio 44256
330-723-2364
Name_________________________
Phone No.__________________ e-mail address _______________________
Please reserve ___ spaces
Amount enclosed______
($15.00/person, please do not send cash)
2024 TRIVIA
No April Trivia. . .Watch for your Trivia in 2024
Record your answer at the next meeting and place it in the bag to win a prize.
Good Luck!
October Trivia: In Watertown, Wisconsin, there is a plaque dated 1856 that commemorates America's first what?
Answer: America's first kindergarten
Winner: Sue McMullen
August Trivia: When was the Declaration of Independence actually signed?
Answer: August 2, 1776
Winner: Joellyn Leget
Trivia for June 2023:What famous company was founded by two brothers in 1923?
Answer: Disney Land
Winner: Sandy Smith
Trivia for April 2023: What famous game show host turns 100 this year?
Answer: Bob Barker
Winner: JoAnne Zurell
Trivia for October 2022: Who was Jacob Sapirstein?
Answer: founder of American Greetings Corp
Winner: Joellyn Leget
Trivia for August 2022: What Cleveland mayor was so unpopular that he wore a bullet-proof vest to throw out the first pitch
at a Cleveland Indians (now Guardians) game?
Answer: Dennis Kucinich
Winner: Bobbie Davis
Trivia for June 2022: Who coined the term 'Rock 'n' Roll'?
Answer: Alan Freed
Winner: Joellyn Leget
Trivia for April 2022: About how many flowers must a hive of honey bees visit to produce one pound of honey???
Answer: 2,000,000
Winner: Barb Woodman
Trivia for October 2021:What book was George W. Bush reading to a class of second graders
when he learned of the 911 attacks?
Answer: The Pet Goat
Winner: Liz Lapossy Klocek
Trivia for August 2021: Who was buried with a bottle of burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils, and a power saw?
Answer: Roald Dahl
Winner: Carol Klingel
Trivia for October: Where did the word "nerd" originate?
Answer: from Dr. Suess, "If I Ran the Zoo".
Winner: Sandy Smith (she's on a roll!
Trivia for August: Who was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey, a pack of cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, and $1 worth of dimes?
Answer: Frank Sinatra
Winner: Sandy Smith
Trivia for June: During the Civil War, which company supplied soap & candles for the Union Army?
Answer: Procter & Gamble
Winner: Joe Crisafull
EXTRA!! EXTRA!!!
Read All About It!
(Sunshine, Community Participation)
Looking for a "Sunshine" chairman . . . Interested???
Contact Liz ([email protected]) if you have information concerning members who have passed or their families.
Save the Date 2024
April: What is your verdict?
An interactive presentation featuring the MCRTA board members and you!
June: presentations by the 2024 Boomhower Award recipients. Find out what new in the
classroom!
August: Valuable or Not ?
Have your prized possessions evaluated by Evie Kidder.
Fund raiser for scholarship fund ($5/prized possession, 3 for $10, can submit pictures)
October: Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president in 1872.
This unique controversial Ohio woman is presented by Kathy Krause.