2025 SCHOLARSHIP
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
Our $2,000 scholarship will be open each year and we will be 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 at our luncheons waiting for your kind donations.
Please remember the little red cups make a big difference.
Thanks, friends.
All funds raised now will benefit our 2025-2026 winners. Your generosity is so appreciated.
Every year we honor generous donors at the Scholarship luncheon in August.
Extra-generous donor categories are:
$25 - Pewter
$50 - Copper
$100 - Bronze
$250 - Silver
$500 - Gold
$1000 - Platinium/Scholarship, honoring your contribution
All donations are tax deductible.
Make checks payable to MCRTA.
Send to:
Dena Rising
1034 Beechwood Drive
Medina, Ohio 44256
Save the dates:
APRIL 8, 2025
June 10, 2025
August 12, 2025
October 14, 2025
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: Williams on the Lake
(Middle building)
Program: To be announced
APRIL 8, 2025: V
Don’t miss out on the fun!
MCRTA opportunities- board openings for 2025: treasurer, sunshine, vice-president (president elect),
legislative, public relations (photographer???) Our board has such fun . . . won't you join us???!!!
Menu: APRIL 2025 : 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: Dana Rising, 1034 Beechwood Dr. Medina, Ohio 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 Medina 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).
Dena Rising (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_______________________________________________________________
October 2024: ***Fun raffle at our October meeting to benefit our Scholarship Fund
***Raffle Winner: Denise Harrison (donated half to Scholarship Fund)
***AMBA plant: Lu Greene
***Table cover/cupcakes(donated by Linda Crane): Katherine Barstow
***Yummy Peach preserves :Denise Steurer
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 8, 2025
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 $15.25 per person by March 29, 2025 (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______
($15.25/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 8, 2025
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 $15.25 per person by March 29, 2025 (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______
($15.25/person, please do not send cash)
APRIL 2025 Trivia
Watch for April!
Record your answer at the next meeting and place it in the bag to win a prize.
Good Luck!
October 2024 Trivia: What book was written that uses exactly 50 distinct words? And can you guess the author?
Answer: Green Eggs & Ham...Dr. Suess
Winner: Lu Greene
August Trivia 2024: WHICH CHILDREN'S BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY IAN FLEMING, CREATOR OF JAMES BOND?
Answer: Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang
Winner: Lu Greene
June 2024 Trivia: What board game was invented in 1948 for quarantined children?
Answer: Candyland
Winners: Amy Panchumarti, Joyelleyn Leget
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
Luncheon Greeter: Meredith Bush
(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 2025
April 8, 2025:
