Janie Kluempers, assistant athletic trainer for Park University’s flagship Parkville Campus, served as the assistant athletic trainer for the USA Women’s Eagles Rugby team which played in the month-long Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in October 2022. Kluempers was featured in a Heart of America Athletic Conference interview segment on September 30, 2022. The link is below for that interview.
Janie Kluempers is a BOC certified and licensed Athletic Trainer in Missouri and begins her third year as assistant athletic trainer at Park University, she serves as the sports medicine specialist for the Pirates men's and women's basketball and baseball programs.
A graduate of Kansas State University, Kluempers has been involved with USA Rugby for a number of years, beginning in 2012, working with the Men's and Women's National Teams each year since beginning work with the organization. She also served for USA Rugby High School All-Americas (HSAA) and Eagle Impact Rugby Academy (EIRA).
At K-State, Kluempers was a student athletic trainer for women's tennis, cheerleading, track and field, women's rowing and football, as well as manger and first aid for K-State's club rugby team from 2009 to 2013. She is also BOC certified and liscensed in the State of Missouri.
A graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Kluempers resides in Johnson County, Kansas.
In case you haven't seen the recent news we have a new meeting room in the underground, the Watson Literacy Center. A map is provided in the link below.
The board is looking at a possible party on Sunday, January 8, 2023. Sandy Knoernschid is working on setting up a party for the first time in several years due to COVID.
One possibility would be a dinner at the Cafe Des Ames in Parkville. They have limited seating for only 40. The cost for the meal would be $50 +tax, tip and any adult beverages.
Please email Bob Stone at rd_stone@me.com with "yes" or "no" as soon as possible. If more than 40 members and guests are interested then either the first 40 will be able to attend or a change in location will need to be arranged.
Rotary International Conference
Melbourne, Australia!
Dear 6040 Rotarians-
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of attending my first Rotary International Convention in Houston.
It was amazing!
Meeting Rotarians from other part of our country and the world and listening to them share their Rotary experience was one of the most profound things I have encountered in my Rotary journey.
Not only did I make new friends and get reacquainted with Rotarians from the Philippines whom I have not seen since my GSE trip back in 2001, but I was able to bring ideas back to our district and share those ideas with Rotarians with specific project priorities. Projects addressing human trafficking, Alzheimer's therapies and better community engagement are now being implemented in our district thanks to International Convention.
Next year's convention is in late May in Melbourne Australia. The prospect of traveling that far for a week or so may sound daunting but it is totally worth it! You have no appreciation of the power of Rotary until you attend one of these events.
I am inviting you to join my wife and I at the Convention.
If you register before December 15th, you get $100 off your registration fee.
Please see attached and below from Annual Funds Chair, Jodi Sundaram, for exciting information about District 6040's matching points program and share with your club's members!
Rotary District 6040
2022-2023 Annual Fund Points Match Program
The first $500 contributed per member to the Annual Fund of the Rotary Foundation during the 2022-2023 Rotary year will be given a match of 500 D6040 Foundation Points to move you to Paul Harris Fellow status.
Period for matching begins on August 5th, 2022 and ends on December 31st, 2022.
Please email Jodi Sundaram atmaximpact.missouri@gmail.com once you have made a qualifying contribution so that we can be sure to properly match this with the 500 points.
In Rotary year 2018/2019 our club was 100% PHF members. This has been achieved many times throughout our club's history.
The Membership Committee has been hard at work putting together new membership forms! All members can access the forms by clicking on the blue box below which will take members to a dropbox link with the forms. Give these to potential members! The new spouse forms can be found here as well.
The following forms can be found in the link:
Standard Rotarian Membership Packet
Corporate Membership Packet
Spouse Membership Packet
Please submit the forms filled out to Dalyn Novak (dnovak@wskfarch.com) so she can get new member information added to ClubRunner after the board's approval!
