Waterloo Rotary Club

Congratulations to Allyson Landers from West High - she is our 2025 Most Valuable Volleyball Player!

Since 1936 the Waterloo Rotary Club has enjoyed the honor each year to celebrate outstanding performance by high school athletes in the city of Waterloo and surrounding areas. Area volleyball coaches choose their MVP's and then by ballot of all the coaches award the trophy for overall Most Valuable volleyball player. The winner is entitled to display the trophy at her school for the next twelve months.

https://waterloorotary.org/sitepage/high-school-volleyball-honors

JUST $400 LEFT TO RAISE - Our club is so close to raising all the funds needed to provide warm coats for kids in 6 Waterloo elementary schools - can you help us over the finish line? If you haven’t already donated please consider donating now to our Operation Warm project. Or if you have donated please consider making an additional donation. Donations can be brought to the club meeting today (November 11), or made through the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa’s website.

https://www.cfneia.org/giving/find-a-fund/17-k

First-grader Tyshon Harris has help from David Buck Nov 21 2011 MATTHEW PUTNEY Courier Photo Editor

As we celebrate our country's independence this week, remember our veterans played a major role across the globe securing freedoms for OTHER countries. Check out this great article by Pat Kinney about our longest-serving member Hovey Brom!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/rK7BiK3SBZEg2QFY/

Today on the blog, Czech historian interviews Iowa WWII vets at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum.

"Hovey Brom has never returned to Pilsen since helping to liberate it in World War II. But he left a key to his heart in that city in the Czech Republic.

A young Czech historian brought that “key” back to Brom this week - and unlocked a flood of emotion for the retired Waterloo architect.

”There’s no way to adequately describe getting into Pilsen,” Brom, who’ll turn 99 Nov. 5, told Kluc. “That remains in my head. And I…” He paused, his voice breaking.

”It’s hard to talk about it, because it’s, such joy,” Brom said.

Kluc, a doctoral candidate at Charles University in Prague who has family in Pilsen, said. “Thank you for liberating my country.”

Read the blog in its entirety: https://www.groutmuseumdistrict.org/about/news/czech-historian-interviews-iowa-wwii-vets.aspx