Saturday, July 31, 2021
Book Sale Status
No room, no room.
Wow! Our first Meeting in a Year!
Our picnic/meeting was held in Plover's Heritage Park. The weather was comfortable, the company wonderful. It was great to be able to socialize once again. A shout-out to Sherrilee for organizing the food. We were excited to learn of a great opportunity that the Historical Society has been offered.
An opportunity to expand Heritage Park and bring the Morgan House, listed on the National & State Registry of Historic Buildings, into Society ownership. This purchase would also include the entire block surrounding the Morgan House. With this addition the Park would be 'protected' from residential and commercial encroachment and own 4 of the 20 National & State Registered buildings/sites in Portage County Wisconsin.
The fundraising goal is $350,000 dollars, the projected selling price.
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Things Don't Change: American Fascism in the 40s
From Hullabaloo:
“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” — Vice President Henry A. Wallace, April 9, 1944.
Pfeifer resurfaces a pithy Frank (not Francis) Wilhoit quote that distills Wallace’s assessment to just over 20 words:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Membership Form 2021-2022
SPARTA Membership 2021-2022
Return this application and your dues to
Jan Langton, 2010 Aspen Lane, Plover, WI 54467
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SPARTA Dues
☐ I’m a new member. My first year is free!
☐ $12 annual
☐ $12 Associate annual
☐ $150 life
WREA Dues WREA dues are passed on to WREA. You can pay dues online at wrea.net or mail them to: WREA, 6405 Century Ave, Suite 201, Middleton, WI 53562.
Regular membership (retired teachers, current teachers, support staff, k-12, administrators, technical college and university.)
☐ $60 annual
☐ $165 three-year
☐ $1,000 life
Associate membership (spouses of members, other annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System, friends of education.)
☐ $40 annual
☐ $105 three-year
WREA and WEA are NOT the same organization. WREA’s main purpose is to protect the pension system and support public education. WEA is/was the union. Being a member of one doesn’t equate to being a member of the other. Many of us are life members of both.
Membership for 2021-2022
There is an early start to people paying their dues for the coming financial year. SPARTA dues remain at $12 and WREA dues at $60. If $60 sounds like a lot, just check out your pension checks from ETF. THAT'S what your $60 has brought to you.
These people are paid for the 2021-2022 year:
GRABOSKI | JENNIFER |
ANDAY | ANTON |
ANDAY | MARY BETH |
BICKFORD | SANTHA |
BLANCHE | DORIS |
CHEKOURAS | JOYCE |
CLEMENTI | BARBARA |
EGLE | MARY |
FEE | SUZANNE |
ISBERNER | LAUREN |
KASDORF | JERRY |
LANGTON | JANET |
LEA | CAROL |
MARTIN | CATHY |
MEZYK | NANCY |
MORELL | SHARON |
WALLERMAN | SHERRILEE |
WEISBROD | KATHLEEN |
WEISBROD |
|
ALLAR | BETTY |
BUSCH | KATHY |
HIGGINS | JANICE |
POKORNY | SUSAN |
SMITH | DAVID L |
WOTRUBA-POLSON | JOYCE |
SPANGENBERG |
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HOLDRIDGE | JOHN |
ERMATINGER | BETTY A |
GOSH | ANNETTE |
PEDERSON | DAVID |
RACKOW | ELBERT |
NEW!
LIFERS!
EMERITUS!
PAID AHEAD!
Website Neglect
It's been awhile. I deeply apologize. It's not that we haven't been busy with SPARTA stuff. In the last two months we've sold off much of our book inventory, moved the remainder to storage, moved bookcases to the Inclusa facility, and shut down our place at the children's museum.
It is true that I haven't been maintaining this site as it should be. The feeling from the Executive Board is that we should have a FaceBook page. We'll need someone to set this up and maintain it. If you know of anyone who would be interested, please contact Santha or me.
In the meantime, we hope to see you at the picnic on Monday, July 12 at Heritage Park.