Irish Person of the Year 2024
DeeAnn Martin has been named as our 2024 Irish Person of the Year. Congratulations and well deserved, Dee!
DeeAnn Martin
Upon moving to the Madison area in 2015, Dee joined the Dane County Shamrock Club right away. Of Irish and Scottish descent, Dee jumped in with both feet, becoming Board Secretary, and later Trustee and Facebook Administrator. Dee shares her love of all things Irish with just about everyone, inviting others to join the DCSC, and you'll see Dee helping at all our major events. In her work life, Dee is a nationally certified professional American Sign Language / English interpreter. She works for Purple Communications, Inc., interpreting between people who are Deaf, and those who can hear, both over video and out in the community. Dee believes in communication access for all, and loves helping people who don't share a language understand one another. Dee loves Ireland, especially the people, and has visited three times (so far). Dee enjoys hiking, forest bathing, photography, traveling, and reading with her cat on her lap.
Congrats to Winners of Inaugural Essay Contest!
Thanks very much for those 4th and 5th graders that submitted essays for our essay contest!
The winning essay was written by Nia Jameson from Edgewood Campus School and the runner-up essay was written by Josephine Conti from Thoreau Elementary.
They will be named and honored at our club's Flag Raising Ceremony at the State Capitol on St. Patrick's Day at 12 noon.