Dan Romanchik

On Thursday evening, your Rotary Club bowling team turned in its best performance of the year and bested the Not ADP team 35-5 to take the first place championship in the Ann Arbor Service Clubs Bowling League. The situation did not look all that rosy going into the match. Not ADP had overtaken our team […]

After signing “God Bless America,”Wendy Correll invited us to consider the thoughts of Gopal Krishna Sarangi on sustainability. Sarangi calls sustainability “a complex, daunting puzzle…tantalizing but elusive.” This is certainly a lesson that we would learn later from our speaker. Next up was Shelley McMillan, who also inspired us, but this time with song, as […]

After President Greg rang the bell, we launched into a rousing rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner accompanied by Tom Strode. In his inspiration, Eldon Beery reflected on how fortunate he was to have been a minister and to be able to help so many people, even if it was just a little. Downs Herold then […]

A great civic organization (the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor) marched in a great civic event (the JayCee’s Fourth of July Parade) on Wednesday, and the results were fantastic! Our marchers include Greg and Patricia Stejskal, Ashish and Norma Sarkar, Mary Avrokatos, Ed Wier, Ed Hoffman, Roger Fraser, Agnes and Jim Reading, Art Williams, Art […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the parade this year! Click here to see the parade report.

Excellent leadership is the key to successful service by our clubs to our communities and the world. Established in 1992, the mission of the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is to provide our clubs’ future leaders with the Rotary knowledge and leadership skills that will make them and their clubs more effective. Our RLI division is […]

Having seven year old twins has given Carolina Typaldos a “don’t worry, be happy” attitude as she sees two individuals with nearly identical inputs develop along different paths to become their own persons.   They have made her more relaxed and flexible, which was an important attribute in her former job as the Infusion Center […]

By John Ackenhusen Our club was quite visible at the Rotary District 6380 Conference of May 4 to 6, 2018, Ypsilanti Eagle Crest Marriott: Members Norma Sarkar, Rosemarie Rowney, Marcia Lane, and Beverly Seiford comprised the Speaker Committee, along with Assistant District Governor Anne Nauts; Members Don Deatrick, Barbara Eichmuller, Rosemarie Rowney, and Norma Sarkar […]

The ABC of Rotary (originally written by Past International President Cliff Dochterman) defines club services as “all of the activities necessary for Rotarians to perform to make their club function successfully.” As you can imagine, in a club our size, we need a lot of Rotarians to keep our club humming. Club service is the […]

By John Ackenhusen Although it is not imminent, our administrator John White has expressed the desire to retire, with the goal to be the end of our next Rotary year, i.e., June 30, 2019. Hence, we are beginning to explore new ways to get our paid administrative and financial services performed.  To that end, we […]