Dan Romanchik

Dave McDowell was born and raised in a small city in upstate New York in the “foothills of the Adirondacks.” Among his childhood memories is snow, a lot of it. He notes that since everyone lived within walking distance of the schools, there were no snow days, although he does remember piles at the end […]

Most of us know Jim Egerdal as one of our tech guys, but did you know that he raced catamarans most of his adult life, and only recently decided that catamaran racing is a younger man’s sport? He traded his catamaran for a 38-foot sailboat and now spends much of his summers exploring the Great […]

…that Mary Avrakotos was born in Egypt and has lived in Syria, South Africa, Burma (Myanmar), and what was Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia? The daughter of a Foreign Service Officer, she attended high school in Paris for three years and Holland for one year. After graduating from NYU, she worked at the Museum of African Art […]

After President Rosemarie rang the bell, we launched into a spirited rendition of “God Bless America.” Peg Talburtt then provided a Thanksgiving inspiration. She said that even though the first thing that comes to her mind when Thanksgiving is mentioned, is “eat, eat, eat,” there’s much more to the holiday. She treated us to a […]

On Wednesday, October 16th, we welcomed 16 new members to the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. See who they are below!

Please consider sharing the joy of Rotary with a friend, colleague, of neighbor and recommending them for membership in our Rotary Club. The deadline for recommending new members for the October class is Monday, September 9. To recommend a new member, you have to fill out the online Recommend a New Member form. If you […]

In recent years, we have been bombarded by reports that we don’t get enough sleep here in the U.S. The CDC, for example, estimates that 35% of adults don’t get enough sleep, and Fortune magazine has reported that the lack of sleep costs the United States more than $411 billion annually. If it’s that big […]

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that one of the best things my parents ever did for me and my brothers and sisters was to read to us when we were young and have lots of books around the house when we were old enough to read them on our own. That gave us […]

Anchored by DG Sparky’s RotaryMobile (see below), more than 20 Rotarians and family and friends marched in this year’s’ Ann Arbor’s Fourth of July parade. Our group included DG Sparky, his wife, and two members of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North. The goal was to highlight our work in Ann Arbor and around […]

I’ve been a member of the Michigan Theater for at least ten years now, and being a Gold Card member, I see a lot of movies. Over the years, I’ve run into many Rotarians there, who are also Michigan Theater members. That got me thinking that we should go see some movies together. I consulted […]