Lauren Heinonen

A signature undertaking of the Rotaract Committee each year is its Mentorship Program. An individual Rotaractor identifies an area of interest in which he or she would like input and guidance from a Rotarian knowledgeable or experienced in the field. Once a Rotaractor is paired with a Rotarian, there are no formal requirements going forward. […]

The “Each One, Bring One” campaign by 2021-22 Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta encourages every Rotarian to get non-Rotarians to visit us, learn more about us, and maybe even become a member or otherwise involved with Rotary. Don’t forget to talk about Rotary with your friends, family, coworkers, anyone! Invite them to one of our […]

Join the Rotary Road Waste Warriors for the club’s fall highway trash pick up scheduled for Saturday, October 2. The only date not conflicting with Michigan home football games. This years participants in groups of four will be assigned to less than a city block in length, on one side of the highway, to help […]

Over the past eighteen years of our annual event, the Golf and Tennis Outing (GTO), our club has raised over a half-million dollars for various local causes including scholarships for high school graduates, the local literacy and health initiative Washtenaw Success by 6, and the replacement of trees lost to disease. We are pleased to […]

The recent reports of violence and political turmoil in Afghanistan were disconcerting to all of us but especially to Rotarians who track polio eradication efforts.  Cases of the wild polio virus are now only found in two countries:  Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The number of cases in 2020 Afghanistan were 56.  There is only one wild […]

Music: Tom Strode, our piano virtuoso played the national anthem to begin the meeting. Inspiration:  Ryan Peterson asked us to put one word in the chat that we love about Ann Arbor. We live in a great community but our current reality makes it hard to have community. The power of community is so important […]

Past President Ashish Sarkar, along with our club and District 6380, were featured in the July issue of the Rotary Magazine for the incredible work on the Pandemic Relief for Detroit Global Grant that he spearheaded last year. Check it out on page 14 under “Friends in Need.”

During our June 30th weekly Zoom meeting, now Past-President Joanne Pierson presented to us her literal swan song. Watch it here or play below!

The new Rotary year began on July 1st, 2021, and with the new year we have some exciting new changes to our weekly newsletter. First, the name has changed from the Harpoon to the Ann Arbor Rotarian. Thanks to all members who submitted new name suggestions and cast votes for this new name earlier this year. Second, there […]

A song especially written by Marlena Studer and Steve Pierce to the tune of “I Got Rhythm” (“who could ask for anything more”) was celebration of our speaker and Boston. What talent we have in our club! President Joanne’s Report—full of news, as usual. As Joanne said, dear Al Storey levitated us all with his […]