Michael Field

Hello to our friends at the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, I hope this finds you all well, and your loved ones healthy during this difficult year. I just wanted to send a quick update related to our Youth Build, in which the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor supported with grant funding. We are pleased to […]

It was a great day to be a Rotarian at our Gallup Park gathering on Sunday, November 8. The weather was perfect (especially for November), the Rotary Centennial Universal Access Playground was packed with children and the new nature signs look terrific and engaging. Approximately fifty people came to the gathering including several of our […]

MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION HERE Mark this date on your calendar for an amazing presentation by Jennifer Jones! Jennifer is well qualified to lead Rotary International and will be the first female President of RI in 2022-2023! A current Rotary Foundation trustee, Jones has been a Rotary member since 1997 and has served Rotary as […]

The efforts of Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, among others, to raise money for food insecurity in Washtenaw County have been recognized in two recent articles. Meredith Bruckner of WDIV-TV has published an article featuring Todd Kephart, in particular.  Click here to read it. Martin Slagter has published a similar article in MLive.  Click here.

Who Is It? This Rotarian peddled the Saturday Evening Post in his neighborhood.  He recruited the customers, delivered the magazine, and collected monthly for the subscriptions.  His sales pitch was only slightly more sophisticated than “Wanna Buy the Saturday Evening Post?”  He hated selling, but collecting for the subscriptions was even more unpleasant and sometimes […]

Fun, colorful and educational too!  Six environmental education signs are now designed, fabricated and ready to install at the Universal Access Playground in Gallup Park. This project represents our final contribution to the UAP to celebrate our Centennial.  Sumedh Bahl, Rotary Project Manager, met with representatives of Flutter and Wow and the City of Ann […]

The Rotary Road Waste Warriors attacked the I-94 corridor between State St. and Platt Rd. during the Club’s inaugural participation in the State of Michigan Adopt-A-Highway Program. Twenty one enemies of roadway trash swept the area clean of fifty six bags of trash, car parts, pieces of tires, cell phones, clothing, and one computer tablet […]

Our own Lauren Heinonen, Director, Harpoon Editor, and co-founder of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Satellite Club, is featured in the August 2020 edition of The Rotarian magazine.  The feature addresses Lauren’s scientific orientation, her inspiration by the Rotary Four-Way Test, and her active involvement in so many parts of our Club’s activities.  See page […]

Rotarian Barbara Niels-May has been featured in the current issue of Brick Magazine.  Click here to reference the issue online.

Rotarian in the News – Yolanda Whiten: Yolanda joined our club in 2014 but has been very busy as President and CEO of the Ann Arbor Community Center and as a Pastor of the St. James AME Church in Brighton. In the latter role, she has become involved with WHMI, a local radio station, in […]