Michael Field

Join with Rotary to promote the power of vaccines. During World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, join with Rotary to combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation by spreading the facts about why #VaccinesWork.With decades of experience fighting polio, Rotary plays a key role in informing people about the power and effectiveness of vaccines. As COVID-19 vaccines become more […]

It’s a pleasure and a privilege for me to help bestow Emeritus status on Bob Foster. It’s also a not-so-gentle reminder of where Bob and I are, chronologically, on a long life journey that we’ve shared for almost 50 years. Without making this too much about me rather than Bob, let me just say that […]

The weekly meeting of members and guests started with the usual virtual chit-chat among those arriving via Zoom. In an extension of last week’s program on University of Michigan’s growth and in anticipation of the day’s program, comments were made about the growth of the UM’s North Campus since its initial buildings in the 1950’s […]

Classifications of the Original Fifteen, Early Troublesome Problems, and a Horse… Imagine for a moment the resulting alchemy from the pooled talents and resources of a landlord, abstractor, attorney, business manager, clergyman, efficiency manager, editor, doctor, insurance broker, motor manufacturer, music manager, university secretary, farmer, banker and steel ball manufacturer. Such were the classifications of […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is participating in the State of Michigan Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program and will again clean-up the 2.1 mile stretch of I-94 from Platt Road to State Street. Signs identifying the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor as responsible for clean-up of that stretch of I-94 have been posted at […]

Now that the Disaster Relief Committee has completed its work of providing a quick community response to the pandemic, I want to take an opportunity to extend a very special thanks not only to the many donors who helped us to raise $61,792 for the Pandemic Response Fund, but the people who worked behind the […]

Well, how about this weather? Are you feeling cooped up, not at all motivated to exercise? Had enough Zoom meetings to last your entire lifetime?? Are you ready to enjoy, and embrace, why we live here? Then,,, let’s get outdoors, just for the fun of it, because,,,,, Last fall, our Mile A Day: E-Race the […]

Thank you to all the Rotarians and friends of Rotary who made it possible for RCAA to support the most vulnerable in our community. The Pandemic Response Fund allocated $61,793 to twelve non-profits in Washtenaw County to reduce the impact of COVID on vulnerable populations. Rotarians were on lockdown, but we found a way to […]

On January 6, Heather Eckner, Julie Picknell and Kate VanHorn were inducted into the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. Each of these new members brings experience, skills and enthusiasm to RCAA. Click on their names to read their profiles and be sure to introduce yourself when you see them at a ZOOM meeting, or send […]

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 […]