Member News

This year’s Golf and Tennis Outing was a spectacular event. The weather was beautiful, with the crisp air perfectly fitting for a  September day in Michigan. We had 27 foursomes of golfers descend upon the lush greens of Travis Pointe golf course in the early afternoon and approximately 230 diners gather for an evening feast. […]

The air is starting to feel crisper now that the football season is upon us. Soon leaves will start falling and, before you know it, winter will be here. Need help with your fall cleanup? Do you have other projects that could use some willing hands? Consider using Rent-A-Rotaractor. Our undergraduate Rotarians are available to […]

Five Armenian journalists, along with their interpreter and a representative of the State Department, are being hosted for a week by the Detroit Rotary Club. They are here associated with a US Library of Congress Program called Our World. The Program allows the professionals from the emerging Democracies to come to the US and learn […]

If you missed the Golf and Tennis Outing, or a couple of auction items, some of the great gifts are still available! 2 Haitian Rum Cakes $50.00 each 6 Mile High Apple Pies $50.00 each 12 Sunday Soiree spots: Cocktail Supper, Seven Hosts, Scrumptious Food, Beautiful Setting Sunday, September 29, 5-7pm, 161 Laurin Court $50.00 […]

Practice President Joanne Pierson clanged the very crowded meeting to order at 12:25pm. We sang The Star Spangled Banner. Matt Boylan reminded us to laugh. It has lots of health benefits, and is fun, too. We responded tentatively at first to Dave Keosaian’s rendition of The Judge’s Song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeoman of the Guards […]

Rotary Club of Ann Arbor members know the exuberance Ken Fischer brings to meetings, social events and life in general. It is therefore so fitting that Ken will be receiving the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Southern Shores Field Service Council, Boy Scouts of America. Ken, whose service as the President of the University Musical […]

Practice President Joanne Pierson called her first meeting to order at 12:25pm on National Bow Tie Day (seriously). Accompanied by Tom Strode, our bow tie devotee, we sang The Star Spangled Banner. Dave Keosaisan read a very moving piece from Carl Sagan. Sagan had asked that Voyager 1 take one last picture of Planet Earth […]

When President Rosemarie rang the Rotary bell, everyone in the packed Weber’s ballroom stood to sing “God Bless America.” Joan Knoertzer did a splendid job, as she had during the musical prelude. The stage was well-set for Past President Bob Buchanan’s stirring Inspiration. “Our speaker, Mike Ball, will talk to us about the role of music […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on July 31 was 282 Active members, plus six Honorary members and eight Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s four meetings was 29%. Average attendance at each meeting was 82 members plus 5 others. The […]

  Some of our more technologically-advanced members have been using the ClubRunner app on their smartphones to make a quick phone call to another member. What they find on occasion is that the number that comes up when they touch the phone icon shows a +7 country code. The country code for Russia is 7. Fear […]