Monthly Archives: August 2019

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 […]

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 […]

Join us at our District 6380’s Rotary One Summit. This year’s theme is The Amazing Power of Story. This event is only $20 (breakfast and a barbecue meal after the program included), and is suitable for family and friends to join as well. Click here to register and get more information.

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Goeff Burns, our speaker on August 28, attended the 2006 Life Leadership Conference sponsored by Rotary District 6920. Beginning in 1949, it is the longest continually running Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program in the Rotary world. The Conference is held at the Kettunen Center in Tustin, Michigan, a small wooded campus designed especially for […]

The RCAA Satellite is now meeting in the Victors Room at the Pretzel Bell. We have three individuals committed to the Satellite, our goal is to establish the Satellite with 10 members. A special thanks to all the Rotarians that have made referrals to the Satellite and to the supportive Rotarians who have attended our […]