Monthly Archives: November 2019

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, November 20 at the United Way Building. Club membership on October 31 was 288 Active members, plus six Honorary members and five Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s five meetings was 30%. Average attendance at each meeting was 87 members plus six others. Our Engagement Ratio […]

Hello Rotarians! A new directory is in the works for those members who wish to have a paper copy. If you have had a change of address, email, phone number or any other pertinent information changes, it would be great if you could share that information with Lori at executivedirector@a2rotary.org. This data will also help […]

The following are highlights from November 2019 as reported by our Director of Community Service, Peg Talburtt.   *Big news! The new Co-Chairs of the 2020 Golf and Tennis Outing event are Charlie Koopmann and Greg Stejskal. The Committee has determined that the 2020 event will be moved to Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center […]

Early on the morning of Sunday, November 24th, only a few days away from Thanksgiving, a group of enthusiastic Rotarians arose and gathered at the Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan 5K Event. For those who are unfamiliar, Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a nation-wide after-school program for girls in grades 3-8 that, […]

If you missed it on the morning of Monday, November 25th, you can now listen online to WEMU’s interview of Bob Mull on the VITA Tax Clinic. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor supports this organization annually, and many of our members also volunteer at VITA. Click here to read the article and listen online: […]

The annual 1-2-3 bills are coming soon. Number 3 invites you to donate to The Rotary Foundation (TRF) toward Every Rotarian, Every Year” and/or PolioPlus. When you make a donation to TRF, you are helping Rotary make a difference in the lives of millions of people around the world. Here are five reasons to respond […]

A day after the stirring presentations by two of our “Service Above Self” scholarship awardees, President Rosemarie, VP Joanne, and John White attended the annual luncheon at WCC. Also noted among the several hundred attendees were Susan Smith Gray, Ann Schriber and Collyer Smith. Collyer and Annie were recognized for establishing a scholarship in the […]

Dopp Kits For Veterans at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System  Rotary Club of Ann Arbor and Thomson Reuters are collaborating on a project to bring 100 kits of personal hygiene items (“Dopp Kits”) to  deserving veterans at the VA Facility in Ann Arbor. Specific items needed are pocket-size Kleenex and Chap Sticks. The items must […]

A Public Service Announcement ​The Ann Arbor Citizens Academy (A2CA) is returning for a third year in 2020 to provide a broad view of local government for Ann Arbor residents. During a series of nine weekly sessions, from Wednesday, Jan. 22 to Wednesday, March 18, 6:30–9 p.m., participants will connect with city staff and officials […]

Your Program Committee has been working hard to schedule a diverse slate of speakers for 2020. Thanks to the excellent nominations that you have submitted this fall, more than half the available slots through the end of March are already filled. We therefore are pausing scheduling additional speakers. We encourage and welcome speaker nominations at […]