Yearly Archives: 2019

On January 23 President Greg read a Thank You note from the Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY).  Our Peace Committee funded one of their Fall Powwow’s primary speakers.  The following letter and photos were sent to us by RCAA member Toni Gupta’s daughter Megan, a member of ANAAY. — To the members of […]

Roger Fraser inspired the meeting with the 1980 New Year’s message from Sydney J. Harris, a writer for the Chicago Daily and later, the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Harris’ message is titled “Resolutions I’ll try to keep if you’ll try to make.” It was a sobering piece calling us to be clear eyed and humble.   […]

CALL TO ACTION: We are all Agents of Change Rotary Large Club Conference Long Beach 2019 The Long Beach Rotary Club gave a GIGANTIC welcome to the 117 participants representing 50 large Rotary clubs from across the nation.   Lori Walters, Executive Director, and Rosemarie Rowney, President Elect, represented Ann Arbor at the three day event […]

The Peace Committee brings to you an update from our Global Grant Scholar, Madi Vorva. She is studying to receive her MPhil in Environmental Policy at Cambridge University and has been active among various Rotary clubs in the area.  — Greetings from Cambridge! I wanted to wish you all season’s greetings and share some of my fall […]

 Do you love Independence Day? Parades? Throwing candy at your fellow Ann Arborites? Christie Bacon Wants YOU! To join her in planning the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor’s 2019 Ann Arbor Jaycee’s Fourth of July Parade appearance. We had a great turnout in 2018 and want to make an even bigger impact this year! Volunteer […]

President Greg rang the Rotary bell. All stood to sing a spirited “Star-Spangled Banner,” taking their tempo cues from our dashing, bowler-hatted Immediate Past President, John Ackenhusen. As the Anthem’s final notes faded into the ballroom firmament, Norma Sarkar came forward to deliver the Inspiration. “My message today has to do with Positive Aging,” she […]

CRACK Team now Forming: Like STRIVE, CRACK is an acronym. It stands for “ClubRunner Action Consortium for Knowledge.” ClubRunner (CR), our new cloud-based membership management software has been populated but now needs an elite team to apply the final touches and determine how best to roll it out to all the members in the Club. […]

Social Committee announces that this year’s Spring Fling will be at the Ypsilanti Heritage Car Museum in Ypsilanti on Sunday, May 12. Buffet will be catered by Sidetrack and beer and wine will be available. Watch for further details and make plans today to attend!!

From Jim Egerdal: Hi Fellow Readers, In case you missed it, there was a very interesting piece on NPR Morning Edition today entitled “Why Millions of Kids Can’t Read …” that I think you’ll find interesting.  The story is based on scientific research showing that reading and learning to read is not a natural process […]

Mary Avrakotas of IHPC will discuss a very successful Global Grant in Sierra Leone supported by RCAA and several other clubs at our lunch meeting on Wednesday, February 20th!  The project provided assistance with a project requested by local leaders in Sierra Leone to plant orchards which will supply income and support education.  The project […]