Yearly Archives: 2019

Our Bylaws state that an Annual Meeting shall be held on the first Wednesday in December in each year to conduct the business of the club.  Our business in the first half of the meeting includes:   Election of Directors and Officers Approve Bylaw Changes – Emeritus Membership Ann Arbor Rotary Endowment – Report   […]

We were greeted with a slide show of our veterans – their recruiting pictures and pictures from their time in the service, and a current one. They all still look wonderful! President Rosemarie called the meeting to order and stepped aside for Michael Field’s very thoughtful inspiration. He examined what “Thank you for your service” […]

On Friday, November 8 Rotarians Karen Driggs and Ebru Misirli Mansfield joined Sally Petersen at the Michigan Chapter of Best Buddies International inaugural gala at the Gem Theater in Detroit. The gala was to celebrate the successful fundraising activities of 13 local Champions. Our own Sally Petersen was one of those Champions! Best Buddies is […]

President Rosemarie, no longer sporting purple hair, opened the meeting at 12:25pm. Don Duquette started the meeting with thoughtful words: “Today we celebrate our Rotary Foundation and the work that it does around the world. The task we set ourselves to is enormous. Service above Self. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. […]

Girls on the Run is a nation wide organization that helps the more than 200 local councils to organize young girls in 3rd through 8th grade to come out after school to participate in an enrichment and running program.  The program inspires self confidence, teaches life skills, and gets girls who may not have other […]

Christina Ferris, Development Director at the St. Louis Center in Chelsea, told the story of the sixty-year old organization to the members of the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Club at their luncheon meeting on November 4. Click here to read the article (and get a peek at what our partners-in-service-to-kids are up to).

Our Executive Director Lori Walters would like to remind you that we will not be having our weekly luncheon meetings on the week of Thanksgiving (Nov 27), Christmas (Dec 25), or New Year’s (Jan 1) — that leaves us with 9 more meetings at Weber’s before we return to the Michigan Union!

The annual Hire MI Vet career fair, which aims to help military veterans and their families find meaningful employment, was held Nov. 5 in the Morris Lawrence Building. The event is a joint effort of Hire MI Vet and Washtenaw Community College with the assistance of members of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. Our […]

  Rotary’s six areas of focus: After Kevin Kelly’s entertaining and enlightening presentation on The Rotary Foundation last week, it seems an appropriate time to refresh ourselves on the complete range of Rotary’s good work. You surely know about eradicating polio. It is, of course, our showcase effort but did you know that Rotary is […]

Our own Ken Fischer will be awarded a honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts during the University’s winter commencement on December 15 at Crisler Arena. His service as President of the University Musical Society from from 1987 to 2017 garnered him widespread recognition as a national leader in the arts. In 2015, President Obama […]