Yearly Archives: 2020

Our weekly meetings continue successfully, thanks to Zoom!  Prior to the start of the meeting, many members were online to share updates and socialize.  Eric Lipson shared all the great work being done by our club and UM to deliver medical and homemade masks to the community. At 12:30 p.m., President Rosemarie Rowney welcomed everyone.  […]

You’ve heard of the “Dream Team”… –  … but you have a lot better chance qualifying for the Club’s new “Zoom Team.” We are looking for members who have some experience with Zoom Videoconferencing and would like to share it with other Rotarians so more can participate in our luncheon meetings, committee functions, and even social […]

Dear Fellow Rotarians, As a club, we just completed our first five weeks of Zoom meetings and I think we can say we are on a roll (pun intended). Overall our attendance was consistent with our pre COVID-19 days. Here are the numbers. Our report to the District on April 30 was 284 members. Attendance […]

Christie Bacon is mentioned in an article in the Washington Post.  Her husband, and frequent Rotary Club of Ann Arbor speaker John U. Bacon had trained to run the Boston Marathon but instead created his own marathon here in Ann Arbor after the Boston event was cancelled.  He then contributed an entertaining story to the […]

Dr. Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, MSc, who has lately become the face of NBC News as their spokesperson for COVID 19 related issues, is a Rotary Scholar supported by our Rotary District 6380 and specifically supported by RCAA. Dr. Gupta (no relation of Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD who is the Chief Medical Correspondent of CNN […]

Until the latter 1950s, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the world, affecting over 35,000 persons per year in the U.S. alone. Families lived in fear while travel and commerce were sometimes affected. Field trials of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk began on April 26, 1954, eventually involving 1.8 million […]

The Disaster Response Committee is supplying free masks to any Rotarian or Rotary family member who requests one.* Contact Eric Lipson: ericlipson@gmail.com to order masks or have your masks delivered free of charge. The committee is obtaining both hand-made and commercial masks. Handmade masks are priceless. Please advise Eric if you can contribute hand-made masks to […]

Fellow Rotarians, Now is the time to support our community during these most challenging times. The Disaster Response Committee will solicit donations for the RCAA Pandemic Response Fund from May 1- May 31. These funds will be awarded through a grant process focused on TWO areas of need: Healthcare and Frontline worker support (PPE for […]

Last fall, the Rotaractors raised more than $3000 from Rent-A-Rotaractor to support their spring trip to Honduras and their other service projects. Fall cleanup projects are now a distant memory. Spring cleanup projects were upended by Covid-19, but “shelter in place” is beginning to be relaxed. Are there now landscaping projects on your horizon? Do you […]

President Rosemarie Rowney called our meeting to order at 12:39pm with an invitation to listen to Tom Strode play our Patriotic Song, the Star Spangled Banner. Lauren Heinonen gave us a quick introduction to Zoom etiquette and brought us up to speed on using it like pros! An inspirational quote was offered by Phil Klintworth, […]