Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, March 16. Club membership on February 29 was 245 Active members. Attendance for the month’s four meetings was 31%. Average attendance at each meeting was 76 members plus 13 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 52%. The board discussed one resignation (Wendy Correll) and […]

Good day Fellow District 6380 Rotarians This years Rotary Convention is coming up fast and we need to have our Flights secured! June 4-8, 2022 will be the next Rotary International Convention in Houston, Texas I am asking you all to Register today to take advantage of the lower fees, make flight reservations to fly with me […]

“Photoshopped” was originally applied derisively to photographs with garishly vivid colors that had been obviously over-sharpened.  Before long, “photoshopped” was used to describe any photo processing whatsoever, implying that any processing was evil or, at best unethical. The truth of the matter is that every photo is edited.   The jpg that comes out of a […]

This week, I decided to join the club in the Anderson Room for the first time since before the renovation of the Student Union. It was familiar, but different at the same time. Kind of like “deja vu, all over again,” as Yogi Berra is purported to have said. One thing that was certainly different […]

John White interrupted the pre-meeting chatter with the Zoom etiquette announcements, and turned the meeting over to Tom Strode, who played God Bless America. Cyril White gave the Inspiration, talking about his grandmother, who with her husband and children, fled their town in Ukraine to escape the Soviet invasion at the beginning of WWII.  After […]

We’ve received a request for several individuals to help as tutors through the end of the school year (June 10th) in several schools.  The needs include: Math support for 5th graders at Pittsfield Elementary. Academic support for Kindergarteners at Bach Elementary. Reading, Writing and Math Support for 4th Graders at Burns Park. Classroom Support for K-5 […]

On Thursday, March 24th from 7-8pm on Zoom, Districts 6380, 6400, and 6600 will be hosting a seminar on “Tools & Skills for Critical Thinkers and Peacemakers in a Confusing Information Age.” This is part of a seminar series leading up to the Taking Action for Peace Conference taking place at the Michigan League on Sep […]

The Rotary membership engagement team (Marlena Studer, Sal Barbatano, Kate VanHorn and Kim Krahn) on Fri, Feb 25th kicked off the first of what will become a monthly event on the fourth Friday of every month at 4 o’clock in the afternoon.  All new members who joined since the beginning of the pandemic (2020) were […]

From a contrite John White: I was charged with playing Don Duquette’s “Return to the Union” video on Zoom as part of our luncheon meeting on March 2. It was the one he created for our earlier return on October 6 of last year. Despite some successful trial runs just before noon, the sound didn’t […]

Spring was in the air as Rotarians gathered online and in-person for the March 2 meeting. By the time the meeting got underway, online attendance was up to about 40, and it would eventually hit 60. As usual, discussion in the Zoom portion of the meeting was quite eclectic. Topics included: the decline of bowling […]