Yearly Archives: 2023

On the final day of the month of November our club had 215 Active Members. Attendance for November’s three meetings was 37% (up 5% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 79 members and 7 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 59% (up 3% from last month). This month’s membership saw […]

President Mark rang in the last meeting of 2023 at 12:30. Tom Strode played our national anthem. Peg Talburtt read Edgar Guest’s poem “A Friend’s Greeting”. Joanne and Kathy Waugh stood in for Don Duquette and lead us in “Let There Be Peace On Earth”. President Mark thanked the people who make the meetings run […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor “Cocktails Among the Chrtistmas Trees” event was a great success!  Hosted by Bob and Victoria Buckler at their beautiful home, this was the final component of our annual fundraiser, the Golf and Pickleball Outing which supports NOT the Club operating budget, but our outreach to the community.  Here are […]

ARE YOU READY TO GO SOLAR? Ann Arbor set a record in 2023 for the most solar arrays installed in a single year. Most were done through the city’s Solarize Program. Solarize provides technical assistance and group buys, which saves you lots of money. Collectively they installed over 840 kilowatts of solar in 2023 resulting […]

*EAG will recycle your batteries, plastic bags, and printer cartridges for you.  Bring them to a Rotary meeting.  We’ll have bins and will see that these are properly recycled.  Thanks. *QUIZ FUN.  We received several requests for our December 13 Recycling Quiz. Here it is.  Try it on your family and friends. Check their plastic […]

 On this beautiful day in Ann Arbor, President Mark ‘rang the bell’ to start the meeting and Tom Strode led us in our National Anthem. With a nod to our special guests today (Huron HS Choir), Kathy Waugh’s inspirational message was about music.  Quoting Beethoven, who said that music is a higher revelation than all […]

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Rotaract is having a school supplies drive for preschoolers in Cameroon through the organization, Two Rabbits. The Rotaract Club would love to have RCAA members participate. To purchase school supplies purchase the items Click Here and have the items shipped to 815 N. Prospect Rd., Ypsilanti, MI 48198. For questions or confirmation of purchase, please […]

After a warm welcome from President Foster, Tom Strode led us in our patriotic song ‘America’ (My country, ‘tis of thee) . Today’s Inspirational comments were from Susan Shipman.  Susan said her husband is her inspiration for today’s message, as his common response to one’s complaining is ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get’, […]

CLIMATE CHANGE OPTIMISM Some of our nation’s top climate scientists are having strange feelings of optimism. Sure, we have an existential crisis, but the role of scientists is changing. They are not just warning of danger anymore. “We’re showing the way to safety. We have a better story to tell.” People are listening. They are […]