Monthly Archives: March 2024

The March 27, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom 28 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  Zoom etiquette was provided by Leo Shedden. At 12:31, President Foster called the meeting.  Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration was provided by Ginny Leone who read Maya Angelou’s poem […]

On the final day of the month of February our club had 216 Active Members. Attendance for February’s meetings was 44% (up 12% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 95 members and 15 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 59% (up 4% from last month). This month’s membership saw two […]

The room was abuzz with so many of our speaker Omari Rush’s friends and colleagues. President Mark Foster brought the meeting to order at 12:30 and Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Rosemarie Rowney told us how art, our speaker’s topic, can underscore how much more we are alike than we are […]

It’s almost the time of year for our annual A2ZERO Spring FreeTree Giveaway! This year, the Giveaway will be taking place across two days and at three sites: Saturday, April 27th, from 10 am-3 pm at Leslie Science and Nature Center (1831 Traver Rd) Sunday, April 28th, from 10 am-5:30 pm at Tappan Middle School […]

Starting this fall, our Ann Arbor Rotary Club will be hosting a teenager from Japan named Tamaki. This friendly, energetic teen will be welcomed into the home of Sara and Todd Maddock and will attend Pioneer High School.  More importantly, we will become her community of family and friends for the academic year she stays […]

Where can we get the EAG quizzes? Several Rotarians have asked. Here you are: P Plastic Recycling from Jan 2024 Water Quiz from Feb 2024 Compost Quiz March 2024 Do what you can.

THANK YOU, ROTARIANS! Participation in the EAG Recycling Project was huge. We recycled 35 pounds of batteries and about 45 printer cartridges, ranging from large laser-printer cartridges to tiny inkjet ones. Bags? OMG. We had 13 grocery bags of plastic single use bags and two garbage bags of bag. The staff at Recycle Ann Arbor’s […]

President Mark rang the bell and the Club stood singing our National Anthem. Kathy Waugh then came to the podium to read “My Creed,” by the people’s poet and Michigan’s poet laureate Edgar Guest, in honor of Dave Shipman’s birthday. We learned that Dave’s dad knew Guest. Joe Diederich donned his BLJ and instantly became […]

At the meeting of the Club’s Membership Committee on March 12, we decided to pursue consideration of a category of Corporate Memberships. The next step is to assemble an ad hoc committee. If you would like to be a part of this effort, please contact Doug Ziesemer (dfziesemer@aol.com) or John White (john.white@a2rotary.org). Thanks. For some […]

President Mark began the meeting with Ringing the Bell and Tom Strode led us in ‘America the Beautiful’ as our patriotic song of the day. Dennis Burke provided our inspirational message today which was focused on how much as always seem to be in a rush.  With some recent warmer temps, even the flowers are […]