Monthly Archives: June 2024

The GPO Auction Team is asking Rotarians to donate items to the Silent Auction that are experiences, personal and unique items, exclusive handmade gifts, once-in-a-lifetime travel or home stays and sold out or hard to get unique group experiences. Hot VIP tickets to sporting events, concerts and shows are excellent. Dining and wine experiences are […]

On the final day of the month of May our club had 207 Active Members. Attendance for May’s meetings was 40% (down 15% from last month). The average attendance at each meeting was 85 members and 7 guests. Our monthly Engagement Ratio was 67% (up 2% from last month). ** Previous attendance numbers were unusually […]

President Mark rang the bell to start our meeting and pianist Jody Tull de Salis accompanied us on the piano as we sang America the Beautiful. In his inspirational welcome, Brandon Black shared that the message of the emancipation proclamation took 2-1/2 years to get through, yet the news of Willie Mays’ death was heard […]

The June 12, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom at 12:28 pm (23 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  The patriotic song was “America the Beautiful”. Steve Schramm provided today’s inspiration which related to today’s speaker and how joy can be brought into the workplace and how businesses need […]

A²ZERO Week starts this Sunday! Each year, the A2 Office of Sustainability and Innovations organizes A2ZERO Week to commemorate the passing of the A2ZERO plan and to celebrate the work done to promote climate sustainability. Check it out at a2gov.org/a2zeroweek. Lots to learn and enjoy this week.

There was a lot of chatter as we looked forward to greeting eight new members to the club. President Mark Foster rang the opening bell and Jody Tull deSalis did piano duty with My Country ’tis of Thee. Becky Pazkowski’s Inspiration celebrated June. Jim Irwin told us about enjoying his “Great Day to be a […]