Monthly Archives: April 2025

Our Club has over 50 Rotary Club Trading flags that have been gifted to us by visiting Rotarians.(usually we give them one of our flags in exchange)  Flag examples are the many that are located on the large flag banners that are on display each week at Rotary Meetings. We don’t have space to hang […]

President Joyce Hunter rang the opening bell at 12:30pm. Rotarians sang The Star Spangled Banner to Jody Tull’s accompaniment. Rosemarie Powney’s Inspiration urged us to “Join or Die”, noting that civic participation is critical to all aspects of our community life. Don Duquette recognized out speaker’s contribution to our young people and students and avoided […]

At St Andrews Church on Friday, April 25 Rotarians Bonita Singal, Dennis Burke, Nishta Bhatia and Don Duquette joined friends from Kiwanis, Zero Waste, the city and Recycle Ann Arbor for the annual Move Out collection of materials. (You can tell the Rotarians because they are the best looking ones. :>) )  

On Monday evening, April 13, the Rotaract Committee congratulated Claire Janssen and August Pasche at Senior Sendoff and wished them well in their future endeavors. Building on the success of Charter Dinner last December, this year’s celebration was held at Knight’s Steakhouse on Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor.

President Joyce Hunter called the meeting to order at 12:30, and we sang “America the Beautiful.” Michelle Deatrick then reminded us that 62 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a brilliant letter from the Birmingham, Alabama jail, where he was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. He was responding to […]

Above: Your Road Waste Warriors waged havoc on the trash strewn about I-94 between State St. and Platt Rd. From L to R (top row): Randle Kado, Downs Herold, Leo Shedden, Andrea Bastillo, and Bob Harrington. From L to R (bottom row): Don Duquette, Ed Johnson, Bonita Singal, and Dennis Burke. On Saturday, April 12, […]

On the final day of the month our club had 202 Active Members, according to ClubRunner statistics. Attendance for March’s meetings was 36% (down 5% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 71 members and 6 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 54% (down 6% from last month). March’s membership saw […]

The Population Healthy podcast is produced by the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health (SPH). The latest edition was recorded on April 11, 2025, and commemorated the anniversary of the April 12, 1955 announcement that the Salk polio vaccine was “safe, effective, and potent.” Podcasters Matt Boulton, Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health […]

Today’s meeting was called to order by President Joyce and our Patriotic song today was ‘America the Beautiful’. Today’s inspirational message was from Larry Gray.  With the inspiration of the book, ‘The Greatest Generation’ by Tom Brokaw, and the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 this year, Larry was inspired to give remarks of […]

The Northrup Award Selection Committee is pleased to announce that Linda Eastman has been named the recipient of the Robert S Northrup Humanitarian Award 2025 for her work in Guatemala with Casa Colibri and Reach Out and Read.  Christine Hage, Rochester Rotary Club submitted Linda’s nomination to the Selection Committee.  Multiple leaders from Rotary and Linda’s community provided glowing letters of […]