Yearly Archives: 2025

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 […]

The Membership Committee was pleased to introduce four new members plus returning member Roger Fraser at the April 2 lunch meeting. As a reminder, when you see someone with a yellow ribbon, please introduce yourself and get to know them. Kelly Doonan-Reed (Sponsors: Kathy Waugh and Laurie Atwood) Kelly is a dedicated information technology professional […]

The 70th anniversary of the announcement that the Salk polio vaccine was “Safe, effective, and potent” is Saturday, April 12. The announcement was made in Ann Arbor by Thomas Francis of the U-M’s School of Public Health. Here’s a link to the original press release: https://sph.umich.edu/polio/ On Friday, April 11, 2025, the School will be […]

It was a cold and rainy Wednesday afternoon when President Joyce Hunter rang the bell to bring our meeting to order. Pianist extraordinaire Jody Tull de Salis led us in My Country ’Tis of Thee, and then, via zoom, Becky Pazkowski gave our welcoming inspiration, “Do It Anyway,” a poem of Mother Theresa. Do it […]