Yearly Archives: 2026

On Monday evening, October 19, 60 Rotarians and guests gathered at the Carlyle Grill to enjoy a meal and a story of past FBI operations by Rotarian (and storyteller) Greg Stejskal. The was one of the fundraisers offered at the Golf and Entertainment Outing in September, which was a great success.

As part of our ongoing RCAA strategic plan, we continue to identify opportunities and the need to strengthen our infrastructure and the Club’s guiding documents. This is one of the plan’s focus areas – Increase Our Ability to Adapt by streamlining governance, structure & process. A subset of the RCAA Board and Rotaract leadership (Rotaract […]

  Today’s meeting was called to order by President Roy and we sang our National Anthem as our patriotic song.   A total of 51 in person Rotarians and 13 Zoomers then proceeded to recite the 4-way test. As part of John Greden’s inspirational message today, he reflected on the fact that prior to becoming a […]

Send Hunger Packing: Help Us Pack 50,000 Meals Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 9:00 AM | Pioneer High School The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is gearing up for our 5th Annual Send Hunger Packing event, and we need your help to make it our biggest impact yet! Our goal is to recruit 200 volunteers […]

The club’s 5th annual food packing event is scheduled for Saturday, November 14 at 9:00 at Pioneer High School. The goal is to recruit 200 volunteers to package enough of one pot, rice and nutrition based meal packs to make 50,000 meals. The amount of food we can pack is directly related to amount of […]

It is time again for the Community Allocations Committee (CAC) to begin its grant review cycle for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. CAC, co-chaired by Marsha Chamberlin and Carolina Typaldos, is inviting returning members and new members alike to a kickoff meeting on Thursday, November 5th, at The Venue at 1919 South Industrial Highway, Ann Arbor. […]

Bill Gates recently published an update on the fight against polio. Click here to read it. https://www.gatesnotes.com/n6-things-you-should-know-on-world-polio-day

On the final day of the month our club had 195 Active Members. All membership information is pulled from ClubRunner statistics. Attendance for September’s meetings was 34% (up 7% from the previous month). Average attendance at each meeting was 67 members and 13 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 67% (up 22% from […]

Joy was in the air at today’s Club meeting for the 78 Rotarians, guests, and Zoomers. From the personal greetings at the door from Emily Olson and Leslie Pinney, to the Kathy Waugh-inspired inspirational welcome by Shelley MacMillan, and from the beautiful rendition of What a Wonderful Waugh, to the last ebullient notes of Gershwin’s […]

The Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan started up in 2000 and officially was chartered on January 18, 2005. It gets together each fall to celebrate its chartering by welcoming new students to membership. Charter Dinner this year will be at 7:00 P.M. on Monday, November 2, at the Knight’s Steakhouse location on Liberty […]