Collyer Smith

Project in cooperation with a club in India Our IHPC was contacted by the incoming president of Rotary Club of Madras East, Chennai, India regarding a project for improving a school for girls with dyslexia.  This club has led numerous global grants and anticipates an additional three Global Grants this year which the club has […]

Kathy Barden–Perlberg’s Outreach Committee coordinated with Susan Smith, Chair of the Social Committee of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, to invite a group of about 30 Rotarians for shopping, lunch and a tour at KC on Saturday, August 4. Alan Burg gave a talk on the transition of the Thrift Sale from the downtown […]

This year’s theme is Be The Inspiration, as highlighted by Rotary International President Barry Rassin, and championed by our District Governor, Jane McManus. New Rotary member, Lauren Heinonen, certainly embodies inspiration. Here is her story: I graduated from the University of Michigan in the Spring of 2017 with a degree in Biological Anthropology and immediately […]

What’s up with Renovation of the Union:Work is underway. You can keep up by visiting the “Re-Union” website on occasion. Click here. <link to: https://uunions.umich.edu/reunion>> Let the G&TO Fundraising Begin! Two lucky Rotarians shared the three soccer game tickets gifted to us. They were sold at face value which resulted in $441 “kicking off” the […]

Ann Arborite, Madison Vorva is a 2017 graduate of Pomona College, where she majored in environmental analysis. At 16, she was honored as a United Nations “Forest Hero” for leading an eight-year campaign to get Girl Scouts USA to source responsible palm oil in its cookies. Partnering with Climate Advisers, the Packard Foundation and the Union of […]

I first became aware of Rotary at the age of 6. My Dad, an Episcopal Priest, joined Rotary shortly after we moved to North Attleboro, MA in 1970. At this tender age I was taught “the Rotary song” which went something like this: R-O-T, A-R-Y, That spells ROTARY Rotary (genuflect) Rotary (genuflect) That spells ROTARY […]

During my year as President, I was very proud how all the local clubs in Washtenaw county came together to respond to the Gates Foundation matching grant for Polio Plus in which every club had to pony up $2500, in addition to their regular obligations to TRF and RI. Not a stretch for us, but […]

Upcoming Event at the New Kiwanis Center! Come Shop Till You Drop at the New Kiwanis Center on August 4 with lunch at noon to hear why the downtown and west locations were combined into one 30,000 square foot THRIFT SALE. In the interest of providing Rotarians with something different to do together, the Social […]

Weekly Meeting Statistics: A total of 93 members witnessed the “changing of the guard” and heard from Michael Score on the Hantz Farm Project in Detroit. We also had one visiting Rotarian (B. Yawson of Ann Arbor North) and seven guests (including former club member Katherine Larson). In conjunction with the meeting, nine members of […]

Newly elected President of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, Greg Stejskal, just returned from a very inspirational Rotary International Convention in Toronto. He states he has become a re-inspired Rotarian- ready to tackle the new year!!   Greg writes: Having just attended the RI Convention in Toronto, I know that human trafficking which often involves […]