Dan Romanchik

Dear Rotary Members and Friends, In response to these extraordinary times, we must join together in extraordinary ways. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Board is mobilizing resources to focus on immediate and longer-term responses to the Covid 19 epidemic in our community. The International Humanitarian Projects Committee has been re-tasked as the newly-formed Disaster […]

 Almost all of us first heard about Zoom video conferencing since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, its deployment and use has skyrocketed as one way to offset the limitations placed on business activities and social interactions. As a testament to Zoom’s popularity, our virtual Wednesday meetings have enjoyed growing attendance to the point […]

HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Join Rotary, District 6380, in our goal of supplying 100,000 masks to first responders! You are doing what needs to be done by sheltering in place and observing social distancing.  You can do more with a donation to Rotary District 6380’s COVID-19 response.  Out initial goal is 100,000 masks, with the […]

Our Rotary Fighting Hunger Food Drive, in partnership with Food Gatherers, is chaired by Todd Kephart. Last year, Rotary raised $13,000 and food for 84,000 meals. This year’s goals were: $15,000 in cash and enough food for 90,000 meals. However, due to the closing of schools, the suspension of our Rotary lunch meetings, and general […]

We are now in unprecedented times, staying strong and safe as we fight off the global COVID-19 pandemic. If we stick together and help each other out, “We Can Do It!” Read more about how you can help in the community here. 

At 9:00am on Saturday, April 4, John White Zoomed into the regular weekly meeting of the District 6400 Passport Club. He learned of it earlier in the week on the Bruce Goldsen’s FaceBook page and was attracted by the announcement that the guest speaker was to be Valarie Wafer. Valarie is a Rotarian in Collingwood, […]

Unfortunately, it’s unseasonably quiet at the Rotary Centennial Playground at Gallup Park. Here is a photo from last Thursday (April 9th, 2020), the same day the State of Michigan extended its Stay-at-Home order through the end of April. Hopefully, all of us will adhere to the directions, remain well and stay safe until we can […]

No, “Memory” was not misspelled. “Membery” is a combination of “Memory” and “Member” and it leads to a look back on our club’s membership stats over the past few years. For example, we had 326 Active Rotarians on July 1, 2016. As of June 30 last year, we were down to 280. During those three […]

On Wednesday, March 25th, we hosted our first Zoom meeting in place of our Wednesday Luncheon meetings. The bell was rung, songs were sung, announcements were made, and discussions were had. Over 60 members joined our meeting. Check your email for details on upcoming meetings!  

The RI Bylaws require that districts and clubs be divided into 34 zones of approximately equal number of Rotarians. The Zone level falls in between the 530 districts and Rotary International. As you would suspect, the objective for the zones to contain equal numbers of Rotarians results in some large differences in geographic area. For […]