Dan Romanchik

Thank you to our Sponsors of the 2019 Golf & Tennis Outing. Because of your generous contributions, we were able to have a very successful event that will fund our giving throughout the next year. See below the ad that is published on page 26 of the October edition of the Ann Arbor Observer.

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on August 31 was 281 Active members, plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s four meetings was 30%. Average attendance at each meeting was 80 members plus 10 others. The […]

Our Community Allocations Committee has been bustling with activity lately! Peg Talburtt, RCAA Director of Community Service, volunteered this past week with our 2019 Grant recipient, Sweet Dreamzzz. Their mission is to improve children’s health, well-being, and academic performance by providing sleep education and bedtime essentials to economically disadvantaged students and their families. Their R.E.M. […]

As an extension of the Peace in the Streets conference happening on Oct 25-26 in Detroit and Windsor, the 2019 Max Mark-Cranbrook Peace Lectures & Peace Maker Awards will be taking place on Sunday, Oct 27, 10am-2pm. Past recipients of the award include Dr. Noam Chomsky, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Abigail Disney, among many other highly […]

A mere three years after its predecessor, our own Steve Kesler has published another book. And, as usual with Steve, its subject and scholarship are rock-solid. Titled Great Lakes Rocks: 4 Billion Years of Geologic History in the Great Lakes Region, Steve paints a sublime picture of the true founding of our state: born of […]

President Rosemarie rang the Rotary bell following a particularly beautiful prelude by Joan Knoertzer. Then Ed Hoffman stepped to the mic to deliver the Inspiration. In his usual effusively mawkish way, he put forth his case for books — even compared them to the old 50s bracelet charm with folded dollar inside as “that safety-in-a-box […]

This year’s Golf and Tennis Outing was a spectacular event. The weather was beautiful, with the crisp air perfectly fitting for a  September day in Michigan. We had 27 foursomes of golfers descend upon the lush greens of Travis Pointe golf course in the early afternoon and approximately 230 diners gather for an evening feast. […]

Five Armenian journalists, along with their interpreter and a representative of the State Department, are being hosted for a week by the Detroit Rotary Club. They are here associated with a US Library of Congress Program called Our World. The Program allows the professionals from the emerging Democracies to come to the US and learn […]

Please consider sharing the joy of Rotary with a friend, colleague, of neighbor and recommending them for membership in our Rotary Club. The deadline for recommending new members for the October class is Monday, September 9. To recommend a new member, you have to fill out the online Recommend a New Member form. If you […]

Join us at our District 6380’s Rotary One Summit. This year’s theme is The Amazing Power of Story. This event is only $20 (breakfast and a barbecue meal after the program included), and is suitable for family and friends to join as well. Click here to register and get more information.