Dan Romanchik

Omari Rush named chair of Michigan arts council

Crain’s Detroit Business reports that Gov. Rick Snyder has appointed Ann Arbor Rotarian Omari Rush to chair the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. The 15-member council, appointed by the governor and housed within the Michigan Economic Development Corp., is charged with granting the state arts funding each year to arts and cultural groups […]

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John Barfield, 1927 – 2018

Revered Rotarian John Barfield passed away on January 3, just over a month short of his 91st birthday. Although he was a member of the Ypsilanti club, he was well known around our town and recently told his inspiring life story to us at our meeting at Glacier Hills on November 17. Viewing and services […]

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Board approves new humanitarian service award

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on November 30 was 313 Active Members plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. The Club’s average attendance in November was 41% for five meetings. The average attendance for the luncheons was 107 members plus […]

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NEW: Rotary Flash Surveys!

Fellow Rotarians, your Survey Committee is excited to announce a new survey format that is launching in January. Rather than one, more lengthy, annual survey in late spring, we are going to have a series of two question surveys (“Flash!” Surveys) through the months of January through March. We will continue to use Survey Monkey […]

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Welcome Ken Wilson

by Peter Brown Ken Wilson kind of fell into his business by doing something he enjoyed and was good at. Ken was working at a cell-phone company in his hometown of Youngstown when he started doing drawings for employees’ birthday cards. Then his boss asked him to put together a map of the company’s coverage […]

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