Condensed from history.com. Click here for the full link. On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease is the only infectious disease afflicting humans that has officially been eradicated. Something similar to smallpox had ravaged humanity for thousands of years. In 1796, the English scientist Edward Jenner discovered […]
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The polio vaccine is “safe, effective, and potent.” With these words on April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, announced to the world that the Salk polio vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing paralytic polio. Dr. Francis […]
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New (plus not so new and even veteran) Rotarians are invited to attend a district-wide training session at the Brighton Community Center from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, November 9. Speakers will cover a wide range of valuable topics. The price is right (free) and includes a light breakfast and pizza lunch! Here’s the link […]
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Newish (not quite one year) Rotarian Alexis Antracoli was featured on page 27 in the September 2024 issue of the Ann Arbor Observer. Alexis is the Director of the U-M’s Bentley Historical Library. The article notes her undergraduate time at Boston University, PhD from Brandeis, and Master’s Degree from the U-M School of Information (2011) […]
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The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor bowling team enjoys camaraderie and bowling on Monday nights from September until April at Station 300 in Saline, Michigan. Bowling has always been a traditional club activity and the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor team has been in existence since the 1940s! While Rotarian bowlers strive to do their […]
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Recent figures from RI show a total of 36,530 Rotary Clubs with a total of 1,145,462 Active Rotarians. Thus, the average club has 31 members. The median is 25. At 202, our club ranks in the 99.8 percentile. We are 82nd in the world and 44th in the US. The big shift in recent years […]
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Your club’s Program Committee has been hard at work filling out our meeting schedule with speakers and programs designed to: • Excite and Entice (get potential attendees, and not just our own Rotarians, to want to come to meetings and events) • Enlighten, Educate, and/or Entertain (once in the room or on Zoom, give them […]
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Interested in checking out a committee at one of its meetings? Thinking about inviting a friend, colleague, family member, or prospective Rotarian to lunch on a Wednesday? How about just confirmation that April is Environmental Month on the Rotary calendar and that April 22 is both Earth Day and the birthday of Paul Harris? If […]
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At the meeting of the Club’s Membership Committee on March 12, we decided to pursue consideration of a category of Corporate Memberships. The next step is to assemble an ad hoc committee. If you would like to be a part of this effort, please contact Doug Ziesemer (dfziesemer@aol.com) or John White (john.white@a2rotary.org). Thanks. For some […]
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Jim Miller, a dedicated Ann Arbor Rotarian for 38 years, passed away on February 16. A celebration of his life was held on February 27. Here’s a link to his obituary: https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/james-miller-obituary?id=54414762 On the following day at our weekly luncheon meeting, John White and Roy More shared some thoughts about their fellow Rotarian. Here is […]
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