John White

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued an Executive Order establishing the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State. The new agency would send trained American men and women to foreign nations to assist in development efforts. The link to the Michigan Union is that JFK was on its […]

Jack Weidenbach, former U-M Athletic Director and revered 35-year RCAA member, passed away on February 17, just shy of his 100th birthday. He joined our Club in 1972, sponsored by fellow U-M officials Russ Reister and Wilbur Pierpont. Jack resigned in 2007. He had a dedication to community service in addition to a long and […]

Rotarian Yolanda Whiten is the CEO of the Ann Arbor Community Center, a century-old nonprofit. The Center was recently selected by the U-M Credit Union (UMCU) as its Charity of Choice for the 2023 holiday season. On February 5, Yolanda accepted a $5,000 check from their Shop Local Give Local campaign. Late in the year, […]

The Membership Committee is embarking on a trial program to help members become more aware of the activities of the Club. Click here for a consolidated schedule of meetings, events, activities, and deadlines for February. This handy one-page document should be especially helpful to members who would like to become more involved since it includes dates […]