Michael Field

Summary of the Board of Director’s Meeting March 21, 2018 The Board of Director’s Meeting was held Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the United Way Building. President John called the meeting to order and motions were made and approved to accept the Agenda and February Minutes. The Club’s membership on February 28 was 306 Active Members […]

Spring Break is over and Spring comes this weekend with Daylight Savings Time.  That means time for Spring Cleaning, and that means time to Rent A Rotaractor to help clean up yards and closets.  Rent monies go towards funding Rotaract projects, especially the Spring Trips that have meant so very much to Rotaractors these last […]

THE TOILET WARRIOR IS COMING! Mark Balla, Rotary Club of Box Hill in Australia, embraces the name Toilet Warrior and he is bringing his message of sanitation to DisCon2018. Mark has spent the last six years advocating for toilets in schools as a means of keeping adolescent girls in school to continue their education. He […]

by Paul Smith When the International Humanitarian Projects Committee let it be known a project to upgrade an orphanage in Kumasi, Ghana could not be completed because the existing building had so deteriorated it had to be razed and rebuilt,  Ann Arbor Rotarians came forward.  Ian Bund challenged us with a matching grant.  If we […]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Program Committee schedules a wide-variety of high-quality speakers reflecting both the interests of our members and the diversity of our community. Member surveys show that the lunch meeting is the single most important influencer of our members’ excitement about the club, and that the speaker is the single most important influencer of […]

Our Rotary club accomplishes its success through the work of its committees. We begin a series of articles for the Harpoon that describes the purpose, activities, and accomplishments of many of our club committees. In this way, we seek to publicize the vast, diverse accomplishments of our club. Each club committee reports to a club […]

Notes by Agnes Reading The dulcet notes of Moon River put the crowd in the mood for the program. Norma Sarkar’s Inspiration continued the theme with an essay from a young woman who left Seattle to settle along a beautiful river in Arkansas. She wrote about how floating in the river washed away the stress […]

To remain vital, a Rotary Club needs to continually recruit new members. Our club inducts new members twice a year—in March and October. The deadline for nominating new members to join us in March is fast approaching. New member nomination forms must be completed and submitted by Wednesday Feb 7th.   Now is the time […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor embraces with love Collyer and Annie Smith, parents of Cam, who passed away unexpectedly last Friday.  While various arrangements are being made to free Collyer from club responsibilities, the most important thing is to let Past President Collyer know that we are all there for him and his wife […]

After Carolyn Grawi announced that she will be leaving her post as executive director of the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Ann Arbor Mayor (and Honorary Rotarian) Christopher Taylor honored her with a proclamation at the city council meeting. The Mayor proclaimed Jan. 8 to be known as “Carolyn Grawi Day” in the City […]