Pattie Katcher

President Mark Foster started the meeting with the customary Ringing of the Bell.  Our Patriotic Song today is ‘My Country Tis of Thee’, accompanied by Rick Ingram. Don Deatrick provided our inspirational message today and in line with today’s speaker (A2 Thrift Shop) spoke of the value of compassion and generosity when a community comes […]

On this lovely and breezy May day, President Mark Foster started our meeting with Ringing the Bell and Downs Herold lead us in our patriotic song, ‘America the Beautiful!’ Just in time for Memorial Day! Rick Jarzembowski provided our inspirational message today.  Also in honor of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, he gave a brief […]

Today’s meeting began with the Ringing of the Bell and Tom Strode leading us in our Patriotic Song. Our inspirational message today was from Doug Ziesemer. While thinking of recent political demonstrations and also of wars being waged right now, Doug wanted to remind us that there is good in the world, and gave the […]

President Mark began the meeting with Ringing the Bell and Tom Strode led us in ‘America the Beautiful’ as our patriotic song of the day. Dennis Burke provided our inspirational message today which was focused on how much as always seem to be in a rush.  With some recent warmer temps, even the flowers are […]

Today’s meeting began with the Ringing of the Bell and Tom Strode leading us in song to the National Anthem. The topic of our inspirational message today from Alexis Antracoli was about Spring and hope, beautifully illustrated by a poem of Emily Dickinson’s titled ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’. Shelley MacMillan led our musical […]

 On this beautiful day in Ann Arbor, President Mark ‘rang the bell’ to start the meeting and Tom Strode led us in our National Anthem. With a nod to our special guests today (Huron HS Choir), Kathy Waugh’s inspirational message was about music.  Quoting Beethoven, who said that music is a higher revelation than all […]

After a warm welcome from President Foster, Tom Strode led us in our patriotic song ‘America’ (My country, ‘tis of thee) . Today’s Inspirational comments were from Susan Shipman.  Susan said her husband is her inspiration for today’s message, as his common response to one’s complaining is ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get’, […]

Our meeting began today with the ringing of the bell and Tom Strode leading us in ‘America the Beautiful’.   Our inspirational  message was provided by Emily Conrady , who delighted us with a story in which a mourning son who always left flowers at his parent’s grave noticed the adjacent gravesite always looked ‘unattended’.  So, […]

Today’s meeting began with President Mark ringing the bell and Maestro Tom Strode leading us in our National Anthem.  Marelena Struder provided our words of inspiration today in the form of a beautiful poem titled ‘The Turtle’ by Mary Oliver, and reminding us that Mother Nature speaks to us without ever saying a word.   Having […]

After ringing the bell, today’s meeting started with singing our National Anthem accompanied by Tom Strode. Becky Pazkowski provided our inspirational comments today, quoting from a poem by Emerson about the true meaning of success and how that translates into what defines our club and what we do in Rotary. Rick Ingram lead the group […]