Club News

Join the Rotary Road Waste Warriors for the club’s spring highway trash pickup scheduled for Saturday, April 23 and be a part of District 6380’s Environmental Work Day. Participants in groups of four will be assigned to less than a city block in length, on one side of the highway (I-94 between State and Platt), to […]

With 46 of us gathering via zoom and 46 of us meeting in person at the Anderson Room at the Michigan Union, President Susan rang the bell. We all sang the Star-Spangled Banner as Tom Strode played the piano. Bob Buchanan gave our welcoming inspiration message by saying: “All of us are distraught, disgusted over […]

No, I’m not advocating murder.  Adolf has gotten into an intimate family photo, and you don’t want him there.  Checking the web persuades you that it takes just a few clicks if you just apply the right software.  Although the basic procedure is well defined, the difficulty of the process varies widely.   There are three […]

Our Club’s 2020-21 Annual Report from my virtual year as president is ready for reading, proving that the year really did happen. Pour yourself a cup of tea, coffee, or a nice glass of wine and sit down to read about all of the things that the members of RCAA accomplished while, mostly, never leaving […]

The March 16, 2022 meeting opened on Zoom and in person with social time including assessing Michigan’s chances in the basketball tournament.  Dawn Johnson provided Zoom etiquette guidelines to the virtual attendees. At 12:29, President Susan Froelich started the meeting by ringing the bell. Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration was provided […]

I am pleased to announce that Emily Olson has been hired to fill the position of Administrative/Financial Manager for RCAA. She will be working with outgoing Executive Director, Lori Walters, and RCAA volunteer leadership during the month of March for her initial training. Please find below, in her own words, a brief introduction to Emily, […]

During the next five weeks, starting on March 23rd, women Past Presidents of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor will return to speak to the Club. The schedule is: March 23- Patricia Garcia, Ingrid Sheldon and Nishta Bhatia March 30- Rosemarie Rowney April 13- Beth Fitzsimmons, Joanne Pierson and Karen Kerry April 20- Elaine Didier […]

Good day Fellow District 6380 Rotarians This years Rotary Convention is coming up fast and we need to have our Flights secured! June 4-8, 2022 will be the next Rotary International Convention in Houston, Texas I am asking you all to Register today to take advantage of the lower fees, make flight reservations to fly with me […]

“Photoshopped” was originally applied derisively to photographs with garishly vivid colors that had been obviously over-sharpened.  Before long, “photoshopped” was used to describe any photo processing whatsoever, implying that any processing was evil or, at best unethical. The truth of the matter is that every photo is edited.   The jpg that comes out of a […]

This week, I decided to join the club in the Anderson Room for the first time since before the renovation of the Student Union. It was familiar, but different at the same time. Kind of like “deja vu, all over again,” as Yogi Berra is purported to have said. One thing that was certainly different […]