Club News

Molly Dobson, a local philanthropist with ties to our Club, has been honored with the title of 2020 Woman of the Year by United Way of Washtenaw County. She was recognized by our club with a Distinguished Service Award (DSA) in 2010, an award which was also bestowed upon her late husband Bill, as well […]

Well, we have gained 43 more Community Service payments putting us at 98.  Wow, we still have a way to go!  We still need over 180 members to get their checks in!  Remember payment is easy on-line at https://www.a2rotary.org/donate/   Choose #1 for the Community Service Assessment (CSA) and #2 to make a voluntary donation to […]

Our historic meeting location, the Michigan Union, is planned to reopen on January 13, 2020. This will be following closure since May 2018 for an $85 million renovation. A special celebration will take place on that day. Read more here: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/12/michigan-union-to-reopen-on-jan-13-after-85m-renovation.html

(from the Rotary Weekly of Dec. 6): A special report prepared for Rotary International by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies estimated the value of Rotary member volunteer hours at $850 million a year. That Rotary members log a lot of volunteer hours should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the […]

December 4, 2019 The first hint that the 2019 Club Assembly meeting would be a bit different was when members selecting their name badges were each handed a numbered ticket stub. After the Assembly was called to order they learned that their ticket might match several drawn numbers making them a winner of numerous gift […]

A total of nine gathered in the lower level of the Pretzel Bell for the latest meeting of our Satellite club. In addition to Rotarians President Rosemarie, Don Deatrick, Ebru Misirli Mansfield, Paul Webb, and John White, we enjoyed the company of Austin Broda (a recent U-M Rotaractor now working in Dundee), Brian Mansfield (Ebru’s […]

Rotarian Joyce Hunter was installed as an Honorary Member of the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon meeting on November 25. The headline article in their subsequent newsletter recounted her accomplishments around the world and in our community over a long career. Apparently, the list was so long that the editor of the […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Rotary – Many of us are aware of, and maybe even involved in, the U-M’s major initiative in DEI but  did you know the Rotary International is also on board with this critical aspect of today’s most successful organizations? Here’s RI’s statement: “As a global network that strives to build […]

The following are highlights from November 2019 as reported by our Director of Community Service, Peg Talburtt.   *Big news! The new Co-Chairs of the 2020 Golf and Tennis Outing event are Charlie Koopmann and Greg Stejskal. The Committee has determined that the 2020 event will be moved to Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center […]

Early on the morning of Sunday, November 24th, only a few days away from Thanksgiving, a group of enthusiastic Rotarians arose and gathered at the Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan 5K Event. For those who are unfamiliar, Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a nation-wide after-school program for girls in grades 3-8 that, […]