Club News

President Greg rang the Rotary bell. All stood to sing a spirited “Star-Spangled Banner,” taking their tempo cues from our dashing, bowler-hatted Immediate Past President, John Ackenhusen. As the Anthem’s final notes faded into the ballroom firmament, Norma Sarkar came forward to deliver the Inspiration. “My message today has to do with Positive Aging,” she […]

CRACK Team now Forming: Like STRIVE, CRACK is an acronym. It stands for “ClubRunner Action Consortium for Knowledge.” ClubRunner (CR), our new cloud-based membership management software has been populated but now needs an elite team to apply the final touches and determine how best to roll it out to all the members in the Club. […]

From Jim Egerdal: Hi Fellow Readers, In case you missed it, there was a very interesting piece on NPR Morning Edition today entitled “Why Millions of Kids Can’t Read …” that I think you’ll find interesting.  The story is based on scientific research showing that reading and learning to read is not a natural process […]

Mary Avrakotas of IHPC will discuss a very successful Global Grant in Sierra Leone supported by RCAA and several other clubs at our lunch meeting on Wednesday, February 20th!  The project provided assistance with a project requested by local leaders in Sierra Leone to plant orchards which will supply income and support education.  The project […]

The deadline for recommending member for this spring’s class is this Friday, February 8. To recommend a new member, you must fill out the membership recommendation form at https://www.a2rotary.org/current-members/forms-downloads/recommend-new-member/. The Membership Committee will be reviewing the recommendations at its February 13 meeting and passing them on to the board for final approval at the board’s February […]

Fourteen of the twenty tables seated bundled up Rotarians on January 30, the second coldest day in Ann Arbor in a generation. Don Devine rubbed it in with two songs, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, and Winter Wonderland. Let it Snow was written in 1945 by Sammy Cohn and Jule Styne…in […]

Sunday, January 27th is International Remembrance of the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were killed- for no other reason, than their religion. To put 6 million in perspective- you would need to combine the total number of deaths of the next 8 worldwide genocide atrocities together, to approximate the 6 million Jews that were […]

Grant Peterson, Assistant Head Coach of the University of Michigan Cheerleaders, and Mortgage Banker, was honored recently as The Jaycee Board Member of the Year. The Award was given by the Chapter’s President at their year end banquet for exceptional efforts. The Jaycees are a leadership training and civic organization for people between the ages […]

Rotary at Glacier Hills met Friday, January 18.  After an effusive welcome by Past President Ashish Sarkar, Al Storey informed us on the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, after which we stood to recite the Pledge in its present form. The Pledge was followed by a round robin introduction conducted by Burt Voss among […]

Summary of the Board of Directors Meeting January 16, 2019 The Board of Directors’ Meeting was held on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on December 31 was 286 Active members, plus six Honorary members and nine Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s three meetings was 34%. Average attendance […]