Club News

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 […]

The Community Allocations Committee is seeking grant applications from local non-profit organizations with a mission or project focused on Helping Kids Succeed. Please spread the word to the leadership at organizations that share our focus by letting them know about the Grants page located on the “How We Help” menu of our www.a2rotary.org website. Deadline […]

Leo Shedden, the leader of our STRIVE Mentor group, worked with Marissa Bailey-Johnson (Pathways counselor) in arranging to have the Pathways to Success seniors and the Ann Arbor Rotary Club mentors meet in groups of 2 students for about 10-15 minutes on November 9, 2018 and December 14, 2018. The purpose of these meetings was […]

The RCAA Peace Committee mission is to work locally and globally for peace, social justice, and the non-violent resolution of conflict.  To accomplish this, our 2018-19 Action Plan is divided into efforts relating to: Ø  Our Club Ø  Our Community Ø  Our Region (A “Tri-Rotary” Peace Initiative with Windsor, Detroit, and Ann Arbor area Clubs) […]

Fritz Seyferth opened our 2019 year at the January 9 meeting with a poem on Justice by Carley Buckner. Ingrid Sheldon lightened our mood leading us in singing three Smile songs. President Greg honored two very special Rotarians who we lost over the holidays. Art Holst, who was a Rotarian for 61 years, 17 of […]