Club News

Naren Bhatia was a familiar face before he rejoined the Club this Fall as he is the husband of Past President Nishta. You will find him one of the most interesting people you will ever meet, not only because of his life story but because he is a riveting story teller. Naren was born in […]

A bit of history from the desk of Past President John Ackenhusen; FOUNDING Rotary International was founded by a lawyer, Paul Harris, in 1905, as he gathered Chicago coal dealer Silvester Schiele, mining engineer Gustavus Loehr, and tailor Hiram Shorey, all gathering in Mr. Harris’ law office.  To the second meeting came the fifth Rotarian, […]

Captain Michael Field, USN (Ret.) After graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1966, Captain Field completed Navy pilot training, earning his Wings of God in 1968. He went on to complete 140 combat missions in the Vietnam war, flying the F-4 Phantom II from the decks of USS Enterprise and USS America,. Selected as […]

On a bright and sunny January 5th, a group of a dozen Rotarians from the Ann Arbor Rotary Club assembled at Mobility Worldwide in Milan to spend a few hours building mobility carts that will transform the lives of disabled people half a world away. After some brief training the group got to work and […]

District 6380 Newsletter for January This issue includes a New Year’s greeting from DG Jane McManus, a tribute to Art Holst and an article about the Action Plan being implemented by our club’s Peace Committee. A big part of the plan is co-sponsoring a “Peace in the Streets” event at Wayne State University on April […]

Joan Knoertzer’s lyrical piano captured perfectly the spirit of the season. For her prelude Joan played “What a Wonderful World,” then, with the Rotary bell rung, she launched into a beautiful “God Bless America,” the country’s number 1 choice should we ever adopt dual anthems. Victor Stoeffler kicked off the proceedings with his Inspiration: “Regardless […]

Harpoon for the week of Dec. 17 Weekly Meeting Statistics:A total of 101 members learned about education in Ypsilanti from Tim Wilson. We also had three Visiting Rotarians (Cindy Duggal of Windsor Ontario, ADG Ann Nauts of Chelsea and Ted Sanford of Coronado CA) and ten guests (mostly his former colleagues from Emerson School). In […]

Joanne Knoertzer’s White Christmas was no competition for the happily expectant chatter of Rotarians as we looked forward to the performance of the Huron a capella choir after the business meeting. Dennis Powers read the gift list of Oren Arnold, late Sunday editor of the Arizona Republic: To your enemy, forgiveness; To an opponent, tolerance; […]

(Remarks delivered by Karen Kerry on the occasion of Emeritus Status presentation to Pat Pooley.) Once upon a time there was a passionate woman whose intelligence and grace took her down many road/paths from her early roots in Allen Park, MI- an ethnically diverse neighborhood on the outskirts of Detroit. She is a Rotary member […]

Weekly Meeting Statistics: A total of 110 members were treated to the musical excellence of the Huron High Choir. We had one Visiting Rotarian (former Ann Arbor member Christina Ferris), seven U-M Rotaractors (Abbey Edwards, Savannah Demil, Kristi Carson, Peter Chen, Cem Sami, Luis Orozco and Ophelia Deng) and ten guests (mostly friends of awardee […]