Family of Rotary

Sakuji Tanaka was the President of Rotary International in 2012-13. In addition to his Rotary Service, he served as the Chairman of the Daika Company and President of the National Household Papers Distribution Association of Japan. When Tanaka was President-Elect, he published “100 Hints on How to Strengthen Rotary Clubs.” Here, I offer ten of those hints. […]

Our 2026-2027 President-elect Roy More attended the Rotary Large Club Conference (LCC) in Dallas during the week of October 21. The LCC is an annual gathering of Presidents-elects and senior staffers from about 50 of the largest Rotary Clubs in the US and Canada. The purpose of the gathering is to share information and address […]

Rotary: History Moment Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars June 24, 2025 In giving my report last week of the Thank You the Club received from 95 year old past-President Russ Reister, I was reminded of Rotary International’s 66 year-old Ambassadorial Scholarship Program that sponsored students for undergraduate and graduate studies abroad, with the scholars serving as goodwill […]

Our club members brought red, white and blue balloons and colorful signs to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Saturday August 17 to welcome Tamaki Miura, our club’s exchange student from Japan.  The welcoming crew included Tamaki’s host family (Sara and Todd Maddock, Ashton and Ainsley), FanFan Zheng, Laura Valencia (former Rotary exchange student), Steve Ragsdale […]

On Sunday afternoon, April 14, the Rotaract Committee congratulated Nora Pasche, Simran Singh, Lian Do, and Chloe Valentino at Senior Sendoff and wished them well in their future endeavors.

Representatives from our club met recently with a visiting Rotarian Minal Goyal, President Palmville Rotary Club of Bangalore, India.  She is pictured here in a flag exchange with John Sepp and President Mark Foster.

US Ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, met and greeted 100 Rotarians, Rotaractors, Interactors and the general public at a reception sponsored by Rotary District 6380 and three Ann Arbor Rotary clubs. The informal Meet and Greet on March 27 was held at A2 SPARK. There was so much energy and buzz in the room generated […]

The June issue of the Ann Arbor Observer includes a general advertisement inviting readers to consider learning more about any or all of the eight Rotary clubs in Washtenaw County. Three are in Ann Arbor with one each in Chelsea, Dexter, Milan, Saline, and Ypsilanti. The ad is on page 9. Please feel free to […]

The latest issue of the weekly newsletter from the local Kiwanis Club notes that their Thrift Sale has been selected as one of Kiwanis International’s top ten Signature Projects in the world for clubs over 27 members. The final three will be announced on June 9 as part of Kiwanis International’s Annual Convention. Click here […]

April 25 is World Malaria Day and Rotary International, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Vision are hard at work implementing Rotary’s first Program of Scale, Partners for a Malaria Free Zambia.  This $6 million grant is training over 2,500 community health workers to diagnose and treat active malaria cases in their home […]