Meet Our Members

Have lunch with Brendan Chard on a gloomy day and you will be brightened by his many sunny smiles. Brendan is a hometown boy – Eberwhite, Slauson, Pioneer High and UofM. He spent his free time in high school at Sears where he was the helpful salesman in Men’s Clothing, Paint, Sporting Goods, and Lawn […]

In the News:  Lois Jelneck Wartburg College awarded the 2018 Alumni Citation Award to Lois Volkmann Jelneck, Class of “50.  Wartburg College is a selective liberal arts college located in Waverly, Iowa.  We are so proud to have Lois as a member of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor since 1993.  For more information about the […]

Biostatistics professor Mousumi Banerjee has made significant contributions to statistical methodology in the areas of machine learning, correlated data, survival analysis and competing risks. She also is a highly respected team scientist who collaborates with multiple clinical research groups to improve human health. Banerjee earned a Bachelor of Statistics degree and a master’s degree in […]

Our own Deborah VandenBroek has been named Interim Executive Director of the Legacy Land Conservancy.  Click here for more information.

Fellow Rotarian Libby Hines, Washtenaw County 15th District Judge, has been named as recipient of the 2018 William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, one of the highest judicial honors in the country. It will be presented on Nov. 15 by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. during a ceremony at the […]

This year’s theme is Be The Inspiration, as highlighted by Rotary International President Barry Rassin, and championed by our District Governor, Jane McManus. New Rotary member, Lauren Heinonen, certainly embodies inspiration. Here is her story: I graduated from the University of Michigan in the Spring of 2017 with a degree in Biological Anthropology and immediately […]

I first became aware of Rotary at the age of 6. My Dad, an Episcopal Priest, joined Rotary shortly after we moved to North Attleboro, MA in 1970. At this tender age I was taught “the Rotary song” which went something like this: R-O-T, A-R-Y, That spells ROTARY Rotary (genuflect) Rotary (genuflect) That spells ROTARY […]

Associate Director/Chief Administrator of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, and Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Member, Dawn Johnson, shares news on the Kelsey Museum- The walk to my office takes me through cases of artifacts holding stories of the past from ancient Greece, Rome, dynastic and Roman Egypt, and the […]

Toni is a familiar face, not only as the mother of a Junior Rotarian but also because she has been one of the mainstays of the Junior Rotarian program all year. This is only one of Toni’s volunteer activities in support of her three daughters. She is also a leading Dance Mom for daughter Madeleine’s […]

Katie Bauer is the brilliance behind the Tree Tag project for the current class of new members. She disavows bringing a thought out plan to the group, crediting a random thought seized upon by the other members. It was a great project that financed 100 trees, involved the Ypsilanti and Chelsea Clubs as well as […]