Meeting Notes

Please JOIN US ! LOVE LETTER TO MOTHER EARTH: A Fundraiser for Rotary Youth Exchange. Our talented musicians (Brandon Reeves, Steve Ragsdale, & Chris Ohmer) and vocalists (Angela Hench, Steve Pierce, Marlena Studer, Christina Morales Hemenway, Ashton & Ainsley Maddock) will share a sense of gratitude and love for our tender and fragile planet!  Heartwarming […]

The March 27, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom 28 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  Zoom etiquette was provided by Leo Shedden. At 12:31, President Foster called the meeting.  Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration was provided by Ginny Leone who read Maya Angelou’s poem […]

The room was abuzz with so many of our speaker Omari Rush’s friends and colleagues. President Mark Foster brought the meeting to order at 12:30 and Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Rosemarie Rowney told us how art, our speaker’s topic, can underscore how much more we are alike than we are […]

President Mark rang the bell and the Club stood singing our National Anthem. Kathy Waugh then came to the podium to read “My Creed,” by the people’s poet and Michigan’s poet laureate Edgar Guest, in honor of Dave Shipman’s birthday. We learned that Dave’s dad knew Guest. Joe Diederich donned his BLJ and instantly became […]

President Mark began the meeting with Ringing the Bell and Tom Strode led us in ‘America the Beautiful’ as our patriotic song of the day. Dennis Burke provided our inspirational message today which was focused on how much as always seem to be in a rush.  With some recent warmer temps, even the flowers are […]

  The February 28, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom (33 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  Zoom etiquette was provided by Sara Maddock . At 12:29, President Elect Joyce Hunter called the meeting to order in President Foster’s absence.  Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration […]

A full house at the Michigan Union’s Anderson Room, and 25 Zoom participants were part of today’s meeting.  After zoom etiquette from Ashok Natwa, President Mark Foster rang the bell and the meeting began.  Our pianist extraordinaire, Tom Strode, was unable to be at today’s meeting, so songleader Richard Ingram gave us the opening chord […]

On the final day of January, our club had 213 Active Members. Attendance for January’s meetings was 32% (down 2% from last month). The average attendance at each meeting was 69 members and 5 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 54% (up 1% from last month). This month’s membership saw two terminations: Fred […]

Today’s meeting began with the Ringing of the Bell and Tom Strode leading us in song to the National Anthem. The topic of our inspirational message today from Alexis Antracoli was about Spring and hope, beautifully illustrated by a poem of Emily Dickinson’s titled ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’. Shelley MacMillan led our musical […]

President Mark Foster rang the opening bell and Tom Strode played American the Beautiful. Greg Stejskal read several portions of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, reminding us that as a nation we have had difficult and painful times before and that the bonds of friendship and brotherhood can strengthen ‘the better angels of our nature.’ […]