Meeting Notes

May 8th was a great day to be a Rotarian as RCAA presented the Robert S. Northrup Humanitarian Award to Dr. Robert H. Gilman MD, DMD. He is recognized for serving in multiple Rotary International areas of focus, including Disease Prevention and Treatment, Maternal and Child Health, and Basic Education and Literacy. As a practicing […]

Three distinct-sounding sighs were heard while coming to today’s meeting. The first – the sigh of students stuffing their dorm belongings into the family car – already wistful for their time so quickly passed as a student. The second – a parent’s sigh who, while happily anticipating their child being home for the summer, is […]

Starting May 15, the security process for RCAA zoom meetings will change. As you know, you now enter zoom and wait until you are admitted. This process requires a volunteer to constantly monitor Zoom. In order to simplify the process and eliminate a volunteer job, we will be changing to a password. You will find […]

On the final day of the month of March, our club had 211 Active Members. Attendance for March’s meetings was 52% (up 8% from last month). The average attendance at each meeting was 113 members and 9 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 63% (up 4% from last month). This month’s membership saw […]

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 […]