Meeting Notes

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.’ […]

President Mark Foster rang the opening bell on a meeting packed with Rotarians and guests. Tom Strode played God Bless America to start us off. Ed Johnson shared some so familiar lines from Scottish poet Robert Burns whose memory is celebrated across the world on January 25. Elaborate, and raucous, Scottish dinners, including haggis, are […]

On the final day of the month of December, our club had 215 Active Members. Attendance for December’s meetings was 34% (down 3% from last month). The average attendance at each meeting was 75 members and 3 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 53% (down 6% from last month). This month’s membership saw […]

The Union’s Anderson Room was abuzz with lively conversation and laughter, warming up a particularly freezy breezy day.  President Mark called the meeting to order and pianist extraordinaire, Tom Strode, accompanied the club as we sang our National Anthem.  Sarah Strader then gave us a most-inspiring welcome.  With infant Jamie (sporting a natty Lion King […]

President Mark rang in the last meeting of 2023 at 12:30. Tom Strode played our national anthem. Peg Talburtt read Edgar Guest’s poem “A Friend’s Greeting”. Joanne and Kathy Waugh stood in for Don Duquette and lead us in “Let There Be Peace On Earth”. President Mark thanked the people who make the meetings run […]

 On this beautiful day in Ann Arbor, President Mark ‘rang the bell’ to start the meeting and Tom Strode led us in our National Anthem. With a nod to our special guests today (Huron HS Choir), Kathy Waugh’s inspirational message was about music.  Quoting Beethoven, who said that music is a higher revelation than all […]

After a warm welcome from President Foster, Tom Strode led us in our patriotic song ‘America’ (My country, ‘tis of thee) . Today’s Inspirational comments were from Susan Shipman.  Susan said her husband is her inspiration for today’s message, as his common response to one’s complaining is ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get’, […]