Meeting Notes

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’, […]

  The November 29, 2023 meeting opened 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 to order.  Tom Strode led us in “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”.  Inspiration was provided by Shelley MacMillan who talked about how […]

President Mark rang the opening bell on a meeting packed with Rotarians and guests eager to hear our speaker Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor. Tom Strode tuned us up with God Bless America. Greg Stejskal honored our veterans and Thanksgiving, recounting some of the momentous events of 1863: the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation, the […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, November 15, 2023. On the final day of the month of October, our club had 217 Active Members. Attendance for October’s four meetings was 32% (down 8% from last month). The average attendance at each meeting was 70 members and 7 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for […]

Our meeting began today with the ringing of the bell and Tom Strode leading us in ‘America the Beautiful’.   Our inspirational  message was provided by Emily Conrady , who delighted us with a story in which a mourning son who always left flowers at his parent’s grave noticed the adjacent gravesite always looked ‘unattended’.  So, […]