Meeting Notes

President Mark Foster rang the bell to open this meeting that welcomes four new members. Tom Strode tuned us up with The Star Spangled Banner. Kinnari Shah introduced us to The Guest House, a very thoughtful poem by the Indian poet Rumi. In his poem Rumi teaches us to embrace, rather than fight, whatever shows […]

Anticipating the today’s speaker, the full room of Rotarians was in happy and active voice visiting before the meeting.  A new (for us) hybrid meeting platform – streaming – was being tested, but sadly, there was no connectivity. We will need to wait another week for streaming to be ready for a test run. President […]

President Mark Foster rang the opening bell and Tom Strode accompanied us in The Star Spangled Banner. Kathy Waugh joined on Zoom and inspired us with thoughtful and encouraging remarks about artificial intelligence, noting that our task is to make AI a tool not to replace us but to augment us. In conclusion, she noted […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. On the final day of August, our club had 217 Active Members. The average attendance at each meeting was 90 members and 3 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 57% (up 10% from last month). We had no new members and […]

The September 6, 2023 meeting opened on Zoom (29 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room. At 12:32, President Foster called the meeting to order.  Tom Strode led us in “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”.  Inspiration was provided by Ryan Peterson who talked the transition into fall about embracing […]

President Mark rang the opening bell about ten minutes late due to UM’s internet issues. After Tom Strode played a patriotic song, Arthur Williams read a Hiam Ginott quote about the power of teachers. Anna Byberg invited us to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. A very enthusiastic Lori Walters thanked all the people who have pitched […]

The August 16, 2023 meeting opened on Zoom (24 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room. At 12:31, President Foster called the meeting to order.  Tom Strode led us in “America the Beautiful”. Inspiration was provided by Bob Buchanan who talked about the importance a smile.  Bob’s inspiration is […]

Our board of directors meeting was held on Wednesday, August 17, 2023. On the final day of the month of July our club had 217 Active Members. Attendance for the July’s two meetings was 32% (up 3% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting in July was 71 members and 2 guests. Our Engagement […]

President Mark Foster welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and introduced our pianist extraordinaire Tom Strode who led us all in singing My Country ’Tis of Thee. Rotary history doubles as inspirational welcome Downs Herold came to the podium to teach us six important words to recall: rotary wheel… woodruff key… new coin. He noted that […]

Today’s meeting began with President Mark ringing the bell and Maestro Tom Strode leading us in our National Anthem.  Marelena Struder provided our words of inspiration today in the form of a beautiful poem titled ‘The Turtle’ by Mary Oliver, and reminding us that Mother Nature speaks to us without ever saying a word.   Having […]