Meeting Notes

After President Mark rang the bell to begin our meeting, Maestro Tom Strode played our National Anthem. Our inspirational message today came from Victor Stoeffler who spoke about an inspirational man who enjoyed a successful baseball career in major leagues including the NY Yankees.  He was the Rookie of the Year, won a Golden Glove […]

The April 5 meeting got under way at 12:30pm. This is the first meeting for our new Club Administrator, Shari Faulhaber. Everyone is glad to have Tom Strode back as the Rotary Orchestra. He started us off with The Star Spangled Banner. District Governor Elect Collyer Smith shared his demanding DG Training schedule with us. […]

The Anderson Room buzzed with the happy, engaged conversation of the more than 70 Rotarians, along with 19 Rotarians seen chatting over zoom.   Director Dawn Johnson, multitasking in-person duties, also gave our zoomers a reminder of zoom etiquette just before President Mark rang the bell to start our meeting. Tom Strode, pianist extraordinaire looking quite […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. On the final day of February, our club had 230 Active Members. Attendance for the month’s three meetings was 39% (up 2% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 92 members and 8 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was […]

12:30 PM “Ring the Bell”  Today’s meeting started with the National Anthem as our patriotic song compliments of Tom Strode.  Our inspirational message today, about Spring, was from one of our newer members, Maggie Williams.  The name of this season was always called Spring.  Initially, the season was called Lent, with the association of the […]

Today’s meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by President Mark Ouimet, followed by Tom Strode’s playing of our patriotic song. Our inspiration message today was provided by Barb Eichmuller who read a poem about words and how impactful our words are in a number of ways, both good and bad.  She ended with a […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. On the final day of the month of January our club had 234 Active Members. Attendance for the month’s three meetings was 37% (up 9% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 84 members and 8 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for […]

In recognition of Millie Danielson’s 100th birthday, Ann Arbor Rotarians came out to celebrate – both in person in the Anderson Room and via zoom. President Mark rang the bell to officially start our meeting. Tom Strode, our Club’s masterful pianist, played our National Anthem. Greg Stejskal noted that the Boy Scouts were founded on […]

Today’s meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by Mark Ouimet with the Ringing of the Bell, and Tom Strode led us in the National Anthem.   Our inspirational message of the day was from Sara Maddock who noted that February is African American History Month and with that in mind read a moving passage […]

At 12:29, President Ouimet started the meeting and Tom Strode led us in our patriotic song with Rotarians joining in.  Inspiration was provided by Cyril White who quoted from Alexander the Great. Downs Herold led us in “Sing, Rotarians” to the tune of “On Wisconsin” accompanied by Tom Strode with the second song being “Sing […]