Meeting Notes

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. On the final day of the month of September our club had 225 Active Members. Attendance for September’s three meetings was 26% (up 2% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 59 members and 3 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the […]

President Mark Ouimet started the Oct. 12, 2022 meeting with the traditional ringing of the bell, whereupon a full contingent of Club members meeting in person and an attentive group of Zooming Rotarians, sang “America the Beautiful.” The A2 Rotary Orchestra was led and performed by Tom Strode at the piano. Marcia Lane gave us […]

The October 5 meeting opened with a welcome problem – there were so many in attendance in the Anderson Room that we ran out of chairs! All Rotarians are invited to come to meetings and make this a regular occurrence. Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Barbara Neiss-May read an essay entitled […]

Our meeting was called to order at 12:30pm by President Mark Ouimet, and Tom Strode provided our national anthem for today’s patriotic song. Our inspirational message today was provided by Ryan Peterson.  Ryan spoke about ‘sitting’ in the tension of the near and the far.  Today, here in Ann Arbor (the near) we are comfortable; […]

12:28 Kathy Waugh reminded all attendees of the Zoom Etiquette.      12:29 Tom Strode played the “Star Spangled Banner” as the Patriotic Song. 12:33 For the weekly inspiration, Rotary member Rob Shiff shared a list of specifically inspiring, historical events all took place on September 21st, yet during different years. 12:36  As a musical inspiration, […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. On the final day of the month our club had 225 Active Members, plus 22 Emeriti and five pending Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s two meetings was 24% (down 2% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 55 members and 6 […]

The September 7, 2022 meeting opened on Zoom and at the Michigan Union with social time. At 12:29, President Ouimet started the meeting and expressed gratitude for the largest number of in-person attendees since the pandemic.  Tom Strode led us in “America (My Country ‘tis of Thee)”.  Inspiration was provided by Peg Talburt who provided […]

12:30 Emily Olson reminded all attendees of the Zoom Etiquette.      12:31 Tom Strode played the “Star Spangled Banner” as the Patriotic Song. 12:32 For the weekly inspiration, Rotary member Greg Stejskal shared a piece describing the current, tangible political division that the United States finds itself in as a country. He read the quote […]

President Mark Ouimet opened the meeting at 12:30 on the day UM students returned to campus. Tom Strode played America the Beautiful. President Mark honored Tom’s 30-year service playing our patriotic song and Steve Pierce serenaded him with “He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”. Michael Barg announced the birthdays, including Tom’s. Michael Barg’s Inspiration noted that […]

This week’s meeting was entirely on Zoom, as the Club shifts to a schedule of one meeting per month on Zoom while the remaining meetings of the month will be in hybrid format (Anderson Room & Zoom). Since we were all on Zoom, the meeting was called to order by President Mark using a ‘virtual’ […]