Member News

Elizabeth A. Nissen (aka Beth/Nis/Becky) died at home on January 7, 2025, three days after her 71st birthday. She was a veteran news, war, sports science, and arts correspondent who worked in network television with ABC News (“World News Tonight” and “Nightline”), cable news (CNN “NewsNight”), public television (WGBH “Nova Science Now”), online (CNN.com, NBCLearn.com), and […]

New Year Resolutions for 2025* New beginnings, fresh starts, reaffirmation of love and promises for a brighter future all come to mind as we ring in a New Year. There are the superficial, yet purposeful promises we make to ourselves. We resolve to get in shape, lose weight, improve career paths and the like. Then there […]

Condensed from history.com. Click here for the full link. On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease is the only infectious disease afflicting humans that has officially been eradicated. Something similar to smallpox had ravaged humanity for thousands of years. In 1796, the English scientist Edward Jenner discovered […]

Soo K. Eaker (Sponsors: Carolyn Hiatt and Kate VanHorn) Soo Kim Eaker was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the U.S. as a child. She was raised and lived most of her life in Houston, Texas. She earned a degree in MIS (Management Information Systems) and a Master’s in IT before spending six […]

The Rotaract Club at the University of Michigan started up in 2000 and officially was chartered on January 18, 2005. It gets together each fall to celebrate its chartering by welcoming new students to membership. On Tuesday evening, December 2, 21 Rotarians joined 12 Rotaractors at Knight’s On Liberty for this year’s iteration of this […]

The polio vaccine is “safe, effective, and potent.” With these words on April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, announced to the world that the Salk polio vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing paralytic polio. Dr. Francis […]

President Joyce Hunter rang the bell to bring the meeting to order at 12:30. We sang My Country tis of Thee, accompanied by Jody Tull. Arthur Williams read some meaningful quotes from Nelson Mandela. Dave Koesaian, dressed in his Hawiian shirt, led us in singing Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific. President Joyce introduced guests […]

RCAA member John Barrie is traveling to Guatemala to install solar power and water filters on the homes of families having babies and families with very young children. The region of Guatemala where John will be working is “beyond the last mile”, where tools and equipment must be carried by hand through the mountains to […]

Remarks by Joanne Pierson at our October 30, 2024 meeting: Millie Mack Danielson, our beautiful, beloved Millie, passed from our world three weeks ago today in her home with her family at her side at the age of 101 years young! I want to thank Millie’s children for sharing their mother with us all especially […]

New (plus not so new and even veteran) Rotarians are invited to attend a district-wide training session at the Brighton Community Center from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, November 9. Speakers will cover a wide range of valuable topics. The price is right (free) and includes a light breakfast and pizza lunch! Here’s the link […]