Member News

Dr. Tim Johnson said his involvement in Boy Scouting as a youth, prepared him to take on leadership roles as an adult, most recently as the chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Johnson will now use those leadership skills in his new role as President of the Southern Shores […]

Barbara Niess-May is featured in a story on MGoBlue.Com, “Why I’m Participating in the Big House 5K.” The 2018 Big House 5K will take place on Sunday, April 8 and will benefit six local, non-profit organizations that provide housing, healthcare, the arts, youth programming and social services. Barbara writes: I am a “later in life” runner, […]

by Paul Smith When the International Humanitarian Projects Committee let it be known a project to upgrade an orphanage in Kumasi, Ghana could not be completed because the existing building had so deteriorated it had to be razed and rebuilt,  Ann Arbor Rotarians came forward.  Ian Bund challenged us with a matching grant.  If we […]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE The Program Committee schedules a wide-variety of high-quality speakers reflecting both the interests of our members and the diversity of our community. Member surveys show that the lunch meeting is the single most important influencer of our members’ excitement about the club, and that the speaker is the single most important influencer of […]

Our Rotary club accomplishes its success through the work of its committees. We begin a series of articles for the Harpoon that describes the purpose, activities, and accomplishments of many of our club committees. In this way, we seek to publicize the vast, diverse accomplishments of our club. Each club committee reports to a club […]

Notes by Agnes Reading The dulcet notes of Moon River put the crowd in the mood for the program. Norma Sarkar’s Inspiration continued the theme with an essay from a young woman who left Seattle to settle along a beautiful river in Arkansas. She wrote about how floating in the river washed away the stress […]

As announced at the past two lunch meetings, an exchange student being hosted by the Ann Arbor North Rotary Club is in need of a host family starting March 1, due unexpected health pressures of the out-of-state parents of the current host. The student, Adela Buranova, is on the Huron High School Ladies Basketball team […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor embraces with love Collyer and Annie Smith, parents of Cam, who passed away unexpectedly last Friday.  While various arrangements are being made to free Collyer from club responsibilities, the most important thing is to let Past President Collyer know that we are all there for him and his wife […]

After Carolyn Grawi announced that she will be leaving her post as executive director of the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Ann Arbor Mayor (and Honorary Rotarian) Christopher Taylor honored her with a proclamation at the city council meeting. The Mayor proclaimed Jan. 8 to be known as “Carolyn Grawi Day” in the City […]

The January meeting takes place on Friday the 19th in the Board Conference Room in The Manor of Glacier Hills Senior Living Community (1200 Earhart Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105). Doors open at 9:45am for coffee and cookies, and the meeting runs from 10-11am. The guest speakers are Club member Joanne Pierson, Ph.D. and her […]