Member News

THE TOILET WARRIOR IS COMING! Mark Balla, Rotary Club of Box Hill in Australia, embraces the name Toilet Warrior and he is bringing his message of sanitation to DisCon2018. Mark has spent the last six years advocating for toilets in schools as a means of keeping adolescent girls in school to continue their education. He […]

My Rotary is a collection of stories about the Rotary experience, including the foundations of Rotary and our personal experiences of Rotary. If you have a story that you would like to contribute, email Dan Romanchik. The treasure of fellowship By Dan Romanchik When I first joined our Rotary Club, I was actually kind of […]

ByAshish Sarkar, Past President During my recent trip to India, I visited two Global Grant (GG) project sites.  These projects are co-sponsored jointly by several clubs in District 6380 and Detroit Rotary Club. The first project is in Hardaspur, a village near Pune, in Southern India. The goal is to enhance the neo-natal care unit […]

ROTARY FIGHTS SUMMER HUNGER! The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor has been partnering with our local food bank, Food Gatherers, for the past 13 years to fight hunger in Washtenaw County. Our food drive, called Rotary Fights Summer Hunger, helps lower income children who receive subsidized school lunches during the school year stay fed through […]

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 […]