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Rotary International Annual Report 2016-2017 RI has recently released its Annual Report for the 2016-2017 Rotary Year. You can click here [https://www.rotary.org/en/annual-report-2017] to see entire report but here are a few highlights: Rotary by the numbers: 35,656 Rotary clubs 883 new Rotary clubs 1,202,937 Rotarians worldwide 241,408 estimated Rotaractors (ages 18-30) 508,185 estimated Interactors (ages […]

Year-end Review- What’s your Rotary Score?            A quick review of the on-line 2016-17 Annual Report (add the link) makes it very clear the Club had a Very Good Year! But as Board members have discovered while keeping the club leadership chart populated, there have been frequent examples of the old saw of “20% doing […]

Harpoon Notes for December 13, 2017 By Ed Hoffman A soothing musical prelude wafted through the Anderson Room as members and guests amiably discussed the current news, politics, our speaker’s topic, or nothing in particular. One thing was certain, though: everybody was happy in such company. Jody Tull deSalis came forward for the Inspiration. “There’s […]

Christie Bacon grew up in Ann Arbor (Go Blue! Go Rats!), then moved to Chicago to begin her professional career, where she earned an MS in Public Service Management from DePaul University. She lived in Chicago for ten years, working for several organizations, including Business Partners: The Chamber for Uptown and the American Bar Association. […]

BOB MULL The United Way of Washtenaw County selected Bob as its 2017 Volunteer of the Year. Bob started helping people with taxes in 2010 and first organized a tax clinic at United Way in 2012. Since then, he has been an integral part of United Way of Washtenaw County’s VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) […]

As part of his recent visit to the Honolulu club, Ian Bund was given a handout with the eight principles of the Rotary Code of Conduct. Even though it is printed in each Rotarian magazine along with the Four-way Test, our Motto and the Object of Rotary, he thought it was worth repeating here: As […]

Nine hardy Rotarians and guests braved the blizzard to meet at The Session Room on Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, on the afternoon of December 13, 2017. As shown in the picture, attending were (from left) Joan Knoertzer, Karen Driggs, Fernando Ortiz (guest at noon meeting of Dallas Dort), Ruthie Ackenhusen, Steve Pierce, John Ackenhusen, Annie […]

by Peter Brown Ken Wilson kind of fell into his business by doing something he enjoyed and was good at. Ken was working at a cell-phone company in his hometown of Youngstown when he started doing drawings for employees’ birthday cards. Then his boss asked him to put together a map of the company’s coverage […]

Tom Strode opened the proceedings with a lovely piano prelude, followed by the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A packed Anderson Room rose swiftly to belt out a particularly fine rendition of our national anthem. Inspiration Ruthie Ackenhusen came to the podium and delivered an emotional recital of the poem, “Just a Common Soldier,” A. Lawrence Vaincourt’s […]

Interact Day 2017 was held on November 11, 2017 at Rochester High School. This year Pioneer High School Interact Club was represented at the event by Ethan Mielock, Lena Lee, Lukas Johnson, and Amelia Costanzo. Rotary liaison Ed Wier also attended with the students. Unfortunately, Huron High Interacters were unable to attend this year. One […]