Member News

On the final day of the month of February our club had 216 Active Members. Attendance for February’s meetings was 44% (up 12% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 95 members and 15 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 59% (up 4% from last month). This month’s membership saw two […]

The room was abuzz with so many of our speaker Omari Rush’s friends and colleagues. President Mark Foster brought the meeting to order at 12:30 and Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Rosemarie Rowney told us how art, our speaker’s topic, can underscore how much more we are alike than we are […]

Starting this fall, our Ann Arbor Rotary Club will be hosting a teenager from Japan named Tamaki. This friendly, energetic teen will be welcomed into the home of Sara and Todd Maddock and will attend Pioneer High School.  More importantly, we will become her community of family and friends for the academic year she stays […]

Where can we get the EAG quizzes? Several Rotarians have asked. Here you are: P Plastic Recycling from Jan 2024 Water Quiz from Feb 2024 Compost Quiz March 2024 Do what you can.

THANK YOU, ROTARIANS! Participation in the EAG Recycling Project was huge. We recycled 35 pounds of batteries and about 45 printer cartridges, ranging from large laser-printer cartridges to tiny inkjet ones. Bags? OMG. We had 13 grocery bags of plastic single use bags and two garbage bags of bag. The staff at Recycle Ann Arbor’s […]

President Mark rang the bell and the Club stood singing our National Anthem. Kathy Waugh then came to the podium to read “My Creed,” by the people’s poet and Michigan’s poet laureate Edgar Guest, in honor of Dave Shipman’s birthday. We learned that Dave’s dad knew Guest. Joe Diederich donned his BLJ and instantly became […]

At the meeting of the Club’s Membership Committee on March 12, we decided to pursue consideration of a category of Corporate Memberships. The next step is to assemble an ad hoc committee. If you would like to be a part of this effort, please contact Doug Ziesemer (dfziesemer@aol.com) or John White (john.white@a2rotary.org). Thanks. For some […]

The EAG organized a Recycling Bins event to gather plastic grocery bags, printer cartridges, and batteries. This event ended on February 28th. During the event, many grocery bags and printer cartridges were collected, as well as 35 pounds of batteries.

Jim Miller, a dedicated Ann Arbor Rotarian for 38 years, passed away on February 16. A celebration of his life was held on February 27. Here’s a link to his obituary: https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/james-miller-obituary?id=54414762 On the following day at our weekly luncheon meeting, John White and Roy More shared some thoughts about their fellow Rotarian. Here is […]

  The February 28, 2024 meeting opened on Zoom (33 members on zoom) and in person at the University of Michigan’s Anderson Room.  Zoom etiquette was provided by Sara Maddock . At 12:29, President Elect Joyce Hunter called the meeting to order in President Foster’s absence.  Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration […]