Member News

The University of Michigan Natural History Museum provided an enriching educational space for our new members to meet, mingle and get inspired about being Rotarians!  We enjoyed a docent-led tour that included a journey through four billion years of life on earth, a tour of Michigan’s geological history and coming face-to-face with Australopithecus sediba, a life-size sculptural […]

No, I’m not advocating murder.  Adolf has gotten into an intimate family photo, and you don’t want him there.  Checking the web persuades you that it takes just a few clicks if you just apply the right software.  Although the basic procedure is well defined, the difficulty of the process varies widely.   There are three […]

Our Club’s 2020-21 Annual Report from my virtual year as president is ready for reading, proving that the year really did happen. Pour yourself a cup of tea, coffee, or a nice glass of wine and sit down to read about all of the things that the members of RCAA accomplished while, mostly, never leaving […]

The March 16, 2022 meeting opened on Zoom and in person with social time including assessing Michigan’s chances in the basketball tournament.  Dawn Johnson provided Zoom etiquette guidelines to the virtual attendees. At 12:29, President Susan Froelich started the meeting by ringing the bell. Tom Strode led us in “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  Inspiration was provided […]

I sometimes get questions such as “My photo doesn’t look sharp.  How can I fix it?” Let’s look at reasons first.  Your photo may be out of focus, but that’s rare with the usual automatic focussing.  Camera shake is another possibility, but that’s easily recognized.  The principal reason for softish looking photos is elsewhere.  For […]

I am pleased to announce that Emily Olson has been hired to fill the position of Administrative/Financial Manager for RCAA. She will be working with outgoing Executive Director, Lori Walters, and RCAA volunteer leadership during the month of March for her initial training. Please find below, in her own words, a brief introduction to Emily, […]

During the next five weeks, starting on March 23rd, women Past Presidents of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor will return to speak to the Club. The schedule is: March 23- Patricia Garcia, Ingrid Sheldon and Nishta Bhatia March 30- Rosemarie Rowney April 13- Beth Fitzsimmons, Joanne Pierson and Karen Kerry April 20- Elaine Didier […]

“Photoshopped” was originally applied derisively to photographs with garishly vivid colors that had been obviously over-sharpened.  Before long, “photoshopped” was used to describe any photo processing whatsoever, implying that any processing was evil or, at best unethical. The truth of the matter is that every photo is edited.   The jpg that comes out of a […]

This week, I decided to join the club in the Anderson Room for the first time since before the renovation of the Student Union. It was familiar, but different at the same time. Kind of like “deja vu, all over again,” as Yogi Berra is purported to have said. One thing that was certainly different […]

John White interrupted the pre-meeting chatter with the Zoom etiquette announcements, and turned the meeting over to Tom Strode, who played God Bless America. Cyril White gave the Inspiration, talking about his grandmother, who with her husband and children, fled their town in Ukraine to escape the Soviet invasion at the beginning of WWII.  After […]