Member News

Our weekly newsletter, the Harpoon, dates back to our club’s beginnings in 1916. Though it has evolved over the years, from being   a single type-written page, mailed to each member’s home (click here to read more history on the Harpoon), to its current email version appearing in every member’s inbox each week, the newsletter’s important […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, January 20 via Zoom. Club membership on December 31 was 254 Active members, plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s three meetings was 38%. Average attendance at each meeting was 97 members plus 25 others. Our Engagement Ratio for the month […]

Executive Director Lori Walters shut down a lively conversation to make a couple of announcements.  Please pay your Community Service Assessment if you have not done it.  Here is the link:  a2rotary.org/donate.  And she gave a few reminders about Zoom etiquette. Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Christina Ferris lit a candle […]

On January 6, Heather Eckner, Julie Picknell and Kate VanHorn were inducted into the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. Each of these new members brings experience, skills and enthusiasm to RCAA. Click on their names to read their profiles and be sure to introduce yourself when you see them at a ZOOM meeting, or send […]

A lively group of Rotarians gathered on the Zoom call between noon and 12:30PM to check in and socialize. At 12:27, Lori Walters provided the “Zoom Etiquette” for members. At 12:30, President Joanne rang the bell to start the official meeting and introduced Tom Strode on the piano with our National Anthem. Barbara Eichmuller provided […]

“Service Above Self” would be a cumbersome middle name but Yolanda Whiten is one Rotarian who can handle it with aplomb. Already, she is both the President and CEO of the Ann Arbor Community Center (AACC) and the Pastor at St. James AME Church in Brighton. Now, she has been tapped to serve a two-year term […]

Greetings Ann Arbor Rotarians, As we bid farewell to 2020, or good riddance as the case may be, I would like to take a moment to reflect and look forward.  Our Zoom culture has proven to be quite exceptional.  The Club’s fundamentals have not been lost even though our contact is remote.  We sing we […]

The Rotary Cares Committee, at the suggestion of Past President Rosemarie, prepared gift bags for our member residents at Glacier Hills who have been sequestered since last March. Among the goodies that were assembled were very special Christmas cookies baked by new member Julie Picknell. Julie is a realtor with Reinhart Realtors and every Christmas […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, December 16 via Zoom. Club membership on November 30 was 253 Active members, plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s four meetings was 36%. Average attendance at each meeting was 93 members plus seven others. Our Engagement Ratio for the month […]

On Tuesday, December 15 from 10:00-11:00 a Zoom meeting was held to Celebrate a $15,000 grant to Gleaners Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan from the Pandemic Relief for Detroit Project which was matched by the Kroger Foundation ($15,000). This $30,000 donation will provide 90,000 meals to provide food assistance to the hardest hit areas around Detroit […]