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Notes from December 16, 2020 Ann Arbor Rotary Meeting Our zoom meeting began at noon with a half hour of social time. At 12:27, Lori Walters thanked Club members for their outstanding support during the past year. She wished everyone a very happy holiday. President Joanne rang the bell at 12:30, opening the business meeting. […]

President Joanne Pierson rang the bell to open the meeting. Tom Strode played America the Beautiful. Dawn Johnson provided the Inspiration, noting that December is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month. She referenced Rotarians’ resilience and perseverance in its effort to build goodwill and improve the quality of life for others. Don Duquette provided a video featuring […]

…that Mary Avrakotos was born in Egypt and has lived in Syria, South Africa, Burma (Myanmar), and what was Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia? The daughter of a Foreign Service Officer, she attended high school in Paris for three years and Holland for one year. After graduating from NYU, she worked at the Museum of African Art […]

Our very own Past President Collyer Smith was selected to be District Governor for District 6380 for the 2023-24 Rotary year. We cannot imagine a better person for the job. Congratulations! Collyer will be the first DG from our club since since Brymer Williams (Dave William’s father) in 1990-1992. Wyeth Allen, in 1965-1966, was our […]

The new educational signs that we helped design and instal at our Universal Access Playground in Gallup Park were featured in an MLive article on November 19th, 2020 and in the Ann Arbor Family newsletter on December 3rd, 2020. If you missed them, you can read the full article on MLive here and the Ann Arbor […]

The December 2, 2020 meeting opened on Zoom with social time to start the meeting and chat. Lori Walters opened the meeting and said everyone has been good with Zoom etiquette so no reminders are needed.  She discussed how to vote via Zoom on the items up for discussion during today’s meeting. At 12:29, President […]

The fall semester is drawing to a close, so Rent-A-Rotaractor will be taking a break until next semester. Watch for an update when it starts up again.

The November 18 meeting opened on Zoom with half an hour of social time to meet and chat. Lori Walters provided “Zoom Etiquette” at 12:27. She reminded everyone about the process of accessing Club Runner.  The site can be accessed by https://portal.clubrunner.ca/1404 and the user name is: yourfirstname.yourlastname and the password is 1404  She encouraged […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, November 18 via Zoom. Club membership on October 31 was 253 Active members, plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s four meetings was 34%. Average attendance at each meeting was 86 members plus 61 others. Our Engagement Ratio for the month […]

The Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor invites you to its ZOOM meeting on November  23 to hear a presentation by Santiago Gomez on how one person made a difference by identifying a manifestation of unconscious (or systemic, if you prefer that term) racism in society and initiating meaningful change to eradicate it. The meeting begins […]