Member News

Rotarian Joyce Hunter was installed as an Honorary Member of the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon meeting on November 25. The headline article in their subsequent newsletter recounted her accomplishments around the world and in our community over a long career. Apparently, the list was so long that the editor of the […]

Hello Rotarians! A new directory is in the works for those members who wish to have a paper copy. If you have had a change of address, email, phone number or any other pertinent information changes, it would be great if you could share that information with Lori at executivedirector@a2rotary.org. This data will also help […]

Early on the morning of Sunday, November 24th, only a few days away from Thanksgiving, a group of enthusiastic Rotarians arose and gathered at the Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan 5K Event. For those who are unfamiliar, Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a nation-wide after-school program for girls in grades 3-8 that, […]

If you missed it on the morning of Monday, November 25th, you can now listen online to WEMU’s interview of Bob Mull on the VITA Tax Clinic. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor supports this organization annually, and many of our members also volunteer at VITA. Click here to read the article and listen online: […]

Your Program Committee has been working hard to schedule a diverse slate of speakers for 2020. Thanks to the excellent nominations that you have submitted this fall, more than half the available slots through the end of March are already filled. We therefore are pausing scheduling additional speakers. We encourage and welcome speaker nominations at […]

Member Bob Mull was recently interviewed by WEMU on the VITA Tax Clinic that our Club supports. The interview is scheduled to air on Monday morning, November 25, during Morning Edition at 7:49 am, again at 9:49 am, and then again later in the afternoon. Don’t forget to listen in!

We were greeted with a slide show of our veterans – their recruiting pictures and pictures from their time in the service, and a current one. They all still look wonderful! President Rosemarie called the meeting to order and stepped aside for Michael Field’s very thoughtful inspiration. He examined what “Thank you for your service” […]

On Friday, November 8 Rotarians Karen Driggs and Ebru Misirli Mansfield joined Sally Petersen at the Michigan Chapter of Best Buddies International inaugural gala at the Gem Theater in Detroit. The gala was to celebrate the successful fundraising activities of 13 local Champions. Our own Sally Petersen was one of those Champions! Best Buddies is […]

President Rosemarie, no longer sporting purple hair, opened the meeting at 12:25pm. Don Duquette started the meeting with thoughtful words: “Today we celebrate our Rotary Foundation and the work that it does around the world. The task we set ourselves to is enormous. Service above Self. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. […]

Christina Ferris, Development Director at the St. Louis Center in Chelsea, told the story of the sixty-year old organization to the members of the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Club at their luncheon meeting on November 4. Click here to read the article (and get a peek at what our partners-in-service-to-kids are up to).