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On Saturday morning, May 9, John White attended the Zoom meeting of the District 6400 Passport Club. Also on the call from our club were Ashish & Norma Sarkar. The speaker for the day was Holger Knaack, incoming RI President. He will succeed Mark Maloney on July 1. Holger’s presentation was in line with his […]

Holger Knaack, RI’s President-Elect, will be the speaker at the meeting of the District 6400 Passport Club on Saturday, May 9 at 9:00am EDT. It will part of a Zoom meeting and also streamed live on YouTube. This is a rare opportunity to see and hear a Rotary President in a weekly meeting format. He […]

Until the latter 1950s, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the world, affecting over 35,000 persons per year in the U.S. alone. Families lived in fear while travel and commerce were sometimes affected. Field trials of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk began on April 26, 1954, eventually involving 1.8 million […]

(From Rotary International) World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, is here. Join with Rotary as we raise awareness of the importance of vaccinations and our work to #EndPolio. Each year, Rotary and our partners vaccinate more than 400 million children against polio. When children receive the polio vaccine, their pinkie fingers are marked with purple ink […]

On April 21, John White took advantage of his My Rotary account to attend a webinar on the features and use of the RI Learning Center.* He was among over 5000 attendees. The instructor presented a wide range of resources available at the click of a mouse button.  There are about two dozen modules covering: […]

We have heard from Hilda Alcindor, member of the Rotary Club de Port-au-Prince, about their club’s efforts during the COVID-19 outbreak. Hilda is from Leogane Haiti and is the dean of FSIL, the Haiti Nursing Foundation school which has received funds from our club.  They made and distributed 4,000 masks with the Rotary Logo. What […]

Dear Rotary Members and Friends, In response to these extraordinary times, we must join together in extraordinary ways. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Board is mobilizing resources to focus on immediate and longer-term responses to the Covid 19 epidemic in our community. The International Humanitarian Projects Committee has been re-tasked as the newly-formed Disaster […]

 Almost all of us first heard about Zoom video conferencing since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, its deployment and use has skyrocketed as one way to offset the limitations placed on business activities and social interactions. As a testament to Zoom’s popularity, our virtual Wednesday meetings have enjoyed growing attendance to the point […]

At 9:00am on Saturday, April 4, John White Zoomed into the regular weekly meeting of the District 6400 Passport Club. He learned of it earlier in the week on the Bruce Goldsen’s FaceBook page and was attracted by the announcement that the guest speaker was to be Valarie Wafer. Valarie is a Rotarian in Collingwood, […]

In a previous article, you learned about how zones fit into the Rotary organization chart and how each pair within the 34 zones supplies a member to the RI Board of Directors for a two-year term. You also learned that our Zone 28 and adjacent Zone 32 combine to cover most of Canada, a number […]