In the fall of 1920, the Principal of Perry School, Miss Carrie Dicken, sponsored continuing work to assimilate non-English speaking women of the city into local culture. That year, long walks to the school and weather conditions had been affecting attendance. This “Americanization Work” was made easier when Ann Arbor Rotary members put service above self and began providing weekly automobile rides for the women to and from Perry School.

S.O.O.B.T.A.M.B.O.O.M.! For one hundred years, each of the approximately 5000 weekly luncheon talks, have been one of the Club’s most stimulating influences. Situated as it is in a university city, the Club is unusually fortunate in its ability to secure experts in nearly every field. Many of those experts are our own Club members. Topics ranging from Anthropology to Zoology, and all subdivisions in between, have been presented with many worthy of being recorded. If preserved they arguably would have proved to be our greatest contribution to posterity. Furthermore, the Club has frequently voiced its sincere acceptance of the acronym listed above: “Some Of Our Best Talks Are Made By Our Own Members.”