President Greg rang the Rotary bell. All stood to sing a spirited “Star-Spangled Banner,” taking their tempo cues from our dashing, bowler-hatted Immediate Past President, John Ackenhusen. As the Anthem’s final notes faded into the ballroom firmament, Norma Sarkar came forward to deliver the Inspiration. “My message today has to do with Positive Aging,” she […]

CRACK Team now Forming: Like STRIVE, CRACK is an acronym. It stands for “ClubRunner Action Consortium for Knowledge.” ClubRunner (CR), our new cloud-based membership management software has been populated but now needs an elite team to apply the final touches and determine how best to roll it out to all the members in the Club. […]

Social Committee announces that this year’s Spring Fling will be at the Ypsilanti Heritage Car Museum in Ypsilanti on Sunday, May 12. Buffet will be catered by Sidetrack and beer and wine will be available. Watch for further details and make plans today to attend!!

From Jim Egerdal: Hi Fellow Readers, In case you missed it, there was a very interesting piece on NPR Morning Edition today entitled “Why Millions of Kids Can’t Read …” that I think you’ll find interesting.  The story is based on scientific research showing that reading and learning to read is not a natural process […]

Mary Avrakotas of IHPC will discuss a very successful Global Grant in Sierra Leone supported by RCAA and several other clubs at our lunch meeting on Wednesday, February 20th!  The project provided assistance with a project requested by local leaders in Sierra Leone to plant orchards which will supply income and support education.  The project […]

Millie Danielson, member of RCAA since 1995 and soon to celebrate her 96th birthday, received the Distinguished Service Award on February 6, 2019. Says Millie, “Things just keep happening in life! You just need to keep informed, stay healthy, and active as long as you can.” Read her tribute by Downs Herold below. “Rotary International […]

The deadline for recommending member for this spring’s class is this Friday, February 8. To recommend a new member, you must fill out the membership recommendation form at https://www.a2rotary.org/current-members/forms-downloads/recommend-new-member/. The Membership Committee will be reviewing the recommendations at its February 13 meeting and passing them on to the board for final approval at the board’s February […]

Fourteen of the twenty tables seated bundled up Rotarians on January 30, the second coldest day in Ann Arbor in a generation. Don Devine rubbed it in with two songs, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, and Winter Wonderland. Let it Snow was written in 1945 by Sammy Cohn and Jule Styne…in […]

Polar Vortex? What Polar Vortex? Clearly the new Executive Director has a thing or two to learn about the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Membership! While teetering on the edge of meeting cancellation Tuesday, above mentioned Executive Director thought, “we’ll be lucky if 25 folks show up.” Well, boy was she wrong! Despite wind-chills of […]

It was 12:30 p.m. when all hell broke loose. President Greg stormed the podium like it was the front door of the Stonehouse Bar, cuffing the Rotary Bell a good one along the way. His eyes beamed, immutable obelisks of justice, as he scanned the room hungrily for a hint of Capone or any of […]