The Union Ballroom was resplendent. After being greeted warmly by John Hammond and Amy Goodman (only to have one’s hand shaken a dozen more times before crossing the threshold) your reporter was stunned to immobility by the Ballroom’s full illuminated glory. Yes, it was a rare sunny day, and the multitude of members and guests […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at the United Way Building. The Club’s membership on November 30 was 313 Active Members plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. The Club’s average attendance in November was 41% for five meetings. The average attendance for the luncheons was 107 members plus […]

The new tax act that was signed into law on December 22, 2017 has made some profound changes to the tax code and will affect everyone in some way. Because the Standard Deduction is almost doubled for 2018, many people who itemize in 2017 might find that there will be no advantage in itemizing in […]

Fellow Rotarians, your Survey Committee is excited to announce a new survey format that is launching in January. Rather than one, more lengthy, annual survey in late spring, we are going to have a series of two question surveys (“Flash!” Surveys) through the months of January through March. We will continue to use Survey Monkey […]

Harpoon Notes for December 13, 2017 By Ed Hoffman A soothing musical prelude wafted through the Anderson Room as members and guests amiably discussed the current news, politics, our speaker’s topic, or nothing in particular. One thing was certain, though: everybody was happy in such company. Jody Tull deSalis came forward for the Inspiration. “There’s […]

Christie Bacon grew up in Ann Arbor (Go Blue! Go Rats!), then moved to Chicago to begin her professional career, where she earned an MS in Public Service Management from DePaul University. She lived in Chicago for ten years, working for several organizations, including Business Partners: The Chamber for Uptown and the American Bar Association. […]

BOB MULL The United Way of Washtenaw County selected Bob as its 2017 Volunteer of the Year. Bob started helping people with taxes in 2010 and first organized a tax clinic at United Way in 2012. Since then, he has been an integral part of United Way of Washtenaw County’s VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) […]

As part of his recent visit to the Honolulu club, Ian Bund was given a handout with the eight principles of the Rotary Code of Conduct. Even though it is printed in each Rotarian magazine along with the Four-way Test, our Motto and the Object of Rotary, he thought it was worth repeating here: As […]

Nine hardy Rotarians and guests braved the blizzard to meet at The Session Room on Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, on the afternoon of December 13, 2017. As shown in the picture, attending were (from left) Joan Knoertzer, Karen Driggs, Fernando Ortiz (guest at noon meeting of Dallas Dort), Ruthie Ackenhusen, Steve Pierce, John Ackenhusen, Annie […]

by Peter Brown Ken Wilson kind of fell into his business by doing something he enjoyed and was good at. Ken was working at a cell-phone company in his hometown of Youngstown when he started doing drawings for employees’ birthday cards. Then his boss asked him to put together a map of the company’s coverage […]