More than 200 volunteers gathered on Saturday, November 8, at Pioneer High School to pack almost 60,000 meals to help those affected by food insecurity. The three Ann Arbor Rotary Clubs, as well as the Ann Arbor community raised $20,000 for this cause. This exceeded our goals of $17,500/50,000 meals, making this the most successful […]

Seventy-five Rotarians and guests met on a windy November 5 at the Michigan Union and via zoom. President Dawn Johnson rang the bell to begin the meeting, and while the club sang along, pianist Richard Ingram played My Country ’Tis of Thee. President Dawn led us in reciting the 4-Way Test, and Greg Stejskal inspired […]

World Polio Day 2025 is now in the books as is our club’s “Pennies for Polio” campaign. Following five weeks of activity plus one additional day for stragglers, we finished with $414.75 in pennies plus $779.10 in other coins, some currency, and a few checks. This $1113.85 total, when matched 2:1 by the Gates Foundation […]

Our club can take great credit for raising $1,002.35 over the five weeks of the campaign which ended with the presentation on polio by Matt Boulton of the U-M School of Public Health on October 22. With the generous 2:1 match from the Gates Foundation and the cost $0.60 per dose, our efforts will pay […]

Throughout the month of November EAG will recycle your batteries, plastic bags, and printer cartridges for you. Bring them to a Rotary meeting. We’ll have bins and will see that these are properly recycled. When it comes to the environment, we can’t do everything, but we can do SOMETHING! Thanks.

Our 2026-2027 President-elect Roy More attended the Rotary Large Club Conference (LCC) in Dallas during the week of October 21. The LCC is an annual gathering of Presidents-elects and senior staffers from about 50 of the largest Rotary Clubs in the US and Canada. The purpose of the gathering is to share information and address […]

Rotarians are passionate, sharing people. It’s only natural, then, for us to want to share our interests and activities with other Rotarians. With a membership hovering around 200, though, all this sharing could overwhelm us. That’s why we have the Rotary Shares Table. According to the policy “Sharing Non-Rotary Information with the Club Membership: Rotary […]

….that, in the moonlight, Tucker Rossmaessler is bootstrapping his own company, Whoa Silent Disco? You might remember when Tucker gave us a live demo at a Wednesday meeting and what a blast that was! In his “day job,” Tucker serves as the Director of Engagement for International Samaritan, where he is raising advocates and funds […]

James Wallace Cook passed away at age 85 on October 14, 2025, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was surrounded by his family who loved him dearly. Born on June 22, 1940, in Huntington, West Virginia, Jim was the son of James Anthony Cook and Elizabeth Wallace Cook. His only sibling, Susan Holt, was deceased earlier […]

On Saturday, September 27, Fifteen Rotarians gathered early in the morning and took action for our local environment. As a part of the State of Michigan’s Adopt-A-Highway Program, the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor sponsors a section of I-94 between State St. and Platt Rd, and we conduct a semi-annual cleanup. This time we were […]