Created and named in 1916 by the Club’s first secretary, Charles A. Sink, the Harpoon has had a continuous role chronicling Club history. The letterhead, conceived and drawn by past-presidents Shirley Smith and Wilfred Shaw, depicts a whale stabbed to the heart by a spear with it’s meaning revealed in a 1918 Harpoon by the following conversation […]

The Board of Director’s Meeting was held on Wednesday, January 20 via Zoom. Club membership on December 31 was 254 Active members, plus six Honorary members and seven Inactive Emeriti. Attendance for the month’s three meetings was 38%. Average attendance at each meeting was 97 members plus 25 others. Our Engagement Ratio for the month […]

Rotarians, Family and Friends are cordially invited to the 2021 edition of Wine, Women, and Song, our 20th annual event benefitting the Kerrytown Concert House. The gathering starts at 7:30 and the performance begins at 8:00 pm. This is an event you won’t want to miss. For more information and to RSVP, contact Shelley Macmillan […]

Executive Director Lori Walters shut down a lively conversation to make a couple of announcements.  Please pay your Community Service Assessment if you have not done it.  Here is the link:  a2rotary.org/donate.  And she gave a few reminders about Zoom etiquette. Tom Strode started us off with God Bless America. Christina Ferris lit a candle […]

On January 6, Heather Eckner, Julie Picknell and Kate VanHorn were inducted into the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor. Each of these new members brings experience, skills and enthusiasm to RCAA. Click on their names to read their profiles and be sure to introduce yourself when you see them at a ZOOM meeting, or send […]

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is soliciting applications for grants to non-profits that are working on programs oriented around Helping Kids Succeed.  Click here for more information. Share this information with organizations you think may benefit in Washtenaw County.

A lively group of Rotarians gathered on the Zoom call between noon and 12:30PM to check in and socialize. At 12:27, Lori Walters provided the “Zoom Etiquette” for members. At 12:30, President Joanne rang the bell to start the official meeting and introduced Tom Strode on the piano with our National Anthem. Barbara Eichmuller provided […]

“Service Above Self” would be a cumbersome middle name but Yolanda Whiten is one Rotarian who can handle it with aplomb. Already, she is both the President and CEO of the Ann Arbor Community Center (AACC) and the Pastor at St. James AME Church in Brighton. Now, she has been tapped to serve a two-year term […]

We are all excited now that the COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out. In the meantime, please stay safe during this holiday season and beyond, and wear your mask (correctly). Find more information on COVID-19 in Washtenaw County at www.washtenaw.org/3095/COVID-19

Greetings Ann Arbor Rotarians, As we bid farewell to 2020, or good riddance as the case may be, I would like to take a moment to reflect and look forward.  Our Zoom culture has proven to be quite exceptional.  The Club’s fundamentals have not been lost even though our contact is remote.  We sing we […]