The Northrup Award Selection Committee is pleased to announce that Linda Eastman has been named the recipient of the Robert S Northrup Humanitarian Award 2025 for her work in Guatemala with Casa Colibri and Reach Out and Read.  Christine Hage, Rochester Rotary Club submitted Linda’s nomination to the Selection Committee.  Multiple leaders from Rotary and Linda’s community provided glowing letters of […]

The Membership Committee was pleased to introduce four new members plus returning member Roger Fraser at the April 2 lunch meeting. As a reminder, when you see someone with a yellow ribbon, please introduce yourself and get to know them. Kelly Doonan-Reed (Sponsors: Kathy Waugh and Laurie Atwood) Kelly is a dedicated information technology professional […]

The 70th anniversary of the announcement that the Salk polio vaccine was “Safe, effective, and potent” is Saturday, April 12. The announcement was made in Ann Arbor by Thomas Francis of the U-M’s School of Public Health. Here’s a link to the original press release: https://sph.umich.edu/polio/ On Friday, April 11, 2025, the School will be […]

It was a cold and rainy Wednesday afternoon when President Joyce Hunter rang the bell to bring our meeting to order. Pianist extraordinaire Jody Tull de Salis led us in My Country ’Tis of Thee, and then, via zoom, Becky Pazkowski gave our welcoming inspiration, “Do It Anyway,” a poem of Mother Theresa. Do it […]

President Joyce rang the bell at 12:30pm and quieted the spirited conversations in the room. Jody Tull deSalis then played the “Star Spangled Banner,” and Ben Bolen delivered the inspiration. He celebrated his 40th birthday was this week, and he asked us to think about what we were doing 40 years ago. He told us […]

The 2023-2024 Annual Report for the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is now available. The report is available as a: PDF file FlipBook

Rotary Club of Ann Arbor STRATEGIC PLANNING – PHASE II Register for the next session We had twenty Rotarians participate in the Phase II Strategic Planning session this past Wednesday at the Union. I shared the results of the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis that we did in our sessions earlier this year […]

The meeting began with President Joyce ringing the bell promptly at noon. We then sang the “Star-Spangled Banner,” accompanied by Jody Tull. Elliott Greenberg shared a personal inspirational message about the importance of dialogue and understanding between people with different viewpoints. Specifically communication conflicts and the need to learn how to talk to each other […]

Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Posting for Independent Contractor Executive Administrator Position Rotary Club of Ann Arbor (RCAA) is one of the premier service organizations in the greater Ann Arbor area. Founded in 1916, with approximately 200 members, the Club brings leaders from the community together to exchange ideas and take action to better the community […]

On the final day of the month our club had 200 Active Members. All membership information is pulled from ClubRunner statistics. Attendance for February’s meetings was 41% (down 6% from last month). Average attendance at each meeting was 83 members and 11 guests. Our Engagement Ratio for the month was 60% (up 3% from last […]