Year-end Review- What’s your Rotary Score?            A quick review of the on-line 2016-17 Annual Report (add the link) makes it very clear the Club had a Very Good Year! But as Board members have discovered while keeping the club leadership chart populated, there have been frequent examples of the old saw of “20% doing […]

​A quick review of the on-line 2016-17 Annual Report makes it very clear that our club had a very good year! But, as board members have discovered, while keeping the club leadership chart populated, 20% are doing the work, while the remaining 80% take it easy. I know we have more committees than some clubs […]

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 […]