Events Calendar
April 2008 Speaker Series
April 2
Speaker: Enrico Bertocchi & Jun Usaka, Ambassadorial Scholars
Topic: Ambassadorial Scholarly Adventures in Ann Arbor
These Ambassadorial Scholars from Japan and Italy have almost finished their year of study and other "ambassadorial" activities at U-M. They will share some of their personal background and observations and impressions from their time in Ann Arbor, comparing what they have seen and experienced here with things back home. Their "Host Counselors" will introduce them and offer insight on what that role entails. Host/introducers: Jim Reece & Marsha Chamberlin.
April 9
Speaker: Kevin Borseth, Basketball Coach
Topic: Building a New Tradition for U-M Women's Hoops
Get to know one of Ann Arbor's most prominent "turnaround artists." Coach Borseth will share his 366th day as U-M Women's Basketball Coach with us and describe what it's been like to bring the passion and enthusiasm from his remarkably successful twenty-one-year head coaching career (eleven at Michigan Tech, nine at U-W Green Bay) to a program that struggled badly for several years before his appointment. Host/introducer: Dan Romanchik.
April 16
Speakers: Rotary Group Study Exchange Team from Turkey
Topic: Promoting International Learning & Understanding in District 6380
Meet the GSE team from Turkey: a civil engineer, a banquet sales representative/professional volleyball player, a Rotary Club President who worked for GM in Turkey, a research assistant getting a master's degree while still teaching high school students, a chemical engineer/planning & quality chief for a private enterprise. They will tell us about their lives in Turkey and GSE ex-periences in Michigan & Ontario. Host/introducer: Spaulding Clark and/or Bill Dunifon.
April 23
Speaker: Marvin Pettway, U-M Supervisor of Forestry & Horticulture
Topic: Tree Campus within a Tree City
The University more than does its part to make Ann Arbor a truly arboreal environment, but that doesn't just happen. Trees and all other natural features of the campuses require lots of planning, planting, pruning, etc. We will get the big picture on these matters from the man in charge of it all, and also meet and say thanks to members of the City Forestry Department who have been our partners in the club's tree planting projects. Host/introducer: Chuck Olson.
April 30
Speakers: All of Us . . . Having Our Say on the Club's Strategic Plan
President-Elect Jim Cook and others from the Strategic Planning Task Force will present a synopsis of data collected in surveys, focus groups, interviews and committees and a draft plan for fine-tuning. Working in table groupings, we all will have opportunity to provide feedback and new ideas to help assemble a final strategic plan by mid-May. Dispensing with usual preliminaries, we'll spend a highly interactive hour "talking amongst ourselves" about the club's bright future