Events Calendar
August 2008 Speaker Series
August 6
Speaker: Lester Robinson, CEO, Wayne County Airport Authority
Topic: Breaking New Ground – Master Plan for Metro Airport
Detroit Metro Airport’s new North Terminal will open in September, the last step in a 20-year Master Plan that has solidified Metro’s standing as a world-class air transport hub. The number of passengers now served is expected to double by 2025 – to almost 60 million per year. CEO Lester Robinson will discuss the Authority’s new Preferred Development Plan for enhanced capacity to handle this growth and further strengthen our region’s competitive position in the world economy.
August 13
Rotary Goes to School! A Meeting at Skyline High School.
OK, Rotarians . . . pop the Eagles Greatest Hits into your car CD player, drive out to Maple Road just north of M-14, and matriculate at Ann Arbor’s new state-of-the-art high school. We’ll meet at the usual time but an unusual place – the Commons Area of Skyline High School – for a multi-salad lunch spread provided by AAPS culinarians, a brief club business meeting, remarks by the Principal, and tours of the school. Word to the wise: traverse the round-abouts en route to the school at a cautious but steady pace – stopping in one can be dangerous!
August 20
Speaker: Dan Romanchik, KB6NU
Topic: It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Ham Radio Any More
You may think of amateur (ham) radio as something your grandpa did sitting in front of racks of vacuum-tube radio equipment. But Rotarian Dan Romanchik, known in amateur radio circles by his KB6NU call-sign (and as “Scrapiron” to his Rotary Gold bowling teammates), will show us how amateur radio is thriving in the age of Internet despite this stereotype. A past president and current board member of ARROW, the local amateur radio club, Dan also will discuss some exciting ham radio happenings in the Ann Arbor area.
August 27
Speaker: Ed Steinman, Environmental Activist/Volunteer
Topic: Demonstrating & Documenting Environmental Issues in Flight
Earlier this year Steve Reading told us about volunteer piloting for medical mercy flights. Private pilot (and U-M Dental School IT specialist) Ed Steinman has done that too, but will tell us how he now combines on-the-ground commitment to environmental causes with his love of flying by providing environmental observation flights to scientists, journalists, photographers, and other interested persons – to document toxic run-off from factory farms in west Michigan, for example, or the devastation of Appalachian mountain-top mining.