ImageGrosse Pointe Rotarians were quite impressed with the "new" Neighborhood Club Fitness & Wellness Center as presented to them Jan. 21 by Executive Director Stuart Alderman and Marketing Manager Amy Roy, who were introduced by Rotarian Suzy Berschback, community affairs manager, Beaumont Grosse Pointe.  .

 
ImageAlderman pointed out that Beaumont Health System is helping the Neighborhood Club's 102-year mission by leasing 25 percent of the organization's new 48,051-square-foot facility recently competed on Maumee at Notre Dame, where the old building was demolished. Beaumont is offering adult physical therapy in the Neighborhood Club’s Fitness Center and diagnostic and therapeutic services for a wide range of learning of developmental concerns in The John A. and Marlene L. Boll Center for Human Development on the second floor. More than twice the size of the old building, the Neighborhood Club Fitness & Wellness Center features a complete physical workout facility, gym, swimming pool, meeting rooms and rowing machines, the latter available currently to Friends of Detroit Rowing. Roy pointed out the Neighborhood Club was founded in 1911 by a group of 24 wives of prominent Detroiters, including Mrs. Russell Alger, who with her husband built the home that houses the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, adjacent to where Grosse Pointe Rotary meets. From left are Strickler, Roy, Berschback and Alderman.