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Alumni News
Recent ICC Events
Celebrating Dr. Karl D. Gregory, Gregory Co-op House Namesake
Dr. Karl Dwight Gregory is an activist, professor, and an alumnus of Nakamura House. Gregory donated $20,000 to the ICC, which served as a down payment to acquire a new coop, now named Gregory House. Recently, Dr. Gregory visited Gregory House along with his daughter Dr. Sheila T. Gregory after a 95th birthday celebration at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit. Learn more about his visit to Gregory House here!
International Year of Cooperatives, October 2025
We had great speeches, a nice turnout, and kicked off our 2025-2026 fundraising drive. We will celebrate National Co-op Month on October 10th, 2026. Stay up-to-date on events here.
ICC members and alumni gather for a presentation by ICC alum Richard Dines at ICC’s Celebration of the International Year of Cooperatives.
ICC alumni, members, and staff meet at the Rochdale Office for a reception.
ICC merchandise displayed at the Rochdale Office. Now available for purchase online.
ICC’s Green Rental Housing Fundraising Drive:
In June 2025, the City of Ann Arbor passed the Green Rental Housing Ordinance. All rental units in Ann Arbor must either, by Jan. 6, 2026:
- Get a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) assessment and receive a score of 110 or below (we will not achieve this score); OR
- Complete a 300 question checklist per property
These new energy requirements require intensive and unplanned for and unbudgeted work. The average age of ICC’s 21 properties is 126 years. While we can fill out the checklist for each house, what is really needed is to comprehensively seal the co-ops’ building envelopes so that all our houses use energy more efficiently and stay warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Many of our houses suffer from a huge heating differential between the second floor and main floor and even between rooms. We need to install new energy efficient windows and re-insulate the roof and walls to bring the houses up to date with the new Ordinance standards and reduce the variance in heat from area to area. Geoff Mayers, our marvelous maintenance manager, explains some of the ICC’s heating and cooling issues in this video. We are applying for grants from the City of Ann Arbor, which wants to work with us to reduce the cost of implementation. However, many of our houses require basic repairs (like roofing, plumbing, etc.) that are not necessarily covered by the A2Zero initiative, but are critical to set us up for implementation success.
Making a donation to the Luther and Joan Buchele Sustainability Fund helps to bring our houses into compliance with the new Green Housing Ordinance. In 2007, former ICC GM Luther Buchele wrote (in what would be his last Alumni Cooperator article) that “because of the huge number of [co-opers] interested in doing something about global warming and the huge cost for corrective measures, this dilemma presents a cogent opportunity for alumni members of the ICC to make gifts to the ICC. Such a gift would reduce global warming and at the same time help students reduce their room and board costs.” He and his wife donated $500 that year. Can we meet or exceed his donation in 2026 funds ($750)?
Note that any amount you can give would be highly appreciated! You can make a donation here https://icc.coop/store/
Inter-Cooperative Council
ATTN: Alumni Relations Coordinator
337 E. Williams St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
We appreciate your help!
