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INFORMATION
Definition
of Rotary
- Rotary is an organization
of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide
humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all
vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
- Rotary is the world's
first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois,
USA on 23 February 1905.
- Rotary is some 1.2
million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 28,000 Rotary Clubs in virtually
every nation of the world.
- Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship
and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics
of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section
of community representation.
- Rotarians plan and
carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational,
and cultural
exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities
and our world community.
- Rotary is The Rotary
Foundation, which each year provides some US$90 million
for international
scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large
and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.
Rotary is widely regarded as the world's largest private provider
of international educational scholarships.
- Rotary is PolioPlus, Rotary's
commitment to work with national and international health organizations
on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th
anniversary. More than one billion children in developing nations
have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
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The
Objectives of Rotary
ROTARY IS SERVICE ABOVE SELF
1st.
The development of acquaintance
as an opportunity for service.
2nd.
High ethical standards in business and professions; the
recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations,
and the dignifying
of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportu-nity to serve
society.
3rd.
The application of
the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business
and commu-nity
life.
4th. The advancement of international understanding,
goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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How
to Join Rotary
Membership
is extremely important to us and we are always eager to hear
from individuals
who are interested in our mission and in joining a Rotary
club. Rotary International
is an association of individual clubs with each club operating
autonomously.
Our universal premise
is that the membership of each club constitutes an accurate
reflection or representation of the business and professional
population
within the community served. Membership in a Rotary
club requires available business or professional classification
opportunities,
as well as an invitation and sponsorship by a member of
the club. Thus, sometimes an individual cannot be invited
or
sponsored
for membership if their business classification is filled.
For more information about membership, please contact
Past
President, Jack Freethy, 925-283-6419 or
Past President Don
Farquharson, 510-620-0126.
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THE
FOUR WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all Concerned?
(THE FOUR WAY TEST summarizes
the Rotary Club ideals.)
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