What is Rotary?
(in 31 words)
Rotary is an organization of business and
professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian
service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world.
Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and
foster the ideal of service as a basis of worth enterprise and, in
particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of
acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND: 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 opportunity to serve
society;
THIRD: The application of the
ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community
life.
FOURTH: The advancement of
international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world
fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of
service.
Four Way Testof the things we think, say or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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